Back in Kate's room again. Hmmm...got out of Medieval Lit. That man is amazing! He specializes in exactly what I want to major in. Only I can't because they don't offer comparative religions here. :-( The past few days, we've had discussions on pagan symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, only not just that, because it's joined with early Christianity...exactly my interest. The great thing about this particular text and the particular teaching of it by Bastien is that he acknowledges that it is neither a Christian nor pagan text, solely, but rather (possibly, most probably considering the symbolic evidence) a conglomerate of the two.

What bugged me was that he mosied around actually saying what I was thinking: Perhaps the poet is making a point, not just invoking both, but saying that both are one and the same in the mind's of the people confronted with the Pagan-Christian religious transition? Now I can't get that pentagram out of my head, nor the color symbolism, nor the fact that he touched on the black goddesses without going into the modern-day worship and invocation that still exists of the surviving black madonnas throughout continental Europe (specifically France) and the vestiges of it that made their way into Britain.

All right, I'll stop here because I can go on forever about this. *Sigh* What the fuck happened on that midterm?!?! This is the best class EVER. Well, since the midterm and the clarification of the specification of pagan/Celtic reference, I've noticed he's been especially careful as to specify between one and the other. I'm happy. And now that he's going on about continental Europe and Isis and Diana are in the picture, I also feel much more at home. Who would have thought?