神话
The White Goddess
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Robert Graves publishing house: Faber & Faber 1999 - 8
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.
Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus
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David C. A. Hillman publishing house: Ronin Publishing 2013 - 10
The first western god was both male and female. All of western religion springs from the veneration of a bi-gender entity, known to the ancient world as the Gynomorph. The worship of hermaphroditic gods like the Gynomorph surfaces in ancient pagan cults as well as early Christianity. The celebration of female gods with penises impacted the development of western culture. Veneration of the Gynomorph is the basis for modern western law courts. The founders of democracy worshipped similar female divinities who possessed penises. Ritual sodomy as a means of celebrating hermaphroditic gods directly promoted the birth of western democracy. In fact, ancient priestesses responsible for guiding the worship of hermaphroditic goddesses laid the very foundations for democracy, science and philosophy. The oldest western pharmaceuticals were sex drugs used in religious initiations in celebration of the Gynomorph. Snake venoms used in cultic sex rituals were immensely popular in both Greece and Rome. In addition, abortion-inducing drugs promoted the first scientific investigations. Classical civilization relied heavily upon the use of cannabis, opiates, and hallucinogens, which were mixed with sexual stimulants. Greco-Roman witches, who served a prominent hermaphroditic goddess, Hecate, were among the earliest western scientists and naturalists. Devotees of gynomorphic divinities were the first westerners to promote the religious practice known as necromancy. The first “baptists” were cross-dressing necromancers, who celebrated the Gynomorph. Eunuchs who served the same goddess were chemically castrated with scorpion venom. Ancient pre-Christian oracles declared that the messiah must be a hermaphrodite. Christianity tried to assimilate and employ the use of necromancy. The earliest Christians used designer sex drugs in their rituals in order to venerate a messiah given gynomorphic status by church bishops.
语言与神话
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[德] 恩斯特·卡西尔 translator: 于晓等 publishing house: 生活·读书·新知三联书店 1988 - 6
本书展示了卡西尔著名的“符号形式哲学”的成因和发展,力图把哲学引向语言神话思维,即扩大康德以来的以逻辑为根基的认识论,努力去理解语言、神话、宗教与艺术思维的功能,从而建设一种“系统的关于人类文化的哲学”,也就是“从理性的批判变成文化的批判”。 《语言与神话》预示了20世纪欧陆哲学的一个重要趋势,即语言的转向和对西方自柏拉图以降形而上学的哲学传统乃至文化传统的彻底批判,接踵而至的便是将这种趋势推向彻底和极端的存在主义、解构主义等在20世纪引起巨大震响的哲学与文化思潮。
The King of Elfland's Daughter
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Lord Dunsany publishing house: Ballantine Books 1999 - 7
The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after."
The Mists of Avalon
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Marion Zimmer Bradley publishing house: Del Rey 1987 - 4
A Literary Guild Featured Alternate Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....