For the TL;DR people: You might be aware that we came across this Roozemond, Rosamund or Pinklips, the White Goddess and Frisian Folkmother before in vanvoorthuijsen.googlepages/ where I quoted the following passage from Rosamond Arcadia and Tribe of Benjamin: msg#00001: On page 275 of Holy Blood Holy Grail we read about the Arcadian mother goddess. Is she a Frisian Folk Mother? Is it possble the worship of the White Goddess has its roots in the Frisian worship of the great earth goddess that was spread about the world by Jon the navigator, Minerva, and Rosamond? Rosamonds history seems incomplete. That she would reappear as the queen of the Cimri, the wife of Pharamond, and grandmother of Merovee, suggests her influence was a powerful one. The link between the Arcadians and the tribe of Benjamin, may make Rosamond an ancestor of Mary Magdalene. The name Sicambrian is derived of the untion of the Franks with the Cimri also called the Cambrians. In Arcadia the cult of the mother goddess not only prospered but survived longer then other parts of Greece. It became associated with the worship of Demeter, then of Diana, or Artemis. Known regionally as Arduina, Artemis became tutelary deity of the Ardennes; and it was from the Ardennes that the Sicambrian Franks first issued into what is now France. The totem of Artemis was the she-bear - Calisto, whose son was Arcas, the bear child and patron of Arcadia. The Great Goddess, Inanna, plays another part in early Biblical times. There is the story* of a Levite who was traveling through the territory of one of the twelve tribes of Israel, that of Benjamin. In his travels, however, he was allegedly assaulted, and his concubine ravished, by worshipers of Belial -- a variant of the Sumerian mother goddess. The Levite demanded vengeance for the atrocity, and at a council of the twelve tribes, the Benjamites were instructed to deliver the malefactors to justice. < XML=true PREFIX=O NAMESPACE=> The Benjamites refused to do so, and undertook, by force of arms, to protect the sons of Belial. One might suspect the alleged assault was a put-up job to chastise the goddess worshipers. But in either event, it turned out badly, as the result was a bitter and bloody war between the Benjamites and the remaining eleven tribes. In the course of hostilities, a curse was pronounced on any man who gave his daughter to a Benjamite. When the war was over, however, and the Benjamites virtually exterminated, the victorious Israelites repented of their malediction -- which, however, could not be retracted. See also: The White Goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- Apr 15, 2009 ... Graves described The White Goddess as a historical grammar of the language...: The White Goddess is a book-length essay upon the nature of poetic myth-making by author and poet Robert Graves. First published in 1948, based on earlier articles published in Wales, and revised, amended and enlarged in 1966, it represents an approach to the study of mythology from a decidedly creative and idiosyncratic perspective. It proposes the existence of a European deity, the White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death, inspired and represented by the phases of the moon, and who, Graves argues, lies behind the faces of the diverse goddesses of various European mythologies.Graves argues that true or pure poetry is inextricably linked with the ancient cult-ritual of his proposed White Goddess...
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