GRGR(13) Notes (Pt 1)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

The Dragon's Teeth at 281.11 suggests the story of Cadmus and Apollo's
cow in the grove (see, alas, my poor offering below).  Through this cow
P links the Puritan apprehension of the sacred with that of the pagan
Greeks "...his own WASPS in buckled black, who heard God Clamoring to
them in every turn of a leaf or cow loose among apple orchards in
autumn...." (281.34).

Mark


> --- RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com wrote:
> 
> > 281.11 "dragon's teeth" - from the Greek myth of Cadmus (though i
> > can't quite
> > remember what sort of oddysey / quest, if any, he was on).
> 
And then I responded, inadequately:

> Jupiter carried off Europa, which irritated her father (grand high
> muk-i-muk of Phoenicia), who ordered his son Cadmus to bring her
> back. 
> Cadmus couldn't find her, was loath to return home in failure, and
> went
> to consult Apollo's oracle.  Oracle sez "find a cow in a field,
> follow
> it for a while, and build Thebes where it stops."  He did so.  Cow
> stops near a grove with a nice spring. His men get killed while
> fetching water by the serpent who lives in a cave by the pool. 
> Cadmus,
> very annoyed, aveng'd his men by killing the serpent.  A voice told
> him
> to draw the teeth of the worm, and sow them in the ground.  All of
> the
> men were reborn, sort of, out of the earth, but being zombie warriors
> shorn of human reason fell to fighting among themselves and all were
> killed saving five, who helped Cadmus build Thebes.  As undead zombie
> slaves?
> 
> I've read somewhere that as an element of some of their
> fortifications
> the Germans built tank obstacles in the form of great vertical piers
> of
> concrete.  These were called Dragon's Teeth (by the germans? by the
> allies? by some overeducated war correspondent?).
> 
> Mark
> 
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