Which on the
inddenta] subjedi of
visual background
refemsnce,Ishou]d]ilnstota]<el;hJs opporlLrnQ,r to point out that From Ha! has, Lf ="1»f"=hL_';8' been man dmorougzly redeem vuually than it has in terms of context Eddle's backgrounds are, more often than not, pneclsely referenced shots of the areas mentioned m the hsxt Whale an Thu c1..r.tent chapter he has need largely on the genes of reference photos thntl conveyed to Mm ahner my own jmmt around London, Lm other instances he ha managed to unearth tunrungly obeauve visual nefemenceofh1sown.TheMa.rylebone workhouse
tenor dqncted Lm
Chapter One, forexnmple, iS not just m authentic workhouse inhenor of that period Lt ng the actual tenor of the Marylebone workhouse itself felt down to the
depressingly
unhelpful leena 'Goa Is Good, God Is Holy,God Is JusE,carved into the clussbeams that support the high, da.rkcdlitg,Sufficeittosagr tllatanqt adequate edpgendbc listing Edd:e'x someone in wav that I am hstmg Mme would be twice as long as das current rnonstrouity, which in itself looks set to end up tunoe as longas the work Bo which it rderl.
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On this page, Gull may;
nfezleneo to the various ways Lm wluch the mythological Figure of D1-ana may be oorssldered Hts statement that as a symbol she may be oonsldered to represent womanhood and the dreaming,
l]IlDDII$0lol.ls turd LS bam out by most wmmentiltors upon
symbologf, but m tins inetnme I shall Cate Dictionary Qr Symbols by Tom Chetwynd (Paladin Booius, 1982). The reference to Danna as being merely an ancient fairy-tale is self-explammtoxy, but his eeeeltio n that aha may perhaps aka have been a hnslsoneal figure, a "denied princess from lon8ago",needsmcne eaqalamutnon.
The luetonan Dlodorus Siculus, inBook1II,Chapter5',>'oflnemaeu1ve Lllsrwary of Htl9£ol"y (Loeb Classical LlbraJ'y], states that aocondmg to legend, the moon goddess, Selena, and the sun god, Helios, were once mortdpnnoeendprmmusofanuent
Atlantis IfAtla.nts were a folk-myth surrounding the culture of ancient Crete, as some wmmentabors have suggested, l;hen it may be Lhact the Sm Gd and his slsllBr the moon goddess wenejust what Gull suggests here, namely deified rulers One strand of evidence m support of tins theory 1: that the oddness, Artemis, yaanothername or the same lunar deity, is said to have been Cretan in on8m As ever, though, the verdict remains open
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Gu]]'l
reference
to Queen
Boedlcea hen is according to standard lusuoned reference, but deserves some exparnwnThe Mme, Boadnwa, is based upon a m 1stranscrip|:ion of the works of Tacitus, made by Tudor hJsl1DriaJ1s.
The 11am¢,a11e8edly, shouldbe more pluperly pronounced 'Boudlca' or 'Boudlgn' Strangely rough_ this 1: -»==="g81v ti! Celtlc eqluvalent of the m am English name, Victoria,
with both names meaning simply 'vuztorious ons' This information comes from Folk Heroes ofBrituin bY Charles Knightly [Th1 nnes 8: Hudson, 1984) K , wtuy abp Vu an account of the reasoning b3md mppceing Boudioa's 1J'1be, the Iceni, no be rnatnlinenl in dmemr, of Ume rape of her daughters, and of Mr subsequentvengeance-
clverzed reprisals upon the Roman perpetrators. S rnedbya
n»=isl=b@w1ns ma
, the Trlnova.nhls, Boudleds Item pound down upon the Roman eMM&1c; Nr, menacing
time mI1.eb1tant5, burling the town M the ground and d¢=trv.vi1s the Rornnn 9thLegionwho arrivadfmrn Imearhgrlemolntoo lane to smpthe uprising. Colchester, 1 ncldentally, was later no be the birthplace of William Gull
After
Colchester, Boudiods
army wept down upon London. At dleir qlpluach, the Roman garrison wisely wuahdrew, allowing the Item Mdou0Londonwhar:tl1eyhad done 'no Colchester, only on n much granderscals WhemnLondon next, Met a t1-up to the London Museum a.ndhavealookatthestl'lpod puree of fuck that represents a geological section of the ground bene.nd1 the city Ruling throujl it is n stripe of blackness n half-inch duck, this beingthererultofBoud:c¢'sbuming rage. In ma' wqnenenoe, when men $911 emu, they now at worst leave a dent in the side of the fudge. Heed and bake note
The orgy of dest:ructl.on vlibed upon London was Boudil:a's
undoing Had she followed the retreating Roman garrison she may have wiped them out before they were able to joi.n up unto the Fourteenth and Twentieth begmorss who were at the time positioned far away in Wales As it was, however, the Romans were able ho regroup and return to London with renewed forces. A suatamod auxprnse attack such as Boud¢a's revolt light actually have driven the Romans from Briton, at least for a while, but very few arnnescould wand agpmst the Roman war machine once it was properly prepared for battle The Romans recldmed London,
with Lha Encl battle 11110115 place on the spot now called Battle Badge, _lust behind Kung; Clog: Station It seems that Boudloa and her daughter hook poison when it became wrtaill that the1.r forces would love die banttla. Aocolmts of what happened after this pool; vary: the moot popular legend is that the clamor queen is ounwontbr burned beneathplatform lo a K.zng's Clogs Station Another demon
mainnnms that :ha was buried at a spot on Pnmroae Hill, one of the London mounds most sacred to the Dnuds, who were BoLld1ca's ashes.
Other vananta suggest that the Quaens's body was taken away from Roman-occupled London by faithful followers Md burred at a8;ot called Deadquenesmove, near vlllalge of Sllversbom> Northampton fire, dlisaleabemgthe Iutremfilgeof the anc:.ent Britons that the Roman mvaslon had dwplnced.
Other aourcas consLLl1Jed upon Boad1¢:ajBoudlca Include Aurora by Jenifer Westwood [Paladln Books, 1987), Landon by Christopher Hilbert (lnllglnans, Green 8: Co Ltd 1969); ad TheAquanan Gide to Legendary London, opined by John Manltews 8: Chesca Potter (Aquamn Pleas, 1990) amongst others, mcludmga helplial pamphlet by Chesca Potter entitled Mysterious Kmgis Crwoss (Golden Dawn, 1987).
Battle Badge Road is a dismal back street bounded by a large gasometer on one side and n vow of Victorian slum housman the other.
The 1egend'6o People hw Hara' ha boon panned on the aide off endterrace house by some embmtbeved lender: deposited tzherem by the Department al' Social Security Off ho one side Mn: .n winnow and dervelid dleywav name Clarence Passage, the Windows now blind and smashed, with weeds thrusting up between die paving stones. Gu11's eommenizary upon the matriwntral ongms of human society are n paraphraslllg of the notions put forward by Robert Graves M his book The Musa Goddess, iN 'l"l110h he suggests that hanan soclety was mother-cenNerled urltll males finally Figured out their role m procreat1on, at which point some form of
pnnnarchfd rvevoluutlon took place While Glavss' informedqaeculntions prone a basis l'Qr the theammg of most contemporary feminist hutonans and commentators upon women? mysteries, Lt 1.9 worth poring out that they an Jud thzut: informed spoculatnorn This 1: mt to saythnttheyazeuntrueq amply that Um me unproven.
For further information and
speculation upon the l.uurping of female power by men, the reader is referred to Beyond Power': On Melt, Woman 8 Morals by lW=ri]yl:1 French [Jonathan Cape Ltd , 1985) French providesan e:0:el1en1t commentary upon the technique of subjugating womanhood by
first demoing and destlowing the symlxnls of womanhood, namely the mother goddesses that formed Ume b8sls for our earnest religions, at leestnccordm8to Robert Gravis and has [partly inltultivws) sources.
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G.Lll's amoral n Albion Dive would seam a good aplaoe as any to mentor the bash for the musings upon the all.gl1Jnuentl oflandon that make Up so much of the substance of this chapter. In his ]engLhy and t_fyp 1ca1l5r dense nanatlve poem Loa' Heat (Goldnnuk, Up]>i.nghl.nn, 1987), lam Sinclair bangs the 1eader's attantuon to the clwnmches of Nlcholas Hawksmoor and that aeemmg ahgnnnents, both with each other and wldu other London monuments of note and Important As part of the narrative, Sinclair includes a map Qr the 8 Gveut Churches The £13168 of influence, the mullstble pods qfforce active m this did, which I believe wm drawn by a friend of S 1nclaJr's, the remarkable poet and sculptor Brian Catljng Tels map, while suggestive ofmnany shapes, do not provide the shape that I was looking for until a couple of further points wen added
