Tangential TRP: From Graves' The White Goddess

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And it's really funny, but I'm already finding websites devoted to demonstrating how Robert Graves got it wrong. Starhawks a big fan. And I'm a huge fan of Graves translation of "the Golden Ass".
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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> 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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