GRGR(13) Notes (Pt 1)

[David Morris]

Cows, Bulls and abduction fill Greek Mythology.  Zeus is often a bull, 
overcoming, abducting his momentary choice.  It was a prized animal, and the 
prettiest were sometimes cause for the gods getting some lesser sacrifice, 
of course only leading to Monstrous effects.

Roberto Calasso's _The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony_ (Knopf, 1993) is a 
wild ramble through Classical Mythology, and deals with identification of 
Hero and Monster, Abductor and Abductee.  There is an implied eternal 
flipping of the two-sided coin.

Watch that the cows don't wander, but the bulls might steal your wife.

DM

>From: 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
>
>

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com