The Anathemata
Rite and Fore-time (continued)
By the uteral marks
that make the covering stone an artefact.
By the penile ivory
and by the viatica meats.
Dona ei requiem.
David Jones notes
additional notes
The graves of upper Paleolithic man (20,000 to 30,000 years ago) sometimes contained carved ivory artefacts accompanying the dead. See for example the Paviland cave in the Gower peninsula, south Wales.
see also
semantic structures
glossary
a viatic: relating to a journey.
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