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This April the 15, along with marking the day some folks in the U.S. might find themselves sinking, also marks the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and no doubt there will be a lot of comments, tributes and other such items as that date draws near. (Oh please tell me they are NOT going to release that move in 3-D!)
For instance the Royal Mint has already released a 5 Pound uncirculated coin under the authority of the Channel Island of Alderney.
The coin, designed by engraver Lee Robert Jones, depicts Thane the Goddess of death looking down on the boat from above, which I personally find a bit morbid. However it is not without president as the image on the coin is based on the Titanic Memorial by Sir Thomas Brock, which shows the same goddess of death, called by some Thane and other Fortuna, receiving the body of a seaman from two sea nymphs. (Oh those daffy Victorians!)
The thing is, Fortuna wasn’t the goddess of death, she was the goddess of luck, who eventually would come to be called Lady Luck. While I have been unable to find anything about a goddess “Thane,” are they thinking Thanatos the Greek god of death?
Either way, Lady Luck and the Titanic, sorry I don’t see it.
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