M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[David Morris]

>From: rj
>
>bruce sublett wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps the prototype is Odin, who hangs nine days and nights from
> > Yggdrasill and is pierced by a spear, a sacrifice to himself.  In Kevin
> > Crossley-Holland's _The Norse Myths__ , chapter 4 is "Lord of the 
>Gallows,"
> > Odin's account of the mysteries he learned by dying on the tree and
> > resurrecting himself.  In much Northern legend, the gallows is referred 
>to
> > as "Odin's horse."
> >

Thank for the myth, Bruce.

>
>Perhaps it is.
>
[snip]
>Orthodox Christianity doesn't permit such heretical unorthodoxies
>(including the Apocrypha, or reading the Bible as history); which is why
>(heretic) pastors (the status and fate Wicks posits for himself) were
>being hanged at Tyburn Tree in the first place.
>

Orthodox Anything never "allows."  They demand obedience.  Pynchon IS 
"counter-orthodox".  Whatever They'd proscribe, he'd counter.

David Morris

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