Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino

This article works as a riddle, offering several interpretations not only about what the Graal is, but also to whom it serves. Some specialists on Arthurian matters describe the image of a woman touching the Graal. Could it be that the Graal was a originally pre-christian object? Why is it that this...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:702bd5f056414a358cb7cc08c6f5fa822021-12-02T19:37:10ZLas mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino1136-57812013-9470https://doaj.org/article/702bd5f056414a358cb7cc08c6f5fa822004-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/7086https://doaj.org/toc/1136-5781https://doaj.org/toc/2013-9470This article works as a riddle, offering several interpretations not only about what the Graal is, but also to whom it serves. Some specialists on Arthurian matters describe the image of a woman touching the Graal. Could it be that the Graal was a originally pre-christian object? Why is it that this symbolic image of masculine theological, sexual, military and political discourse is guarded by women? To answer these questions, the paper discusses Celtic narratives to explain the extermination of Catarism and Occitan culture (where women had a defining role), touching on the Mediterrarean and Indo-iranian origins of the myth. The riddle can only be solved weaving the above mentioned concepts with the symbolic and archetypal dimension of human existence. The narrative shows the thorough task of the Roman Creed to exclude systematically any traces of the feminine in the configuration of explicative models about the spiritual, emotional and social aspects of the individual.Antonio PenedoUniversitat de BarcelonaarticleWomen. FeminismHQ1101-2030.7CAENESEUFRGLITPTLectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, Iss 10 (2004)
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Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino
description This article works as a riddle, offering several interpretations not only about what the Graal is, but also to whom it serves. Some specialists on Arthurian matters describe the image of a woman touching the Graal. Could it be that the Graal was a originally pre-christian object? Why is it that this symbolic image of masculine theological, sexual, military and political discourse is guarded by women? To answer these questions, the paper discusses Celtic narratives to explain the extermination of Catarism and Occitan culture (where women had a defining role), touching on the Mediterrarean and Indo-iranian origins of the myth. The riddle can only be solved weaving the above mentioned concepts with the symbolic and archetypal dimension of human existence. The narrative shows the thorough task of the Roman Creed to exclude systematically any traces of the feminine in the configuration of explicative models about the spiritual, emotional and social aspects of the individual.
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title Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino
title_short Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino
title_full Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino
title_fullStr Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino
title_full_unstemmed Las mujeres del Grial: la cruzada cristiana contra el arquetipo femenino
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