![]() But when Philemon went to catch the goose, it ran onto Zeus’s lap for safety.ĥ4 x 80 cmZeus said that they did not need to slay the goose and that they should leave the town. Realizing that her guests were in fact gods, she and her husband “raised their hands in supplication and implored indulgence for their simple home and fare.” Philemon thought of catching and killing the goose that guarded their house and making it into a meal for the guests. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.After serving the two guests food and wine, which Ovid depicts with pleasure in the details, Baucis noticed that although she had refilled her guest’s beechwood cups many times, the wine pitcher was still full. Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis. Though the couple were poor, they showed more pity than their rich neighbors, where “all the doors bolted and no word of kindness given, so wicked were the people of that land.” They were rejected by all before they came to Baucis and Philemon’s rustic and simple cottage. Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants and began asking the people of the town for a place to sleep during that night. 2.īaucis and PhilemonIn Ovid’s moralizing fable (Metamorphoses VIII), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved. I have put the inscription there to remind my patients and myself: Timor dei initium sapiente It says: yes, the god will be on the spot, but in what form and to what purpose? found in Erasmus’s collection of Adagia (XVIth cent.). He also tried to teach us an approach through which we can avoid the wrath of this visitor, which every frivolous, haughty, or greedy host in the folk tales brought down on himself.įor it depends only on ourselves whether this coming of the gods becomes a blessed visit or a fell disaster.” It seems to me to be one of the greatest contributions of Jung and his work that it taught us to keep our door open to the “unknown visitor.” Marie Louise Von Franz, on the “Unknown Visitor” Collected Works Volume 4 – Freud & Psychoanalysis.Collected Works Volume 3 – Psychogenesis of Mental Disease.Collected Works Volume 15 – Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.Collected Works Volume 16 – Practice of Psychotherapy.Collected Works Volume 8 – Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche.Collected Works Volume 10 – Civilization in Transition.Collected Works Volume 9(1) – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.Collected Works Volume 2: Experimental Researches. ![]()
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