Panther monster.
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Panther is the name of Jesus' apocryph biological father (a Roman centurion)
And cf. the black panther in "Ulysses"; it starts as a dream Haines had, but during the book it's more and more identified with Bloom (also a paternal figure); e.g. at the end of "Scylla and Charybdis": A dark back [Bloom's] went before them. Step of a pard; and when Bloom calls Stephen at the and of "Circe", Stephen groans: "Who? Black panther vampire"
