Photo of St. Brigit's dog by Ms. Jen, Nov. 2004.

I love a good internet black hole on a Sunday afternoon. Start with an idea or site one wants to find (Today: info on the Ballad of the Lady of Walsingham) and end two hours later up at a great academic resource page (USC's Matrix Home) whilst looking for the historical St. Brigit, opposed to the mythic St. Brigit.

I am currently reading Robert Graves' The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, and his breakdown of the ancient Indo-European-Greco-Celtic-Biblical myths on the Goddess, The Muse, Poetry, and Myth is is engaging and a good read, if not more than a bit confusing for those of us who are not scholars of Greek and Indo-European gods. While Graves does not address, at least so far, his contemporary Jung's theories on myth - the concepts dovetail nicely.

I have been googling names of books and ballads that Graves' references to build his case, and thus found myself in the Martrix. Scruffy is chasing spiders along the top of the couch. Welcome to a June gloomy afternoon in Orange...