Saturn laughed and lost his latter age’s frost, įinally, I recalled Lewis’s words in his wonderful poem on the Nativity, ‘The Turn of the Tide’: The Witch’s magic is weakening.’Īnd Lucy felt running through her that deep shiver of gladness which you only get if you are being solemn and still. ‘She has kept me out for a long time, but I have got in at last. He was so big, and so glad, and so real, that they all became quite still. But now that the children actually stood looking at him they didn’t find it quite like that. Some of the pictures of Father Christmas in our world make him look only funny and jolly. He was a huge man in a bright red robe (bright as holly-berries) with a hood that had fur inside it and a great white beard that fell like a foamy waterfall over his chest. As winter in Narnia is beginning to pass, Lewis describes him in very ‘Jovial’ terms: ’ Again, the passing of winter means the coming of Jove.Įven ‘Father Christmas’ appears in Narnia, where it has been ‘always winter and never Christmas’, giving gifts to the Pevensie children. winter overgone, the poetry born under Jove. Referring to an article Ward published in Touchstone, I pointed out that The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, in the plot of which the coming of Christmas has an important rôle, could be seen to correspond to the sphere of Jupiter, as expressed by Lewis’s alliterative poem, ‘The Planets’:Ī little search also yielded another passage Ward quotes, from Lewis’s Allegory of Love: ‘The poetry which represents. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia are meant to correspond to one of the seven planets in classical Western astronomy. In an earlier post, I discussed the thesis of Michael Ward that each of C.S. But when I really started thinking about how the whole poem might relate not only to the Incarnation generally, but to the Nativity in particular, a question reared its head. When I first read the Eclogue I didn’t pay much attention to the reference to Saturn. The king of the gods divided the year into four new seasons: Gentle spring was no longer allowed to continue unbroken Meaner than gold but higher in value than tawny bronze. When Saturn was cast into murky Tartarus, Jupiter seized Were kissed into life by the warming breath of the gentle zephyrs Īnd soon the earth, untilled by the plough, was yielding her fruits,Īnd without the renewal the fields grew white with the swelling corn blades. Without laws or enforcement, it did what was right and trust prevailed. Here are a few pertinent lines:įirst to be born was the Golden Age. The mythology to which Virgil refers, of the Golden Age and its end, can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1.89-124. that justice reigned in the golden age of Saturn and left the earth.’ Therefore, the return of Justice- Virgo-means the return of Saturn. Dame Frances Yates comments, ‘The poets taught. 'Holy Russia Does Not Stand Empty'-St Ilya MurometsĪs will have been noticed, line 6 of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue contains the statement redeunt Saturnia regna, ‘Saturn’s rule returns’ in Lee’s simple translation.'I Am Passionately in Love with Death'-St Ignatius.‘my eros is crucified’-Ss Ignatius & Dionysius on.'A New Begetting Now Descends from Heaven's Height.'The Shepherds Sing'-Shepherds Virgilian, Biblical.
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