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Cure Care Cureta Curetes Curia
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ CURE  id+ | TO TAKE CARE |
        note CURATOR  CURATIVE
     lat CURA    = CARE or to denote HEALING
     also          CARE OF SOULS
     sp CURA       TO HEAL also
                   PRIEST
        CURANDERO  HEALER
     note SINECURE IS A "CURA" or PRIEST WITH
          NO SOULS TO CARE FOR or OFFER A CARE
       or CURE
     note ditto "SINECURE" to imply
          LACK OF CARE as are many
     PATRONAGE JOBS sort of a
     "PLUM OF A JOB"
     ply> | A CURIOUS CURIA may seek to
            CURE or CARE |
~ CURETA    med> INSTRUMENT USED TO "SCRAPE OFF" or
                 CURETTAGE
            often it denotes an induced ABORTION
~ CURETES  id+ | CLAMOR  NOISE |
           in sp CHATARRA = OLD METAL  from old Basq TXATARRA
     often confused with CORYBANTES <see
     myth> ATTENDANTS or PRIESTS OF CYBELE
           THEIR DANCE WAS NOISY AS THEY CLASHED
     THEIR SPEARS AND LANCES AGAINST THEIR SHIELDS AND
     PLAYED DRUMS AND FLUTES STEMMING FROM
     RHEA GIVING BIRTH TO ZEUS IN A CAVE OF
     MOUNT IDA IN CRETE AND HER ENTRUSTING
     HER INFANT ZEUS TO THE CARE OF THE
     NYMPH AMALTHEIA AND HER ATTENDANTS THE CURETES
     IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE INFANT ZEUS
     THE CURETES MADE NOISE TO MASK HIS NOISES AND CRIES
     TO PREVENT SATURN or CRONUS FROM KNOWING ABOUT HIM  <see
     OTHERWISE SATURN WOULD SWALLOW HIM         sug> CANNIBAL
     alt ALSO SEEN AS DAEMONS DEMONS or SPIRITS
         SONS OF " MOTHER EARTH "  or GAEA
     also SONS OF HERA
     art> Giulio ROMANO or ROMANO GIULIO [#]
          PAINTED THE INFANCY OF JUPITER or
     ZEUS or JUPITER now
     in THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF LONDON
           note how CURETES ARE SHOWN
                MAKING MUSIC
           and  NOISE
~ CURIA  ANCIENT DIVISION OF LATIN AND ETRUSCAN TRIBES
         INTO TEN BODIES
  LATER INCORPORATED BY THE ROMAN SENATE HOUSE or
  CURIA ROMANA
  THE VATICAN CURIA IS THE CURRENT
  GOVERNMENTAL BODY PRESIDED BY AN
  AUTOCRATIC PONTIFF or POPE OF ROME
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