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A deep exploration of the regenerative and magical secrets of sacred masculinity hidden in familiar myths both ancient and modern
• Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables
• Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell's hero's journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge
Long before the sword-wielding heroes of legend readily cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities, and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, animal-headed kings, mischievous lovers, trickster harpists, and vegetal magicians with flowering wands. As eco-feminist scholar Sophie Strand discovered, these wilder, more magical modes of the masculine have always been hidden in plain sight.
Sharing the culmination of eight years of research into myth, folklore, and the history of religion, Strand leads us back into the forgotten landscapes and hidden secrets of familiar myths, revealing the beautiful range of the divine masculine, including expressions of male friendship, male intimacy, and male creative collaboration. In discussing Dionysus and Osiris, Strand encourages us to think like an ecosystem instead of like an individual. She connects dying, vegetal gods to the virtuous cycle of composting and decay, highlighting the ways in which mushrooms can restore soil and heal polluted landscapes. Exploring esoteric Christianity, the author celebrates the Gnostic Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas, imagining the ecology that the Rabbi Yeshua would have actually been referencing in his nature-focused parables. Strand frees Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell's hero's journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge.
Strand reseeds our minds with new visions of male identity and shows how each of us, regardless of gender, can develop a matured ecological empathy and witness a blossoming of sacred masculine powers that are soft, curious, connective, and celebratory.
Contents
Introduction
The Sword or the Wand
PART 1
Back to the Roots
1 Sky, Storm, and Spore
Where Do Gods Come From?
2 The Hanged Man Is the Rooted One
Thinking from the Feet
3 Between Naming and the Unknown
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
4 The Minotaur Dances the Masculine Back into the Milky Way
Myths Need to Move
5 The Moon Belongs to Everyone
Lunar Medicine for the Masculine
6 Becoming a Home
The Empress Card Embraces the Masculine
7 Dionysus
Girl-Faced God of the Swarm, the Hive, the Vine, and the Emergent Mind
8 Merlin Makes Kin to Make Kingdoms
A Multiplicity of Minds and Myths
9 Joseph, Secret Vegetalista of Genesis
Plants Use Men to Dream
10 Actaeon Is the King of the Beasts
From Curse to Crown
11 A New Myth for Narcissus
Seeing Ourselves in the Ecosystem
12 Everyone Is Orpheus
Singing for Other Species
13 Dionysus as Liber
The Vine Is the Tool of the Oppressed
14 Rewilding the Beloved
Dionysus Offers New Modes of Romance
15 Grow Back Your Horns
The Devil Card Is Dionysus
PART II
Healing the Wound
16 Let Your Wings Dry
Giving the Star Card to the Masculine
17 Tristan and Transformation
Escaping the Trauma of the Hero's Journey
18 Boy David, Wild David, King David
The Land-Based Origin of Biblical Kingship
19 Coppice the Hero's Journey
Creating Narrative Ecosystems
20 Merlin and Vortigern
Magical Boyhood Topples Patriarchy
21 Parzifal and the Fisher King
The Grail Overflows with Stories
22 Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping World
The Prince Offers the Masculine a New Quest
23 Melt the Sacred Masculine and the Divine Feminine into Divine Animacy
The Sacred Overflows the Human
24 Resurrect the Bridegroom
The Song of Songs and Ecology as Courtship
25 Osiris
The Original Green Man
26 What's the Matter?
A Mycelial Interpretation of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
27 Knock upon Yourself
The High Priestess Wakes Up the Masculine
28 The Kingdom of Astonishment
Gnostic Jesus and the Transformative Power of Awe
29 Healing the Healer
Dionysus Rewilds Jesus
30 Making Amends to Attis and Adonis
No Gods Were Killed in the Making of This Myth
31 The Joyful Rescue
Tolkien's Eucatastrophe and the Anthropocene
32 Sharing the Meal
Tom Bombadil Offers the Masculine Safe Haven
33 The Gardeners and the Seeds
Healing the Easter Wound
Conclusion
A Cure for Narrative Dysbiosis
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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