Saturday, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:22
His right to Goose, Geese or otherwise Ray. It depends on the Genus, Branta, Cereopsis, Chen or Anser but can be explained away simply by the following:
When Aphrodite first came ashore she was welcomed by the Charites (Roman "Graces"), whose chariot was drawn by geese.
There are Mother Goose tales, such as a farmwife might have told; there is the proverbial goose that laid the golden eggs, warning about the perils of greed. And there is the goose as a veiled reference to the bleep in the verses
Goosy Goosy Gander, where dost thou wander?
Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber.
The geese in the temple of Juno on the Capitoline were said by Livy to have saved Rome from the Gauls around 390 BC when they were disturbed in a night attack. The story may be an attempt to explain the origin of the sacred flock of geese at Rome.
There is a tale of Trickster and the geese in the North American Trickster cycle [1] Maybe also TRUCKSTER.(
http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.Trickster&Geese.html).
Liliane Bodson and Daniel Marcolungo, L'oie de bon aloi: Aspects de l'histoire ancienne de l'oie domestique [The goose in ancient life and folklore]. Vise (Mus�e Regional d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de Vise), 1994, discusses the image and lore of domestic geese in classical antiquity, with a separate chapter on the goose in folklore.
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