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	Dactyl (mythology) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In some myths, they are in ((Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metal-working in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan) Hephaestus' employ, and they taught metalworking, mathematics, and the alphabet to humans.
		As she squatted in labor she dug her fingers into the earth (((Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology) Gaia), which brought forth these dakyloi Idaioi ("Idaean fingers"), thus often ten in number, or sometimes multiplied into a race of ten tens.
		An Idaean dactyl named Herakles (perhaps the earliest embodiment of (additional info and facts about the later hero) the later hero) originated the (The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country) Olympic Games by instigating a race among his four "finger" brothers.
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	Dactyl (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, the Dactyls (Greek for "fingers") were the archaic race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea, spirit-men like the Curetes, Cabiri and Korybantes.
		The three Phrygian Dactyls, in the service of the Great Mother as Adraste, are usually named Acmon (the anvil), Damnameneus (the hammer), and Celmis (casting).
		On Rhodes, Telchines were the name given to similar chthonic men, nine in number, remembered by Greeks as dangerous Underworld smiths and magicians, and multiplied into an entire autochthonous race that had reared Poseidon but had been supplanted by Apollo in his Helios role.
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	Dactyl
		In Greek mythology, the Dactyls were a strange race of creatures associated with the goddess Cybele as well as the Curetes, Cabiri and Korybantes.
		They were believed to live on Mount Ida in Phrygia and invented the art of working metals into usable shapes with fire.
		In quantitative verse, such as Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables.
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	Dactyl (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, the Dactyls were the archaic race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea, spirit-men like the Curetes, Cabiri and Korybantes.
		Of Iasios it was told (Hesiod, Theogony 970) that he lay with Demeter, a stand-in for Rhea, in a thrice-ploughed field and the Goddess brought forth Ploutos, "wealth" in the form of a bountiful harvest.
		An Idaean dactyl named Herakles, (perhaps the earliest embodiment of the later hero) originated the Olympic Games by instigating a race among him four "finger" brothers.
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	Wikipedia: Dactyl
		The word "dactyl" meant "finger" and refers either to their metallurgical skills or their diminutive stature.
		A dactyl is also an element of meter in poetry.
		In accentual verse, such as English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/d/da/dactyl.html (142 words)

	Dactyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dactyl, an element of meter in poetry.
		Dactyl, the small satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dactyl (81 words)

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		These are called lyrics, which derives from the Greek lura or lyre, the instrument that was used to accompany the performance of Greek lyrics from about the seventh century B.C. onward.
		The Greeks practice of singing hymns in large choruses gave rise, in the sixth century B.C. to dramatic verse, and to the practice of writing poetic plays for performance in their theatres.
		In more recent times, the introduction of electronic media and the rise of the poetry reading have led to a resurgence of performance poetry and have resulted in a situation where poetry for the eye and poetry for the ear coexist, sometimes in the same poem.
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	Facts and Figures: The Greek World
		According to Greek myth, the Olympic Games was invented by a Cretan youth named Heracles the Dactyl, some time before the Deluge (do not confuse him with the hero Heracles).
		What the Greeks invented, was their own set of characters and their introduction to the vowels in the alphabets full of consonants.
		Though the Greek alphabets remained unchanged since its invention, regionally and racially the spoken language had undergone many phonetic changes over the centuries, so there were many different dialects in Greek.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/greekworld.html (4169 words)

	Dactyls
		In Greek mythology, they are demons believed to live on Mount Ida in Phrygia (Asia Minor), or on the Isle of Crete.
		The Dactyls are sometimes identified with the Cabiri, Curetes and Corybantes; mostly because of the mystery cults that surrounded those groups.
		Their name is derived from daktylos ("finger") and is probably based either on their skill with metals or on their small size.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/dactyls.html (108 words)

	Dactyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A creature in greek mythology; see dactyl (mythology).
		The small asteroid orbiting the larger asteroid 243 Ida as a natural satellite; see Dactyl (asteroid).
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Dactyl (102 words)

	August: The Smallest Moon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dactyl is made of much the same material as Ida - silicate rocks.
		The two may have formed at the same, or possibly Dactyl was formed from the material ejected by an impact on Ida. Dactyl's orbital velocity is the same as a slowly thrown baseball, and it almost certainly cannot have been gravitationally captured as it passed by.
		In the inset picture of Dactyl, the large crater on the terminator is about 300 meters (1,000 feet) across.
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		It comes from a Greek archery term meaning "to miss the mark (by shooting beyond it)" or "error in judgment"; and is first used by Aristotle (in his Poetics), who said that a tragic hero (q.v.) should suffer misfortune as the result of hamartia, rather than as the result of some depravity in his character..
		HUBRIS: A Greek term meaning "arrogance" or "overweening self-confidence." Hubris originates in a hero's mistaken belief that he or she is wiser or more capable than he or she actually is (Fate or the gods always have the upper hand.).
		In Greek and Latin verse, meter depends on the arrangement of long and short syllables In English verse, meter depends on the pattern of stressed (accented) and unstressed (unaccented) syllables.
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	Olympia, Greek Mythology Link.
		When Zeus was born, his mother entrusted him to the DACTYLS of Ida, who some say are the same as those called CURETES [see also CORYBANTES].
		They came from Crete to Elis, and the Dactyl Heracles 2, who was the eldest among them, contended with his brothers in a running-race and crowned the victor with a branch of olive.
		This is why the Dactyl Heracles 2 of Ida is considered to have been the first to have held the games, and to have called them Olympic.
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	Dactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A creature in greek mythology ; see dactyl (greek mythology).
		An element of meter in poetry ; see dactyl (poetry).
		A small asteroid orbiting the larger asteroid 243 Ida as a natural satellite ; see dactyl (asteroid).
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	Acmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Acmon is one of the Dactyls, associated with the anvil.
		In Roman mythology, Acmon was a friend of Aeneas.
		This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acmon (70 words)

	Dactyl - TheBestLinks.com - Asteroid, Greek mythology, Meter (poetry), Poetry, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Dactyl, Asteroid, Greek mythology, Meter (poetry), Poetry, 243 Ida, Natural...
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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		Galileo captured images of Ida and its tiny moon Dactyl during a flyby of the asteroid in 1993, and the bright light of a fragment of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter in 1994.
		Scientists named the 1.5 km moon Dactyl, after the Dactyli of Greek mythology, said to be the nymph Ida's children by Zeus.
		Theorists believe both Ida and Dactyl may be fragments of a giant asteroid pulverized in an ancient collision and that asteroidal moons may, in fact, be commonplace.
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		According to a 1st century BC Greek poet, Parthenius, the Celts were descendants of Heracles.
		Philoctetes, at first, was reluctant, because Odysseus and Agamemnon were responsible for abandoning him on the island of Lemnos, when he was bitten by snake.
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	THIS ASTEROID HAS A MOON ! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ida, was discovered to have a moon which appears as a small dot to the right of Ida in
		Dactyl is the first moon of an asteroid ever discovered.
		The names Ida and Dactyl are based on characters in Greek mythology.
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	Dactyl - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This page was last modified 17:42, 25 Mar 2005.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Dactyl contains research on
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	APOD: 2004 June 19 - Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
		The second asteroid it photographed, Ida, was discovered to have a moon which appears as a small dot to the right of Ida in this image from 1993.
		The names Ida and Dactyl are from Greek mythology.
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	Dactyl - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Dactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Here you will find more informations about Dactyl.
		* A dactyl, a creature in Greek mythology.
		* A dactyl, an element of meter in poetry.
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		In Etruscan mythology, he was known as Aplu.
		His fondness for Greek costume was assigned by his admirers as the cause of his reluctance to paint portraits.
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