#Bachofen in Myth, Religion, and Mother Right, traces images of #Ocnus. He was just a secure old guy, enjoying and idyllic evening, working his craft, hanging with his donkey. At some point that became a punishable image of sloth. My feeling is that the image has the potential to as a helpful as that of #Camus's #Sisyphus in #MythOfSisyphus. The symbol can be re-worked for sustainability and a #GoodLife that doesn't kill the planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocnus
https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Mythology/en/Ocnus.html

> Donkeys are an important source of energy in deserts and mountains. A donkey can pull 25 percent of its body weight for seven hours a day. An ox can only pull 18 percent of its body weight for four and a half hours per day. #Donkeys work for 30 years, #oxen for 15. And contrary to popular perception, donkeys are highly intelligent.

#VandanaShiva on replacing he #automobile in #SoilNotOil makes me want to be a contented (not slothful!) #Ocnus making rope and feeding a dear She-Donkey.

"The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods... it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture... crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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#Camus #Sisyphus 's #scorn to be replaced by #Ocnus 's #Love ? #Obligation ? #Ecology ? #libgen