A Neo-Pagan Note.

As a result of following up on something referenced in a DVD I’d been watching tonight, I discovered something I didn’t know about: the Triple Goddess archetype in history and myth. It led to a period of deep reflection, but little is yet fit to go into this blog since my mind is still too full of ill-formed notions. What I find interesting, however, is this:

1. I’ve mentioned here before that I’ve been fascinated by the three-woman motif all my life. I even made a family’s banshee a group of three women in one of my published stories. And in my one and only allegorical effort, three women escorted the protagonist to his death prior to rebirth. (My three women were sister, lover, priestess, which bears some correlation with the classical and psychological interpretation of maiden, mother, crone.) I wonder where it came from.

2. It was the view of Robert Graves, who made a study of the subject, that the triple goddess has always been, and continues to be, the muse of writers and poets. Might this be why I always felt that I was channeling the stories I wrote rather than composing them, and could it explain why the better of my ditties fell into my mind almost fully formed and required little thought or editing? I don’t know; I make no claims or assumptions. And there might be more on this subject at some future time, or then again there might not.