Pondering "Death Eaters"

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 45265

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sherryblu" <sherryblu at y...> wrote:
> Why, specifically, are the Death Eaters so called?  Does this have 
> something to do with Voldemort's unspeakable ventures he has done 
in 
> his attempts to avoid death?  Do his followers, or perhaps only 
his 
> inner circle, aspire to thwart death also? . . . by "eating" death?


I associate DEs with primitive oral aggression (i.e., the first 
phase the Freudian stage of development is the "oral") cannibalism 
(e.g. the horrifying Goya painting of Saturn devouring his 
children),and blasphemy (cf. Paul in I Corinthians 15:54, "Death is 
swallowed up in victory,", etc.) And it makes a great rhyme for 
filking!

   - CMC