Rabid
“The myth begins when Hubert is a young seventh-century nobleman in the Frankish kingdom, son of the Duke of Aquitaine. Hubert decides to spurn courtly life. He retreats to the deep forests of the Ardennes, the range of noble hills that roll through what is now Belgium and into the east of France, and devotes himself to the hunt. One Good Friday, so the legend goes, the young man is giving chase to a stag when the beast rears around, a crucifix hovering between its antlers. “Unless thou turnest ...to the Lord,” a heavenly voice intones, to the bewilderment of the stag’s pursuer, “and leadest an holy life, thou shalt quickly go down into Hell.”
Hubert bows before the creature that a moment ago was his prey. “Lord,” he asks, “what wouldst Thou have me do?”
It is a startling cross-cultural transformation: this is the myth of Actaeon, overhauled to serve a distinctly different cosmology. Again we have a hunter, surprised to find himself in the company of a deity. Again a stag is imbued supernaturally with consciousness.MoreLess
Hubert bows before the creature that a moment ago was his prey. “Lord,” he asks, “what wouldst Thou have me do?”
It is a startling cross-cultural transformation: this is the myth of Actaeon, overhauled to serve a distinctly different cosmology. Again we have a hunter, surprised to find himself in the company of a deity. Again a stag is imbued supernaturally with consciousness.MoreLess
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