Oxen of the Sun: Joyce's Schema


from Joyce's schema prepared in Fall 1921:

Art: medicine
Organ: womb
Colour: white
Symbol: mothers
Technic: embryonic development
Correspondences:
      Thrinacria: hospital
      Lampetie, Phaethusa: nurses
      Helios: Horne
      Oxen: Fertility
      Crime: Fraud


+ from Joyce's earlier schema prepared in Sept. 1920:

Sense (Meaning) = The Eternal Herds; organ = matrix [i.e. womb], uterus; technic = prose: embryo–foetus–birth