160 - Richard Rohlin - A Universal History
The Symbolic World
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The Universal Story of King Arthur and Byzantium
The island of Britain is believed to have been inhabited by a giant clan. Albion in the sense were descended from essentially this Greek princess. She's betrayed by her sisters who want to kill their husbands, so that they can rule over their kingdoms without being subservient to men. That's going to be important later when we talk about Arthur. And I just want to point out that this version of the story survives all the way into a 14th century text. It was never totally lost, especially out here on what we could call like sort of the edges of Roman civilization,. where contact with paganism remained ongoing.
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