| 1. Telemachus |
| 2. Nestor |
| 3. Proteus |
| 4. Calypso |
| 5. Lotus Eaters |
| 6. Hades |
| 7. Aeolus |
| 8. Lestrygonians |
| 9. Scylla and Charybdis |
| 10. Wandering Rocks |
| 11. Sirens |
| 12. Cyclops |
| 13. Nausicaa |
| 14. Oxen of the Sun |
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15. Circe |
| 16. Eumaeus |
| 17. Ithaca |
| 18. Penelope |
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Aida
Yared's Oxen
of the Sun images
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James
Joyce's Ulysses: A Dublin Tour
14. Oxen of the Sun
Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus.
Deshil Holles Eamus.
Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn,
quickening and wombfruit. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening
and wombfruit. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and
wombfruit.
Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy,
hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! (367)
| Scene: The Hospital |
| Hour: 10 pm |
| Organ: Womb |
| Art: Medicine |
| Colour: white |
| Symbol: Mothers |
| Technic: Embryonic development |
| Correspondences: |
| Trinacria: Hospital |
| Lampetie, Phaethusa: Nurses |
| Helios: Horne |
| Oxen: Fertility |
| Crime: Fraud |
The National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, where Mina Purefoy has been in labour for three days, is on Bloom's route from Sandymount back to the city centre.
When Stephen and his companions spill drunkenly out of the hospital at the end of the episode, their path takes them back past Sweny's the chemist to the Westland Row train station, above the post office where, in Lotus Eaters, Bloom collected his letter from Martha Clifford.