From: StoneOx17@aol.com
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 08:24:08 EST
Subject: Re: (urth) Mother/Seawrack/Hyacinth

Andrew Bollen  writes

> To repeat my view: Much of SS/LS is the working out of Wolfe's view as
> outlined by James, versus the "White Goddess" kind of view of Graves and
> others, in which the Mother is the first principle, and the solar, male,
> creator-god is her upstart & usurping son. No, says Wolfe, but nevertheless,
> "Mother has her role" - she is not simply the demon of misogynist
> imagination.

> "Mother Earth" is pretty much the same as "Mother Ocean", in these kinds of 
> speculations.



This is a beautiful analysis, and I suspect that some of these views of Wolfe
on the Mother Goddess also apply to There are Doors -- in which our 
world is represented by the land and the goddess's by the sea !!! 
One of the names the goddess goes by in TAD is Lara Morgan.  I googled 
and found that the meaning of Morgan is "of the sea".  This relation of the
goddess with ocean is a recurring theme of Wolfe's.

-- Stone Ox



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