“ Our story begins with The Grail Castle, which is in serious trouble.
The Fisher King, The King of The Castle, has been wounded.
His wounds are so severe that he cannot live, yet he is incapable of dying. He groans; he cries out; he suffers constantly.
The whole land is in desolation, for a land mirrors the condition of its King, inwardly in a mythological dimension, as well as outwardly in The Physical World. The cattle do not reproduce; the crops won’t grow; knights are killed; children are orphaned; maidens weep; there is mourning everywhere — all because The Fisher King is wounded.
The notion that the welfare of A Kingdom depends upon the virility or power of its Ruler has been a common one, especially among primitive people. There are still Kingdoms in the primitive parts of The World where The King is killed when he can no longer produce any offspring. He is simply killed, ceremonially, sometimes slowly, sometimes horribly, because it is thought that The Kingdom will not prosper if The King is becoming weak.
The whole Grail Castle is in Serious Trouble because The Fisher King is wounded.
The Myth tells us that years before, early in his adolescence, when he was out wandering around in The Woods doing his Knight Errantry, The Fisher King came to A Camp.
All The People of The Camp were gone, but there was A Salmon roasting on a spit. He was hungry, there was The Salmon roasting over The Fire, and he took a bit of it to eat.
He found that The Salmon was very hot.
After Burning His Fingers on it he dropped The Salmon and put His Fingers into His Mouth to assuage The Burn.
In so doing he got a bit of The Salmon into His Mouth.
This is The Fisher King Wound and gives its name to The Ruler of much of Our Modern Psychology.
Modern suffering man is the heir to this psychological event which took place culturally some eight hundred years ago.”
Excerpt from:
He: Understanding Masculine Psychology
by Robert A. Johnson.
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