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Bullriders, cowmen and girls, and animal husbandry
Front-Ranger:
Heard on the radio this morning: "Boards of directors are having a 'Holy Cow' moment." Vestiges of an ancient culture lurking in our humor, religion, pornography, all the dusty corners ...
Front-Ranger:
In Pan's Labyrinth, the child was told to milk a cow and to put the bowl of milk under the bed where her mother lay dreadfully ill and pregnant. Into the bowl of milk she put a mandrake root, which is the root of a plant that looks like a human figure. Mother's milk is powerful medicine, and a man in a bowl of milk is reunited with his origins and made whole.
Front-Ranger:
An interesting discussion this a.m. on Morning Edition about bullfighting in Spain, mentioning Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.
Front-Ranger:
Interesting that what "saves" Jack from being trampled by a raging bull is a rodeo clown. If only Hemingway had had a sense of humor, maybe his story would have been much different!!
Front-Ranger:
We are always saying in the business world that we have to "take the bull by the horns." This seems to be a vestige of the bull-leaping practices of the ancient Minoans. Young men and women athletes performed these bull-leaping exercises, which were very dangerous, but yet did not result in the death of the bull as the Spanish bullfights do. The performers actually grabbed the horns of a charging bull and somersaulted onto the beast's back and then off, landing on their feet if they did it perfectly. This exercise still exists in modern gymnastics, and the equipment used in place of the bull is called the horse or the buck.
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