Thursday, August 5, 2010

FeedBack: John Barleycorn Must Die

John Barleycorn Must Die is a telling of the basic near easter-european fertility god myth.

Compare this to the myth of Persephone, the myth of Adonis, and the Jesus myth.

Three men come from the West/East. They kill him. He arises again.

John Barleycorn represents the spirit of the harvested grain. The song is both a metaphor, and a poetic explanation of the killing of grain.

Joan D'Arc

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