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.

comments

semantic structures

glossary

a viatic: relating to a journey.