From Ritual to RomanceCosimo, Inc., 2005 M01 1 - 217 páginas From Ritual to Romance is a landmark study of anthropology and folklore that examines the roots of the King Arthur-Holy Grail legends. Jessie L. Weston's revolutionary theory holds that most elements of the Grail story are actually the remnants of incredibly old fertility rites -- with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. Drawing on James George Frazer's seminal works on folklore, magic, and religion, Weston seeks to make connections between the legend's early pagan elements and its later Christian influences, uniting the quest for fertility with the striving for mystical oneness with God. T.S. Elliot cited this work as a major influence for his famous epic poem, "The Waste Land." JESSIE LAIDLAY WESTON (1850-1928) was an independent scholar and folklorist who specialized in mediaeval Arthurian texts. |
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Is it possible to establish chain of descent connecting | 52 |
CHAPTER VI | 65 |
CHAPTER VII | 81 |
CHAPTER IX | 113 |
CHAPTER X | 137 |
CHAPTER XI | 149 |
CHAPTER XII | 164 |
CHAPTER XIII | 175 |
CHAPTER XIV | 189 |
Index pp 211217 | 211 |
CHAPTER VIII | 101 |
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Página 62 - The wailing is for the plants, the first lament is, "they grow not". The wailing is for the barley; the ears grow not. For the habitations and the flocks it is: they produce not. For the perishing wedded ones, for perishing children it is: the dark-headed people create not. The wailing is for the great river; it brings the flood no more. The wailing is for the fields of men; the gunu grows no more.
Página 60 - ... numbers. One of the signs of failing energy is the King's inability to fulfil the desires of his wives, of whom he has a large number. When this occurs the wives report the fact to the chiefs, who condemn the King to death forthwith, communicating the sentence to him by spreading a white...
Página 76 - They are sex symbols of immemorial antiquity and world-wide diffusion, the Lance, or Spear, representing the Male, the Cup, or Vase, the Female, reproductive energy. Found in juxtaposition, the Spear upright in the Vase . . . their signification is admitted by all familiar with 'Life...
Página vi - Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact exists.
Página 156 - For this is the Gate of Heaven, and this is the House of God, where the Good God l dwells alone, into which [House] no impure [man] shall come ; but it is kept under watch for the spiritual alone ; where when they come they must cast away their garments, and all become bridegrooms obtaining their true manhood through the Virginal Spirit.
Página ix - ... which had found expression not only in social institution, and popular custom, but, as set forth in Sir G. Murray's study on Greek Dramatic Origins, attached to the work, also in Drama and Literature, might not reasonably — even inevitably — be expected to have left their mark on Romance? The one seemed to me a necessary corollary of the other, and I felt that I had gained, as the result of Miss Harrison's work, a wider, and more assured basis for my own researches. I was no longer engaged...
Página 88 - Kouros most Great, I give thee hail, Kronian, Lord of all that is wet and gleaming, thou art come at the head of thy Daimones. To Dike for the Year, Oh, march, and rejoice in the dance and song...
Página 24 - I hold that...the story postulates a close connection between the vitality of a certain king, and the prosperity of his kingdom; the forces of the ruler being weakened or destroyed by wound, sickness, old age, or death, the land becomes Waste, and the task of the hero is that of restora tion.
Página 127 - Buddha is referred to as the Fisherman who draws fish from the ocean of Samsara to the light of Salvation. There are figures and pictures which represent Buddha in the act of fishing, an attitude which, unless interpreted in a symbolic sense, would be utterly at variance with the tenets of the Buddhist religion.80 This also holds good for Chinese Buddhism.
Página 173 - His beneficient activities might seem to afford a meeting ground with the vegetation gods — "II donne l'accroissement, il donne l'abondance, il donne les troupeaux, il donne la progeniture et la vie".'1 These myths appear in the Grail Legends: 'As a result the springs dried up, the land became waste, and the court of the Rich Fisher, which had filled the land with plenty, could no longer be found.