Bull

Well, the rather halting bull theme makes a brief comeback here with a pic by Hedi Slimane from his photo shoot in Paris, November 2008. The pic is of a Minotaur sculpture. Fantastic sculpture, great pic. It’s around three quarters down the page, 16th pic from the bottom.

That Minotaur, one imagines, well knows how to procreate!
(Strange there aren’t more of them around.)

Hedi Slimane video.

Hedi Slimane Google search.

Stroll around Slimane’s other photos. They’re a bit special.

 Wigmore Street, London, 2008.

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Erotica and bulls? Erotica and cows? How’s it all connected?

Some time ago I read William Irwin Thompson’s The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light. I like his kind of imaginative scholarship - highly speculative, but grounded in the tangible remains of the deep human past. You don’t have to believe a word of it to find it stimulating. And who knows, he could be right.

One of his major themes is the place of the bull in the development of European culture - the harnessing by humans of that vital reproductive energy of the bull to energize their own reproductive efforts. The cow, too, appears to have an important place in the European story.

The next few posts will draw on some of the literature dealing with this topic.

(Above) Albrecht Dürer - Life of the Virgin

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Some resources to be brought to the discussion:

Bulls and archaeological evidence: William Irwin Thompson’s The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996

More bulls and archaeological evidence: Cook, Arthur Bernard. Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1914.

 Bullfight: Georges Bataille’s The Story of the Eye

Milk: huehueteotl on human evolution

Europa:  In Wikipedia 

More Bulls: Sexculturas

Abduction of Europa, European Parliament, Strasbourg