I'm working on an Australian poet who includes in a poem set on Easter
Monday, in Norfolk, the lines (addresssed to two children):
'You are young, young, cradling the sacred bowl/And knife of flint.'
I was wondering if anyone on the list could suggest where to find specific
reference to the 'sacred bowl/ And knife of flint', perhaps in connection
with solar ritual, sacrifice, pagan precursors of Easter, etc. The poet,
Francis Webb, was Catholic, but fond of comparative religion and popular
anthropology. I couldn't find anything in the one-volume edition of Frazer,
which he owned.
Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
Department of English
The University of Western Australia
Nedlands
WA 6907
Australia
Phone: 08-93802185
Fax: 08-93801030
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