Talk:Adonis

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Baldr - changed it to Balder, because when I clicked that link I was redirected to Balder, and besides, that was his name.

I think the opening section isn't very clear and poorly written as well. --Awenty 00:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Who raises the glove: Adonis is also the better-known name of Ali Ahmad Sa'id in Al Qassabin - the well-known Syrian-Lebanese poet, literary critic, translator, and editor, a highly influential figure in Arabic poetry and literature today.

(See for example: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adonis.htm or http://lexicorient.com/e.o/adonis.htm)

I guess there should at least be a disamibguation msg and a stub, till someone writes his page.

YN. 88.154.146.247 21:40, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would be interesting to find a reference here to the "Adonis complex".

New text: (Some mythologists believe he was later exported to Germania, and his counterpart in Germanic mythology is Baldr.) " A reference to a mythologist who thought so would be interesting. Not all annually-reborn consorts of the Goddess are Adonis. Maybe the comparison could be restated as less than a one-to-one equivalence. --Wetman 00:55, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This text was briefly suppressed: As "Lord" or baal, Adonis was the youthful consort of the ageless Goddess, who might take various identities according to which aspect of annual renewal is being emphasized. Youthful contrasted with ageless is an important aspect of the pairing. The local name of the Goddess varies: this too is essential. --Wetman 06:15, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Suppressed again. Any editor who announces (publicly exposing himself in an edit summary for all the world, no less! snicker) that "Tammuz was "ba'al", not Adonis" is talking through his hat. ...Again. I shall return later and tune up to concert pitch once more... Too silly. --Wetman 04:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the edit summary wasn't very clear (though I would have preferred you weren't such a dick about it); my point in removing the sentence was that "Adonis", as a Greek god, would probably not have been called by the Semitic name of "Ba'al". As the article says,

there is no trace of a Semitic cult directly connected with Adonis, and no trace in Semitic languages of any specific mythemes connected with his Greek myth...

Combined with the bit about "the ageless Goddess" taking on various identities, the whole sentance sounds to me too much like Robert Graves-style speculation about the Mother Goddess. If you want make it clearer, please do.--Cuchullain 10:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason that the "Ancient Mideastern Deities" box isn't on this page? Adonis is listed in the box and it links here, so shouldn't it be up here? MrCheshire 05:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone edit the page to reference Shelley's elegy "Adonais?"

...perhaps without using "reference" as a verb. Shelley picked a spelling halfway between Adonai and Adonis. Is Adonais relevant here, as Adonis and Adonai are certainly relevant at Adonais? In other words, does Adonais';' help explain Adonis? the converse is certainly true. --Wetman 06:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Syria" and "Lebanon" in Antiquity

Are we developing a patriotism-trumps-history issue in this article? --Wetman 06:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Puer Aeternus

Robert A. Segal, Professor in Theories of Religion at the University of Lancaster gives us an alternative Jungian interpretation of the Adonis myth. Rather than viewing Adonis as a vegetation deity he is seen as an archetypal puer, an eternal male child who cannot participate as an adult member of the community. See Adonis interpreted by R. Segal (User:Amargolin)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Your article would make a more encyclopedic example if it were edited, as an example of Jung's archetype, into the Jungian Puer Aeternus article. --Wetman 04:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Of semitic origin"

This assertion, made in the article lead, is completely without citation therein, and seems to fall back on similarly uncited assertions made in the first paragraph of the following section, "Origin of the cult". While it is natural for speculation to run rampant on the basis of the similarity of the name "Adonis" and the title "Adon[i/ai]", it is truly shameful that this apparent similarity between two completely unrelated languages (Greek=IE, Hebrew=AA) to be passed off as a foregone conclusion, i.e., "Adonis" is the Greek realization of the Hebrew "Adonai". I am certain volumes must have been written about the apparent etymological similarities between the two, so it seems me intellectually insulting that not only is not a single respectable source brought to bear on the subject, but that not a single source at all is brought forth to support this oft-speculated-upon, but also oft-reputed apparent false friend similarity. Tomer ^talk 12:01, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

translation

what was Adonis' name in Roman mythology?