Just when you think you've reached the bottom of the 'made-up Eostre bollocks' barrel, your foot plunges through the rotten wood & you discover a whole new level of daftness. Today I'm exploring a made-up quote from Beowulf.
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'Saxon poets apparently knew Eostre was the same Goddess as India's Great Mother Kali. Beowulf spoke of "Ganges' waters, whose flood waves ride down into an unknown sea near Eostre's far home."' (The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Barbara G Walker) Total bollocks.
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The only explanation I can think of is that someone read the lines 'Ic hine ne mihte, þa Metod nolde, ganges getwæman' in Beowulf and concluded that 'ganges' meant the river Ganges in India. I may cry.
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Needless to say, there is no mention of either Eostre or the river Ganges in Beowulf.
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I've wondered for years where (supposedly serious) author Nigel Pennick got the absurd idea of equating Eostre with Kali. Seems it all goes back to the Women's Enclyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.
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Hold the front page! Thanks to
@alisonw we have now tracked the supposed Beowulf quote to 'Mediaeval Myths' by Norma Lorre Goodrich, page 18, where it does indeed appear in full. Thing is, though, Goodrich was retelling Beowulf in her own words, not translating it.1 reply 4 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
So it's basically like quoting from Clan of the Cave Bear and thinking you're transcribing the actual words of Stone Age people.
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Expanded quote: 'I have looked eagerly upon the wealthy men of the East and gaped at their trading vessels proudly riding the waves of Italy's harbours. Men have I seen who dwell by the Ganges' waters, whose flood waves ride down into an unknown sea near Eostre's far home.'
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It's historical fiction, folks. Fiction quoted from in a Women's Encyclopedia as if it were a translation of the actual text. What a mess.
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