~ DELPHI   id+ | WOMB |   see> MATRIX
~ DELPHOS  ANCIENT GREEK CITY  and a
           site of salient TEMPLES and
  the site of the ORACLE OF APOLLO
  CHOSEN TO BE WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 50
  note DELPHIC implies BROTHERLY LOVE or
       FRATERNIZATION as in PHILADELPHIA
  as if from the same
  gr   DELPHUS for WOMB
  see> WOMB        MOTHER
  see> MATRIX      MATERNITY
  see> MATTER      MATTRESS
  biol> gr  DELPHIS DELPHINOS
        lat DELPHINUS
        sp  DELFIN
        eng DOLPHIN an animal belonging to
                    one FAMILY OF WHALES
  gr      ADELPHOS     = BROTHER     sug> FRATERNAL
  med>   DIDELPHUS       SPLIT or
                         DOUBLE HORNED WOMB or UTERUS
          ADELPHIA       LACKING A MATRIX WOMB or UTERUS
  biol>    DELPHINIDAE   NAME FOR ANIMALS WITH
                         TENDENCIES TO FRATERNIZE
  DOLPHINS are CETACEOUS MAMMALS        sug> WALE
  this family includes DOLPHIN and PORPOISES
  SOME OF WHICH INHABIT              sug> HABITAT
  RIVERS AND ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING EXTINCT
  PORPOISES HAVE A SNOUT LIKE NOSE
  CONICAL UPPER TEETH and A DORSAL FIN
  other terms for various mamm incl
  DELPHINAPTERUS DELPHINOIDEA
  PRODELPHINUS PRISCODELPHINUS etc
  DELPHINIUM denotes a DOLPHIN SHAPED NECTARY and
  a large GENUS OF PLANTS known as CROWFOOT
  note THE IRONY IN THAT THE DOLPHIN
       IS ONE OF THE MOST FRATERNAL AND FRIENDLY
  CREATURES WHICH PROMOTES ITS EXPLOITATION BY
  A GROWING  " ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY "  OFFERING
  "DOLPHARIUMS" or "DELPHARIUMS"  FROM WHICH
  AROSE THE TERM "ABUSEMENT" PARKS TO UNDERSCORE
  CRASS EXPLOITATIVE PRACTICES
  myth> THE DOLPHIN WAS SACRED TO APOLLO and
        DIONYSUS as well as to FISHERMEN everywhere
  perhaps with the exception in the ORIENT
  APOLLO ASSUMED THE SHAPE OF A DOLPHIN TO REACH
  PYTHO WHERE HE SLEW A FEMALE DRAGON CALLED
  PYTHON AND THIS PLACE BECAME KNOWN AS DELPHI
  PHYTHON WAS ORDERED BY HERA TO MORTIFY LETO
  WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH APOLLO
  lit+ SOPHOCLES [#]  ends his drama
       OEDIPUS THE KING with
  "COUNT NO MAN HAPPY UNTIL HE IS DEAD"
  from a PROPHECY BY THE ORACLE OF DELPHI WHO
       REPLIED TO A KING ASKING WHAT WOULD
  HAPPEN IF HE WENT TO WAR
  HE WAS TOLD "YOU WILL BE HAPPY"
  HE DECLARED WAR AND WAS KILLED
  astr> DOLPHIN IS A NORTHERN CONSTELLATION ADJOINING
        PEGASUS and AQUILA
  hx> in 1142 GUIDO IV  COUNT OF VIENNA
      ADOPTED THREE DOLPHINS FOR HIS COAT OF ARMS
  FOR AN AREA THEREFORE CALLED DAUPHINE
  LATER THE THREE DOLPHINS BECAME
  THE THREE FLEURS DE LIS OF THE COAT OF ARMS OF
  THE KING OF FRANCE WHOSE ELDEST SON BECAME KNOWN
  AS DAUPHIN IN WHOSE HONOR THE FIRST FRENCH COLONISTS
  NAMED A BARRIER ISLAND NEAR MOBILE ALABAMA
  DAUPHIN ISLAND
  in marine terms
  DOLPHIN    or in sp
  MARTINGALA    is a SPAR BELOW AND AT RIGHT ANGLES TO
  THE BOWSPREAD or BOW SPREAD THAT PROVIDES
  A BALANCING POINT TO COUNTERACT THE UPWARD TENSION
  FROM THE MAIN STAYS FROM THE MAST TO THE BOWSPREAD TIP
  biol> VALERIC ACID WAS DISCOVERED
        IN THE FLESH OF DOLPHINS
  seeds of DELPHINIUM STAPHISAGRIA contain
  alkaloids called DELPHININE and
  DELPHOCURARINE or DELPHINOIDINE
  sc> JAPAN LEADS THE WORLD IN THE SUPPLY AND
      CONSUMPTION OF FISH PRODUCTS REAPED FROM
  INTERNATIONAL WATERS AND DENIES THAT DOLPHINS
  ARE "WASTED" AS PART OF THE METHODS USED TO
  CATCH TUNA BUT DNA INVESTIGATIONS OF TUNA
  PRODUCTS MARKETED BY MAJOR CORPORATIONS
  SHOWS THE PRESENCE OF DOLPHIN DNA GENE MARKERS
  note that to this day TRADITIONAL ANNUAL CEREMONIAL
       BLOODY "HARVESTING" OF DOLPHINS ARE CELEBRATED
  IN JAPAN