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The Principia Discordia is the first published Discordian religious text . It was written by Greg Hill ( Malaclypse the Younger ) with Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst) and others. The first edition was printed using Jim Garrison 's Xerox printer in 1963. The second edition was published under the title Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost in a limited edition of five copies in 1965. The phrase Principia Discordia , reminiscent of Isaac Newton 's 1687 Principia Mathematica , is presumably intended to mean Discordant Principles , or Principles of Discordance .

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65-595: The Principia describes the Discordian Society and its Goddess Eris , as well as the basics of the POEE denomination of Discordianism. It features typewritten and handwritten text intermixed with clip art , stamps, and seals appropriated from other sources. It is quoted extensively in and forms the basis for several themes within the satirical 1975 science fiction book The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson . Notable symbols in

130-461: A Discordian nature, and Zenarchy by Kerry Thornley , which proposes a non-combative approach to anarchy infused with Zen philosophy. Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy by Robert Anton Wilson delves into themes of personal freedom and self-awareness, expanding upon Wilson's essay originally published in 1985. In addition, there are compilations such as Apocrypha Discordia and Historia Discordia , which gather diverse materials from

195-546: A fire almost destroyed the opera house in late 1969, Rip Off moved to the decaying former headquarters of the Family Dog psychedelic rock music promotion collective (which Jaxon had been a member of starting in 1966). Rip Off Press was located at 1250 17th Street in San Francisco from 1970 until 1985. By 1972, the poster printing business had faded away and the company had become a publishing house . Other works

260-490: A hundred other businesses, burned to the ground on April 6, 1986, following an explosion in an illegal fireworks factory in the basement. Freed of a 17-year accumulation of comics and other paraphernalia, Fred Todd (at this point the only original partner still working in the business) decided to relocate Rip Off Press to Auburn, California (part of the Sacramento metropolitan area ), where he and Kathe continued to run

325-454: A profitable operation, was discontinued by 1979. (Griffith's Zippy , which had debuted in 1976 as a weekly strip with Rip Off's syndicate, was picked up for daily syndication in 1986 by King Features Syndicate .) Much of the material produced for the syndicate was eventually published in the company's long-running anthology Rip Off Comix , which had debuted in 1977. In 1979, Universal Studios paid Shelton and Rip Off Press $ 250,000 for

390-580: A single Western Union telegram page filled with the letter M was published as an appendix to the Loompanics and SJ Games re-printings of the 4th Edition. In 1978, a copy of a work from Kerry Thornley titled "THE PRINCIPIA Discordia or HOW THE WEST WAS LOST" was placed in the HSCA JFK collections as document 010857. Adam Gorightly, author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy about Kerry Thornley and

455-479: A window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The order is in the grid. That is the Aneristic Principle. Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be true. This is illusory; it

520-640: Is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is the Eristic Principle. The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the Eristic Illusion. The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality,

585-479: Is by necessity that they honor the oppressive Strife, by the plans of the immortals. But the other one gloomy Night bore first; and Cronus’ high-throned son, who dwells in the aether, set it in the roots of the earth, and it is much better for men. It rouses even the helpless man to work. For a man who is not working but who looks at some other man, a rich one who is hastening to plow and plant and set his house in order, he envies him, one neighbor envying his neighbor who

650-476: Is hastening toward wealth: and this Strife is good for mortals. Antoninus Liberalis , in his Metamorphoses , involves Eris in the story of Polytechnus and Aedon , who claimed to love each other more than Hera and Zeus. This angered Hera, so she sent Eris to wreak discord upon them. Eris is mentioned many times in Quintus Smyrnaeus ' Posthomerica , which covers the time period between the end of

715-443: Is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that. The Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost was first published in a limited edition of five copies and released into the public domain in 1965. The full title of

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780-579: Is notable for being the first company to publish the fourth edition of the Principia Discordia , a Discordian religious text written by Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley . It was also an early publisher of a booklet on drug manufacturing, Psychedelic Chemistry . In January 17, 1969, the company was founded in San Francisco by four Texans: Fred Todd, Dave Moriaty, and cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson . The initial plan

845-446: Is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that of APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper than is the level of distinction making. Cusack points out that this is "distilled into a teaching about the ultimate fate of humans: 'so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to

910-476: Is that of apparent order; the Eristic Principle is that of apparent disorder. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of pure chaos, which is a level deeper than is the level of distinction making. With our concept-making apparatus called "the brain" we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by

975-439: Is what we Erisians call the Aneristic Illusion. Some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other. Disorder is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence of female-ness", or vice versa,

1040-665: The Iliad and the beginning of his Odyssey . Just as in the Iliad , the Posthomerica Eris is the instigator of conflict, does not take sides, shouts, and delights in the carnage of battle. Eris is also mentioned in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus . At the start of the epic confrontation between Zeus and Typhon , Nonnus has Nike (Victory) lead Zeus into battle, and Eris lead Typhon , and in another passage has Eris, with

1105-462: The Iliad (where she is the "sister" of Ares the god of war). According to Hesiod she was the daughter of primordial Nyx (Night), and the mother of a long list of undesirable personified abstractions, such as Ponos (Toil), Limos (Famine), Algae (Pains) and Ate (Delusion). Eris initiated a quarrel between Hera , Athena and Aphrodite , which led to the Judgement of Paris and ultimately

1170-495: The Iliad . However, unlike Apollo, Athena and several other of the Olympians, Eris does not participate in active combat, nor take sides in the war. Her role in the Iliad is that of "the rouser of armies", urging both armies to fight each other. In Book 4, she is one of the divinities (along with Ares, Athena, Deimos ("Terror"), and Phobos ("Rout") urging the armies to battle, with head lowered at first, but soon raised up to

1235-654: The Principia Discordia contains a complex and subtle religious system, although this is often obscured by its chaotic structure. The theology of the Principia is perhaps best summarized in the symbol [...] The Sacred Chao [...] Taken as a whole, however, the Sacred Chao symbolizes the Discordian idea that both order and chaos are man-made concepts, and that to believe that either is more 'true' than

1300-580: The Trojan War . Eris's Roman equivalent is Discordia . According to Hesiod, there was another Eris, separate and distinct from Eris the daughter of Nyx, who was beneficial to men. The name derives from the noun eris , with stem erid- , which means "strife, discord" and is of uncertain etymology; connections with the verb ὀρίνειν orínein "to raise, stir, excite" and the proper name Ἐρινύες Erinyes have been suggested. R. S. P. Beekes sees no strong evidence for this relation and excludes

1365-525: The "sister" of Ares . However, according to Hesiod 's Theogony , Eris is the daughter of Nyx (Night), being among the many children Nyx produced without a partner. These siblings of Eris include personifications—like Eris—of several "loathsome" ( στυγερός ) things, such as Moros ("Doom"), Thanatos ("Death"), the Moirai ("Fates"), Nemesis ("Indignation"), Apate ("Deceit"), and Geras ("Old Age"). Like her mother Nyx, Hesiod has Eris as

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1430-614: The 3rd Edition of 500 copies, whomped together in Tampa 1969; which revised the 2nd Edition of 100 copies from Los Angeles 1969; which was a revision of PRINCIPIA Discordia or HOW THE WEST WAS LOST published in New Orleans in 1965 in five copies, which were mostly lost. Additionally, the "contents of this edition" note in the Loompanics edition identifies the fourth edition as having originally been published by Rip Off Press of San Francisco, California . A "Fifth Edition" consisting of

1495-549: The Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s (thanks to the money he received from Universal), co-founder Shelton and his wife permanently relocated to France in 1984. In mid-1985, the company moved from 17th Street to a smaller space on San Jose Avenue near the city's southern border, with warehouse space across town at the Bayview Industrial Park. This three-story, block-square building, which housed over

1560-513: The Cycle, describes events preceding those that occur in the Iliad , the second poem in the Cycle. According to a prose summary of the now lost Cypria , Eris, acting according to the plans of Zeus and Themis to bring about the Trojan War, instigates a nekios ('feud') between the three goddesses over "beauty" (presumably over who of the three was the most beautiful), while they were attending

1625-457: The Demoness . The company published two music-related indy comics titles by Matt Howarth — Savage Henry and Those Annoying Post Bros. , from 1989 to 1994. Rip Off Press also took over the publication of the long-running all-female underground anthology Wimmen's Comix with issue #14 (1989) of that title, publishing it through 1993. After the collapse of the direct market in

1690-572: The Discordian tradition, including writings by both original and contemporary Discordians. Several works also explore the lives of key figures within Discordianism, such as The Prankster and the Conspiracy by Adam Gorightly, which focuses on Kerry Thornley's interactions with countercultural figures like Lee Harvey Oswald . Chasing Eris by Brenton Clutterbuck provides an in-depth examination of Discordianism's impact on various aspects of culture and society, offering interviews and insights into

1755-531: The Greek army by shouting: Zeus sent Strife to the swift ships of the Achaeans, gruesome Strife, holding in her hands a portent of war. And she stood by Odysseus’ black ship, huge of hull, that was in the middle so that a shout could reach to either end, both to the huts of Aias, son of Telamon, and to those of Achilles; for these had drawn up their shapely ships at the furthermost ends, trusting in their valor and

1820-526: The Seven Seas against Sinbad and his allies. The dwarf planet Eris was named after this Greek goddess in 2006. In 2019, the New Zealand moth species Ichneutica eris was named in honour of Eris. [REDACTED] Media related to Eris (mythology) at Wikimedia Commons Rip Off Press Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and distributor , better known as

1885-497: The Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus'.". The book's philosophical system of Eristic, Spiritual, and Aneristic principles borrows from Zen Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Existentialism. David G. Robertson discusses Discordian theology in the 2012 book Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production , writing that despite Discordian claims that its 'catmas' are soft, optional beliefs, Nevertheless,

1950-462: The additional material included in their editions. In Discordian mythology, Aneris is described as the sister of Eris aka Discordia. Whereas Eris/Discordia is the Goddess of Disorder and Being, Aneris/ Harmonia is the Goddess of Order and Non-Being. "DOGMA III – HISTORY 32, 'COSMOGONY'" in Principia Discordia , states: In the beginning there was VOID, who had two daughters; one (the smaller)

2015-466: The aegis, and Kydoimos ("Tumult"), and Ker ("Fate"), on the shield. Similarly, the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles has Eris depicted on Heracles' shield, also with Phobos, Kydoimos and Ker, as well as other war-related personifications: Proioxis ("Pursuit"), Palioxis ("Rally"), Homados ("Tumult "), Phonos ("Murder"), and Androktasia ("Slaughter"). Here Eris is described as flying over

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2080-685: The battlefield, rejoicing as she watches the fighting she has roused. While in Book 5, she is described as raging unceasingly. Hesiod also associates Eris with war. In his Works and Days , he says that she "fosters evil war and conflict". And in his Theogony , has the Hysminai (Battles) and the Machai (Wars) as her children. In addition to the Eris who was the daughter of Nyx (Night), Hesiod, in his Works and Days , mentions another Eris. He contrasts

2145-504: The book include the Apple of Discord , the pentagon , and the "Sacred Chao", which resembles the Taijitu of Taoism , but the two principles depicted are "Hodge" and "Podge" rather than yin and yang , and they are represented by the apple and the pentagon, and not by dots. Saints identified include Emperor Norton , Yossarian , Don Quixote , and Bokonon . The Principia also introduces

2210-453: The children of Eris, as given by Hesiod: Eris plays a crucial role in one important myth. She was the initiator of the quarrel between the three Greek goddesses, Hera , Athena , and Aphrodite , resolved by the Judgement of Paris , which led to Paris ' abduction of Helen of Troy and the outbreak of the Trojan War . As the story came to be told, all the gods were invited to the wedding of Peleus and Themis except Eris. She came anyway but

2275-472: The company in 1975 for a college summer job, married co-founder Fred Todd in 1980; by the mid-1980s she had assumed co-management of the company. Cartoonist Jay Kinney joined the company as an editor in 1981, but left after a few months. Cartoonist Guy Colwell began freelancing for Rip Off Press in the production department beginning in 1980; he worked on-and-off for the company through c.  1990 . After bouncing back and forth between Europe and

2340-501: The company published during this period included comics by Frank Stack , Sheridan (all co-published with Gary Arlington 's San Francisco Comic Book Company), The Rip Off Review of Western Culture omnibus, and Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers . As the underground comix market began to peter out in the early 1970s, Rip Off Press shifted its focus to other cartoonists and other comics. By this point, Rip Off Press co-founders Moriaty and Jackson had gone back to Texas, leaving

2405-552: The company while raising their two small children. The move was made in June 1987. During this era, Rip Off Press continued to publish Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the Rip Off Comix anthology; the popularity of erotic comics in the late 1980s/early 1990s led to the publication of such titles as Strips by Chuck Austen , The Girl by Kevin J. Taylor, Doll by Guy Colwell , and SS Crompton 's Demi

2470-667: The copy in the JFK collection was an earlier draft of the Principia Discordia predating the first edition. The Principia includes a notice which purports to disclaim any copyright in relation to the work: "Ⓚ All Rites Reversed – reprint what you like." Regardless of the legal effect of this notice, the Principia has been widely disseminated in the public domain via the Internet and more traditional print publishers. Some re-publishers have claimed copyright in relation to

2535-536: The cup she is depicted as a normal woman in appearance apart from having wings and winged-sandals. From the later part of fifth-century BC, the upper section of a red-figure calyx krater depicts Eris with Themis facing each other, apparently in animated discussion, while the lower section depicts the Judgement of Paris , confirming Eris' role in the events as told in the Cypria . The classic fairy tale " Sleeping Beauty " references what appears to be Eris's role in

2600-468: The derivation from ἐρείδω ereídō "to prop, to support" due to the name's original ι- stem. Watkins suggested origin from a Proto-Indo-European root ere - meaning "to separate, to adjoin". The name gave several derivatives in Ancient Greek , including ἐρίζω erízō "to fight" and ἔρισμα érisma "object of a quarrel". In Homer 's Iliad , Eris is called (allegorically?)

2665-472: The early 1990s (fueled by Marvel Comics ' withdrawal of its 40% market share from the distribution system), Rip Off Press began cutting costs and gradually retreated from publishing. By 1997, it had shifted its business to selling backlist comics in its store and to mail-order customers, plus to the fans finding them online. The Todds moved the business to much smaller quarters adjoining their home in 1999, where they continue to sell comics, mostly through

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2730-471: The early Discordians, said the copy in the JFK collection was not a copy of the first edition but a later and altered version containing some of the original material. Gorightly said he had been given Greg Hill's copy of the first edition. This appeared in its entirety in Historia Discordia , a book on Discordian history released in spring of 2014. In 2015 Gorightly stated that he now believed that

2795-400: The fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" differently. It is only the ideas-about-reality which differ. Real (capital-T) True reality is a level deeper than is the level of concept. We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through

2860-471: The form of a chimpanzee. Eris, the "Goddess of Discord and Chaos", is a recurring antagonist in the animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , wherein she is depicted as a spoiled and wealthy woman that wields the "Apple of Discord". Similarly, Eris, the malevolent "Goddess of Discord and Chaos", is the main antagonist in the DreamWorks 2003 animated movie Sinbad: Legend of

2925-468: The former publisher of adult-themed series like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Rip Off Comix , as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era. Founded in 1969 in San Francisco by four friends from Austin, Texas — cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson , and Fred Todd and Dave Moriaty — Rip Off Press is now run in Auburn, California , by Todd. Rip Off Press

2990-406: The fourth and most well-known edition is Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything . Included on page 75 is the following note about the history of the Principia : This being the 4th Edition, March 1970, San Francisco; a revision of

3055-504: The golden Apple of Discord , which may or may not have come from the Cypria . According to the first-century BC Roman mythographer Hyginus , all the gods had been invited to the wedding except Eris. Nevertheless, she came to the wedding feast, and when refused entrance, she threw an apple through the doorway, saying that it was for the "fairest", which started the quarrel. The satirist Lucian (fl. 2nd century AD) tells us that Eris's apple

3120-422: The head of Phobos ("Fear"): In the middle was Fear, made of adamant, unspeakable, glaring backward with eyes shining like fire. His mouth was full of white teeth, terrible, dreadful; and over his grim forehead flew terrible Strife, preparing for the battle-rout of men—cruel one, she took away the mind and sense of any men who waged open war against Zeus’ son [Heracles]. Eris also appears in several battle scenes in

3185-602: The heavens: And the Trojans were urged on by Ares, and the Achaeans by flashing-eyed Athene, and Terror, and Rout, and Strife who rages incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she first rears her crest only a little, but then her head is fixed in the heavens while her feet tread on earth. She it was who now cast evil strife into their midst as she went through the throng, making the groanings of men to increase. She also appears in this "rouser of armies" role in Book 5, and again in Book 11, where Zeus sends Eris to rouse

3250-411: The mother—with no father mentioned—of many children (the only child of Nyx with offspring) who are also personifications representing various misfortunes and harmful things which, in Eris' case, might be thought to result from discord and strife All of Eris' children are little more than allegorizations of the meanings of their names, with virtually no other identity. The following table lists

3315-408: The movement's global reach and influence. It also includes an interpretation of the Principia Discordia chapter "The Parable of The Bitter Tea" by its original author. Eris (mythology) In Greek mythology , Eris ( Ancient Greek : Ἔρις , romanized :  Eris , lit.   'Strife') is the goddess and personification of strife and discord, particularly in war, and in

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3380-581: The mysterious word " fnord ", later popularized in The Illuminatus! Trilogy ; the trilogy itself is mentioned in the afterword to the Loompanics edition, and in the various introductions to the fifth editions. The Principia Discordia holds three core principles: the Aneristic Principle (order), the Eristic Principle (disorder) and the notion that both are mere illusions. The following excerpt summarizes these principles: The Aneristic Principle

3445-402: The other is illusion. The Sacred Chao represents 'pure chaos', the metaphysical grounding of all that is, and a level beyond any distinction-making. The Discordian movement encompasses a diverse array of works, both real and fictitious, that explore themes of chaos, satire, and alternative spirituality. These include Zen Without Zen Masters by Camden Benares, which presents koans and stories of

3510-458: The rights to make a live-action Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers film. Rip Off used its share of the rights fees to buy a new typesetting machine and a computer system, which enabled it in turn to launch the mail order business that later became integral to the company's survival. (The Universal-produced Freak Brothers film never made it to production.) The future Kathe Todd, who first came to

3575-457: The running of the company to Shelton and Todd. The company started a syndication service , managed by Shelton, that sold weekly content to alternative newspapers and student publications . Each Friday, the company sent out a distribution sheet with the strips it was selling, by such cartoonists as Shelton, Joel Beck , Dave Sheridan , Ted Richards , Bill Griffith , and Harry Driggs (as R. Diggs). The Rip Off Press Syndicate , never really

3640-413: The strength of their hands. There the goddess stood and uttered a great and terrible shout, a shrill cry of war, and in the heart of each man of the Achaeans she roused strength to war and to battle without ceasing. And to them at once war became sweeter than to return in their hollow ships to their dear native land. Her lust for bloodshed is insatiable. Later in Book 11, she is the last of the gods to leave

3705-477: The third-floor ballroom of the former Mowry's Opera House, at 633 Laguna Street in Hayes Valley . The first comics Rip Off Press published, in 1969, were R. Crumb 's Big Ass Comics (June '69), a reprint of Jaxon's God Nose (originally published in 1964), Jaxon's Happy Endings Comics (August '69), and the first issue of Fred Schrier and Dave Sheridan 's Mother's Oats Comix (October '69). After

3770-480: The two: the former being "blameworthy" who "fosters evil war and conflict", the latter worthy of "praise", have been created by Zeus to foster beneficial competition: So there was not just one birth of Strifes after all, but upon the earth there are two Strifes. One of these a man would praise once he got to know it, but the other is blameworthy; and they have thoroughly opposed spirits. For the one fosters evil war and conflict—cruel one, no mortal loves that one, but it

3835-586: The war-goddess Enyo , bring "Tumult" to both sides of a battle. There are few certain representations of Eris in art. Her earliest appearances (mid-sixth-century BC) are found on the Chest of Cypselus and in the tondo of a black-figure cup (Berlin F1775). The geographer Pausanias describes seeing Eris depicted on the Chest, as a "most repulsive" [ aischistê ] woman standing between Ajax and Hector fighting. On

3900-515: The wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis (who would become the parents of Achilles ). To settle the dispute, Zeus orders the three goddesses to go to Mount Ida to be judged by Paris. Paris, having been offered Helen, by Aphrodite, in return for Paris choosing her, does so. The fith-century BC playwright Euripides , describes the Judgement of Paris several times with no mention of either Eris, or an apple. Later accounts include details, such as

3965-526: The wedding of Peleus and Thetis . Like Eris, a malevolent fairy curses a princess after not being invited to the princess's christening . Eris is the principal figure of worship in the modern Discordian religion invented as an "absurdist joke" in 1957 by two school friends Gregory Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley . As mythologized in the religion's satirical text Principia Discordia , written by Hill with Thornely and others, Eris (apparently) spoke to Hill and Thornley in an all-night bowling alley, in

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4030-406: Was "solid gold" and that it was inscribed: "For the queen of Beauty" ( ἡ καλὴ λαβέτω ). Eris personifies strife, particularly the strife associated with war. In Homer's Iliad , Eris is described as being depicted on both Athena 's battle aegis , and Achilles ' shield, where she appears alongside other war-related personifications: Phobos ("Rout"), Alke ("Valor"), and Ioke ("Assault"), on

4095-468: Was refused admission. In anger, she threw a golden apple among the wedding guests inscribed with "For the fairest", which the three goddesses each claimed. Homer alludes to the Judgement of Paris, but with no mention of Eris. An account of the story, was told in the Cypria , one of the poems in the Epic Cycle , which told the entire story of the Trojan War. The Cypria which is the first poem in

4160-526: Was that of BEING, named ERIS , and one (the larger) was of NON-BEING, named ANERIS . The sterile Aneris becomes jealous of Eris (who was born pregnant), and starts making existent things non-existent. This explains why life begins, and later ends in death: And to this day, things appear and disappear in this very manner. The names of Eris and Aneris (who are later given an in-between brother, Spirituality ), are used to show some fundamental Discordian principles in "Psycho-Metaphysics": The Aneristic Principle

4225-426: Was to print rock band promotional posters on an old press and do comics on the side — in some ways the company was formed as a sort of cartoonists' cooperative , as an alternative publishing venue to other Bay Area publishers like Apex Novelties , Print Mint , and Company & Sons . The four men purchased a used Davidson 233 offset printing press and set up shop in the same space as Apex Novelties, located on

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