From: tycho137
Message: 12479
Date: 2002-02-25
--- In cybalist@..., "mrcaws" <MrCaws@...> wrote:
(a lot of stuff about heel wounding...)
I've thought about that and I think that that's because there's a
tendon just above the heel that in an exposed position.
> In another possibly related tradition, Orion had his eyes ripped
out
> for raping a woman. Oedipus tore out his eyes after he
discovered
> that he had been indaveratnly commiting a sexul crime as well.
Actually, there is a certain sort of sex-organ symbolism here;
eyeballs and testicles have a similar overall shape.