The Mists of Avalon
Chapter One
Morgaine speaks:
In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover,
priestess, wise-woman, queen. Now in truth I have come to be
wise-woman, and a time may come when these things may need to be
known. But in sober truth, I think it is the Christians who will
tell the last tale. Forever the world of Fairy drifts further from
the world in which the Christ holds away. I have no quarrel with
the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a
demon and deny that she ever held power in this world. At best,
they say that her power was of Satan. Or else they clothe her in
the blue robe of the lady of Nazareth- who indeed had power in her
way, too- and say that she was ever a virgin. But what can a virgin
know of the sorrows and travail of mankind?
And now, when the world has changed, and Arthur- my brother, my
lover, king who was and king who shall be- lies dead (the common
folk say sleeping) in the Holy Isle of Avalon, the tale should be
told as it was before the priests of the White Christ came to cover
it all with their saints and legends.
For, as I say, the ... read full excerpt from: The Mists of Avalon ebook
