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. . . wn from its deadly oheath, no On/; ever
escaped from it, and it waS irre. i1tible. ?
6. Out of Muria, was brought the Oagd. e's cauldron.
No company ever went from it unthankful.
~ ating' explailU th:>. t the Tuatha 0. ; Oanann came originally from Gre<<t, th:>. t 'heir (<mr citi'" _re in NOTWay and that they . pent 1even y. . . . . . . in Scotland on their way thence to Ireland. T he
,rea,ures are listed in two of Joyce"
noteboob:
Midyirp] Stone of O",t;ny
Nuado Spear of Victry [. u]
Ogma Sword of Ugh,
DaSd. Pot of Plenty
VI. B. 11. 94:
VI. B? 3S? 32 :
Nsolid Falla. sfire Goria, Edood l'indiu water Muriu
I) Sword of Light Ogma, Find;'s cloudy, E
2) Nuad, spear of Victory, Goriu
VI. B? ]S? 33:
"'mS
3) Dagdo, Cauldron
of Plenty, Murias water, W
4) M idyin, Stone of Destiny, Falia< earth, N
219. 10-12 i. also compatible with the . . quencc m, . . . . . . . . . . L In view of the 'ketde offish' diKussed above, the equation of . . with
the Cauldron of Plenty would . . . . m . . . alid. M uch has been made of the . imilatitie. between the f()ur ! . . ",norco, the fnur Gnil Hal- lOW"! (sword, chalice, lance, paten)' and the four Tarot luit. (. word. , CUpS, wands, pentad. . ). ' We might reasonably connect m with the ,word. s a "'gal emblem and L wiIh ,he. tOI1C e pierre
, lJo. Hi""",<fhu. . . /. <T. Oov;dC<>myn,o. blin. Eatly[rilhT. . . . Socia. , '\fMl ,. ,. . . ".
{,
? . . . 1f0"CdNUl! . S""*""",. . t. q. . . . <I,. . 1I<'1y(;,. ;/,O. . iol~ua '~II)
'J""","'eo_F. . . Ri"",/'"R_ _ (e. . . . ! . . . . . . . U~ ,. -.
i<y
,
fUa '_ l,
? Ou50"'), bUIlhe connection of -t with the spear i. problematic_ The spear COfT($ponds to lhe Grail lance which maims the Fisher King, and -t maim. mafter I fuhion, but on this t would not care
10 commit m~ lf further.
Tht correlation of the Cardinal Poin"', FJemcnt:S and Hallo"",
i. flexiblt. Joyce'. table fic. the u. ual . . . ignition of Tarol Iuits, ,woro. with air, cups with Mltet, wand. with fir<: and pentacle. with earth, and their dtSCrnd:onts, the modern suits of playing cards, appear . s )(at 286. 14- t5. SUI if lI9. IO""-U nukes Matthew air, Mark water, Luke fiu and John earth, it oontndicu the ochemt of cardinal poim, in the table. Now, a further tab! . , on VI. B. 14. 78, . uggH1I thaI Ihesc may be varied according to 1! etIsc:
W<>ws
N hto. tthew S Mark
E Luke
W John
Winds
N S Mark
S SJohn
E SLuke
W S Manhew
But apart from 11. 4, the chapte. . . of I'W seem very con. inent in relating Matthew to Ihe north, Mark to the . outh, Luke to Ihe eall and John to Ih. WHt. In respect of elements the most useful
pallern i. ! \tither of th = just noted, but rather that of 223. 29- 33:
H? ? ? kit mthe hooIhtd fireshield bUI it WllS unlergon. inlO the mallhued heaven. He . . ,ughed it from the luft but that bore ne mark ne mH. . . gc. He luktd upon the bloom- ingrund where ongly his oorn, w<:re growning. AI last he listed back to bt<:kline how she pranked alone $() johnlily.
This tcqu<t1ce, deriving from St AUgulltine,,. accord> with the respective hum"u", of x. Ma,thew possesses a cooleric hwnour (fire). The element air, hearing Ih. chimes a? ? odated wiIh Mark Lyons, 'uggesll a saIljuine and h<\rmonio"" lemIXramen(. The
preuure of melropolitan living makes I melanchol~, earth quality . ppmpri. . ,. '" Luke, while the mysteriou, west in which John is situated su;'" hi. phlegmatic, Wlltery temp<:ram<:nL.
VI. B. I7. 9' gives:
The Quobus Quartet 99
? ? 00 Th~ Sigla of Finnqans Wah
Ifthi. <elates to Ari"od~', definition. of ~lem~ntal propcrti'" (~. g. fire is warm and dry, waLer i.
cold arul moist), """" of th~ lhret: proposed patton, of co' best ignor~d.
A more promising pattern involv", Blak~'. Four Zoas, which appear at 057. 07-10. " I luive shown" that this pu. . . . gc d. rives fromj,TUsalem 43. z-3, arul that one may thereby equate Matthew with Uri,. . ,n, Mark with LU\r. I. b, Luke with nanna. and John with UIthona. VI. H. I ]. 2z8 li. ts ,h~ :ZOOs' immanent aspect> and
i. con,istent with the provincial a! l<)Q. ,ion:
Urthnna Luvah Uri. en
T luinnas
Spiril emotion ?
<tason
"'"
Uri,,,n ofoouue embodies a merciless and vengeful reasoning,
Ihu, ,e. . ,mbling Matthew. We will have to iKflOre plate 7zof}trU- . al. . . . , where Blake Ii", the four pTovinct"S '" four of the tribes of Israel, butmcre i, an important paTalld bctwet:n Joyce', quater- nary and Blake's in . he onribution of. he . ame metala to oo"e- ,ponding membc,. . . . In me pariS of x in 1. 6. 4 we succcosivdy observe gold (140. '5), ,ilver ('? U7), copper ('40. ] ' ) and iron ('41. 03). They also appear in the foUT provincc_,. . ,]a,ed stJtnZas which dose 11. 4. Substitu. ing b"," for roppcc, me . . . me seri. . .
is a. sociated by Blake witb Urizen, LU\r. l. h, Tharm. . . and Urthom. rt1pc<:. ively. However, Blake', system includes the following gt;(I- g",phy and iconography, over whicb the 1W(I mythologies dis- engage:
Uri. en $. uutb Luvah ilalt n. ~. West Urtbnrut Nmm
LIDo
M . n 0,.
Bagle
Finally, it must be remembe,. . ,d du" X are me Four MaSlen, me bistorians of Ireland. Individual COttt1ponderu:cs"a,. . , improb-
able, but me term Maste. . . is implicit in its mo. . literal ""n6C_ X a r e u l t i m a t e l y rul~t"$, j u d i Q a n d l u m o r i t i e s , a n d i l i . i n m i s , . . , s p e e r that they COntt:a" """" directly wim O.
"/I>i4. . >,! Ii. "CO. >1-9-
? The Twelve Apoltrophes
o a", the twelve customen in m', l. i! yem, acc. )rdina: to 221. 01-
5 'a bundle of a dozen of representative locomotive civi(:l,'. Th. manuscripts apply tbe siglum to 1. 6. 7, whe", 0 arc . ,sigru:d twelve
dis,ric" of the city, spiralling clod:wi. e from Donnybrmk in the $OUlhu51 via Crumlin in the west to meet the northeast coastline a' Baldoylc. . Arountown' ('42. '3) refers to Roundtown, ? redun- dant name for T erenure. .
o represent Vim'. ",hellious plebeian" and as ouch are 'ruled, roped, duped and driy"" by those numendaimon. , the feclu:cpcrs at their laws' (142. 23-4). The fcckecpcrn, or four kccpcr"S, are Xa1 judges, and 0 are the jury o""r which they preside in 0&9-
093. The juridical function reappears at 557. 13-558. 20, where 0 find m guilty, and at 573. 35-576. 09, where they ar<: ? The jury (a sour dozen of"OUI felloW1 allofwhom were curiously IUlJJl(;d . f",r doyl. . ): Olwersdy, at 573. 06-7, they ar(: 'R band of twel"" mer_ ttnaTits, the Sullivani'. 1. 6. 7 call. them 'dayl. . when they de-
libe",t. but sullivan, when they are sword,ed'.
The ",lolion of Xto 0 has ,uhstllnt;,,1 mythological and bittori_
cal paralleb. Re. . and R. . ,," observe <I. . ,
Atound C"nchobar', couch in Brieriu', Hall wer<: the couch. . of the twelve heroes of Ulster, an arrangement wbich i, paralldcd by the bed. of the Twelve Pttrt of
France set ",Qund the magnificent central bed of Cbarlc- maane. I,al", bring, ,<) mind KinS Arthur and hi. twelve knights," Odin . e. ued in a circle with his twdve aod coun_ cillors, Hrolf and his twelve berserks, OdyuCUll and hi, twelve companions as well as the biblical twely. . ,. Mn Mary Danielli has . ! >own that a fourltlvefnld conception of the State i. ab" oombincd with a twclvclthirtcenfold ronception in e<>smologies at widely ocparalcd a. those of Iccland, Otituo and Madasatcar. Like Ireland, Iceland con- listed of four quarlcn, north, oouth, ea,t and west, bu, cveryquarter wa, further divided into three oection" mak_
ing twdve in all. These twelve sections, or 'Things', sent a 8iven numbor of mm '0 th~ annual mteting known 11 the Allming, which was h~ld at th~ theoretical cent. . of Iceland undenhe dir<:etion ofthe La_peaker. Here a tem-
pO<ary town wa. set up which "'Produced the pattern of
"Cd", H";,~, '50-)'.
" >>0. 35 indodn ArtII",', <ourt at Coerkkon_upoo_ti? .
The Twel"" Apostropb. . 101
? 102 The: Si&lo 0{ Fi. . . . . "'" IUdt
the Itlte, d>c: four quanas, the "",dye . . . . SUtr2Ies, and to 011, and the area seems 10 IIIve been daborllely laid OUI rot thi. p"rpoR. Conchobar and hi. twelv! ! heroes arc by nomunt theonlyuampleofakina'" d>c: ~n. . . . ,0{twelve in Irish tndition. Aa::ordifta CO CritA G<>b4tdr, cwdvc "'"U the compmy 0{ the kinJ: of. ,,,,,tA, :lnd thue werc twi:lvt wo. w:hcs in a fOYIIl house.
Dcopile ! heir occuional namina in filII, 0 . . . . 001 g. . . . tly in- divUi. . . .