![]() ![]() The golden idol meme above is likely just a false equilavence. Iconographically, we are not really sure what dagon looked like. The scholarship making this connection has come under some scrutiny. Oannes only became associated with Dagon in the 19th and 20th centuries. Or, at least, these are depictions of of the Babylonian Oannes (Ὡάννης) mentioned by Berossus in the 3rd century BC. The reason why the hair stands on end, the eyes water, the throat is constricted, the skins crawls and a shiver runs down the spine when one writes or reads a true poem is that a true poem is necessarily an invocation of the White Goddess, or Muse, the Mother of All Living, the ancient power of fright and lust–the female spider or the queen-bee whose embrace is death. The test of a poet’s vision, one might say, is the accuracy of his portrayal of the White Goddess and of the island over which she rules. In ghost stories she often figures as ‘The White Lady,’ and in ancient religions, from the British Isles to the Caucausus, as the ‘White Goddess.’ I cannot think of any true poet from Homer onwards who has not independently recorded his experience of her. The Goddess is a lovely, slender woman with a hooked nose, deathly pale face, lips red as rowan-berries, startlingly blue eyes, and long-fair hair she will suddenly transform herself into sow, mare, bitch, vixen, she-ass, weasel, serpent, owl, she-wolf, tigress, mermaid or loathsome hag. Raymondin finally accused his wife of being a "Faulse Serpente." Like when little Geoffrey burnt down some churches. So what if she's half serpent? She's a great mother, right? And she's beautiful - most of the time, anyway.īut then their kids start doing bad things. ![]() Raymondin tried to convince himself that nothing was wrong. Raymondin never told anybody about what he had seen. Melusine in her bath, spied upon by her husband Raymondin įrom the waist down, her fish tails or serpent tails or whatever are thrashing around in the water. Starbucks Melusine: She's just as beautiful as ever from the waist up, but. Curiously, Melusine was also loathe to attend Mass at their Cathedral.įinally, in a fit of jealousy, Raymondin peeks into Melusine's chambers and sees her bathing. She built a castle in Lusignan, where she became known as a gracious ruler.Īfter years of marriage and ten, mostly deformed, children, Raymondin began to grow weary of his promise. They built the cities of Poitou and Lusignan, where Melusine became the mother of the Lusignan line. Raymondin's kingdom grew quickly in power and stature. Giving little thought to the request, they were married at once. Stays in her room all day on Sundays - this lady's just ticking through the Commandments! Like her mother, Melusine accepts the marriage proposal conditionally: Raymondin is prohibited from seeing her in her chambers on the Sabbath. Wealth, power, accidental killings - what's not to like, right? Definitely marriage material, but wait. Raymondin quickly proposes marriage to the strange forest lady. ![]() She also promises him wealth and power, as though she were a genie granting wishes. Melusine counsels him on how to explain the accidental death of his uncle. He is distressed after having accidentally killed his uncle during a boar hunt. Into Melusine's forest comes Raymondin, who is either the Count of Anjou or the Duke of Aquitaine depending on the account. Just a weird Starbucks lady living alone in the forest (drinking coffee), so what? Melusine grows to womanhood, living alone in the forest.
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