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By : Franck Gardian - Friday, 05 March 2010 00:00 |
 "Brocéliande is not an imaginary place for people keen on the Middle Ages or fascinated by Heroic Fantasy: this forest (located at 30 kilometers from Rennes) exists and represents a great field of experience for the knowledge of oneself" says Franck Gardian. In this first part, the author proposes to analyze mythological figures of Brocéliande: Merlin, the shaman druid, king Arthur then Gawain, Percival, Ywain and Lancelot. Like the works of Joseph Campbell (that inspired George Lucas for his movies "Star Wars"), the author makes us discover that behind each exploit of the hero, is hiding a good that will become collective, an ability that will become universal, shared by the whole humanity.
As Mircea Eliade wrote in « Le mythe de l’éternel Retour », the myth is based on a fact or a historical character, but he is given a capacity of recurrence that goes through historical field, places and times. A myth becomes timeless, perennial and universal: each society, each moment given regenerates him and gives him immortality.
Myth becomes a precious help for each one who asks himself the question of "what for"? ": he doesn't bring the answers but he enables to ask these existential questions, fundamental, in a pertinent way.
Franck Gardian also enables to answer these questions:
- how did the stories of the Round Table arrive into the forest of Brocéliande?
- What did represent Graal before Christianism arrive in Gaul?
- How were Robert de Boron and the Order of Cistercians charged to rewrite the myth of Graal?
Franck Gardian tells us as an introduction: the forest of Brocéliande is an invitation. An invitation to lose yourself... To find you back better: to know yourself, to reborn... in this 50-minutes presentation.
 
 
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