Status Updates From Eleusis: Archetypal Image o...

only one appendix left so like five pages but wow no Jungian bullshit literally the entire book, I am highly impressed.

"Such myths were connected with subtropical or, in the case of the date palm, still more southern fruit-bearing plants. A migration of myths between the Mediterranean and Indonesia by way of Arabia is conceivable in the pre-Islamic period." EXCUSE ME, WHAT?? WHAT THE FUCK ABOUT THAT SOUNDS "CONCEIVABLE" TO YOU???

The first part is very good, very low on Jungian bullshit, very groundedly rooted in the archeology done at Eleusis: the analysis of the fire marks, chimney etc as evidence that an enormous fire would be lit as Eleusis and that the meaning of this was the birth of the divine child (a young Dionysus) is very reasoned and enlightening to understand it as an underworld cult!