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266 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Anglo-Saxon Myths and the Origin of Fairies

The Symbolic World

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What Is the Meaning of the Symbolic Structure of Beings?

Beulf: I've been looking for years to find some hook at the intuition that I have about this notion of intermediary beings. The Anglo-Saxon Christians made very free use of the biblical pseudo-apigrapha and of the, or you know, what, you could call the apocrypha,. They had access to these very important early works of universal history. And so when they attempt to write their own works ofuniversal history, which is by the way, that's what the English Chronicle is. Beulf: Our history actually begins with the birth of Christ; we're going to start our history.

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