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Ancient Greek comedy
Antithesis
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Author_Jessie L. Weston
Bayreuth Festival
Buddhism
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Ceremony
Christianity
Christianity and Paganism
Clement of Alexandria
Criticism
Cybele
Deity
Dolorous Stroke
Drama
Eleusinian Mysteries
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Exegesis
Explanation
Fertility
Fisher King
Gilbert Murray
Greco-Roman mysteries
Heresy
Illustration
Indication (medicine)
Jessie Weston
Jews
Joseph of Arimathea
Korybantes
Literary criticism
Literature
Maruts
Medieval literature
Mithra
Mithraism
Morris dance
Mourning
Muharram
Naassenes
Neoplatonism
Otherworld
Parzival
Passion Play
Peredur
Perlesvaus
Philosopher
Physician
Poetry
Procession
Prose
Refutation of All Heresies
Reincarnation
Religion
Result
Rigveda
Rite
Robert de Boron
Salii
Sect
Suggestion
Tammuz (deity)
Tammuz (Hebrew month)
Taurobolium
The Golden Bough
The Other Hand
The Various
Tuatha De Danann
V.
Vegetable
Vegetation deity
Worship
Product details
- ISBN 9780691021072
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 09 May 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewelled cup. She maintains that all versions defy uniform applications of Celtic and Christian interpretations, and explores the legend's Gnostic roots. Drawing from J. G. Frazer, who studied ancient nature cults that associated the physical condition of the king with the productivity of the land, Weston considers how the legend of the Grail related to fertility rites--with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. She traces its origins to a Gnostic text that served as a link between ancient vegetation cults and the Celts and Christians who embellished the story. Conceiving of the Grail saga as a literary outgrowth of ancient ritual, she seeks a Gnostic Christian interpretation that unites the quest for fertility with the striving for mystical oneness with God.
Jessie L. Weston (1850-1928) wrote fourteen books, most of them on Arthurian legend.
