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Have you perused any of the wide assortment of SETI@home avatars and profile pictures? I daresay that "beautiful" doesn't jump out at me as the common or overarching theme. Who can say what ET would look like, if we could actually find any one of them and see ..? The statuette on display (courtesy of Gianotti Studios) looks like a modern incarnation of the Minotaur - a figure from ancient Greek mythology. But the piece has been named "Heliogabalus", for an iconoclastic and short-lived Roman emperor who reigned briefly in the third century AD, remembered for (among a smorgasbord of very strange things) promoting a quasi-Semitic sun deity Sol Invictus, even above Rome's traditional patron god Jupiter.
Sol Invictus (the Unconquerable Sun) as depicted in Roman sculpture.
Is "Heliogabalus" a depiction of an uppity pagan bovine turning the customary table and serving up a human as a sacrificial offering? PETA's macabre attempt to protest the countless tons of beef consumed by people every day -- a hungry steer about to sit down to a "man-burger" --? Or perhaps it's just someone's whimsical notion of bos taurus finally taking revenge on homo sapiens for the running of the bulls at Pamplona ...
-- public excerpts from an otherwise private correspondence |
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