a tip of the hat to you and yours,
and thank you for downloading "mythology one,"
another freeware clipfont from the folks at ecf.

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"i made my song a coat
covered with embroideries
out of old mythologies
from heel to throat ... "
		- yeats
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"mythology one"
(first in a set of mythological clipfonts)
is a windows95 truetype font 
digitized from a collection of 19th century public domain woodcuts
in may of 1997
by steven j. lundeen,
emerald city fontwerks, 
seattle, washington, usa.

this clipfont has been made available as freeware,
and no restrictions have been placed on its distribution or use.

however,
the font author has included this readme file 
because it contains ***essential "mythology one" information ...

which legend says was either unearthed by a young italian shepherd 
from beneath a large, granite stone 
found in the center of an enormous crop circle,
or culled from an 1876 version of the 
"american dictionary of the english language."

either way,
users should find the following most helpful 
as they fill out their scorecards ....


---ESSENTIAL "mythology one" INFORMATION---

a - pallas with aegis.  aegis - a shield, or defensive armor,
	originally applied to the shield given by jupiter to minerva.
	pallas - the grecian goddess of wisdom, identified, at a 
	later period, with the roman goddess minerva
b - pallas with aegis
c - anubis, an egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits,
	and represented by a human figure with the head
	of a dog or fox
d - anubis
e - apollo, a deity among the greeks and romans, and worshipped
	under the various names of pean, nemius, helius, pythius,
	phoebus, etc.  he was the presiding deity of archery,
	prophecy, music, and medicine, and president and protector
	of the muses
f - apollo
g - atlas, a titan who for his part in the titan's revolt
	against the gods is forced by zeus to support the heavens 
	on his shoulders
h - atlas
i - calliope, (from the greek, meaning "having a beautiful voice"),
	the muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry;
	she was the mother of orpheus, and chief of the nine muses
j - calliope
k - centaur, (originally meaning "a herdsman," afterward "a herdsman 
	who fought on horseback"), a fabulous mythological being,
	supposed to be half man and half horse
l - centaur
m - ceres, the daughter of saturn and ops,
	the goddess of corn and tillage
n - ceres
o - clio, (from the greek meaning "the proclaimer"), 
	the muse who presided over history
p - clio
q - cupid, (from the latin for "desire," or "desire of love"),
	the roman god of love, the greek eros
r - cupid
s - dagon, the national god of the philistines, represented with
	face and hands of a man, and the tail of a fish; the fish-god
	"this day a solemn feast the people hold,
	to dagon, their sea-idol."
				-milton
t - dagon
u - diana, the daughter of jupiter and latona; a virgin goddess 
	who presided over hunting, chastity and marriage
v - diana
w - erato, (from the greek meaning "to love"), one of the muses,
	who presided over lyric, and especially amatory, poetry.
	she is represented as crowned with roses and myrtles,
	and holding a lyre in her hand
x - erato
y - dragon, a fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous
	winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous
	claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
	"the dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures
	are invariably representations of a winged crocodile."
					 -fairholt
z - dragon

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