The Greek face of this address is Ganymede, and our shelf carries his abduction in two stages: Homer has no bird — “Him the gods caught up to be cupbearer to Zeus” [The Iliad, Book XX] — while Apollodorus supplies the carrier, “Zeus caught up on an eagle” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII], Frazer’s note marking the eagle as later furniture: early versions “do not mention the eagle as the agent” [ibid., editor’s note]. The Arabian shelf makes the motif a survival technique, twice in one chapter. Marooned Sindbad “tied myself by it to one of the feet of that bird” — the rukh that “feedeth its young ones with elephants” — which “uttered a great cry, and drew me up into the sky”; later, bound to a carcass in the diamond valley, he rises when a vulture “seized it with its talons, and flew up with it into the air”, “with me attached to it” [The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 20]. Lane’s own note domesticates the wonder, taking “the bearded vulture as the archetype of the rukh'” [ibid., editor’s note]. Four further candidates — Ovid, a second Nights chapter, a Bella Coola feather-flight, Frazer’s bird-procession — dissolved on reading: being carried by the bird is not becoming one.