Pigs Proscribed

[David Morris]

Pigs are also the preterite (led to slaughter).
And they are also the comic (Porky-the-Pig belly tattoos).
And, combining the two above, they are a Counterforce Hero 
(Slothrop-in-a-Pig-Suit).

It has been said by some who claim to know that Mr. P. (that's Pynchon, not 
Pig) is very fond of Pigs and has a collection of them, stuffed, ceramic, or 
such.

BTW,  for me, Doug's reference to this cthonic-pig/female symbolism 
mentioned in Leonard Shlain's book makes perfect sense.  There is a myth 
mentioned in Campbell's _Hero w/a 1000 Faces_ in which a clam (also a 
mud-dweller, and also forbidden by those same religions) functions as a 
fertility goddess, actually becoming a womb, but I don't have the specifics 
w/ me here.

>From:  [perhaps TOO "Calamitouspostfemenist"] "J Suete"
>
>>Right-brain, left brain, word and image, OH, now don't I look the fool, 
>>but a quick search in a few dictionaries (symbols dic.--good place to look 
>>up mandala, fwiw) and one will discover that pig is a word more 
>>interesting than pussy or cat. Pigs are the MAN to Pynchon, like Orwell's 
>>pigs and the 60s whitehouse/keep our feelings off the street police pigs, 
>>but pigs are also Demeter and Christians and men that don't eat pigs & 
>>pussy (jews and blacks) for religious or cultural reasons. To say that 
>>western religion or the Male west proscribed the pig and female power was 
>>a joke in the oral traditions, Greek and Egyptian, and it still shoulf 
>>be.<<

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