Mother/Seawrack/Hyacinth

StoneOx17 · 03 Jan 2003, 13:24 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: StoneOx17 at aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) Mother/Seawrack/Hyacinth
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 08:24:08 EST
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Andrew Bollen <abollen at internode.on.net> writes

> To repeat my view: Much of SS/LS is the working out of Wolfe's view as
> outlined by James, versus the "White Goddess" kind of view of Graves and
> others, in which the Mother is the first principle, and the solar, male,
> creator-god is her upstart & usurping son. No, says Wolfe, but neverthele=
ss,
> "Mother has her role" - she is not simply the demon of misogynist
> imagination.

> "Mother Earth" is pretty much the same as "Mother Ocean", in these kinds =
of=20
> speculations.

<snip>

This is a beautiful analysis, and I suspect that some of these views of Wol=
fe
on the Mother Goddess also apply to There are Doors -- in which our=20
world is represented by the land and the goddess's by the sea !!!=20
One of the names the goddess goes by in TAD is Lara Morgan.  I googled=20
and found that the meaning of Morgan is "of the sea".  This relation of the
goddess with ocean is a recurring theme of Wolfe's.

-- Stone Ox

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