Is this an Atlanic thing? I'd be more inclined to think of Lovecraft as a
Graves character...
Not really
I thought that I got Metod (the eldest of the three goddesses) from Graves.
I took that to be an elder goddess of measurement: I'm chilled that Google
does not bear this out... Has Google become an authority in all matters?
P
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> Jon Corelis wrote:
> > "A woman who concerns herself with poetry should, I
> believe, either be
> > a silent Muse and inspire the poets by her womanly
> presence, as Queen
> > Elizabeth and the Countess of Derby did, or she should be
> the Muse in a complete sense:
> > she should be in turn Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd and the Old Sow
> of Maenawr
> > Penardd who eats her farrow, and should write in each of these
> > capacities with antique authority. She should be the
> visible moon:
> > impartial, loving, severe, wise."
> >
> > -- Robert Graves, The White Goddess
>
> Now the truth is out. He was really a Lovecraft character,
> or actually one of Pickman's models. He makes me proud to be
> able to draw a line between literate and truly uneducated.
>
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