Anonymous ID: 33c8a4 July 4, 2021, 6:57 a.m. No.14051918   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Clown:

 

Like the buffon, the clown is a mythic figure, and the inversion of the king - the inversion, that is to say, of the possessor of supreme powers; hence the clown is THE victim chosen as a substitute for the king, in accord with familiar astrobiological and primitive ideas of the ritual assassination of the king. The clown is the last, whereas the king is the first, but in the essential order of things the last comes second.

 

This is confirmed by the folklore custom in which village youths, during the Spring festivals, would race horseback up to the tallest mast (symbolizing the world axis); he who came first was elected Easter king, and the last to arrive was made a clown and beaten.

 

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