Saturday 3 April 2010

Planted Seeded

Refers specifically to Jesus' body placed in the garden tomb after his death recorded in Luke 23:50-56

But also informing these words are the vegetation cults recorded in The Golden Bough by James Frazer and used in The Waste Land by T S Eliot. Eliot writes in his infamous Notes on The Waste Land,

"To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general, one which has influenced our generation profoundly; I mean The Golden Bough; I have used especially the two volumes Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Anyone who is acquainted with these works will immediately recognize in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies."

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