A link between virgo and virga would be interesting (something along the
lines of following shades of synonyms to reach antonyms), but it's
really a long leap from vajra to virgin, and the whole thing sounds a
bit far-fetched to me.
It's true that virga (rod) and vajra (thunderbolt) are likely related...
and there is even a rare usage of verge (from virga, not virgo) to
indicate the penis. But the link from virgo to virga isn't the least
bit clear to me. Do you have a source for the etymological link, or is
it just apparent? None of the words coming from virga traces to virgo,
as far as I can see. Wouldn't virga trace to vir? I know there's folk
etymology that traces virgo and thus virgin to vir, but it's spurious
and based upon mere appearance and coincidence of sound.
charles moyer wrote:
>Then there is Liberace. "I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare." -Chaucer
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>But the gender of the Latin noun is not changed- virgo -inis, f. "a maiden,
>virgin." Fascinating is the word's closeness to "virga, -ae, f. "a green
>twig" as in French "verge"(la) from Snskrt "vajra" and may associate with
>the golden bough, subjectively, but let us not forget Daphne.
>Dionysus' crosier was a thyrsus. Nietzsche's BIRTH OF TRAGEDY is worth
>noting in the catharsis between the Dionysian feminine lunar chaos and the
>masculine Apollonian solar order. The muse is always a goddess and of a
>triple nature, but she is absent from the Judeo-Christian reduced pantheon
>replaced by only one of her aspects, the Virgin, accompanied by her
>surrogate priest eunuch thus sacrificing balance for patriarchal authority
>contrary to that which Jung might have called "individuation" as sought in
>Ars regis' hermaphrodite but in all not necessarily "occult".
> Anyone ever make any sense out of Pound's alchemist poem?
>What about the cats? Anyone? Anything? Anton Wilson says Hemingway, a cat
>lover himself, noted them and called the Pound's residence "the cat house".
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>Charles
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>>From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Virgo Made Male
>>Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2003, 7:54 AM
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>>Ambrose, a great proponent of virginity, also had much influence upon
>>medieval Christianity; he had in turn been influenced by the extremist Origen.
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>>Phallic and ambrosial
>>made way for macerations.
>> --EP
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>>Tim Romano
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>>Matthew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
>>mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men:
>>and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of
>>heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
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