The old Religion There was a very old perhaps Tree-alphabet language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe that was a magical language bound upwith popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess some of them dating from the Old Stone Age , and that this remains die language of true poetry—true in the nostalgic modern sense of the unimprovable 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 and remodel or falsify the myths to justify the social changes. Then came the early Greek philosophers who were strongly opposed to magical poetry as threatening their new religion , and under their influence a rational poetic language (now called the Classical) was elaborated in honour of their patron Apollo and imposed on the world as the last word in spiritual illumination: a view that has prevailed practically ever since in European schools and universities,where myths are now studied only as quaint relics of the nursery age of mankind. The old ways are lost thus... (Gary Roberts- The white Goddess/ King Jesus /The Greek Myths)
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:26:27 +0000
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