Jun 11, 2024
The Daughters of Albion, by William Blake
For those of you who don't know, this is from William Blake's Constructed Mythology, a cycle containing Blake's own personal religious ideas and concepts, presented in a bunch of prophetic books he wrote.
In Blake's Mythos, Albion is the name of the Primordial Man, who's fall and division creates the Four Zoas, beings who represent various psychological and social forces.
The names of the daughters (and Albion) are drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and John Milton's The History of Britain.
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