The Anathemata
Rite and Fore-time (continued)
How else her iconography?
How other his liturgy?
Masters and doctors
of seven-breasted Roma
or of all sites that offer nurture
of which it is said
Hinc lucem et pocula sacra2
or you of Rhydychen3
that have the Lord for your light:
Answer me!
David Jones notes
2 ‘From this place light and a sacred potion.’
3 Pronounce rhid-uch-en, accent on middle syllable; from rhyd, ford, and ychen, oxen; ch as in Scottish loch.
additional notes
The Latin phrase is the motto of the University of Cambridge, the sacred potion being that of wisdom; that of the University of Oxford (‘Rhydychen’) is ‘Dominus illuminatio mea’ or ‘The Lord is my light’ (the opening words of Psalm 27).
see also
semantic structures
Another example of chiasmus or ‘semantic square’ (see my note to page 64).
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