Re: [OpenHeroQuest] Camelot was a Yurt

From: jlord_at_zSczLXQYRG-9b231Br1Ko5Ue4oM8LytErz_I7SRdSM6EHp2DncM9YKdNGKWFj6VrApsEDQ
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:41:09 +0200 (CEST)


Stewart :

> Here are some examples of real-life God Learners in myth-matching
> action.

Beware ! Deconstructionist anthropologists at large, in amateur lit-crit frenzy mode !! Danger, Will Robinson !!!

Are these fools aware that the core literary sources of the Arthurian myths are

  1. Pre-Biblical, indeed probably pre-semitic/pre-indo-european
  2. Sociopsychological, and possibly genetically inherent to universal human culture

?

I mean, kings everywhere hope that even to their dying day they can thrust their 'swords' into 'lakes', where ladies' hands will grasp them, or blood will suddenly start gushing out. Surely one doesn't need a doctorate to understand the universal import and transcultural nature of the sword & lake story ?

Or can it really be that the Knights of the Round table were a sacred band of poststructuralist kangaroo-riding proto-Christian yoghurt fermenters from the Bible Belt ?

It is however quite significant of the level of 'thought' one can come to expect from American universities.

(Unless, of course, this is just another academic joke on the lines of Bacon being the "real" author of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, but these people do seem to have that air of po-faced seriousness to them ...)

> Such contemporary evidence obviously helps us better understand the
> nature
> of the God Learners' secret... which, for a start, is that they:
>
> (i) published in journals of absolutely no relevance to the issue at
> hand,
> and
> (ii) ignored any historiographical constraints whatsoever

... not to mention :

(iii) were complete morons

Julian            

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