Archery in RUTH

[lionhart@netlink.cts.com (Jackie Zucconi)]

Well, I haven't fug up the direct quotes (Ron! I think we need you!) but 
there was some mention about active and passive forces being equated with 
males and females, this idea I think was stated by Jay?? But I would like to 
mention an interesting idea that was prevelent in the Middle Ages about 
using the bow and arrow as a metaphor (most commonly with regard to 
religion). It seems that they would use the idea of the bow as religion as 
written in scriptures, something that was rigid and the populace must 
follow. The string of the bow was depicted more as the spirit, something 
that could bend and move as necessary in order to follow the correct path of 
God. These connections started working out in my head as I studied WOlfram 
von Eschenbach's _Parzival_ in which I noticed another pecular coincidence. 
In reference to God there is the quote "...he offers Love and Anger." I'm 
trying to see if this fits in anyway to Kate's song. Probably not but then 
again how well does she know Arthurian Legend??
                            --- Lionheart

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