VV(18): Sirius

[Otto]

In the next chapter of V. we find a Maynard Basilisk who teaches beekeeping
(419.22), Aristaios invented beekeeping, a symbol of human control over
nature. After helping Keos from Sirius (in the next piece at Ranke-Graves)
he finds that all his bees are dying. Asking for the reason he gets the
information that this is a punishment for Eurydice's death. He had tried to
rape her, she fled and was bitten by the snake in the ankle.

Those Greek stories are all linked to each other, one calls up another.
Real intertextuality:
>From Apollo to Aristaios to Sirios, from Aristaios to Eurydice, from
Eurydice to Orpheus, from Orpheus to Dante, from Orpheus to Rilke, from
Eurydice to Beatrice to Melanie to Bianca.

". there's always a girl who falls down and twists her ankle."
Frank Zappa, Intro zu "Cheepnis" (Roxy & Elsewhere 1974)

Seems as if the sacrificed girl still lies at the center of our apollonian
culture.

Otto

PS Not to mention "Orpheus and the Orphic Voice in *Gravity's Rainbow*"