Talk:Cap of invisibility
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So let's discuss the helm of invisibility. From reading the article "Helm of Darkness", it appears to be exactly the same thing, so one must wonder why this article actually exists.(Huey45 (talk) 10:41, 8 March 2010 (UTC))
I've just noticed that the cap of invisibility is mentioned in Marx's preface to the first German edition of Das Kapital. Worth mentioning! See http://www.graphicwitness.org/contemp/marx01.htm. pks (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:25, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
κυνῆ - "helmet of darkness"
κυνῆ - >> kyní
The old translation insists "υ", which we cannot do without, translation would not be "invisible" but "unsubstantial/shadowy" trans.litt "like smoke" tied rel. ant. cremation. Subject unequivocal psychopomp:
Hermes itself is "like the wind", "we can feel it" ("kvnée?") But it does not matter "invisibility" by the way impossible to see. Hades would be an "intangible" god (like ectoplasm: έκτόςπλάσμα, even if the term "intangible" (which can not be reached) is too recent (XV), this translation is closer than the word 'invisible'.
It is possible that Hades was originally a blind oracle, a priest necromancer (in the sense that is the voice of the dead) immersed in psychotropic vapors (the practice was known to the Pythia) wearing a steer skull , then a simple feathered helmet hiding vision, Aidoneus (Ἅιδωνευς, "Whatever we do not feel"), very few places of worship for him, to the point that scholiast of the Iliad suddenly said 'it does not already exist, in reality, the city of Elis, in the northwest Peloponnese, has in fact a shrine place of Hades, open once a year and only for the priest ↑ god.
↑ Pausanias (VI, 25, 1).
See also : Edward_Burne-Jones, Perseus and the sea nymphs:http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/92/files/2011/06/Edward-Burne-Jones-Persee-et-les-nymphes-marines.jpg 88.121.157.33 (talk) 18:58, 14 December 2013 (UTC)Antony88.121.157.33 (talk) 18:58, 14 December 2013 (UTC)(Cest)
a similar device is popular in russian fairy tales
it is probably borrowed there from the greek mythology217.118.64.48 (talk) 08:00, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Link to Greek Wikipedia article
In the lateral column, the link to the corresponding Greek language article: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%AE is currently missing. I tried adding it, but either I did something wrong or there's some problem. When I try to add it, it says it's not possible because the link is already in use somewhere else, and this makes no sense to me. Can someone else more knowledgeable please check it and add it? Thanks. Exhululath (talk) 01:45, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
Change focus in previews to the helmet.
While I'm fine with a statue having genitals, that isn't the focus of the article. 82.3.143.230 (talk) 14:24, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
Requested move 22 January 2025
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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Cremastra (talk) 16:13, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Cap of invisibility → Cap of Invisibility – The letter "i" in "invisibility" is not capitalized. FawFawoftheFaw (talk) 15:39, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. Most sources seem to refer to it as the "cap of invisibility". See, for example: Hard's Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Perseus; Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Gorgo/Medusa; Fontenrose's Python; and Phinney and Kirk (both cited in the article). – Michael Aurel (talk) 16:39, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the information; however, I was specifically referring to the title. Titles are consistently capitalized according to standard title capitalization rules, regardless of how they appear in the original source(s). FawFawoftheFaw (talk) 17:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia article titles (like section titles) use sentence-case (see WP:NCCAPS), so "invisibility" should not be capitalized here unless it's being used as part of a proper noun. And the examples given above would suggest otherwise. Paul August ☎ 18:13, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the information; however, I was specifically referring to the title. Titles are consistently capitalized according to standard title capitalization rules, regardless of how they appear in the original source(s). FawFawoftheFaw (talk) 17:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose and procedural close or withdraw since the rationale here was based simply on not knowing WP's policy of using sentence case, not title case, for titles. Dicklyon (talk) 10:57, 29 January 2025 (UTC)