{The Muses (2) [continued]}[12th July 1987]

[Redbook4:44-45][19870712:1840c]{The Muses (2) [continued]}[12^th July 1987]

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[continued]

If this* order of the 9 Muses is significant**, it is just possible to fit a circle starting and ending with Calliope and Urania at I~, with Melpomone at A# (of course), and Erato at G~ and Euterpe at M~ – but how useful this is I am not sure:

(cf. xS's character)				(I~)				(cf. xA's character.)
	(R~)			(Inspiration)			(A~)
				Calliope	↔
		(Dancing/ Geometry)	↔	↨ ↨ ↨ Urania	↨	(Chided Aphrodite)
		(Lyric & Music)	Polyhymnia	(Astrology)	Clio	(History)
	(Lyric & Hymns(?))	↨		(Staff, Globe & Compass)		↨		(cf. +M in Cambridge.)***
(G~)	(Erotic)	Erato		☼		Euterpe	(Dyonysiac Joy & Pleasure.)	(M~)
(cf. [0])		↨				↨
			Terpsichore		Thalia	(Pastoral & Comic)
			↨		↨
			↔	Melpomene	↔
				(Tragedy)
				Mask & Club
	(J~)			(A~)			(U~)
(cf. xP in Cambridge) ***				(cf. +Mk everywhere)				(cf. xL & Pub & [...] Police &c.)***

(The arrows [which in the ms are slanted to make a circle] do not show an order of rotation necessarily – presumably ascent would reverse this.)

In terms of the characters of the fictional archetypes, the only one who seems badly wrong at first is +M as Euterpe; but there are references to this in his role as a trickster both in Cambridge*** and earlier in the Army. On second thoughts, perhaps this isn't such a bad fit after all!

The question is whether I have attached so many contradictory qualities and attributes etc. to each Archetype that anything fits something.****

*[See last previous entry.]

**(E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica]) says the lists disagree. This one is per Hesiod (who began differentiation) except that Calliope, the chief, was last (in (E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica]).)

***[in [2]]

****(For instance, if Terpsichore had corresponded with +M I could have pointed to [2] – Dance & Song are media of 'expression' throughout; but history, heroism, rural pursuits, tragedy, drama & eroticism & astrology(?) are not.)

{But cf. V.26ff.}

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