Keine Muse für die Lebenskunst

Es gibt für die techne tou biou kein Muse. Sie wäre auch arbeitslos. Um die Bilderwelt von Ranke-Graves zu benutzen: "The original Muse, or Mountain-goddess, whom the pre-Classical Greeks worshipped on Olympus, Helicon, Parnassus and elsewhere dit not, of course, appear by candellight in a poet's attic and guide his pen; the Muse-trance was a collective one induced at set lunar festivals. The Goddess roder her devotees very much as the voodoo gods of Haiti now ride theirs: causing them to chant and dance ecstatically; though first, no doubt, the tribal poet felt called upon to invoke the Goddess ceremoniously , and provide a ballad refrain - which is still a tribal poet's task in the South Cameroons and other remote perts of West Africa. In Greece by the eighth century B.C., invovacation of the Muse had become a formality - a claim that Sons of Homer could entrance listeners with the harp in a palace courtyard as effectiveley as when stamp of foot and clap of hand beat out the Doddess's dance rhythms on the slopes of a mountain."(1) "It is difficult to discuss the Muse concept in historic terms. Let me begin by saying that a deity must remain an idle abstraction, unless ...
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