![]() There is no indication that she wants more children and she offers no objection to Bloom's sending their daughter away so as to facilitate her affair with Boylan ( U 18.1008). For example, she has given birth to only two children, one of whom died at age eleven days ( U 14.267, 17.2281). The epithets applied to Gea and Tellus are "all-producing and all-nourishing mother, nourisher of children, receiver and nourisher of seeds, sanctuary of the dead, prophetess." I see none of these qualities in Molly. I find Molly to be Gea-Tellus, however, only in the same sense that she can be seen as a faithful Penelope. ![]() 2 Gea, or Gaea, or Ge emerged from Chaos, "At the beginning of all things," Graves says. There is a great temptation to see Molly Bloom as an archetypal image of the Great Mother, 1 for at the end of "Ithaca," Joyce has her "reclined semilaterally, left, left hand under head, right leg extended in a straight line and resting on left leg, flexed, in the attitude of Gea-Tellus, "fulfilled, recumbent big with seed" ( U 17.2313). For the Record Mythological Complexities in Ulysses Erwin R. ![]() ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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