TRTR Chapter 6 - page 203 - which three millenniums?

[Bekah]

Yoko Ono's fly on face foto - from album and movie "Fly." 
http://substix.blogspot.com/2009/07/yoko-ono-fly-1971.html

Bek

On May 30, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> The fly continues his exploration of Otto's face and eventually
> overcomes the latter's inertia, although with no intention of so
> doing.
> 
> The horribleness of having a fly walk over one's face is glossed with
> a reference to the original lord of the flies, and to (perhaps) a
> cultural thingie about how at one point horribleness could be part of
> what one worshipped (a-and "Egyptian mothers still hesitate to disturb
> flies settled on a sleeping child) - supposedly, or, um, "supposably"
> (which despite being non-canonical is still a pretty good word), I
> would think that has sort of gone out of style except perhaps among
> Satanists...
> 
> maybe all the references to horrible practices among Catholics and
> Protestants in the book are meant to remind of how that human tendency
> to adore the nastiest things didn't actually end with the erection of
> monotheism; maybe it's the slow return of the repressed?
> 
> 
> "So Otto, forced awake by three millenniums, a goddess, a princess,
> and a devil..."
> 
> 
> isn't the standard usage "millennia"?
> which 3 millenia?
> The princess would be, well, Aida (also Amneris, eh?) She and Rhadames
> would be from the 2nd millennium BC, perhaps?
> The goddess would be Hera, who sent the gadfly, and that would be from
> the first millennium BC, right?
> The devil would be the fly, still with us in the latter half of the
> last century of the 2nd millennium AD.
> 
> He skipped over the Dark Ages...
> 
> 
> So now Otto is back on American cigarettes, though no brand name here
> is offered.
> \\
> A word about Otto: he seems a bit alienated.  Here he is in his own
> pad, and yet the fly's more in evidence as an explorer of the
> environment.  Once the O-man wakes up, he ignores the budding drama
> audible through the walls (I mean, what's a lady got to do for him to
> notice her?) and gets dressed to leave.
> 
> He becomes one of numerous men shaving, following a custom instituted,
> or at least vigorously instigated, by old Wulstan of Wulster
> - who, living from 1009-1095, occupied a time-frame at the opposite
> end of the 2nd millennium AD from Otto.  Didn't like beards.  Preached
> damnation to those who wore them.  That ain't from Holy Writ, is it?
> But followed methodically by many, including myself most of the time.
> 
> Meanwhile, in the street, a pigeon attacks "a bird of rare beauty,
> tropically plumed, which looked lost and unused to spreading its wings
> beyond the breadth of a cage."
> -- hmm, is this a continuation or a presaging of something, or just an
> isolated image like the graceful dog in chapter 2 seems to have been?