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Question: Why was there a flute playing goat and a man with lobster claws?
Answers: Why was there a flute playing goat and a man with lobster claws?
The claws of a lobster are also symbols of prodigious gripping and holding power in its bearer.
THE TITYROI (or Tityri) were flute-playing rustic daimones in the train of the god Dionysos. They were related to the tribes of Satyroi, Seilenoi and Lenai, and like those Daimones were depicted as furry little men with assine ears, pug noses, and tails. The name Tityros appears to be derived from tityrinos, a double shepherd's pipe. According to Eustathius (1157. 39), Tityros was simply the Doric word for satyr. There was also a Mount Tityros near Kydonia in Krete. The bucolic poets often use the name for a rustic character.
There was a man with lobster claws...not sure bout the goat =/
oh, yeah, saw the lobster claws but not the goat....i think it was to symbolize the old greek liturature. to relate to it in a way.
dude Greek mythology
The goat man with the flute is Pan. He's a faun and the Greek god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. I don't think that I saw that in the movie. The man with the lobster claw, I'm not sure about. It looks totally made up.
Duh! Spend a little time and study your Greek Mythology.
The goat playing the flute is actually Pan. I'm not sure about the lobster claws, it's been quite a bit of time that I was there.
The movie was based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller. (Essentially a really nice comic book.)
Mr. Miller took liberties with his depiction of the characters, making them fantastical and other-worldly in the book. The makers of the movie simply copied the style of the book.
It is a well known fact that a goat man is often depicted as Satan. But given the era and ethnicities of the movie and it's characters, I'm sure that it is just Hollywood mumbo jumbo. Well I guess it would not be Hollywood for it was filmed in Montreal. But a man in that time frame having had blades surgically replacing his hands would most certainly would have died of either bleeding out, infection, or poisoning from the metals.
Well the movie was pretty much unreal. The Persians weren't really as vicious as they were depicted in the movie and King Xerxes wasn't actually an evil king--he wasn't even that tall either.. The goat playing the flute was somewhere around the part with the naked dancers and the orgy. There were a lot of flaws in the movie, but nobody really cared since it was such an awesome movie.