Tangential TRP: From Graves' The White Goddess

[Mark Kohut]

European poetic lore is, indeed, ultimatly based on magical principles, the rudiments of which formed a close religious secret for centuries but which were at last garbled, discredited and forgotten.
   
  'the language of poetic myth anciently current [sic] was a magical language bound up with
  popular religious ceremonies in honor of the Moon-Goddess or Muse..and that this remains the language of true poetry---true in the nostalgic modern sense of "the unprovable original, not a synthetic substitute".....
   
  The language was tampered with in late Minoan times when invaders from Central Asia began to substitute patrilinear for matrilinear institutions........

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