It claims that the reason The Red Book of Hergest is so hard to understand is that it is a coded transmission of heresy, and that the pagan Welsh who wrote "The Battle of the Trees" actually worshipped the Old Testament God, who is in fact the same as the Thracian barley patron Dionysus Sabazius.
This work claims that only poems written out of true love for real women count as "true poetry" and notes the connection between writing and magic by claiming that medieval Irish poets knew 150 different ciphers. It claims that the oldest archetypes of male mythical figures are the "star-son" and "wise serpent" exemplified as Hercules and Erechtheus. It claims that the reason The Red Book of Hergest is so hard to understand is that it is a coded transmission of heresy, and that the pagan Welsh who wrote "The Battle of the Trees" actually worshipped the Old Testament God, who is in fact the same as the Thracian barley patron Dionysus Sabazius. Claiming that seasonality and nature-worship are characteristic of matriarchal religions, which were practiced by moon-worshipping Neolithic patrons, it identifies the source of poetry as the title archetype of a deity. For 10 points, name this work of bad anthropology by Robert Graves.
This work claims that only poems written out of true love for real women count as "true poetry" and notes the connection between writing and magic by claiming that medieval Irish poets knew 150 different ciphers.
The {White Goddess}