ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes the characteristic of the style of Zarathustra in general. The idea is that the devil fetches that carrion, it is his morsel; the devil means utter destruction, so utter destruction will devour the morsel. But Zarathustra is apparently going to steal it from the devil, as if he were another devil also meant to devour and thereby destroy the carrion. The symbol of communion then means Zarathustras attempt to reconcile himself with the body; or one can say it is the need of the body that Zarathustra should become reconciled to it. So, as we are moving here on the fringe of the collective unconscious with the figure of Zarathustra, it is by no means strange that he should observe a primitive custom and bury the corpse in such a way that he would have no reason to return.
