http://christopherwilliamsdance.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/balderdash-for-the-medieval-gay-29/ personal illuminations and other marginalia Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:58:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://christopherwilliamsdance.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/balderdash-for-the-medieval-gay-29/#comment-85 Craig Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:12:54 +0000 http://christopherwilliamsdance.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-85 Yes, and then there are the exceptions who prove the rule: the late bloomers who stay at home, sheltering themselves from the hostile world, unconsciously playing out a reverence for the primordial Great Mother archetype (as wonderfully discussed in Erich Neumann's _The Origins and History of Consciousness_ and _The Great Mother_, which of course inspired and informed Camille Paglia's proposition that many gay men play out a Cybele priesthood through their adoration of divas and their devotion to their own mothers). Yes, and then there are the exceptions who prove the rule: the late bloomers who stay at home, sheltering themselves from the hostile world, unconsciously playing out a reverence for the primordial Great Mother archetype (as wonderfully discussed in Erich Neumann’s _The Origins and History of Consciousness_ and _The Great Mother_, which of course inspired and informed Camille Paglia’s proposition that many gay men play out a Cybele priesthood through their adoration of divas and their devotion to their own mothers).

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