It means sore muscles and rear end from riding. When you ride, you take up a lot of the "jolt" with your legs, which stresses your thigh muscles a lot. And the horse goes up and down as it walks (except when you're going very slowly), which means that your rear end meets the saddle abruptly if you don't know how to ride well. Six hours is an awfully long time for a first ride - she will indeed be saddle sore for a couple of days. Also, the rubbing of her thighs on the saddle can cause "rug burns" to develop on her legs - raw skin in other words. Two hours max is what I would recommend unless she's ready to feel like she's played a full football match - the entire game - as a center halfback. They may think it's funny, but it won't be - it will HURT. Aspirin and a hot bath is highly recommended.
2016-03-14 06:12:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Though it has to do with sex (the Oedipal part with the "killer" is also Freudian), I tend to interpret this in a Jungian, not a Freudian, way. Jung writes:
"The lower vertibrates are of old favorite symbols of the collective psychic foundation, the anatomic localisation of which coincides with the subcortical centra, the cerebellum and the spinal cord. These organs together form the snake."
[The Psychology of the Child Archetype.]
So "ride the snake" may mean "traverse the collective unconscious" to reach "the ancient lake", i.e., the Self, the collective archetype. The symbols of the Self are often guarded by a dragon (the Greek word "drakon" means "serpent"), for instance, the treasure of gold; but also the sun, which is swallowed by the green lion:
"The alchemical "green lion" devouring the sun relates to the experience of consciousness being overwhelmed by violent, frustrated desires (often masked by depression)"
[Marie-Louise von Franz.]
"Learn what the doves of Diana are, who conquer the lion with caresses; the green lion, I say, who in truth is the Babylonish dragon who kills all with his venom."
[Introitus Apertus.]
This force repressing desires and thereby depressing consciousness, this venomous green dragon - is it not the Father, which Freud called the Superego? It is the sum of moral restrictions, one's "moral conscience", which is imposed on the child, and represented to it, by the Father figure.
"But in the loneliest wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becometh a lion; freedom will it capture, and lordship in its own wilderness.
Its last Lord it here seeketh: hostile will it be to him, and to its last God; for victory will it struggle with the great dragon.
What is the great dragon which the spirit is no longer inclined to call Lord and God? "Thou-shalt," is the great dragon called. But the spirit of the lion saith, "I will."
"Thou-shalt," lieth in its path, sparkling with gold - a scale-covered beast; and on every scale glittereth golden, "Thou shalt!"
The values of a thousand years glitter on those scales, and thus speaketh the mightiest of all dragons: "All the values of things - glitter on me.
All values have already been created, and all created values - do I represent. Verily, there shall be no 'I will' any more." Thus speaketh the dragon."
[Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Of the Three Metamorphoses.]
Both Jung and Morrison where heavily influenced by Nietzsche. The first stage, the first metamorphosis of the spirit, is where the spirit is a camel, the beast of burden which dutifully carries all that is imposed on it by the dragon, by "God the Father". The second stage is described above. And the third stage is the *child*, where the spirit has gotten in touch again with nature, with the mother-womb:
"[K]ill the father means kill all those things in yourself which are instilled in you but are not of yourself; they are not your own, they are alien concepts which are not yours, they must die, those are the things that must die. The psychedelic revolution. F*ck the mother is very basic, and it means get back to the essence, what is the reality, what is, f*ck the mother is very basically mother, mother-birth, real, very real, you can touch it, you can grab it, you can feel it, it's nature, it's real, it can't lie to you."
[March 1967 interview with Paul Rothchild, the producer of The Doors.]
2006-06-18 21:15:20
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answered by sauwelios@yahoo.com 6
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