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  2. Wasteland (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Wasteland is a Celtic motif that ties the barrenness of a land with a curse that must be lifted by a hero. It occurs in Irish mythology and French Grail romances, and hints of it may be found in the Welsh Mabinogion. An example from Irish literature occurs in the Echtrae Airt meic Cuinn (Echtra, or adventure in the Otherworld, of Art mac ...

  3. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...

  4. Fisher King - Wikipedia

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    Perceval arrives at the Grail Castle to be greeted by the Fisher King in an illustration for a 1330 manuscript of Perceval, the Story of the Grail.. The Fisher King (French: Roi Pêcheur; Welsh: Brenin Pysgotwir; Cornish: Pyscador Myghtern; Breton: Roue ar Peskataer) is a figure in Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail.

  5. Sibyl - Wikipedia

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    T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is prefaced by a quote from Petronius' Satyricon (1st century AD) The passage translates roughly as "I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the boys said to her 'Sibyl, what do you want?' that one replied 'I want to die'. The SIBYLS beamline at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, CA.

  6. Philomela - Wikipedia

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    The Philomela myth is perpetuated largely through its appearance as a powerful device in poetry. In the 20th century, American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) directly referenced the myth in his most famous poem, The Waste Land (1922), where he describes,

  7. Tiresias - Wikipedia

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    Tiresias is featured in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (Section III, The Fire Sermon) and in a note Eliot states that Tiresias is "the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest." [25] Tiresias appears in Three Cantos III (1917) and cantos I and 47 in the long poem The Cantos by Ezra Pound. [26] [27]

  8. 54 People Share What’s A Myth That Many Foreigners ... - AOL

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    Quite a few people contributed to the thread, so if you want to see if something you believed about a certain country is but a myth, scroll down to find the netizens’ comments on the list below. #1

  9. Cumaean Sibyl - Wikipedia

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    Cumaean Sibyl by Andrea del Castagno Cumaean Sibyl on a coin of 43 BC, shown riding in a biga drawn by lions with a patera in her hand.. The Cumaean Sibyl (Latin: Sibylla Cumana) was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy.