Angelique Ajing Ajamalleo says:

“The White Goddess,” at first, filled me with AWE. In the second READ I walked a tightrope without a NET underneath. The third & fourth READ gave me a definite sense that Robert Graves had written IT in a ‘fevered flaw’ via an Energy-deep within-coverting HIM…a thing the ancient Bards & Ollaves were surely wary of!! It seemed as though SOMETHING emerged wanting to put Prison Bars around the ‘White Goddess’ and Graves being an accomplished Scholar, Writer & Poet, plus, “a ladies Man” became IT’s channel. For him, SHE became a Sexual Siren, his obsession, his MUSE…a conduit for his own Illusions…like a Drug to sooth his ‘Fevered Brow!! Strangely, it seemed like a Prescripted GAME where during THIS milieu, the Triplet Team Goddess: Daughter-Mother-Crone arrived BEING promptly relegated to Bed, Kitchen & Kindercare…while his Favored FANCY…the Ivory skinned, red haired, light-eyed Cerridwen remained his Pirated Possession!!

To his CREDIT, however, HE saw & understood the ‘STEALING’ of her Gifts & Talents-her Knowledge of Letters, Numbers & Words-her Brilliant Intellect-her Logic & Creativity & her Prime Importance to Europe’s Emergence. Indeed, he shares the Power Plays that finally TOPPLED “The White Goddess” from her Throne & how the(Intrusion?) of an imported middle eastern GOD became her Assassin!! He writes HOW this Intrusion denigrated the Elder Euros from themselves…from their Gnostic Guts…from the machinery of their Bodies-always, before, accessing IT like a computer & understanding IT’s Robotics DOWN to their “figuring” FINGERS!! Yes, Graves appreciated this mastery-not turning UP his nose at the MAGIC of such animus abilities…very insightful for a learned Scholar & Poet. He also shares the myriad NAMES of Europe’s olden Gods & Goddesses…their battles & exploits…their Knowledge of themselves within the WEB, plus, their telepathic ties to Nature, Plants & TREES as Dendron Diviners. For all the ‘if’s, ands & buts’ in “The White Goddess” Robert Graves opened a DOOR to the everyday people about the Elder Euros with his poetic prowess. He emphased that when Europe lost it’s Goddess IT, also, lost a PART of whom & what THEY truly were…for THEY lost their Grimoad GOD, as well!!

In reality, “The White Goddess” had always lived a Parthenogenic PATH through her PSYCHE as a Wise Weaver of Words. She churned & charmed the CAULDRON of Creation from WITHIN her own Being & could “SEER” the Dimensions of Dream within SPACE & TIME. She did not Pander her Power, staying firm in her FEET, concise & conceptual in her understanding that the WEB could become a TRAP…tacky, tricky & tarnished…imprisoning ONE. She KNEW that Existence held Eternity beyond Life & Death & never became caught in Dramatic Dogma. She guided from the Brain of her right HAND & managed from the Gut of left HAND…always influencing ONE’s inner identity as an ISLAND, yet, a pivotal part of their ‘Simulating Surroundings’.

So.o.o, READ “The White Goddess” with an EVEN Eye as you muse within about the Immortal Grimoire Goddess. Consider what SHE knew about Fate, Fame & Fortune; that Destiny reflected ONES Deeds &, in the END, there is always a Beginning…&, maybe, Robert von Ranke Graves is finding his Grimoad GOD, within, apologizing to “The White Goddess” about such mistaken ideas about HER morality & having Cinematic Conversations about this ‘Tarnal’ Paradise(Webster’s-circular enclosure; a walled Garden) of Earth where ONE must walk the Thin Blue Line…”betwixt” Heaven & Hell!?

Rating: 2 / 5

Anonymous says:

It bothers me that so many self-proclaimed neo-pagans and witches rely on this book like a bible. After seeing it in biblio after biblio I finally picked up a used copy and was absolutely astounded by the utter lack of scholarship and actual history in this book. Mr. Graves was a poet and he did some wonderful work in his time, including translations of Roman history from the Latin. However, he was out of his element when he wrote this. A lot of pagans thump this book and all of the Joseph Campbell books like stereotypical Baptist Christians thump the Good News Bible and take it as Truth with a capital “T”, but they’re pretty misguided in doing that. What Graves has done here is write a humongous poetic prose with a pseudo history and his own very imaginative interpretations thereof. He was not an archaeologist, art historian, or anthropologist for that matter (I’ve heard him referred to as all of these things), he was a poet with a vivid imagination and he coined terms like “triple goddess”. If you want something more based in actual fact, read Merlin Stone and/or Riane Eisler and try not to trip over their biases. If you like all that is airy and fairy and highly doubtful, by all means buy this book.
Rating: 1 / 5

Roberto Quintas says:

this is the best book i readed. i made it by the portuguese translation, but it’s all there. for the studants of paganism, wicca, witchcraft and old religions, it is a must. the history and the links among centuries, folks and cultures, since the stone ages. in ours days, is an outrage to call someone a poet. the inspirations of the fillis, the ollaves, the bards and menestrels are hughest than we can imagine. the gwion riddling poesy are a surprising lifting up the veils! that book must be the first one, to who wants realize the pagan path.
Rating: 5 / 5