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| 'They have made themselves an image of a bull-calf, they have prostrated themselves before it, sacrificed to it and said, "These are your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from Egypt."' Exodus 32, 8. 'Can brazen cymbals clashing, pipes with curving horns, trickery and magic have an effect so great…?' Ovid, Metamorphoses, Penguin, 1955, trans. Mary M. Innes, Book III; within 518-555. 'When morning came, the men of Ireland saw the Donn Cuailnge coming westward past Cruachan with the mangled remains of Finnbennach hanging from his horns. He brandished them before him all that day, and at nightfall entered the lake near Cruachan.' The Táin, translated from the Tain Bó Cuailgne by Thomas Kinsella, Oxford, 2002, 252. |
Posted by gjrk13th December 2008ce |
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