Becca Tarnas on Jung, Tolkien, and the Imaginal
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The Parallels Between Tolkien's Creation Myth and Hildegard's Cosmogony
12th century German mystic Hildegard was an extraordinary visionary. She had these direct visions that she recorded in something very much like a red book as well with illustrations done by the nuns in her abbey. The parallels between her creation myth that she directly channeled and she spoke about how she channeled it and Tolkien's cosmogony are extraordinary, he says. In some ways even more parallels between those two and young seven sermons to the dead and Tolkien's music of the I norm. These creation myths pop up and multi past multi faceted form throughout history.
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