Death-in-life and Life-in-death: "Cuchulain Comforted" and "News for the Delphic Oracle" |
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... Aoife , Cuchulain's old love , ceremonially bind him with her ' veil ' . She appears , who was once beautiful , as bride and mother of his son , as the hag , the sinister aspect of the Triple Goddess in her office of the enshrouder of ...
... Aoife , Cuchulain's old love , ceremonially bind him with her ' veil ' . She appears , who was once beautiful , as bride and mother of his son , as the hag , the sinister aspect of the Triple Goddess in her office of the enshrouder of ...
Page 35
... AOIFE But I am an old woman now , and that Your strength may not start up when the time comes I wind my veil about this ancient stone And fasten you to it . Cuchulain's reply is even more suggestive of Vala's ' veil ' of nature , whose ...
... AOIFE But I am an old woman now , and that Your strength may not start up when the time comes I wind my veil about this ancient stone And fasten you to it . Cuchulain's reply is even more suggestive of Vala's ' veil ' of nature , whose ...
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... Aoife's veil around the dying hero , its unwinding by the Blind Man ( ' . . . some womanish stuff ' ) while on one level symbolic , takes an added force of tragic meaning from the death of so great an artist of the dance as Yeats and ...
... Aoife's veil around the dying hero , its unwinding by the Blind Man ( ' . . . some womanish stuff ' ) while on one level symbolic , takes an added force of tragic meaning from the death of so great an artist of the dance as Yeats and ...
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Achilles AOIFE Arland Ussher beautiful bird-form birds birth Blessed Virgin Mary blind choir of love cradle Cuchulain Comforted dancer dead Death of Cuchulain DEATH-IN-LIFE AND LIFE-IN-DEATH Delphic Oracle descent described discarnate distaff divine Dorothy Wellesley dream Dublin EITHNE Enion Ennead essay on Swedenborg eternal Evans-Wentz fairy faith Fates filmy Woof Gates of Paradise goddess golden race Gordon Craig head Heracles Hercules hero illustration immortality incarnation Intolerable music Ireland Irish ISBN Kathleen Raine Lantern Theatre Liam Miller lives Marriage of Thetis memories Morrigu mortal body mysterious myth needle's eye needles Nicholas Poussin Noh plays Nymphs Odysseus Pan's cavern Peleus philosopher Plate Plato Plotinus poem poet Poetry Porphyry's De Antro Poussin quoted rebirth ruling love shades Shadowy Waters shape shroud sighed sing Socrates Soul in Judgment soul's history spirits spiritualist symbol Tarot Tarot Key tells Tharmas theme Thetis thought thread Vala veil Vision W. B. Yeats weaving wrote Yeats's