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"This is the most important and challenging book on Arthurian and Grail tradition for many a long year. Wendy Berg is not afraid to ask fundamental questions or to challenge facile assumptions that have for long simply ignored or plastered over many contradictions in the stories - particularly relating to Arthur's queen and the origin and destiny of the Grail Hallows. Wendy has certainly changed the direction of my own thought and research into matters Arthurian and pointed me in the direction of the greatly ignored wealth of tradition that is held in the lore of Faery. The search for the true Grail and its custodians starts here!" - Gareth Knight.
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"The most important and challenging book on Arthurian and Grail tradition for many a long year." - Gareth Knight. The relationship between human and Faery lies at the very core of the Arthurian stories. In this radical re-evaluation of the Grail legends, Wendy Berg brings the ancient mythology of the British Isles into sharp focus centred around the marriage of King Arthur to the Faery Gwenevere and the origin and destiny of the Grail Hallows. Drawing upon numerous Arthurian sources and other related texts from the Book of Genesis to The Lord of the Rings, she explores the magical ritual underpinning of the legends and their connection to the ancient stellar deities of Britain. "When these stories are read with the additional level of understanding that they are for the most part a record of the lives and relationships of Faeries and humans working together about the Round Table, they immediately become not only a great deal more interesting, but also acquire a new and vivid relevance for the present day."
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Anyone who has ever been interested in either the Arthurian Tradition or Faery Lore should read this book. Not just read it, but ponder the concepts being explored by Wendy Berg's fresh new outlook. A long time esotericist, Wendy speaks from hands-on experience in the trenches of England's esoteric communities. Everything I have read that she has written has caused me to re-think many of the tired old cliches about Faery, and she challenges the reader to think over and perhaps embrace some new ideas (or ideals) that will shed much light into some of the dark crevices of the academic, not to mention anemic, Arthurian legend.
You've done England a great favor with this book...whether they know it or not.
You've done England a great favor with this book...whether they know it or not.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Wendy Berg has written a masterwork. Red Tree White Tree not only makes perfect sense but will leave you stunned by what it reveals. My internal dialogue while reading always began with 'Of course!' as Wendy pulls it all together. If you wonder about what we are as humans, how human and faery fit into the scheme of things, our human-faery history and what should be our future - in fact, about Life, the Universe and Everything - this book is essential reading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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An extraordinary and original re-evaluation of the Arthurian legends, including some of the older, more fragmentary texts which have never been translated into English, which throws a completely new light on the British Mysteries. The presence of faery characters intermingling with humans in these ancient legends is nothing new, but Wendy Berg's essential premise is that King Arthur's queen, Gwenevere (whose name means White Shadow) is herself of faery origin. As bold an assertion as this may be, when you look at the legends afresh from this perspective a whole lot of confusing and conflicting elements in the stories suddenly fall into place. Wendy interprets a number of Gwenevere's "abductions" as excursions into faery, and offers a compelling view of the nature and origin of the Grail Hallows. Her discussion of these ideas is detailed, thorough and fascinating; she draws upon a number of other texts for comparative study, from the earliest tales of the Mabinogion, the book of Genesis, and The Lord of the Rings, unearthing a largely forgotten heritage of the British Mystery Tradition connecting up to ancient stellar deities. Although the ideas presented in the book are bold, they are far from credulous - everything is intelligently and sensitively presented. Wendy Berg is a practising ritual magician with many years' experience working with the Arthurian archetypes - and it shows.
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