Re: the stupidest Bible story

"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Mani Deli wrote:
> > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Oh, according to the christian mythology, Cain mated
> >> with his sister? Does that mean we are all products of
> >> incest?
> >
> > Probably. Its even more interesting to know that Jesus is
> > the product of adultery.
>
> At least Zeus came down and took care of business himself.
> The christian god had to send a flunky to do it for him.

But Zeus did disguise himself at times. With Europa his took the
image of a bull.  With Leda, he took the image of a swan, which
made for one of the most beautiful poems in English literature:

              Leda and the Swan
     A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
     Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
     By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
     He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

     How can those terrified vague fingers push
     The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
     And how can body, laid in that white rush,
     But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

     A shudder in the loins engenders there
     The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
     And Agamemnon dead.

     Being so caught up,
     So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
     Did she put on his knowledge with his power
     Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
                                   William Butler Yeats

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Wax