The Mists of Avalon
Registered by laura0141 of Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on 4/16/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen.
Moraine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change.
Through the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morgause, austere Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting epic reveals a greater threat to the idyll than the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely to alienate the Old People, and drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever into the mists ...
Moraine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change.
Through the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morgause, austere Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting epic reveals a greater threat to the idyll than the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely to alienate the Old People, and drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever into the mists ...
Journal Entry 2 by laura0141 at Greenbank Parish Church, Clarkston in Clarkston, Scotland United Kingdom on Friday, April 16, 2004
Released on Friday, April 16, 2004 at Greenbank Parish Church, Clarkston in Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom.
Donated to BB Jumble Sale to take place in the Church Halls on 12th June 2004.
Donated to BB Jumble Sale to take place in the Church Halls on 12th June 2004.
