The Seventh Day of Christmas
At Eastertide or thereabouts, I posted a short piece on ‘Easter’ and related words, in which I mentioned (among other fussy and pedantic things) that the morning star is used in Old English poetry as a symbol of John the Baptist, heralding the sun (and Son) to come.
Of course (and this is a thing that some students of mythology can never get through their heads) every metaphor arises by the conscious decision of a human mind, and every decision could have gone some other way - and frequently does.
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Of course (and this is a thing that some students of mythology can never get through their heads) every metaphor arises by the conscious decision of a human mind, and every decision could have gone some other way - and frequently does.
Read and hear the rest at bondwine.com