Why is Mrs. Sowerby a priestess of Cybele? All I can think of regarding Cybele is the bit about castrating her priests, and that doesn't seem to have anything to do with Susan Sowerby at all.
There are all the children's fantasy series(es) (What's the proper plural of 'series'?) in which something that looks very much like Wicca is constructed as a foil to medieval Christianity. Monica Furlong's Wise Child series has twelfth- (I think) century witches who seem to worship a goddess. I suspect that Furlong is trying to write a children's Mists of Avalon, although I'm never sure how well she succeeds.
What about Lloyd Alexander's Orddu, Orwen and Orgoch?
(By the way, I wandered over here from thedarkisrising and I'm fascinated by your thoughts. May I friend you?)
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Date: 2007-06-28 08:04 pm (UTC)There are all the children's fantasy series(es) (What's the proper plural of 'series'?) in which something that looks very much like Wicca is constructed as a foil to medieval Christianity. Monica Furlong's Wise Child series has twelfth- (I think) century witches who seem to worship a goddess. I suspect that Furlong is trying to write a children's Mists of Avalon, although I'm never sure how well she succeeds.
What about Lloyd Alexander's Orddu, Orwen and Orgoch?
(By the way, I wandered over here from