Subject: Re: Chinese Calendar
From: sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
Date: 1992-10-05, 12:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Oct5.181921.29618@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> xxxx@peptide.ecn.purdue.edu (Name Redacted) writes:
> >There were 12 candles in the dream sequence.  Each possibly standing for a year of the Chinese calendar.
> >Year of the Monkey  - FWWM
> >Year of the Dog     - FWWM
> >Year of the Goat    - Before Andrew Packard hits the Black Box, a flash of
> >the goat head on the wall is shown.
> >Year of the Pig     - Josie served the Pig head to catherine and Andrew.
> >Year of the Horse   - The White Horse.
> >
> >Are the other 7 animals in the show somewhere?  
> >

I kinda think that this is just pushing it a bit much...For aren't
these animals more symbols of the demonic, or dark forces, while
the horse represented either/both Mrs. Palmer's drug induced state,
and/or a foreshadowing of death.  The dog looked pretty ominous as
though it was a familiar to a dark magician; the goat was very much like the
images of goats which are symbolic of the devil; the pig too tends
to carry more of a satanic image, for it is symbol of sensuality and gluttony;
according to my book of symbols even the horse is a symbol of lust
(in the Renaissance); then of course there is the owl which is not
in the Chinese calendar, but which in many diverse cultures is 
symbol of evil; the ape is also a very negative symbol in Christian
symbolism for it represents numerous negative character traits.
So not to flame but I don't think that these images are suppose
to represent characters of the Chinese calendar, but instead are
suppose to be visual symbols of the evil and darkness which is
connected to the inhabitants of the Black Lodge.  



Sally--


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