Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Dhruva
The rejected child whose unwavering search is expressed through the pole star.
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Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The rejected child whose unwavering search is expressed through the pole star.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The strong place in Snowdon where the captured dragons are hidden.
Goethe’s Faust, Part One
The dissatisfied scholar whose search for experience binds him to Mephistopheles.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
The labourer who tends the Church’s garden through learning and determined service.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The princess whose marriage contest brings the hidden Pandavas back into public life.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The weapons teacher whose care for royal pupils sits beside a harsh exclusion.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The Kaurava prince who champions Karna while seeking to weaken the Pandavas.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
The planted garden whose abundance becomes the setting for human intimacy and concealed danger.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The excluded student who teaches himself before an image of Drona.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The maiden of Maxen’s dream, associated in the tale with castles and roads through Britain.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A runaway child welcomed into an underground fairy country until he steals a golden ball.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The unfortunate heir whose empty weir yields Taliesin instead of a catch of fish.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The familiar kingdom emptied by thunder and mist in Manawyddan’s tale.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The young woman welcomed into Arthur’s court after Geraint’s victory.
William Blake’s illuminated mythology in Europe: A Prophecy
An immense interval of dreaming ends when a trumpet sounds, and Enitharmon awakens without knowing that she has slept.
Dante, Inferno
The rebellious giant whose immense strength is confined by a repeated chain.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
The companion stream that restores the memory of good.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
The garden’s human companion and host, whom Raphael greets as mother of mankind.
Historical talisman traditions
The belief that a hostile or envious glance can harm another being.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The destructive brother whose final act breaks the cauldron of renovation.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A fairy gift whose value or continued arrival depends on secrecy.
Celtic fairy traditions
Routes whose passage humans are warned not to obstruct.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Circles in the grass remembered as dance grounds with a perilous boundary.
Celtic fairy traditions
The belief that disappearance, illness, or death can conceal removal to Fairyland.