Apparently the word Influenza means ‘in …

Apparently the word Influenza means ‘influence’ from the gods/stars. Ancients believed that if you got sick, the stars (or gods) were mad at you. I wonder how long it’d take for someone to reverse-engineer that to make a joke out of it? i.e: ‘Gee whiz, that guy’s got so much influence, he must have the flu!’ Not a good joke, but inevitably all the same.

Damn. I just made the joke.

Sick

I am sick. Or, rather, my throat is sick. The rest of me is fine. I feel like I could run a mile (I can’t really) if it weren’t for the hacking cough every few minutes. I bought a book recently. It’s a book on Mythology from DK, and encompasses all kinds of heroes and gods and such. Quite a few stories (Gilgamesh, etc…) had stories of a great flood in them. Which got me thinking…Why doesn’t the book have the Torah/Bible stories in there? Without even questioning their validity, aren’t they just as mythological as Odin or Raven the Trickster god? Because nowhere in the book do they even mention whether or not the stories are real, and nowhere to they mention Christianity w/out the phrase “Before Slovakia was taken over by Christianity, they had a rich mythological heritage” or some such flapdoodle.No, it’s a great book. But it does confuse me so.