tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post4528108887118266929..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: DINING AT THE GOBLIN'S MARKETUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-85080008347850157602015-06-28T10:02:54.146+01:002015-06-28T10:02:54.146+01:00This theme and its parallel or variation in ufolog...This theme and its parallel or variation in ufology has fascinated me for years, so glad to see a book like this, and appreciate the review and Rogerson's opinions in this regard. Just how fundamental this mythic and folkloric trope is, is evidenced by the myth of Persephone and how she is tricked by Hades into eating pomegranate seeds. Such trickery obliged her to spend a large part of each year - winter - in the underworld in Hades's abode. One thinks of the wafer/sacramental bread partaken in the Eucharist ceremony/Communion in many Churches, and its symbolism of the resurrected Christ. As such this mythic theme appears to be almost primal. There are also accounts in the Men in Black literature of such visitants requesting or taking food and drink, or sharing such things. Naturally it is there in the literature on shamanism and related folklore/mythology. <br /><br />One further aspect to this communion (if we can call it that), is that it may symbolize the exchange between the conscious and mundane on the one hand and the subconscious, even a collective unconsciousness, even a sacred realm of divinely infused wisdom, on the other. As such it is not so much an escape into "the fantasy world of fairyland", but a partaking of real or potential wisdom, that is transcendent and eternal; a world symbolized by fairyland, by a shamanic underworld. Such sacred or supernatural knowledge - symbolized by this exchange - is then brought back to the temporal mundane realm, to aid oneself and one's fellow humanity. <br /><br />Admittedly such an interpretation has a more mystical bent to it. So be it!Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531198239870181089noreply@blogger.com