This house, built for $800, was occupied by three generations of the Rowley family for more than 100 consecutive years. Two of those Rowleys were named after the lover of a Roman emperor who was deified by the Egyptians and Romans after he died, creating a cult that often viewed him as a daemon, or benevolent godlike figure.
That sounds like something that could come out of Lovecraft.
ReplyDeleteIt really kind of does. Apparently it was a thing they did a lot, back then. Nowadays our rulers just have to settle for renaming mountains.
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