Subject: Re: Literary Allusions
From: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Barb Miller)
Date: 1991-06-07, 10:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu

In article <1991Jun6.024026.773@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:

> >
> >   In article <1991Jun6.003923.2542@ccu.umanitoba.ca> platt@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
> >
> >   >23. Venus and Saturn: The statue (presumably of Venus) and the model 
> >   >of Saturn in the dream sequence may refer to the myth of Saturn, who killed 
> >   >his children. However, Venus was the daughter of Jupiter, not Saturn.
> >   Hmmm... there is the BOB=Saturn=bad god, Leland=Jupiter=good
> >   god, Laura=Venus=daughter of good god analogy.
There is another version of Venus's birth that has her springing from
the foam of the sea after one god threw the castrated genitals of his
father god into the sea.  I believe it was Jupiter who castrated his
father Saturn as revenge for Saturn's having swallowed all his
children, but it could have been Saturn castrating Uranus.  Looks as
though fatherhood among the figures of myth can be as ambiguous as
among characters in Twin Peaks.

Barb Miller