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Show -154- caves of paleolithic man, In the reliefs of the pharoahs, the mosaics at Khossos, Greek statuary. The predominant image was of bulls - bulls on the walls of the caves, mummified bulls In Egyptian tombs? bulls being leaped by the lithe athletes of Minos, and, of course, the Minotaur at the heart of the labyrinth. The sacrificer and the sacrificed! What happened when Moses smote the golden image of the young bull his people worshipped? The Image became the Word. The word retained the image. But why Christ the lamb? Why not Christ the bull? Because ideals change, and as they do the image changes - the word changes; the Old Testament and the New? What remains is the image of the instrument at the heart of the labyrinth: the double-headed axe, the cross? This was not the whole way the Professor was going, but it was far enough for now: this, the comic way of ritual. What happened when ritual became something more than consolation? Something more than self-preservation? Something more than fertility? For the moment, he did not dare allow himself to speculate? One hurdle at a time. He began to strike the magic keys of his typewriter, slowly? rarely more than two words at a time? The page began to fill? He worked steadily, not even paying attention to the telephone when it rang, pausing only momentarily to curse its breaking his concentration. By one o'clock he had filled his three pages, which he added to the accumulation in the black folder. He placed the cover on his typewriter and went |