Talk:Aornis

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Aornis is indeed a geographic feature related to the Greco-Roman Underworld, the name meaning, literally "birdless." Information related to this can be found at the following links:

Just because this recent character is now the most common appearance of the term Aornis, do NOT make it the original source. Further, the way this article is currently phrased is insulting to the original editor who started the article and subsequent editors who continue in that vein; bluntly, it makes the Thursday Next editors appear to be idiots and jerks. I proposed that this article be restored to its original intent (geography/mythology) and a new and separate article be created for this Aornis Hades character. Providing there are no objections, I will make this split sometime tomorrow - CNichols 21:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC) --- (Editted links to fix.) - CNichols 21:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the article into a disambiguation page because:

It appears to me that Aornis indeed isn't a tributary of Styx (see User_talk:Usoki)
An encyclopedia article obviously cannot feature a negative definition (i.e. say what Aornis isn't)

If I'm wrong... Well, sorry - feel free to change or revert. GregorB 21:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, CNichols, you have found a scant few articles that appear to have Aornis in their link. However, I can't help but notice that one of these links refers to Alexander the Great, and therefore has nothing to do with Mythology. Another article is from an Angelfire website, and the remaining two articles are foreign. And yet, an encyclopedia of mythology-

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Which ends in a respectable ".org" prefix, I might add, has no mention of Aornis as a person or as a location. I have looked in the index of various other book form encyclopedias which specialize in mythologies of different cultures, and none of these have mentioned an Aornis either. So, it seems few, if any, recognize the Aornis as a river. And, since the Wikipedia definition of Hades doesn't mention the Aornis either, I feel we should be consistant with the scholarly definition which we choose. Mythologies are vast, and I feel we should stick with widely accepted versions. The Styx has no tribituaries, and the Aornis is not a river. Usoki 07:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]