Thursday, 4 October 2007

Maltwood's Glastonbury Cosmogeography as Crystallising Experiences and Perceptions of Self and Cultural Transformation

Centripetal and Centrifugal Mandala:Opon Ifa Cosmogram and Maltwood's Glastonbury Cosmogeography



Maltwood interprets the Glastonbury landscape in terms of astrological and Arthurian imagery. Her work represents the landscape as delineating images that derive from these cultural forms.

Her interpretation of the Glastonbury landscape could be understood as correlating a number of elements in Western thought. It integrates conceptions of terrestrial and celestial correlation with ideas of the transformation of the self within the framework constituted by such a unified understanding of the universe. Her focus is on astrology whose adherents could be understood as relating the spatial and temporal limitations and coordinates of their terrestrial existence with the expansiveness represented by the celestial locations and cosmic motions of the celestial bodies, and, thereby, to a degree, at least, overcoming or transforming the finitude to which they are confined within the limitations of space and time.

Her ideas also integrate notions of transformation of self depicted in the Grail motif from Arthurian legend, where pre-Christian motifs such as the chalice of the Irish goddess Ceridwen are fused with the Christian motif of the chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper to create the image of the Grail, a transformative object which is capable of transforming a person who perceives or holds it into a more than human state of being.

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