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From Ritual to Romance
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem The Waste
Land,Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and
mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it
dates back to a primitive vegetation cult and only later was shaped by Celtic and Christian lore.To
prove her thesis, Weston unites folkloric and Christian elements by using printed texts to prove
the parallels existing between each and every feature of the legend of the Holy Grail and the
recorded symbolism of the ancient mystery cults. Specifically, she finds the origin of the Grail
legend in a Gnostic text that served as a link between such cults and later Celtic and Christian
elaborations of the myth.With erudition and critical acumen, the author provides illuminating
insights into diverse aspects of the legend: the task of the hero the freeing of the waters medieval
and modern forms of nature ritual the symbols of the cult (cup, lance, sword, stone, etc.) the
symbolism of the fisher king the significance of such deities as Tammuz, Adonis, Mithra, and
Attis the meaning of the adventure of the Perilous Chapel in Grail romances and much
more.Awarded the Crawshay Prize in 1920, this scholarly yet highly readable study will interest
any student of the Arthurian legends, mythology, ancient religion, and Eliot's poetry.

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