ECOLOGY AND MYTHOLOGY  [1]

THE GREEN WILL RETURN

Donald A. MacKenzie:

  “The Green Nile was made green with malachite from the god-pools of green malachite in the celestial regions. The Green Osiris of the Green Nile was, as I hold, the personification of malachite. The celestial malachite in the Green Nile made vegetation green. It also made the dead "grow green again." [2]

 In  The Road [John Hillcoat [2009]:

 “The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. “Because of falling ash, the setting is very cold and dark and the land is devoid of living vegetation.” [3]

 In the film Avatar, [[4]] one of the characters says words to the effect that there is no more ‘green’ on the earth, and that the ‘Mother’ is dead. 

In  WALL·E  [[5]], the Earth is devasted with junk and humans have abandoned the planet: 

 “One day, WALL-E discovers a seedling plant growing in the soil among the trash and returns it to his home.” 

 Joseph Campbell writes:

 “In Christian Europe, already in the twelfth century, beliefs no longer universally held were universally enforced. The result was a dissociation of professed from actual existence and that consequent spiritual disaster which, in the image of the Grail legend, is symbolized in the Waste Land theme: a landscape of spiritual death, a world waiting, waiting – “Waiting for Godot!” [[6]]– for the Desired Knight, who would restore its integrity to life, and let stream again from infinite depths the lost, forgotten, living waters of the inexhaustible source.” [7]

 This piece by Campbell is very pertinent. 

 Material on the Grail is of industrial proportions on the Internet – and the bibliographical material alone is enough to cause brain seizure. I have been collecting material over the years – there will be no harm in re-stating one of the salient points of the mythological cluster. .

 “ . . . the surrounded country is devastated. . . ‘

 In Emma Jung’s  book on the Grail, she writes:

 “As the colour of vegetation and, in a wider sense, of life, green is obviously in harmony with the nature of the Grail.”[8]

Thomas Mann:

“In The Magic Mountain there is a great deal said of an alchemistic, hermetic pedagogy, of transubstantiation. And I, myself a guileless fool, was guided by a mysterious tradition, for it is those very words that are used in connection with the mysteries of the Grail. Not for nothing do Freemasonry and its rites play a role in The Magic Mountain, for Freemasonry is the direct descendant of initiatory rites. In a word, the magic mountain is a variant of the shrine of the initiatory rites, a place of adventurous investigation into the mystery of life. "   [9]

“As if a subterranean watercourse had been tapped at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries, a great number of different adaptations of the same material was produced in quick succession, not only in French, but in German, English, Welsh, Spanish and the northern languages.” p.10

 1175 – 1225 –

 The stream refers to THE UNDERGROUND STREAM . . .

 there will be no harm in re-stating one of the salient points of the mythological cluster . .

 “ . . . the surrounded country is devastated. . . ‘

 Ronald Emmerich – the master of disaster movies – 2012 – these apocalyptic visions have been written large on the contemporary cinema . .

 IN GRAIL THE DEVISTATION AND THE GREEN WILL RETURN

 “As the colour of vegetation and, in a wider sense, of life, green is obviously in harmony with the nature of the Grail.” p.165

 See green in Yvain – and my article achmardi . . .

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