Parsifal, Oedipus

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Act I of Wagner's Parsifal, an opera for which Lévi-Strauss has a predilection (it is .... a 'mystic kiss the language of the frog or the kingfisher' (1982: 3; 1979a: 7, 9). ...... And the names of the members of the male lineage of the Oedipus family ..... reward the throne of Thebes and the hand of Laius' widow Jocasta, his own ...