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Examines the language of ancient Celtic and Mediterranean poetic myths, probing the role of the all-encompassing female figure, the White Goddess, in the earliest forms of poetry.
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The white goddess: a historical grammar of poetic myth
1975, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Noonday Press
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0374504938 9780374504939
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Table of Contents
Poets and gleemen
The battle of the trees
Dog, roebuck and lapwing
The white goddess
Gwion's riddle
A visit to spiral castle
Gwion's riddle solved
Hercules on the lotus
Gwion's heresy
The tree-alphabet (1)
The tree-alphabet (2)
The song of Amergin
Palamedes and the cranes
The roebuck in the thicket
The seven pillars
The holy unspeakable name of god
The lion with the steady hand
The bull-footed god
The number of the beast
A conservation at Paphos
A.D. 43
The waters of the styx
The triple muse
Fabulous beasts
The single poetic theme
War in heaven
The return of the goddess
Postscript 1960.
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Includes index.
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