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  Telegony - LoveToKnow 1911
Though, according to breeders, evidence of telegony has been found in nearly all the different kinds of domestic mammals and birds, most stress has been laid on instances of "infection" in the horse and dog families.
By way of testing this assumption, a bay filly, the half-sister of a richly striped hybrid, was put to a cross-bred Highland pony, and a Highland mare, while nursing her hybrid foal, was put to a colt the half-brother of a hybrid.
In considering telegony it should perhaps be mentioned that some breeders not only believe the dam is liable to be "infected" by the sire, but also that the sire may acquire some of the characteristics of his mates.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Telegony   (1370 words)

  
 Heroes in the Trojan War
According to the Theogony, Hesiod wrote that Calypso bore him Nausithous and Nausinous, while in the Telegony, she was also the mother of Telegonus or Teledamus.
Odysseus and Penelope had another son, named Acusilaus, according to the story in Telegony (Epic Cycle), but according to Apollodorus, their son was called Poliportes.
According to the Telegony, Telegonus, son of Odysseus and Circe, and therefore Telemachus' half-brother.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/heroes2.html   (9260 words)

  
 telegony,htm
Telegony is the name given to the hypothesis that offspring can inherit characteristics from a previous mate of the mother.
Dog breeders, especially, are generally quite firm in their belief in telegony and this is in evidence even as I write.
If telegony is only a spurious vapor then it remains a vacuous proposition when applied, for it will produce no ill effects.
www.faem.com /edward/telegony.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: Science & Technology (T-Teq)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The telautograph was a form of telegraph (the originator of the modern fax machine) whereby a message or drawing produced at the transmitter was instantly reproduced at the distant receiver.
Telegony is the theory of pre-paternal influence on offspring.
That is, that a previous male mate may pass characteristics to an offspring conceived by the same mother, but a different father.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /ST.HTM   (1983 words)

  
 Trojan War cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Telegony covers the life of Odysseus after his return home and his death at the hands of an illegitimate son, Telegonus.
The main source for the contents of the lost epics are a complete summary known as the Chrestomathy, possibly dating to the 5th century CE (attributed, incorrectly, to the philosopher Proclus Diadochus).
It is certain that the poets of the Iliad and Odyssey knew the stories in the rest of the cycle and drew upon them extensively, and it is likely that the Aethiopis in particular was of relatively high quality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_War_cycle   (755 words)

  
 TELEGONY (Gr. TT/Xe, far, and yovos, offspring) - Online Information article about TELEGONY (Gr. TT/Xe, far, and yovos, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Dogs.—Breeders of dogs are, if possible, more thoroughly convinced of the fact of telegony than breeders of horses.
Millais, a recognized authority, has boldly asserted that after nearly thirty years' experience, during which he made all sorts of experiments, he had never seen a case of telegony.
In considering telegony it should perhaps be mentioned that some breeders not only believe the dam is liable to be "infected " by the sire, but also that the sire may acquire some of the characteristics of his mates.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/TELEGONY_Gr_TTXe_far_and_yovos_.html   (2441 words)

  
 Telegony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Telegony (Greek: Τηλεγόνεια, Telegoneia; Latin: Telegonia) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature.
The story of the Telegony comes chronologically after that of the Odyssey, and is the final episode in the Epic Cycle.
In antiquity the Telegony may have also been known as the Thesprotis (Greek: Θεσπρωτίς), which is referred to once (Pausanias 8.12.5); alternatively, the Thesprotis may have been a name for the first book of the Telegony, which is set in Thesprotia.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Telegony.htm   (820 words)

  
 Telegony - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The theory of Telegony is based on the idea that a woman and her child share the same blood.
So IF Telegony were true, it could only occur in that 7 year window of time from the moment that she became pregnant.
A lot of times people tried to claim something was Telegony, when the reality is that it was what's called "throwback" - where there was a "passable" Negro several generations back in the ancestry, and the negroid traits finally surfaced.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=1005894&mode=linear   (3121 words)

  
 Early conceptions of heredity (from heredity) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ...
Another such belief is “telegony,” which goes back to Aristotle; it alleged that the heredity of an individual is influenced not only by his father but also by males with whom the female may have mated and who have caused previous pregnancies.
Even Darwin, as late as 1868, seriously discussed an alleged case of telegony: that of a mare that was mated to a zebra and subsequently to an Arabian stallion by whom the mare produced a foal with faint stripes on his legs.
The agronomist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was able for close to a quarter of a century, roughly between 1938 and 1963, to make his special brand of Lamarckism the official creed in the Soviet Union and to suppress most of the teaching and research in orthodox genetics.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-50770   (1948 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Heredity
It must be admitted that the extremer views of Weismann as to the impossibility of the inheritance of acquired
The same may be said as to the theory of telegony.
condition, which supposes that the maternal organism is, so to speak, infected, by the male congress, is called telegony.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07254a.htm   (1184 words)

  
 Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica - Homer - Free Online Library
It has been assumed in the foregoing pages that the poems of the Trojan Cycle are later than the Homeric poems; but, as the opposite view has been held, the reasons for this assumption must now be given.
The answer to these questions was supplied by the "Telegony", a poem in two books by Eugammon of Cyrene (fl.
It told of the adventures of Odysseus in Thesprotis after the killing of the Suitors, of his return to Ithaca, and his death at the hands of Telegonis, his son by Circe.
homer.thefreelibrary.com /Collection-Of-Hesiod-Homer-and-Homerica/7-1   (932 words)

  
 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC BREEDING OF CATS (GENETICS)
Paternal Impression (Telegony) claimed that a female's first ever mate had a permanent effect on her and would affect all of her future offspring, even those fathered by different males.
To designate this condition, Telegony is the Word that was coined by Weismann in his "Das Keimplasma," and he defines it as "Infection of the Germ," and, at another time, as " Those doubtful instances in which the offspring is said to resemble, not the father, but an early mate of the mother [...] Hon.
As late as 1958, PM Soderberg took pains to dispel the myth of telegony ("Pedigree Cats: Their Varieties, Breeding and Exhibition"): "Unfortunately, in the now distant past a large number of queens were destroyed because telegony was accepted as a fact instead of being, as is actually the case, sheer nonsense.
www.messybeast.com /retro-genetics.htm   (10179 words)

  
 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine: Prenatal Anomalies (Part 2)
In a systematic discussion of telegony before the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, on March 1, 1895, Brunton Blaikie, as a means of making the definition of telegony plainer by practical example, prefaced his remarks by citing the classic example which first drew the attention of the modern scientific world to this phenomenon.
"We might expect from the foregoing account of telegony amongst animals that whenever a fl woman had a child to a white man, and then married a fl man, her subsequent children would not be entirely fl.
Unfortunately for the proof of telegony, it is very rare that a white woman does marry a fl man, and then have a white as second husband; nevertheless, we have a fair number of recorded instances of dark-colored children being born in the above way of white parents.
www.oslermarine.com /anomalies02b.html   (12835 words)

  
 Telegony [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
I was a strong proponent of Telegony, I thought it was "Gospel Truth" for years and years, but the results of my own research led me to believe that it was not true.
Whether or not telegony is an accurate scientific term, the simple fact of God's Law is that the most beautiful Israelite woman in human history, worthy of marrying David, was too defiled herself to bear kings.
Telegony is the term for the ongoing corruption in the blood of the white female that copulates with negroes/non-whites and bears miscegenated offspring, thus contaminating her phsyiology forever with the ongoing manufacture of non-white blood, DNA, and other non-white genetic material along with her own.
www.stormfront.org /archive/t-127294Hoesje_dvd/t-128089Telegony.html   (12848 words)

  
 THE TELEGONY
After the "Returns" comes the "Odyssey" of Homer, and then the "Telegony" in two books by Eugammon of Cyrene, which contain the following matters.
The suitors of Penelope are buried by their kinsmen, and Odysseus, after sacrificing to the Nymphs, sails to Elis to inspect his herds.
The author of the "Telegony", a Cyrenaean, relates that Odysseus had by Calypso a son Telegonus or Teledamus, and by Penelope Telemachus and Acusilaus.
homepages.stuy.edu /~jrolle/English/telegony.htm   (231 words)

  
 d0118et
Telegony is another factor which is recognized in the animal world, especially in the breeding of good stock.
Ranchers have told me that a pure-bred cow which is 'covered' by a scrub bull is no longer fit to calve, even when 'serviced' by a pure-bred bull.
Since we are also members of the animal kingdom, that would be another reason to steer clear of females who are promiscuous and multi-racial.
www.faem.com /eric/2003/d0118et.htm   (1819 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Old "Science" beliefs "Telegony" - "Pangenesis" & more -------------------------------- "Telegony" - "offspring at a distance" a belief held from before, and throughout, Victorian times.
Unbelievably "telegony" was taught, and decreed as a `fact' in text books for up to 70 years without any real attempt at verification.
No viable experiment was ever made, the idea being dropped from `science fashion' only when Mendel's basic logic began to dominate.
www.perceptions.couk.com /~perceptions/olfacs.txt   (357 words)

  
 Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica: The Returns & The Telegony (fragments)
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica: The Returns & The Telegony (fragments)
THE TELEGONY Fragment #1 -- Proclus, Chrestomathia, ii: After the "Returns" comes the "Odyssey" of Homer, and then the "Telegony" in two books by Eugammon of Cyrene, which contain the following matters.
35: The author of the "Telegony", a Cyrenaean, relates that Odysseus had by Calypso a son Telegonus or Teledamus, and by Penelope Telemachus and Acusilaus.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Hesiod/ret-telg.html   (731 words)

  
 telegony - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Telegony : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Telegony : Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices [home, info]
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 telegony results found while searching for telegony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 Crick, Watson and DNA by Paul Strathern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A prevalent belief in ancient times held that if a female had previously mated and had progeny, the characteristics of their father would appear in the woman's subsequent progeny by any other male.
This fairy story was even dignified with a pseudo-scientific name by the ancient Greeks, who called it telegony (meaning "distant-begetting").
A more interesting theory was pangenesis, which held that each organ and substance of the body secreted its own particles, which then combined to form the embryo.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385492454&view=excerpt   (786 words)

  
 Response to 'Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust'
BERGMAN: Poliakov notes that many intellectuals in the early 1900s accepted telegony, the idea that 'bad blood' would contaminate a race line forever, or that 'bad blood drives out good', just as bad money displaces good money.
Darwin even compiled a long list of cases where he concluded bad blood polluted a whole gene line, causing it to bear impure progeny forever.
ED: This idea of "telegony" does not necessarily warrant "extermination" in the sense of killing people, just sterilization.
www.edwardtbabinski.us /latest_2003/racism.html   (1257 words)

  
 Vanguard News Network Forum - Sex with jewsih girls, WN strikes the Talmud
The reason is "telegony" which is the transformation of DNA through sexual intercourse.
Telegony is a myth and besides wouldnt affect a man if it were.
I read recently they like to do their nails during intercourse (hands' or feet's I'm not sure).
www.vnnforum.com /showthread.php?p=10542   (2071 words)

  
 NAHSTE: Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Baron de Parana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He then lists the six zebra hybrids in his possession, detailing their physical characteristics, and in particular their height and the dappling on their coats.
He discusses telegony and infection which he does not believe in.
He cites many human examples to disprove the theory of telegony.
www.nahste.ac.uk /cgi-bin/view_isad.pl?id=GB-0237-James-Cossar-Ewart-Gen-137-9-4-128&view=basic   (103 words)

  
 Satanic Reds
In the Old Testament this clearly meant "race-mixing." It doesn’t mean to "cheat on your spouse" since those writing this were polygamous.
It might have INCLUDED this, depending on WHO you cheated with, since these ancient people believed in biological telegony.
This makes sense only if one considers telegony.
www.geocities.com /satanicreds/666c.html   (3036 words)

  
 Summaries of the Trojan Cycle, Greek Mythology Link.
Some of these fragments contain details about the Theban wars (the war of the SEVEN and that of the EPIGONI), others about the prowesses of Heracles 1 and Theseus, others about the origin of the gods, and still others about events related to the Trojan War.
The latter, called "Trojan Cycle", narrate events that occurred before the war (Cypria), during the war (Aethiopis, Little Iliad, and Sack of Ilium), and after the war (Returns, and Telegony).
The term "epic" (derived from Greek épos = word, song) is generally applied to narrative poems which describe the deeds of heroes in "war", an astounding process of mutual destruction that periodically and frequently affects mankind.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/TCSummaries.html   (5486 words)

  
 Faculty & Instructors: Sean Virgo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Seán Virgo has been working on a novel for the last few years (excerpts in Exile magazine, 1996), has just published a book of stories about dying (A Traveller Came By, Thistledown Press, October 2000) and has almost completed a book of hybridized fiction-memoir-speculation (excerpts in Exile, 1995 and ‘96, and Brick 1997).
He has also been producing chapbooks in various places and guises (most recently, The Scream Of The Butterfly, Hawthorne Press, 1997; and Telegony, Punchpenny Press [Winnipeg], 1998).
A double C.D., Virgo Out Loud, was released by Cyclops Press in 1999.
finearts.uvic.ca /writing/faculty/virgo.html   (304 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
supplied by the "Telegony", a poem in two books by Eugammon of
Ithaca, and his death at the hands of Telegonis, his son by
The epic ended by disposing of the surviving personages
www.ulib.org /ulib/data/cmu_classics/0d8/4ba/653/44e/1bc/d/00000008   (936 words)

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