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Philosophy of the Pagan
Hymn To My Mother {vol. 1 The Flagstaff Quartet}
Author: David Seals
Publisher: Northern Arizona University Press
Category: Biography Level: Advanced
Mary Kathleen O'Brien Seals died June 15, 2001, after 76 incredible years as a world-traveler, R.N., mother of 7 kids. The book begins with her oldest son David offering the eulogy at her funeral in Denver, describing the most important event of her life, in his view - the death of Kay's oldest daughter Kathy in 1956, in Japan, 4 years old.
"Demeter lost her daughter too, stolen by death, and searched the world in grief for her all her life. She was the Moon. Like my Mother, she only found Persephone upon the inexplicable resurrection that has come upon her in death; and it is only now that she can tell me what to say. It is only now that she has shown me the way to Homer's Hymn to Demeter, and the ineffable mysteries of eternal life that the followers of the goddess practiced for thousands of years at Eleusis in Greece, where Demeter showed them how to rise from the dead."
The book goes on with one amazing adventure after another with the beautiful, black-haired Irish gal from Flagstaff, Arizona - to Japan where her husband was an Air Force pilot, to Libya for 3 years at another USAF Base, all over Europe and America. Throughout, Homer's elegant hymn is quoted as a parallel description of the evocative power of Woman, both among the classical Ancients and modern goddesses like Kay Seals.
Table of Contents;
a) OVERTURE - Waltzing Matilda
(Introduction of the Theme of Eternal Woman, and
brief summary of her 1955-56 trip to Japan as
Hades, abducting 4-year old Kathy/Persephone;
30 pages)
b) ARIZONA
(1950s visits to her hometown of Flagstaff, & Family:
90 pages)
c) MARS
I.
II.
III.
(More of Kay's life, and Demeter's, according to detailed mythological history and poetic grammar, especially her marriage to Jack Seals, the Air Force Colonel as Mars the warrior; 90 pages)
d) MIDWAY
(the 1955 odyssey continues with the Flight from Hawai'i to Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean; 150 pages)
Hymn To My Mother is the 1st Volume of THE FLAGSTAFF QUARTET, which follows the high mythical Epic and Tragedy of Kay's family: 1) Hymn To My Mother, 2) Abduction at Roswell, 3) Poems of the Pagan Revolution {featured separately here on Witchvox}, and 4) The Creation Myth {also on the list of books at Witchvox}. All 4 Volumes are reviewed at Apex Reviews and are on Amazon and Utube.
Author's Notes: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PAGAN is an encyclopedic appendix of 750+ pages, single-spaced, typed, formerly titled 'The Hymnodies of Thoth: Slayer of Argus, Healer of Death'.
Available only from the author, for copy and mailing costs, personalized and signed.
Where To Buy: Directly from the Author, in box ms, 343 pp. single-spaced typed, signed by author; mail $40 to 3218 N. Patterson Bl., Flagstaff, Arizona 86004
dvdseals@yahoo.com
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