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chthonic (from http://www.dictionary.com)

\Chthon"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, the earth.] Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.


Because I'm sure most of you were as baffled as me.

Darn fable and his extraordinary knowledge of the english language.

[QUOTE=ObsidianReturns]Darn fable and his extraordinary knowledge of the english language.[/QUOTE]

It's a word. What's not to like?

It also has conotations of the underworld...

I went to Florence not so long ago and was amazed to find quite a lot of St Daniel - didn't he get eaten by lions?

Relics are very entertaining IMO. Especially the Holy Prepuce, which has new become the rings of saturn (!) according to Leo Allatius

[QUOTE=fable]Did I hold him up as an exemplar for anything other than single-minded devotion to his cause? Though it should be remembered that archaeological diggings of his period were considerably more primitive in their techniques than ours.[/QUOTE]Nor did I say you did. I'm just pointing out that Schliemann was among the worst type of 'archaeologist', and not well respected now, nor then.

I read on the homepage of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that it's already disproved. The geophysicist Christian Huebscher found out in summer this year that the underwater structures aren't more than 100000 years old volcanos.

Here's the link

Man, that site is really informative..I think..I don't speak German, but if I did..woo doggie would that site be full of info..I guess..yeah..