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	"Real" Men in Romance Fiction
		Romance heroes can be bigger-than-life, working in dangerous professions, plunging headlong into action, or they can be ordinary guys who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and must rise to meet the challenges he faces, not the least of which is falling in love.
		This "holding back" on the woman's part is the whole point behind the courtship ritual, and romance novels are, by and large, focused on that emotionally charged courtship phase of a relationship.
		Sexual tension in a romance is all about the push-pull of the wanting and the resistance, the "no-maybe-yes" of courtship, and the excitement and the fear of emotional intimacy.
	www.geocities.com /dramatica1/RealMeninRomanceFiction.html (2652 words)

	The Waste Land
		The Grail was popularly thought to be the cup that Christ drank from at the Last Supper.Joseph of Arimithea reportedly brought the cup to England, and a descendent of his becomes the wounded king of the Wasteland in the Grail legends.
		The common elements in fertility rituals are 1) a dying god or king associated with winter; 2) sexual symbols, male and female.
		Weston argues that the dish is a symbol of the female reproductive organ; the spear is a symbol of the male phallus; the wounded king is a symbolic or a dramatic stand-in for the fertility god whose temporary death is the cause of the protracted winter, the Wasteland.
	jade.ccccd.edu /Andrade/WorldLitII2333/TheWasteLand.html (1003 words)

	Alibris: Ritual
		Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes.
		In what Robert Bly calls", the greatest and most detailed book about ritual that I have ever read", Malidoma Patrice Some--who is well-versed in the languages of psychology and comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing and divination--bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern...
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	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Ritual (1161 words)

	TheForce.Net - Jedi Council - Editorials \| Ritual and Romance - An Analysis of the AOTC Traile
		Ritual and Romance - An Analysis of the AOTC Traile
		The archetypes of the romance involved here are nothing if not competent shapeshifters, and where they once had evolved from pagan Celtic myth to Christian Arthurian knighthood, now they transform once again to fit the ongoing "Star Wars" saga.
		During the period of courtly love, however, a third type presented itself, and it was known as "amor." This was a form of person-to-person love that elevated mere romance to the level of a sacrament.
	www.theforce.net /jedicouncil/editorials/111701.asp (2024 words)

	From Ritual To Romance: Chapter IV. Tammuz and Adonis
		A detail which has attracted the attention of scholars is the lack of any artistic representation of this ritual, a lack which is the more striking in view of the important position which these 'Wailings for Tammuz' occupy in the extant remains of Babylonian liturgies.
		Not only have the details of the ritual been examined and discussed, and the surviving artistic evidence described and illustrated, but from the anthropological side attention has been forcibly directed to its importance as a factor in the elucidation of certain widespread Folk-beliefs and practices
		The date of the feast seems to have varied in different countries; thus in Greece it was celebrated in the Spring, the moment of the birth of Vegetation; according to Saint Jerome, in Palestine the celebration fell in June, when plant life was in its first full luxuriance.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/frr/frr07.htm (4006 words)

	Literature and sport as ritual and fantasy Papers on Language and Literature - Find Articles
		In From Ritual to Romance, first published in 1920 and an important source for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Jessie L. Weston pointed to the evolution of literature from previous rituals that gave rise to the form of the romance.
		Though the common ritual origins of theater, dance, and sport have been acknowledged, perhaps there has been insufficient awareness of how close the relationship is between public performance in theater and sport, their ability-through drama-to define and create the popular mythos of both public and private fantasy.
		Jane Harrison in Ancient Art and Ritual (1913) observed the etymological relationship between ritual and drama: "The word for rite, dromenon, `thing done,' arose, of course, not from any psychological analysis, but from the simple fact that rites among the primitive Greeks were things done, mimetic dances and the like.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3708/is_200110/ai_n9002705 (793 words)

	Gaming World // Articles - Romance Development 102 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Another article by Death Ritual, and this one is about romance.
		Romance is the less carnal part of it, really - it's more the emotions that occur when the beloved's not around.
		Romance and passion - These two form a relationship heavy on the emotional and physical parts, mostly based on physical attraction.
	www.gamingw.net /articles/496 (1397 words)

	From Ritual to Romance, Chapter 14 - Jesse L. Weston
		This ritual, in its lower, exoteric, form, as affecting the processes of Nature, and physical life, survives to-day, and can be traced all over the world, in Folk ceremonies, which, however widely separated the countries in which they are found, show a surprising identity of detail and intention.
		In its esoteric 'Mystery' form it was freely utilized for the imparting of high spiritual teaching concerning the relation of Man to the Divine Source of his being, and the possibility of a sensible union between Man, and God.
		The Crusades, and the consequent traffic in relics, especially in relics of the Passion, caused the identification of the sex Symbols, Lance and Cup, with the Weapon of the Crucifixion, and the Cup of the Last Supper; but the Christianization was merely external, the tale, as a whole, retaining its pre-Christian character.
	world.std.com /~raparker/exploring/books/frtr/1/frtr_ch14.html (4020 words)

	The Hindu : Ritual, romance and learning
		This art form integrates rituals associated with the worship of the god of love, dances dedicated to the several deities worshipped in the region and an academic contest on issues ranging from logic, grammar, dramaturgy and philosophy, conducted by locally trained "scholars".
		The first part, Kamane Veykal, is a journey from ritual to romance: the ritual is dedicated to Kama, the god of love.
		At the conclusion of the ritual on the seventh day, Kama is "released", with the request to "come back early next year".
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/05/07/stories/1307043h.htm (1099 words)

	The Waste Land: Eliot, Wagner and the Magical Rites of Adonis.
		Grail romances are characterised by a tension between the theme of revenge and the theme of healing.
		In its primary form it is the romance of a lost opportunity; for always, and in every instance, the first visit connotes failure; it is to redress that failure that the quest is undertaken.
		Since Wagner's text draws upon these Grail romances and because Wagner selected elements that connect these romances with the rituals of Indo-European mystery religions, then it seems justifiable to regard his Parsifal as belonging to a religious tradition that is at least five thousand years old.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/logres.htm (3747 words)

	11/2/04 The Waste Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From Ritual to Romance argues that the Grail legends of medieval romance are survivals of ancient religious rituals, the Vegetation ceremonies.
		Upon this ritual depends the annual renewal of crops in the spring.
		esoteric ritual (rites open only to a few initiates, the object of which is individual and spiritual--attainment of conscious union with the god, assurance of future life).
	titan.iwu.edu /~wchapman/ampoetry/110204eliot.html (864 words)

	From Ritual To Romance: Chapter XII. Mithra and Attis
		Scholars have been struck by the curiously unorthodox tone of the Grail romances, their apparent insistence on a succession quite other than the accredited Apostolic tradition, and yet, according to the writers, directly received from Christ Himself.
		A ritual that lingered on in the hills and mountains of Wales as the Mithra worship did in the Alps and Vosges, celebrated as that cult habitually was, in natural caverns, and mountain hollows?
		But the ritual, in its higher, esoteric, form was still secretly observed, and the tradition, alike of its disappearance as a public cult, and of its persistence in some carefully hidden strong-hold, was handed on in the families of those who had been, perhaps still were, officiants of these rites.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/frr/frr15.htm (2373 words)

	Jessie Weston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her best-known work is From Ritual to Romance (1920); this book is now available as an online text, as are others of hers.
		The interpretation of the Grail quest as mystical and connected to self-realisation, which she added to the anthropological layer of reading, was to become increasingly popular during the 1920s.
		According to Richard Barber in The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, the Wasteland as theme in the Grail romances is of minor importance until the last works of the cycle, and the emphasis on fertility is "an interpretation which has haunted twentieth-century literature to a degree quite disproportionate to its basis in fact".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessie_Weston (463 words)

	The Waste Land
		In her book, Weston explains that the original Waste Land was part of the legend associated with the Quest for the Holy Grail found in the Arthurian cycle of stories and legends.
		Weston argues that the dish is a symbol of the female reproductive organ; the spear is a symbol of the male phallus; the wounded king is a symbolic or a dramatic stand-in for the fertility god whose temporary death is the cause of the protracted winter, the Waste Land.
		Weston speculates that the sight the knight on the quest for the Holy Grail has of the Waste Land of the dying king, the cup and the spear, formed the ritual enactment of the death of the fertility god and the ceremony surrounding his death and resurrection.
	jade.ccccd.edu /Andrade/britlit/eliot/waste1.html (1107 words)

	The Radiant Wisdom Stone
		She thought initiation in the Mysteries was a ritualization of primitive fertility rites which, in turn, came to be reflected in the two dominant mofits of the Grail Legend: the bleeding Lance (phallic symbol) and the Grail (vagina or womb symbol).
		Most scholars reject the thesis of From Ritual to Romance, yet they perpetuate a specious inference related to Weston's half-miss: the anointing rite of theocracy was an external and popular enactment of what initiates experienced in the inner sanctum of the Mysteries.
		The ritual of chrismation had become a validation for the authority of kings and prophets; but the unguent of anointment originally conferred its power through the entheogen that made the recipients consubstantial with the sacred plant of their shamanism.
	www.metahistory.org /StoneWise.php (5681 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Ritual of Proof by Dara Joy
		For her first hardcover, Ritual of Proof, the author of Rejar and High Energy creates a totally new fantasy world.
		Many scenes in Ritual of Proof are extremely engaging, as Dara Joy uses her unusual society (complete with glossary) to poke gentle fun at both traditional Regency romances and modern feminism.
		Ritual of Proof stumbles near its conclusion, when Dara Joy throws in unnecessary and confusing New Age mysticism.
	www.theromancereader.com /joy-ritual.html (697 words)

	From Ritual to Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Conceiving of the Grail saga as a literary outgrowth of ancient ritual, she seeks a Gnostic Christian interpretation that unites the quest for fertility with the striving for mystical oneness with God.
		From Ritual to Romance : Acknowledged by T. Eliot as crucial to unders...
		Ritual of Proof : A powerful noble falls for a beautiful but heads...
	www.cdqingshan.com /612940.html (428 words)

	The Fisher King
		Jessie Weston, for one, argued convincingly in her groundbreaking work, From Ritual to Romance, that the Fisher King is derived from pagan fertility rituals, and that beneath the surface of the numerous legends can be discerned the rites of primitive cults.
		This was definitely the case in the early romances, where the Grail is said to have served a salmon or pike to the Grail king.
		In general, the mythic dynamism of Arthurian Romance is the primitive struggle of man to compel and control the force of Nature, the very force on which the Fisher King's life depends.
	www.uidaho.edu /student_orgs/arthurian_legend/grail/fisher (6287 words)

	Amazon.com: From Ritual to Romance: Books: Jessie L. Weston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this work of pop-anthropology from 1920, Jessie L. Weston puts forth the idea that the romance of King Arthur and the search for the Grail is no mere fairy tale, but rather a mythos that goes back to earliest man's fertility rites and the annual rebirth of the land after winter.
		FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE probably reminds in print because T.S. Eliot, in the footnotes to his great poem "The Waste Land", claimed that the book was a key inspiration for that crucial event in 20th-century literature.
		So, FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE does not help one to understand either the anthropological source of the King Arthur mythos (which probably doesn't go back very far anyway, says modern archaeology), or Eliot's "The Waste Land".
	www.amazon.com /Ritual-Romance-Jessie-L-Weston/dp/0486296806 (1717 words)

	The Home Page - Ritual and Romance of Episode II
		The archetypes of the romance involved here are nothing if not competent shapeshifters, and where they once had evolved from pagan Celtic myth to Christian Arthurian knighthood, now they transform once again to fit the ongoing
		Everything is set for this Arthurian-style romance, and while no one knows for certain how it will continue in
		Watching the secret meetings of Anakin and Amidala in the trailer as they discuss their future, however, it is clear the closest mythic bond
	anakinskywalker1.homestead.com /ritualandromanceofepisodeII.html (269 words)

	Notes and Observations on T. S. Eliot's Early Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Among other elements that might have drawn Eliot to Weston, the dilemma of the (uncapitalized) fisher kings in the Romance manuscripts she discusses sounds almost like a comic variation on Prufrock's dilemma, an effect that was surely unintended.
		One fisher king is bald, recalling Prufrock's anticipation of "a bald spot in the middle of my hair." Also, the Romance fisher king has a mysterious wound, and a magic question needs to be asked.
		The unusual deficit works nicely as a comic "objective correlative" for the mysterious wound of the Romance fisher king, which is usually assumed to involve impotence.
	web.missouri.edu /~tselist/sloane6.html (491 words)

	From Ritual To Romance Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One thing is certain; although this book is one of the bullet-points of 20th century culture, probably very few have read and understood it in its entirety.
		Written in a formal academic style, with extensive passages in a dozen different languages, From Ritual to Romance is frankly a tough, but ultimately very rewarding read.
		Greek and a few other characters have been transcribed in Unicode, and a number of transcription errors found in other etexts have been corrected.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/frr/index.htm (249 words)

	Waste Land
		Eliot’s reliance on Jesse Weston’s From Ritual to Romance (1920) is recorded in his own notes (which were prepared for the book publication of the poem in 1922).
		The Grail (or Holy Cup) and the lance are the crucial symbols of Arthurian legend for Weston.
		Weston’s From Ritual to Romance is a work of cultural anthropology that belongs to modernism, although it is not specifically a “literary” work.
	www.elcamino.cc.ca.us /Faculty/sdonnell/waste_land.htm (2429 words)

	An Introduction to "From Ritual to Romance"
		From Ritual to Romance was written by Jesse L(aidlay) Weston (1850-1928) and first published in 1920 by the Cambridge University Press.
		Weston examines the story of the Holy Grail looking at Celtic and Christian legends, and explores what she believes are its Gnostic roots.
		She views the Grail romances as a literary evolution from ancient rituals (whence the book's title).
	www.camelot.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/weston/fr2r/fr2rint.htm (452 words)

	Eliot's Allusions: The Grail Knight Paradigm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In his notes, Eliot writes, "Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L.
		Weston: From Ritual to Romance; chapter on the Fisher King.
		- Weston, J.L.: From Ritual to Romance Weston, J.L.; Segal, R.A., ed.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/knollw/grail.htm (225 words)

	Romance and Ritual: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Romance and Ritual explores the Jewish wedding and related themes of courtship and married life through customs and rituals from different times and places.
		Though Jewish law stipulates very few requirements for a wedding, many special customs and rituals have been developed over time and in different countries to embellish this important personal event.
		Sometimes the groom breaks a glass, the bride circles the groom, family and friends lift the couple on chairs.
	www.familyhaven.com /weddings/weddings02/0970429517AMUS547552.shtml (182 words)

	Wellness - Valentines Ritual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When all else has failed it is time to look within and connect with oneself because only then will life send you that special somebody that will fill your heart with love, joy and excitement.
		Ritual to be done on Valentine’s day or any other time you want to bring in some extra loving!
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	www.wellnessguru.com /rituals_valentine_singles.htm (101 words)

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		For two hours your massage table becomes a boat drifting along in a tropical breeze and a petal-strewn bath becomes your own desert island lagoon.
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