Sunday, 28 October 2007

Scorpio, associated with Arthur’s killer Mordred in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, is represented by a scorpion whose tail is poised above Arthur’s horse. Arthur is visualized in the sign of Sagittarius not as a centaur but in terms of a similar horse-man image, as a horseman being pulled from his horse by a monster outlined by the Rivers Brue and Old Rhyne. The horse’s rump encloses Pennard Hill while West Pennard is within its right leg. The warrior figure, evokes a constellation of narratives and images within the framework of Hermetic associations, such as the mounted warrior symbol of the Kabalistic sphere of Geburah, which stands for divine justice and Horus, the Egyptian deity who avenged his father Osiris’s murder by Set. The warrior figure, therefore, in relation to the constellation of Sagittarius which is conventionally perceived as aiming its arrows at the constellation of Scorpio, crystallize narratives and related ideas in connection with notions of divine justice and power in response to regicide and deicide, all associations that emerge in relation to the murder of King Arthur and, according to legend, his eventual return in the time of England’s greatest need (Janet and Colin Bord, 1977,pp.220-221; Regardie,2001,p.131;Fortune,1997,173).

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