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 Oxen of the Sun -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
They are usually referred to only as 'oxen' because of the events concerning ((Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero; his return to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in the Odyssey) Odysseus.
However, if the Oxen of the Sun were harmed, ((Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother) Tiresias foretold the destruction of his ship and the loss of all his men.
For six days, the cattle were slaughtered, but on the seventh, the winds changed, and the fate of the crew was sealed.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ox/oxen_of_the_sun.htm   (327 words)

  
 CONK! Encyclopedia: Agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
More significantly, mechanization has enormously increased farm efficiency and productivity (see Agricultural machinery).
Animals, including horses, mules, oxen, camels, llamas, alpacas, and dogs; however, are still used to cultivate fields, harvest crops and transport farm products to markets in many parts of the world.
Airplanes, helicopters, trucks and tractors are used in agriculture for seeding, spraying operations for insect and disease control, Aerial topdressing, transporting perishable products, and fighting forest fires.
conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Agriculture   (2314 words)

  
 Daoist Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself.
I've had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I've cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come from the grindstone.
There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thicknessĀ….[I] move the knife with the greatest subtlety, until—flop!
www.iep.utm.edu /d/daoism.htm   (7141 words)

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