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           Mid-afternoon. A reminder from Wikipedia:

"The Ides of March . . . The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed to death in the Theatre of Pompey by a group of some 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar is said to have seen a seer who had foretold that harm would come to him not later than the Ides of March. Caesar joked, "Well, the Ides of March have come", to which the seer replied, "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned to "Beware the Ides of March"."

Theatre of Pompey

Text and Photo from Wikipedia

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         You are at Kroger’s on Tylersville after a late afternoon cookie and ice tea at Kidd’s Coffee. Showers off and on all day. You had almost forgotten the day until you opened your notes. This has mostly, for most of your life, been a day of quiet reflection within. You find it strange that once you admired the bust of Caesar in a library book in old Westerville’s library on the second floor of the city building. Very young with your first connections to your first ancient hero. Lo and behold, once you traced the family (female side only) back to Duncan II of Scotland you realized that you already had the three traditional royal genealogies, the ones you were going to use in the Merlyn series, that went back to Abraham and Sarah.

         Again, ancient history was personalized for you and wound your heart and mind tighter about the soul, as it were, and squeezed the passion out.

         I wasn’t expecting anything beginning today’s blog. I didn’t even think you would show up, Amorella. The date hit my memory and I had some place to go. Otherwise, no words would be forthcoming. That was my thinking. I thought there wasn’t anything else for me to say after yesterday’s conclusion. Here is what I was going to do, suspend the notes and only write the book on the blog (if you decided to continue helping me). Otherwise, I had no more words. I was rather lost this morning, leaving my MBA closed except for email and news. Now, here I am writing away as if I had not admitted my deepest thoughts on the existence of G---D.

         Those weren’t your deepest thoughts, not at all, boy. And, they were from your heartansoulanmind so be relieved about that. Your deepest thoughts/feelings are not expressible. The books and blogs will have to do. – Amorella.

         Do you mean that these thoughts on the existence of G---D (as I imagine G---D) are behind all these works? I find this hard to believe.

         You don’t have to believe anything, orndorff. You are an agnostic.

         Well, I don’t think it is possible. G---D is hardly mentioned. The series is about Merlyn’s dreams that also take in the two Rebellions of the Dead. I don’t have anything to say about such things in any case. The closest is the paragraph yesterday. I had no other words then and I none now as to the existence or non-existence of G---D. I would never put that on a back book cover. In fact, I deny it here. It doesn’t make sense. I may be a fool from my mother’s perspective, but no, nothing can make me feel this is true. My goodness. Where do I come up with these things? Unless, this is some sort of self-test of my honesty, I’ve done this before.

         Kim called and interrupted your thoughts. We can continue this later tonight. – Amorella.

         There is nothing else to say on the subject, Amorella.

         I’ve got a question for you, if there is nothing else to say, why are you still writing the blog?

         I don’t know. Maybe it is just habit.

         I wouldn’t be here to support a habit, boy. Post. – Amorella.

         In a few minutes the final episode of the season for “V” one of your favorites. Supper out at Panera/Chipotle after the national news on NBC. Carol is on the phone with her sister, Linda. After the show drop in selections of the genealogy back to Caesar as this was a ‘trip’ for you.

         It is just legend, Amorella.

         It carried weight at one time. Julius Caesar had connections with the British Celts as well as the French. There are subtle connections between British history and literature. And, at the time it was exciting for you to think on it even if it is legend.

         Amorella, it is embarrassing to think on the emotions of the imagination in the heart carrying more internal weight than that of the imagination in the mind.

         Why?

         Because it is, even in imagination it is.

         Show the genealogy because imagination or not, passion spilled within. – Amorella.

         I was excited, I admit, just because who would have thought such a thing. Seeing it on ‘paper’ so to speak, heightened a far distant possibility of a genealogical connection just because he was my first hero. But in reality, this cannot really be so. It was just interesting, mostly because I never thought of it before.

         Post for now. – Amorella.

         The genealogy material I have came from the Internet – this is Duncan II back to Julia, sister of Julius Caesar. I cannot find my sources presently. However, many of the names can be found via Google. Many of these names are supposedly historic, certainly some are and can be found in Wikipedia. Presently though I cannot find the sources I used for this list – a legendary connection, in any case.

Duncan II & Ethelreda of Dunbar

I

Malcolm III & Ingeborg Finn

I

Duncan I MacCrinan & Sibyl Fitziward

I

Princess Bethoc MacKenneth & Crinan Mormaer

I

Malcolm II MacKenneth & Queen Unnamed

I

Kenneth II & Queen Unnamed

I

Malcolm I

I

Donald I

I

Constantine I

I

King Kenneth MacAlpin of Scotland

I

Alpin

I

Eochaid IV, The Poisonous & Fergusa

I

Aen Find, the Fair

I

Eochaid III

I

Eochaid II, Crooked-Nose

I

Domangart II

I

Domnall Brecc, The Speckled or Pock-Marked

I

Eochaid Buide MacAedan

   [Brother of Scottish King Arthur]

I

Aedan MacGabran Pendragon = Ygerna (Igraine) del Acqs

I

Gabran = Princess Lluan of Brencknock

I

Bychan II of Manau Gododdin = Princess Ingenach of Strathclyde

I

Dyfnwal Hen

I

Cinuit

I

Ceretic Culetic of Strathclyde

I

Cynloyp

I

Cinhil

I

Cluim

I

Cursalen

I

Fer

I

Confer of Strathclyde

I

Cunedd

I

Coel II of Colchester

I

Prince Cadwan of Combria = Princess Gladys

I

Lleiffer Mawr (Good King Lucius) = Gladys

I

Coel I

I

King Marius of Siluria * = Penardun

I

Genuissa [Venissa] = Arviragus Gwenivyth, ArchDruid, King of Britons

I

[Married in 49 AD]

Claudius Caesar I (10 BC – 54 AD) = Agrippina, the Younger

[Claudius adopted her son, Nero by Emp. Nero whom she murdered]

I

Nero Claudius Drusus = Antonia Minor

I

Marcos Antonius II = Octavia Minor

[Octavia 4^th wife with Cleopatra as 5^th wife]

I

Augustus Caesar, Emperor of Rome = Atia

I

Atius Balbus = Julia Minor

Julia Minor was the sister of

Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome

[Assassinated 15 Mar 44 BC]

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          Selections of the above material were used in the books which are fiction. As orndorff considers himself mostly fiction anyway, this material should do no harm. The point is that the possiblity is there, and that is how the stories are worked, possibilities with remote probabilities from time to time. Human imagination can do wonders with material such as this. Think what it did for a real novelist, Dan Brown. - Amorella. 

          Very funny, Amorella. Indeed, quite humorous. I'm going to bed.