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Homer is a ghost dog and appeared in the episode "Lost Boys."  He lived with Rat, Vic, Marty, and Ernie in the orphanage with them and died in the fire 50 years ago with the three of them except Ernie.  He stayed at the inn with them until Melinda got the 3 spirits to cross-over into the Light and then stayed with Jim & Melinda for a while. 

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Homer

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1956

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Fire

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Lost Boys

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Children of Ghosts

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Remembering Homer the Beagle, the puppy that was the Mets' first mascot

There are 30 MLB teams, and not one of them has a live mascot. The Rays have a fishtank, but that's it. The Chicago Cubs do not have an adorable baby bear. The Baltimore Orioles do not have a warbling bird. The Diamondbacks don't fling snakes into the crowd every half-inning. Well, maybe the last one is a good thing.

However, that was not always the case:

@lana original Hank pic.twitter.com/Vh3Eowysbb

— Z (@ZacHAttach7) July 26, 2014

Pictured above is Homer the Beagle, a dog I did not know existed prior to that above picture, apparently from the Hall of Fame. As a New Yorker and the owner of a beagle, I was absolutely delighted to finally learn of Homer's existence.

Googling brought us another pic of Homer, from Faith and Fear in Flushing, who scanned it from Jack Lang's The New York Mets: 25 Years of Baseball Magic

We needed to know everything about Homer, his floppy ears, and his ability to hold Mets-related banners in his mouth.

Homer was the mascot of the Mets in their inaugural year, a miserable team that played in the Polo Grounds and went 40-120-1. Despite a complete, utter lack of talent, they managed to attract over 900,000 fans in a city that had just lost the Giants and the Dodgers.

Of course, their ability to attract huge throngs to watch a hapless team was probably linked primarily to Homer, the adorable baseball dog, right? As Richard Sandomir of the New York Times wrote in a 2012 profile of Mr. Met:

Trained by Rudd Weatherwax, who put multiple Lassies through their paces, Homer rooted on the Mets in 1962, their first season. Manager Casey Stengel hated him and refused to let the beagle sit on the Mets’ bench.

Homer was supposed to celebrate a Mets home run by running the bases at the Polo Grounds. According to Roger Angell’s book "Game Time," Homer performed well in rehearsals, but in his first real test he touched first base and second, then took a detour and raced to center field. He had to be wrangled by "three fielders, two ushers and the handler," according to the book.

Homer was fired.

Oh, well maybe not.

We blame the Mets for trying to convince a beagle to do anything besides "sprint around, smell something, and then sprint after the thing it just smelled," which accounts for 98 percent of beagle activity. The puppy got to second base and then realized there were hot dogs somewhere in the stadium and hey maybe if I run towards them I can put them in my mouth hey maybe if I run towards them I can put them in my mouth hey maybe if I run towards them I can put them in my --

By 1964, there was a real life Mr. Met. You can see a drawing of Mr Met on one of those pennants Homer was holding, but the man with the leather head did not have a physical manifestation at the time. The downgrade from adorable puppy to baseball-headed freak is enormous.

This could've been different. The Mets could've bred a series of Homers, gleeful dinger-loving dogs, capturing the hearts and minds of New York while the staid, tradition-obsessed Yankees refused to sully their stadium with such low-minded, lovable gimmickry. Instead of a kitschy apple emerging from a hat, the pup-adoring crowds would rise and chant HOOOO-MER! HOOOO-MER! HOOOOMER! as the gleeful beagle -- Homer VII, by this point -- bounded around the bases.

Sadly, the Mets didn't realize what could've been. Also, they couldn't train the beagle, because beagles are beagles.

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“A woman on top and a dog below”: the story of Scylla from ancient Greek mythology

The book “Mythosomes” (Alpina non-fiction publishing house) about famous mythical animals and fantastic monsters has appeared on Bookmate. Two culturologists writing under the same pseudonym Oleg Ivik talk about epic creatures from the legends of different peoples: from Egyptian sphinxes and ancient Greek hydras to Chinese phoenixes and Celtic magical dogs. We publish a fragment with an analysis of the biography of Scylla, the image of which was described in different ways by Homer, Virgil, Ovid and many other ancient authors. We also recommend 7 books about the kingdoms of the dead, the legends of the Slavic peoples, ancient Greek myths, the Scandinavian epic and the legends of Ancient Egypt!

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One of the most mysterious and controversial monsters of the ancient bestiary is considered to be Scylla (Skilla). Almost nothing can be said about her with certainty: neither who her parents were, nor how she looked, nor how she completed her life. The information about her family, children, lovers is contradictory ... Fans of the Scylla woman are mentioned (and different authors give different names). However, since the time she turned into a monster, her personal life probably did not work out - at least nothing is known about her. However, the existence of Scylla as a beautiful maiden and her further transformation into a monster are also not indisputable. Many authors believe that Scylla was born in the form in which Odysseus later found her - with several dog heads and an unknown whose tail. But this kind of it is also described by different authors in different ways.

And only the way of life and diet of Scylla is described by ancient writers in a similar way: she sat on a rock above the sea and with her numerous heads grabbed and devoured everything that passed by, whether it was a fish, a dolphin or a sailor. True, there are also the most controversial opinions about how she came to such a life.

All this confronted the authors of this book with a difficult choice: in which chapter should the mysterious monster be placed? There is a version that Scylla is the daughter of Typhon and Echidna; in this case, she belongs next to her brothers and sisters. At the same time, there are many other versions of its origin. Scylla had dog heads, and one could talk about her after Orff and Cerberus, but the fish tail definitely does not allow her to be attributed to the canine family. True, not all authors endow Scylla with a fish tail, however, dog heads are not described by all. The monster lived on land, but, apparently, could not live far from water. Scholia to Homer (comments on ancient literature. - Approx. ed.) report that the lower part of the body of Scylla turned into a rock, which explains her attachment to the same place. And according to one version, the whole of Scylla eventually became a cliff sticking out of the sea . .. Graves (British writer. - Approx. ed.) suggested that a giant octopus served as the prototype of Scylla. As a result, we decided to follow the example of the fundamental scientific encyclopedia "Myths of the Peoples of the World", in which Scylla is called a "sea monster" without explanation. So, let's start the story about the mythical inhabitants of the ancient seas with Scylla.

The oldest description of Scylla belongs to Homer. He reports:

"A terribly growling Scylla lives in a rock cave.
Her voice sounds like that of a young puppy. She herself is
Evil Beast. There is no one who, having seen her,
felt joy in his heart - even if God collided with her.
Scylla has twelve legs, and they are all thin and liquid.
Six long necks writhing on the shoulders, and on the necks
Along the terrifying head, each in three rows in the mouth
Abundant, frequent teeth full of black death.

Apollodorus (ancient Greek writer. — Ed.) adds a female head to Scylla. He writes: "She had the face and chest of a woman, and on the sides were six dog heads and twelve dog legs." Virgil ascribes to the monster a resemblance to the inhabitants of the sea:

"Above - she is a virgin with a beautiful face and breasts,
Below - her body is a sea monstrous fish,
A wolf's furry belly and a huge dolphin's tail."

A contemporary of Virgil, Ovid, finds neither a fish nor any other tail in Scylla. He confines himself in his description to the fact that she had a “virgin” face, while “fierce dogs girded a black bosom.”

Gigin (ancient Roman writer. - Ed.) adheres to the most rationalistic version. In Myths, he writes about Scylla, "who was a woman on top, and a dog below, and had six dogs born to her." By the way, this is the only (as far as the authors of this book know) message about the possible children of the monster, except for one more mention in the same text by Gigin. The mythographer tells how Odysseus arrived at Scylla, whose “upper body was like that of a woman, and the lower part of the groin was like that of a fish. She had six dogs born to her." But, since neither her husband nor any of Scylla's cohabitants when she was a monster is known, and she led an extremely closed life, there is reason to believe that Gigin was mistaken and enrolled in the children of the monster those dogs that were an integral part of him. Moreover, the description of Scylla by Gigin himself is extremely contradictory: he describes the lower part of the body of his heroine either as a fish, or as a dog. He also names different parents of Scylla in different chapters of his "Myths".

Gigin writes: “Scylla… was, as they say, a very beautiful girl. She was loved by Glaucus, and Glauca by Circe, the daughter of the Sun. Since Scylla was accustomed to bathing in the sea, Circe, the daughter of the Sun, out of jealousy spoiled the water with drugs, and when Scylla entered it, dogs grew out of her stomach, and she became a ferocious beast. She avenged herself by kidnapping the companions of Ulysses, who was sailing by.

Ovid also gives a similar version. He tells how the beautiful maiden Scylla rejected the love of the sea deity Glaucus. The virgin can be understood, since Glaucus, despite all his divinity, had a "bluish beard", "huge blue hands" and "the extremities of the legs, like fish tails with fins." But the sorceress Circe, to whom Glaucus turned for a love potion, was seduced by the exotic appearance of the god, and she offered him her love instead of a potion. Glaucus refused, Circe was offended and went to the creek, in which Scylla loved to swim.

“This goddess of the backwater poisons, defiles with miraculous
A mixture of poisons; it splashes on him with the juice of a malicious root
; dark speech, a combination of ambiguous words,
Three times nine times whispers with magical lips.
Skilla came and plunged deep into the backwater to the waist —
But suddenly she sees that some monsters are vile
Barking around her bosom. Not believing at first that
has become a part of her, she runs, drives away, fears
Hound's insolent muzzles, but drags them to flight with her.
He feels his body, and his thighs, and calves, and feet, —
Instead of familiar parts, he finds only the mouth of a dog.
Everything is but the fury of the dogs; there is no crotch, but monsters
Backs in its place crawl out of a full womb.

John Tsets (Byzantine philologist. — Ed.) tells a similar story, but he assures that Scylla was turned into a monster by the sea goddess Amphitrite, Poseidon's wife, who was jealous of her husband's beauty.

However, many authors believe that Scylla was born a monster from the very beginning. At least, Homer does not report any of her transformations, but simply writes that Scylla had a mother named Crateida (in some translations of Crateia). Who Krateida is is not entirely clear, although Hyginus calls her a river. True, the Greek rivers, with the rarest exceptions, were masculine, and, if we follow the version of Hyginus, the river Crateia was rather the father of Scylla. This name itself means "strong" or "powerful", some authors identify Crateia with the goddess Hecate. Apollonius of Rhodes (ancient Greek poet. - Ed.) writes that "Night Hecate, whose name is Crateia among people," gave birth to Scylla from the sea god Fork. Apollodorus also believes that Scylla was the daughter of "Crateis and Triene (or Forcus)". 6th century BC poet e. Stesichorus considers Scylla the daughter of the monstrous Lamia.

Thus, there are very serious disagreements about the origin and appearance of Scylla. True, ancient authors attributed different parents to almost any ancient mythosis and god, but as far as appearance is concerned, the discrepancies, as a rule, are not fundamental. If we talk about Scylla, then the monster described by Homer and having six heads on long necks is absolutely unlike the girl from other ancient texts. Of course, dogs growing out of a woman's womb, a wolf's belly and a dolphin's tail do not adorn anyone, but almost all authors except Homer preserved the slender torso, female breasts and the only head. The artists in this matter showed solidarity with the writers and, as a rule, depicted her as a beautiful one-headed woman, whose deformities were limited to the lower part of the body.

It is known that, at least, Homer's Scylla lived on the shore of a narrow strait - many authors believe that this was the Strait of Messina, separating Sicily from Italy. Some modern scholars dispute this view. So, Tim Severin (British scientist. - Ed.) Places Scylla and her neighbor Charybdis in Northern Greece, on the banks of a narrow strait between the mainland and the island of Lefkada, next to which Cape Scylla still exists.

Homer reports that Scylla lived on the top of a steep cliff, so smooth that "a mortal could not climb the cliff or descend back, even if he had twenty arms and legs ..."

The top of the cliff was always shrouded in black clouds. Here, in a cave facing "the entrance to the darkness, to the west, to Erebus", at a great height, unattainable for arrows, Scylla sat.

“In the lair, she sits with half of her body,
Six heads protrude outward above the terrible abyss,
They rummage around the smooth rock and grab the fish under it.
Tut - dolphins, sea dogs; they also grab large
Monsters, which Amphitrite feeds in abundance.
None of the sailors could boast that past
He passed unharmed with the ship: he grabs her husband
She drags her head into the cave to her.”

Scylla was all the more easy to hunt because on the other side of the strait lived Charybdis, no less dangerous for all living things, sucking up water with everything that was in it, including ships. If this really happened in the Strait of Messina, then Charybdis probably did her dirty deeds on the Sicilian side, and Scylla on the Italian side, near the city of Regia (now Reggio di Calabria): there already in historical times there was a cape that bore her name . True, the width of the strait (at least today) is about three kilometers, so it is not clear how the two monsters managed to control it completely. However, in the 5th century BC. e., when there was no longer either Scylla or Charybdis, Thucydides (ancient Greek historian. - Approx. ed.) wrote about the Strait of Messina: “Due to the narrowness and rapid flow of stormy waters pouring into it from two large seas - Tyrsenian and Sicilian , - this strait is rightly considered dangerous. Probably, the tragedies occurred due to the fact that the ardent imagination of the sailors exaggerated the real possibilities of Charybdis. Fearing to be drawn into its maelstrom, the helmsmen directed their ships to the Italian coast, preferring to lose six crew members rather than the entire ship - this is exactly what Odysseus did on the advice of Circe. It was useless to fight Scylla, the sorceress warned the Ithaca:

“Know this: not mortal evil, but immortal Scylla. Ferocious,
Terribly strong and wild. It's impossible to fight her.
You can't take it by force. There is only one salvation in flight.
If you delay there, getting ready for battle with Scylla,
I'm afraid that she will attack your ship again,
She will grab a new husband with each of her heads.

But, in spite of the theoretical immortality of the monster, a law was found for Scylla in due time. Scholii to Homer mention that a few decades before Odysseus, Hercules passed near the habitat of Scylla, driving the cows of the ill-fated Geryon conquered by him to Mycenae. Hercules managed to destroy the "immortal" monster, but Phorky resurrected him, having previously burned the corpse. This, by the way, suggests that it was Phorky who was the father of Scylla - it is hard to imagine that anyone other than the closest relative would be interested in reviving the monster. The resurrected Scylla returned to her craft.

It is known that around this time (shortly before her death or shortly after the resurrection) the ship of the Argonauts sailed past her, in a roundabout way, through the inland waterways and the Tyrrhenian Sea, returning from Colchis along with Medea, which they had abducted - both Apollodorus and Apollonius write about this. Thetis and the Nereids helped the famous ship overcome the terrible place (according to Apollonius, the insidious rocks, the Plankta, were also located here, aggravating the danger), and Scylla was left with nothing.

By the way, Medea was very sorry about this later, when she learned about Jason's betrayal - at least that's what Ovid writes in Heroides. The deceived wife stated that it would be better if at one time “the predatory Scylla tore us to pieces with the jaws of dogs”, emphasizing that “Scylla cannot but take revenge on ungrateful men.” Why the sorceress believed that the monster, who never had her own husband (the only connection, even when she was a man, she could presumably have was with someone else's husband, Poseidon), should avenge betrayal, is a mystery. According to the information we have, Scylla ate both unfaithful and faithful husbands with equal pleasure. In any case, when the monster attacked Odysseus's ship and seized six of his companions, Odysseus himself did not suffer, although immediately before that he shared a bed with Circe for a year.

Odysseus sailed past Scylla shortly after the end of the Trojan War. Around the same years, Aeneas also found himself in these places, having sailed away from the destroyed Ilion. But, warned about the monster by the soothsayer Helen, Aeneas did not take risks and preferred a long, but safe path: he circled Sicily from the south.

As for Odysseus, he was also warned by Circe that two monsters were waiting for him in the strait at once. But the sorceress, probably less familiar with geography than Gehlen, explained to the hero that if he tries to avoid them and chooses another path, then he will have to pass dangerous rocks - the Plankts. However, it is possible that Circe, like Medea, wanted to take revenge on Odysseus who left her and expected that Scylla would punish the traitor. One way or another, she sent Odysseus into a dangerous strait and only recommended staying closer to the Italian side, risking the lives of several companions, but not the entire ship. She also advised Odysseus, after the first attack by Scylla, to appeal to her mother, Crateida, to keep her daughter from a second attack. Homer, through the mouth of Odysseus, describes the attack of the monster in those minutes when the attention of the sailors was distracted by Charybdis, which swallowed and vomited sea water:

“At this time, just in my arched ship Scylla
Six seized the oarsmen, the best in hands and strength.
I, looking back at the fast ship and my dear comrades,
I only managed to see how
Legs and arms flickered in those raised in the air. They called me with a terrible cry for help
, calling me by name for the last time mournfully.
Just as if a fisherman on a rod as long as a ledge
Throws food into the sea with the horn of a meadow bull tied
In order to cunningly catch small fish with bait,
And, wriggling, she flies out onto the land on a hook, -
So they fought when Scylla lifted them onto the rock.
In the same place, at the entrance to the cave, she began to devour them.
With cries in mortal anguish they stretched out their hands to me.
I have endured a lot, testing the ways of the sea,
But I have never seen anything more terrible!”

However, Scylla did not have a chance to act outrageously at sea for long. Ovid in Metamorphoses reports:

“Ulysses was deprived of her companions, to the annoyance of Circe.
She was also going to sink the Trojans,
Yes, she turned into a rock;
A cliff bare from the sea still stands out, and sailors avoid it.

The fact that Scylla became a rock is also mentioned by Nonn of Panopolitan (ancient Greek poet. — Approx. ed.). Aeneas, as we wrote above, managed to go around Sicily away from the cliff of Scylla. However, having avoided meeting with the monster at sea, Aeneas met with his likeness in the afterlife. It is known that the hero, having sailed to Italy, descended alive into Hades through the entrance located in Campania, near Lake Averno. Here, not far from the entrance, a wide variety of monsters lived. Virgil writes:

"In the same vestibule, the shadows of monsters crowd around:
Two-faced Scylla and herds of centaurs live here..."

This is the only mention of scylla as a biological species known to the authors of this book. It is difficult to say what this message of Virgil is connected with, but it sheds some light on the information about the origin of Scylla. It can be assumed that the ancient authors did not contradict each other at all when talking about their parents and the appearance of their heroine, and in fact there were several monsters. However, true to himself Palefat (ancient Greek writer. - Approx. ed.) more than two thousand years ago was sure that he had solved the riddle of Scylla. He wrote:

“They say about Skill that there was a certain monster in Tirrenia - a woman up to the navel, the rest of the body was snake, and dog heads grew from the waist. To imagine such a creation of nature is a huge stupidity.

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