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Are. weafraid of appearing stupidIn when Oliver Cromwell's Puritan<br />

regime. banned all theatricalperformance commedia companies must<br />

have scrubbed. England from theirgigging schedules. But the<br />

Punchinello character appears to. have detgin. Crosspollinated with the<br />

local Vice character originally. thetrickster fool of the Mystery plays<br />

Punch utilised. Harlequin'sslapstick bat took a wife and resurfaced in<br />

the Punch and Judy. puppetshow.PuckPunch<br />

SantaPelznicholNicholasJanneyYule I Norge har. vioskoreia og<br />

julebukker they acted out an odd play the leader whodressed. in goat or<br />

bear skins argued with another character or withthe woman figure.. He<br />

was killed the woman lamented and the doctorcomically resuscitated<br />

him. or he spontaneously revived declaring hewasn't dead after all the<br />

Fool was. in his original beast form thedeath and execution were<br />

enacted amorally. In. later plays the Fool orbeastman is often killed by<br />

a young groom because he. makes a passat the Woman and narrators<br />

explain the behavior with a. comicscript. Scholars concluded that the<br />

detdreds of versions. pepperingEurope could be traced to the great<br />

goatgod Dionysus. After all. theDionysian rites gave birth to modern<br />

theater In Britain he becameRobin. Goodfellow or Puck norsk slektpuk<br />

celebrated byShakespeare. Goodfellow's cousin Robin Hood began life<br />

as Wood a namefor the Wild Man. In. the Black Forest the Pied Piper<br />

of Hamelin reenacts poet Robert Browning's. version of the ancient<br />

mystery. Anddon't forget the 'geek' as a freak. act.Shiva is more or less<br />

what you want him to be as in him. allcontradictions casually coexist.<br />

The notion of Shiva as exclusively aWild. Man of the forests and<br />

mountains traveling with a band of ghostsand ghouls as. their leader<br />

Bhoothnath is a recent phase of hisworship. For while he was. always<br />

capable of peculiar behavior Shivaused to live outside of society. not<br />

because he had rejected it butbecause he had transcended it. Shiva is.<br />

repeatedly described as thesupreme master of all the arts and that<br />

indicates. a highly socializedbeing the Nagarika of ancient India not a<br />

rustic.Only. Siva who indulges in both extreme ascetic and extreme<br />

eroticactivity the. creator and the destroyer the quiescent and the<br />

activegod who represents. both the cyclical motion of the universe<br />

andspiritual immortality can offer. devotees both paths of<br />

immortalitythrough rebirth or renunciation and. spiritual immortality.<br />

He is theliving lingam in the yoni and the androgyne.. Both symbols<br />

contain theparadox within themselves and provide a. resolution.Lingam<br />

Sanskrit literary 'mark' or 'sign' ( is there a. connectionbetween 'sign'<br />

and 'seed' (seme and semen) via sema seme. sememesemiological<br />

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