THE ANZAC ILIAD
The place the Spirit of Australia chose for its self-realization is, oddly, Anzac Cove; a timeless sacred site. It is also the womb, as it were, of the mysteries of Muliebrity. Here Zeus hurled the statue of Pallas, the Black Virgin, to earth – hence Palestine; the first of a stream of divine feminine visitations to this ‘womb of the world’. There was Io, who was turned into a heifer and had the Bosporus (‘ox ford’) Strait named after her. This was the same treacherous stretch of water golden fleece borne Helle fell into and drowned – hence the Hellespoint, ‘bridge of Hells’. From Helle to Helen, a gorgeous Greek again.
Helen was held in Fortress Troy. Homer in his Iliad describes the ‘penetration’ by a wooden stallion into the city’s inner sanctum. The Greeks not only sough their Helen, but the statue of Pallas as well – the Palladium. This they bore home in triumph. Alas, deceit spawned duplicity, as it was only a replica of the Black Virgin. The Trojan hero Aeneas – son of Aphrodite! – escaped with the original, to later found the Roman Empire by enshrining his prize in the Temple of Vesta the Virgin, sited on the eponymous Palatine Hill. The Greek name for Troy was Ilium (hence Homer’s Iliad) – akin ‘illium’, the main pelvic bone, protector of the womb.
The Anzacs take their place among many who thrust their military manhood onto this timeless feminine redoubt.
Aeneas used his virgin to found a new nation; we lost our virginity in the founding of ours; truly the rending of Australia’s hymen of innocence.
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