White Goddess

Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. New York Creative Age, 1948. 

Figure 1.2 Thoth (left) and the goddess Isis (right) use words of power to resurrect Osiris. Seen in the center, Osiris is wrapped like a mummy except for his arms, which hold the symbols of authority. On his head he wears the white crown of Upper Egypt. His skin is green to symbolize regeneration and his connection to the vegetable kingdom. (Robert M. Place)...

Entered their world. They took me to a rainforest where everything was magnificently alive and vibrant. Tree roots spiraled like snakes in the rich fecund Earth. The roots became snakes, everything became snakes, as I heard her say, I am Mama Quilla, who is a South American moon goddess. T saw the radiant full moon illuminating a tree where a beautiful white plumed bird roosted in the upper... 

Palladium was named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Pallas was the Greek goddess of wisdom (also known as Pallas Athena). William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) discovered palladium in a sample of ore from South America. Although palladium is used in jewelry (white gold contains palladium), its most important commercial use is as a catalyst in pollution-control devices. Its ability to absorb hydrogen may make it an important element for hydrogen fuel technology. 

Antimony was purified with iron or Mars, just as in the modem industrial process of extracting antimony from stibnite ore. When they saw the pure white vapor of antimony rise, the alchemists likened it to a white virgin queen, the moon goddess, and called it the Philosophers Mercury. This Mercury should not be confused with metallic Mercury, which is always poisonous if used alchemically. 

The Druidic tradition holds that Britain was Alba, Albania or the land of Albion. Albion was the tribe leader who led this fourth millennium BCE migration from the Aegean to Britain. Upon their arrival, the White Land of Albion became a special country of Apollo. Diodorus Siculus wrote that the White Goddess, Leto, was bom in the White Land where there is a grand shrine dedicated to her son Apollo... 

The purified white vapor of Mercury, Shakespeare s Portia, ultimately rises from the reaction. To the Alchemists this is Air, their term for Heat plus Humidity. It is the vapor of Antimony Trichloride that forms as a white metallic, volatile humidity or sweat, similar to saliva. Alchemists call the vapor of antimony the Mercury of the Wise , the white wife or White Goddess of the First Perfection. 

These enigmatic headpieces signaled that within lay a metaphor for one of the secret Rosicmcian mythological histories of ancient Britain when Britain was called Ortygie, the land of Leto the White Goddess. Leto was the mother of Apollo and Artemis (AA). William Blake s hymn Jerusalem described this Hyperborean island of God (see also Chapter 17) where the inhabitants were, in a sense, Apollo s priests and Apollo had a grand shrine and big circular temple ... 

Graves independent career risked all on the maintenance of reputation and he is highly respected for this. His non-fiction book The White Goddess and historical fiction novel King Jesus are prime examples of Graves straightforward semi-circular saw analysis. 

Gould, R F The History of Freemasonry 6 Vol, London Graves, Robert The White Goddess Faber Faber, 1961... 

Graves, R (1966) The White Goddess, American ed., Farrar, New York. 

Ammonium vanadate, a white crystalline powder, is precipitated from the alkaline water solution, and now in quantities large enough for further investigations of the goddess Vanadis metal... 

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