Goal

Goal
Tantalus
Ivory
Virgin and Child

Col.1:5
"For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"

 Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle

The Myth of Tantalus 

King Tantalus was once invited to share the table with the Gods on Olympus, a rare honor. In his hubris he decided to test the omniscience of the Gods by cooking one of his sons, Pelops, and serving them his remains at a feast. The Gods were not fooled. Most recoiled in revulsion at the macabre dish presented to them, all save Demeter, who was distraught by the loss of his daughter, Persephone. Unaware Demeter indulged in the gruesome cuisine and consumed Pelops' shoulder. Pelops was restored to life and made whole, Hephaestus forged him a new shoulder made of ivory donated by Demeter. For his abominable crime and gross insult to the Gods, Tantalus was banished to the underworld for eternity. There he was bound in a pool of water and under a peach tree. When he reached down to get a drink, the water receded just out of his reach. When he reached up to grab a peach, the branches lifted away dooming Tantalus to an eternity of thirst and hunger with no reprieve. And thus, we get the term "Tantalize."

Goal

Chess:  "Goal" "Tantalus" "Ivory" "Virgin and Child"

 The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made",^[1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.