XPost: soc.history.medieval, alt.psychology.jung, alt.christnet.theology   
   XPost: alt.pagan   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:07:22 +0100, John Briggs    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 19/09/2011 01:28, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:37:39 -0400, David Friedman   
   >>   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In article<4e76369d$0$10604$c83e3ef6@anchorman-read.tele2.net>,   
   >>> "M Winther"  wrote:   
   >>>> In the poem the beast is moving towards Betlehem to be born, like the   
   >>>> unicorn once did according to medieval legend.   
   >>>   
   >>> The beast in the poem resembles a sphinx (lion body and the head of a   
   >>> man) and pretty obviously, from the title and "Bethleham," is in some   
   >>> sense Jesus. No connection to virgins, unicorns, or (save indirectly via   
   >>> Jesus) Mary.   
   >>   
   >> A more explicit literary reference is to be found in Alan Garner's novel   
   >> "Elidor".   
   >   
   >But not, I think, anything to do with Bethlehem.   
      
   No, but having a great deal more to do with virgins and unicorns than Yeats's   
   beast.   
      
      
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