, 10 the """
mytholocial
con-
~ts offour-.
~ts offour-.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
,.
ticularly impres.
ive i.
VI.
B.
8.
63 : 'coffin shop []', which m.
ay
Ix refe. . . . ed to Oct~mann'. ha. -dwau prerni,. ,. of 066. 28-067. 06. " Jj,1,L
w G L , 119.
~ 110. C;'" . -. Hi,",,>, (H. ttn<>nd1"'-, """"-"" ,~), "'"
? Thi. paragraph . u = < l? ? dC! lcript;cn of the I. tter; a 'kiribi. poucb filled with lit,. ri,h fragments' (the mailbag), and 'the JlI. unch nf that halpbrother nf a herm, a pillarh<lx'. A herm bcillj! an obelisk, itseem. thot th. unifying ~Iement here;s C, enromp. . . . _ ing var;Cu. types of funerary and poot offie<: impedim. nta, includ_ ing the coffin itself. I hav~ diacu. sed th. coffin in more d. . . . . il doe- wh. r. . . .
Cmaybedefinedasa,. . . puu:I. ! orm,pref<ra. blymin aquintes- 'entialfnrm,andisth. ",fouat",un"" a thingofvalu? . VI. B. '4. 7 gives 'nory of [] or It<:aSure ~"'ck of gold', which r<1Ulns u' to book IV. A'S final monologue tt<:at1l the lett. r bOlh u buried
creasu", and u O"'",m :
And watch would the le"er you'", wanting be coming may be. Ande. . t ashore. . . . Carri. d ina coddy or screwed and corl<l:d. On his mugi. . tom surface. With a bob, hob,
bon ledby. Hl<>b. When th. waves give up yoU" the w il may for m? . Sometime then, sornewh. . . there , I wrote me hopes and buried the pa"". (623. 2~24. 04J
VI. B. 19'. ,SI bas simply 'c by A for lTI'.
The OQating C compri. . . a message in a bottle bu, also the 'I""ves' of'he monologue, which becomes loose JlI. Rrs of FW and di. perses nntilonly 'one d ings l1ill. I'll bear it on me. Tn . . . mind meof. Lff! ' We can add h. . . the inL<rweaving nf bo. m and grllves wbichweobserved abov~. C con for inStance be the chest in which O. iris perished, finati ng alnng the Nile. It can be Baldtr'. funeral boat drifting out to 'ea, or };;oah', Ark approaching the Iri. h coast fmmthecoldnortheast. AIhink'the",. gullsarethehird'releued by Noah: 'If I seen him bearing down nn me now under white-
'p. . . . . d willi' like he'd come from Arhn""I? . . . . A gull. Gull? . Far calls. Coming, farl' (6zR09-l)J
Noah'. Ark i, tnditionally aswciated with 'he Ark of the ('. nve_ nant, en~ing the seeds of a civilization. " Thi. contrivance appear. at529. 18-23: m i. 'carrying hi. ark, nf eggllbaped fu. elage . . . across hi. back when be might have been oetting on hi. jona. . inside. ' Th~ Ark nf the Owenant used to be set up in the drs. . t with ito . idrsaligntd with the cordinal poin,. and the twdve trihCll rangclsyrnmetricaUy about it. We can thu. account for the rela-
. ri,m of X ro [J, for example at 614-27-30: 'Our wbolemole mill-
"CO,'s.
" A. E. W. ;<<. nU HoQ K. bboJ"~, 29>.
lnanima,~ Sigla "5
? -
1. 6 111. Sigla of FinllqlJ'II Wa. lr~
wh<< li. . , vicocidomc~f, ? ~ ndomlOOmI pzdIoc:roticon (die "o\Umma Lujah" known 10 t\'ery Ichoolboy 'candallcf, ~ he Many, Mirky, L ul<cy or John-a-Donlt). ' Wt miBhl imapne four moumen 11 ! he COl'IleI"l of Finncpn" bed, like tile evanadiaJ bc:aSII in I Chrilli. n 1<1nmorph. l . IInn1 1hat oW Ire no1 "luau , b", T riunosin and oth~. . . . , adamant . boutlhcir oDnaini. . , four clementi' ~m. ! or . he shell I. Earth, and the While i. Wiler,
but the skin bctw<<tt <he , hell and the Whl", is Air, and S<'pIINIQ the Earth from the Wa,et; the Yolk is Iin: . . ? in Ih. middk of thc Yolk thcu is the FIfTH ELEMENT, Oul 0( which the yoUlli
chicken bursts Ind IlroWl. '''
I anno. possibly do ju. tiu h. . . .
, 10 the """ mytholocial con-
~ts offour-. part division, and had bell recommend 10 rhe rcader chip! e. . . . V_VII of ken and Rccs'. ""Inc H m 'IIV< "" ? IlQl
synopsis. Themeridianorientation<IfFWisIUggested by 114. 01- 7 and further implies the meridian orientation of the fourtqU<lre apocaJYI',i<; Jerusalem, with ill {Wclve P''''' named for the twelve lribt$. or of Wake', Go1aooOOOZlO, or of the fectaJlaular Roman <:ill. . . quar'ered by tw (I ~all1f<ttS . unnina 'north-1ou<h in ,h~ Ncnueo and Bul<. arahul direcdOflS "'hil< th~ othen &0 wesl-cut in $eatCh from MlliziiQ with lIulpr&d for . . . it hal its ardinal poinl$. ' At $52. 14-'5 we obstrve the same division, with infernal IWdt ftI htolv. . . . Ind celnrilol ro. dI ftI hell. BUI the . . . . . ,. . po_rfully charged quadnlrurc, to wbich Recs and Rett devote <:OnlidtnhLe spice, is lhat of Ihe Banqueting H. IL II Tarl, in "'hid! Ihe men of Uhler, Munster, u instcr and Cor\nach. occupied northern, ",uthem, . . . . em . nd western halls about the king, jU! ! ? ? the
provincel them",lv<:I " , e n : dClposcd. around Uisn. cacb. A. C. L Brown explains :
The Irish ~"' ICCUltomed to identify fairyland with Ireland and ~ fairy a ide with tM bowquetina; hooD "' T . . . . Professor Nil. e hIlS lhown tM I the internal arranae- maUsoftheGrliLcutleI"" ublclhoseofthehanquainl
haU. 1'lla1 ramou. haU wa. oblong hut facffi the fou. winds and had beoide it. ro\1l\d royal cud? .
Thtancimt 10th Ioaoled 1M bndofthe dead in 1 . . . . . . 1 i 1 l l . n d : T e d ! D u i n n 10 t h e l O U t h , T o . , . I s l a n d o r t h e O . k . neyo 10 th. north. uter they placed il in Norway. TIM Welsh put 1M land 01 the dead north of tM R<lmIn Wan
. . . ~ . . . T. . . . sje' (;poou<I,), S,. . ot-JSHio. Us Is1(, (I ,,'-. , K<. . . . 1'0\11 '9>1), ). >,
? in G:i. lloway, Lothain, and Oom:. They also p! a<:ed it in the Orkneys and in Norway. ~ ""rawny dc;oth-honeand the death-waggon found thcir way ibto Joucney to Fairy_ land . tories. From thc land ofthe dead came the two asd", offairyland : the r<:d, iron tower of the Fomorians and the sq. . . . . . e, cosmic palace of the numeco. . . fb::. . . .
The cOIltrapositiOll of Xand 0 is seen at 17S. 1S-<i: 'Till tho faur SIrM<l of d4f Tory J. /and 1. 1 th. doUZl dwnm Eirewhigg, ra'II? . " We consider<:d earlier tbe <elation of I: with the Fomorian. and Uu>. t Of A w i t h t h e T u a t h a D e O a n a n n ( f b : : . ) . W e c a n p c r h a p s n o w intmduce the . un-god Lugh, whose ancestry included both race! !
and who mil! :ht therefore be c. . He was identified by Cae. . . with Mer<:ury, and in ous<ing King Nuad 01 T ara resembles. c defeat_ ing m 13&. m and 344? 36 JIUlkc Nuad m, and 090. 18-20 JIUlk. . his doock. . pc,. . Gamal and Camel I: and A, but 044. ", 507. 12 and 594. 19 treat Lugh as m. Thi. place. him in Ihe same ca~_ iOry as, say, Parnell: connections betwttll. Lugh and Finn and betwecn l. ugh and thc maimed Fioher King have been
established. "
We can lill a few more notebook entries of a les, helpful type:
VI. B. 18. 116: VI. B. t9. 183: VI. B. W? 95 :
VI. B? 31. 83 :
[J painted blue during night 811 come by wa. . . to [J
D aily Mail
tell, story of
o
[J. do YOIl remember falling againsl?
)( hypnotiSts [J
The fint of these probably refe. . . to the desecration of 1T1'. memorial. Unlike most sigla [J seem 10 lad:; lCXUal significance, bolh phallic and receptacular imagery being comprehended in, for irurance, 'vellumtomesmuniment' (595. 22). [Jprobably rilites to, bm is not identical with, sped6a. lly female repositories (the
. . no. o. y;. '" w Until ~ (Cambri<\t<. M. s. . , H. n<ao"<! Uni. enity Pre. . 1\>4)). 3'J 70?
MS<< P. ). By"". /. ;,J, K~.
Ix refe. . . . ed to Oct~mann'. ha. -dwau prerni,. ,. of 066. 28-067. 06. " Jj,1,L
w G L , 119.
~ 110. C;'" . -. Hi,",,>, (H. ttn<>nd1"'-, """"-"" ,~), "'"
? Thi. paragraph . u = < l? ? dC! lcript;cn of the I. tter; a 'kiribi. poucb filled with lit,. ri,h fragments' (the mailbag), and 'the JlI. unch nf that halpbrother nf a herm, a pillarh<lx'. A herm bcillj! an obelisk, itseem. thot th. unifying ~Iement here;s C, enromp. . . . _ ing var;Cu. types of funerary and poot offie<: impedim. nta, includ_ ing the coffin itself. I hav~ diacu. sed th. coffin in more d. . . . . il doe- wh. r. . . .
Cmaybedefinedasa,. . . puu:I. ! orm,pref<ra. blymin aquintes- 'entialfnrm,andisth. ",fouat",un"" a thingofvalu? . VI. B. '4. 7 gives 'nory of [] or It<:aSure ~"'ck of gold', which r<1Ulns u' to book IV. A'S final monologue tt<:at1l the lett. r bOlh u buried
creasu", and u O"'",m :
And watch would the le"er you'", wanting be coming may be. Ande. . t ashore. . . . Carri. d ina coddy or screwed and corl<l:d. On his mugi. . tom surface. With a bob, hob,
bon ledby. Hl<>b. When th. waves give up yoU" the w il may for m? . Sometime then, sornewh. . . there , I wrote me hopes and buried the pa"". (623. 2~24. 04J
VI. B. 19'. ,SI bas simply 'c by A for lTI'.
The OQating C compri. . . a message in a bottle bu, also the 'I""ves' of'he monologue, which becomes loose JlI. Rrs of FW and di. perses nntilonly 'one d ings l1ill. I'll bear it on me. Tn . . . mind meof. Lff! ' We can add h. . . the inL<rweaving nf bo. m and grllves wbichweobserved abov~. C con for inStance be the chest in which O. iris perished, finati ng alnng the Nile. It can be Baldtr'. funeral boat drifting out to 'ea, or };;oah', Ark approaching the Iri. h coast fmmthecoldnortheast. AIhink'the",. gullsarethehird'releued by Noah: 'If I seen him bearing down nn me now under white-
'p. . . . . d willi' like he'd come from Arhn""I? . . . . A gull. Gull? . Far calls. Coming, farl' (6zR09-l)J
Noah'. Ark i, tnditionally aswciated with 'he Ark of the ('. nve_ nant, en~ing the seeds of a civilization. " Thi. contrivance appear. at529. 18-23: m i. 'carrying hi. ark, nf eggllbaped fu. elage . . . across hi. back when be might have been oetting on hi. jona. . inside. ' Th~ Ark nf the Owenant used to be set up in the drs. . t with ito . idrsaligntd with the cordinal poin,. and the twdve trihCll rangclsyrnmetricaUy about it. We can thu. account for the rela-
. ri,m of X ro [J, for example at 614-27-30: 'Our wbolemole mill-
"CO,'s.
" A. E. W. ;<<. nU HoQ K. bboJ"~, 29>.
lnanima,~ Sigla "5
? -
1. 6 111. Sigla of FinllqlJ'II Wa. lr~
wh<< li. . , vicocidomc~f, ? ~ ndomlOOmI pzdIoc:roticon (die "o\Umma Lujah" known 10 t\'ery Ichoolboy 'candallcf, ~ he Many, Mirky, L ul<cy or John-a-Donlt). ' Wt miBhl imapne four moumen 11 ! he COl'IleI"l of Finncpn" bed, like tile evanadiaJ bc:aSII in I Chrilli. n 1<1nmorph. l . IInn1 1hat oW Ire no1 "luau , b", T riunosin and oth~. . . . , adamant . boutlhcir oDnaini. . , four clementi' ~m. ! or . he shell I. Earth, and the While i. Wiler,
but the skin bctw<<tt <he , hell and the Whl", is Air, and S<'pIINIQ the Earth from the Wa,et; the Yolk is Iin: . . ? in Ih. middk of thc Yolk thcu is the FIfTH ELEMENT, Oul 0( which the yoUlli
chicken bursts Ind IlroWl. '''
I anno. possibly do ju. tiu h. . . .
, 10 the """ mytholocial con-
~ts offour-. part division, and had bell recommend 10 rhe rcader chip! e. . . . V_VII of ken and Rccs'. ""Inc H m 'IIV< "" ? IlQl
synopsis. Themeridianorientation<IfFWisIUggested by 114. 01- 7 and further implies the meridian orientation of the fourtqU<lre apocaJYI',i<; Jerusalem, with ill {Wclve P''''' named for the twelve lribt$. or of Wake', Go1aooOOOZlO, or of the fectaJlaular Roman <:ill. . . quar'ered by tw (I ~all1f<ttS . unnina 'north-1ou<h in ,h~ Ncnueo and Bul<. arahul direcdOflS "'hil< th~ othen &0 wesl-cut in $eatCh from MlliziiQ with lIulpr&d for . . . it hal its ardinal poinl$. ' At $52. 14-'5 we obstrve the same division, with infernal IWdt ftI htolv. . . . Ind celnrilol ro. dI ftI hell. BUI the . . . . . ,. . po_rfully charged quadnlrurc, to wbich Recs and Rett devote <:OnlidtnhLe spice, is lhat of Ihe Banqueting H. IL II Tarl, in "'hid! Ihe men of Uhler, Munster, u instcr and Cor\nach. occupied northern, ",uthem, . . . . em . nd western halls about the king, jU! ! ? ? the
provincel them",lv<:I " , e n : dClposcd. around Uisn. cacb. A. C. L Brown explains :
The Irish ~"' ICCUltomed to identify fairyland with Ireland and ~ fairy a ide with tM bowquetina; hooD "' T . . . . Professor Nil. e hIlS lhown tM I the internal arranae- maUsoftheGrliLcutleI"" ublclhoseofthehanquainl
haU. 1'lla1 ramou. haU wa. oblong hut facffi the fou. winds and had beoide it. ro\1l\d royal cud? .
Thtancimt 10th Ioaoled 1M bndofthe dead in 1 . . . . . . 1 i 1 l l . n d : T e d ! D u i n n 10 t h e l O U t h , T o . , . I s l a n d o r t h e O . k . neyo 10 th. north. uter they placed il in Norway. TIM Welsh put 1M land 01 the dead north of tM R<lmIn Wan
. . . ~ . . . T. . . . sje' (;poou<I,), S,. . ot-JSHio. Us Is1(, (I ,,'-. , K<. . . . 1'0\11 '9>1), ). >,
? in G:i. lloway, Lothain, and Oom:. They also p! a<:ed it in the Orkneys and in Norway. ~ ""rawny dc;oth-honeand the death-waggon found thcir way ibto Joucney to Fairy_ land . tories. From thc land ofthe dead came the two asd", offairyland : the r<:d, iron tower of the Fomorians and the sq. . . . . . e, cosmic palace of the numeco. . . fb::. . . .
The cOIltrapositiOll of Xand 0 is seen at 17S. 1S-<i: 'Till tho faur SIrM<l of d4f Tory J. /and 1. 1 th. doUZl dwnm Eirewhigg, ra'II? . " We consider<:d earlier tbe <elation of I: with the Fomorian. and Uu>. t Of A w i t h t h e T u a t h a D e O a n a n n ( f b : : . ) . W e c a n p c r h a p s n o w intmduce the . un-god Lugh, whose ancestry included both race! !
and who mil! :ht therefore be c. . He was identified by Cae. . . with Mer<:ury, and in ous<ing King Nuad 01 T ara resembles. c defeat_ ing m 13&. m and 344? 36 JIUlkc Nuad m, and 090. 18-20 JIUlk. . his doock. . pc,. . Gamal and Camel I: and A, but 044. ", 507. 12 and 594. 19 treat Lugh as m. Thi. place. him in Ihe same ca~_ iOry as, say, Parnell: connections betwttll. Lugh and Finn and betwecn l. ugh and thc maimed Fioher King have been
established. "
We can lill a few more notebook entries of a les, helpful type:
VI. B. 18. 116: VI. B. t9. 183: VI. B. W? 95 :
VI. B? 31. 83 :
[J painted blue during night 811 come by wa. . . to [J
D aily Mail
tell, story of
o
[J. do YOIl remember falling againsl?
)( hypnotiSts [J
The fint of these probably refe. . . to the desecration of 1T1'. memorial. Unlike most sigla [J seem 10 lad:; lCXUal significance, bolh phallic and receptacular imagery being comprehended in, for irurance, 'vellumtomesmuniment' (595. 22). [Jprobably rilites to, bm is not identical with, sped6a. lly female repositories (the
. . no. o. y;. '" w Until ~ (Cambri<\t<. M. s. . , H. n<ao"<! Uni. enity Pre. . 1\>4)). 3'J 70?
MS<< P. ). By"". /. ;,J, K~.
