DISCOVERING THE GODDESS
A personal account of the new movement of the Goddess by one of
the most highly repested authors on religion and paganism in
Britain, Geoffrey Ashe.
EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK:
At Portland State University, Oregon, I give a summer course as
a visiting professor, on Goddess myth and history and its
implications. When I launched it in 1990 it was, to the best of my
knowledge, the only course of its kind at any such institution.
Possibly it still is. Looking back over the involvement that has
led me to it, I realize that this has been very long and rather
curious, and that it sheds light on one or two little-publicized
factors in the Goddess movement. Since the movement seems to have
to stay, I think the story worth telling. I have never told it in
print before.
It begins in the 1940s when I was an incipient writer, hardly
beyond the stage of doing the odd book-review. My first original
piece with any substance was an article on Robert Graves s
historical novels, which enthralled me, especially I, Claudius and
Claudius the God. My article was published in Tribune, then a
serious weekly of which Orwell had lately been literary editor.
The BBC made use of it. I sent a copy to Graves in Majorca. He
replied with an extraordinary letter, running back and forth and up
and down on one flimsy sheet of paper. The article, he said, was
the first study of his novels that anybody had written. Among
several abrupt questions and unconnected remarks, he mentioned an
impending new book of his, based, he told me, on a complicated
Welsh riddle. I could make nothing of his account of this. When it
appeared, it turned out to be The White Goddess. It was ahead of
its time. As is well known, Graves s usual publishers turned it
down. But the book came into its own in the Goddess revival, which
it helped to inspire.
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