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Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2014</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_prophetic_books" title="William Blake's prophetic books">prophetic books</a> of the English poet and artist <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> contain an <a href="/wiki/Mythopoeia" title="Mythopoeia">invented mythology</a>, in which Blake worked to encode his spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the <a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">cosmos</a> is the heart of his work and his psychology. His myths often described the struggle between enlightenment and <a href="/wiki/Free_love" title="Free love">free love</a> on the one hand, and restrictive education and morals on the other. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Blake%27s_mythology&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Among Blake's inspirations were <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Regained" title="Paradise Regained">Paradise Regained</a></i>, the visions of <a href="/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg" title="Emanuel Swedenborg">Emanuel Swedenborg</a> and the near-<a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">cabalistic</a> writings of <a href="/wiki/Jakob_B%C3%B6hme" title="Jakob Böhme">Jakob Böhme</a>. Blake also included his own interpretations of <a href="/wiki/Druid" title="Druid">druidism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">paganism</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Fall_of_Albion">The Fall of Albion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Blake%27s_mythology&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Fall of Albion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Four_Zoas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Four_Zoas.jpg/300px-The_Four_Zoas.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Four_Zoas.jpg/450px-The_Four_Zoas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Four_Zoas.jpg/600px-The_Four_Zoas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1190" data-file-height="1083" /></a><figcaption>The relationship of the four Zoas, as depicted by Blake in <i><a href="/wiki/Milton_a_Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Milton a Poem">Milton a Poem</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem, <i><a href="/wiki/Vala,_or_The_Four_Zoas" title="Vala, or The Four Zoas">The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man</a></i>, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death. In this work, Blake traces the fall of <b><a href="/wiki/Albion_(Blake)" title="Albion (Blake)">Albion</a></b>, who was "originally fourfold but was self-divided".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theme was revisited later, more definitively but perhaps less directly, in his other epic prophetic works, <i><a href="/wiki/Milton:_A_Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Milton: A Poem">Milton: A Poem</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem:_The_Emanation_of_the_Giant_Albion" title="Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion">Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion</a></i>. </p><p>The parts into which Albion is divided are the four <a href="/wiki/Albion_(Blake)" title="Albion (Blake)">Zoas</a>: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Tharmas" title="Tharmas">Tharmas</a></b>: representing instinct and strength.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Urizen" title="Urizen">Urizen</a></b>: reason and conventional society; a cruel god resembling the <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnostic</a> <a href="/wiki/Demiurge" title="Demiurge">Demiurge</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Luvah" title="Luvah">Luvah</a></b>: love, passion and emotive faculties; a Christ-like figure, also known as <b><a href="/wiki/Orc_(Blake)" title="Orc (Blake)">Orc</a></b> in his most amorous and rebellious form.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Urthona" title="Urthona">Urthona</a></b>, also known as Los: inspiration and the imagination.</li></ul> <p>The Blake pantheon also includes feminine <i>emanations</i> that have separated from an integrated male being, as Eve separated from Adam: </p> <ul><li>The sexual <b><a href="/wiki/Enion" title="Enion">Enion</a></b> is an emanation from Tharmas.</li> <li>The intellectual <b><a href="/wiki/Ahania" title="Ahania">Ahania</a></b> is an emanation from Urizen.</li> <li>The nature goddess <b><a href="/wiki/Vala_(Blake)" title="Vala (Blake)">Vala</a></b> is an emanation from Luvah.</li> <li>The musical <b><a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a></b> is an emanation from <a href="/wiki/Los_(Blake)" title="Los (Blake)"><b>Los</b></a> (Urthona).</li></ul> <p>The fall of Albion and his division into the Zoas and their emanations are also the central themes of <i><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_The_Emanation_of_the_Giant_Albion" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion">Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion</a></i>. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Rintrah" title="Rintrah">Rintrah</a></b> first appears in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="The Marriage of Heaven and Hell">The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></i>, personifying revolutionary wrath. He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in the <i><a href="/wiki/Visions_of_the_Daughters_of_Albion" title="Visions of the Daughters of Albion">Visions of the Daughters of Albion</a></i>: </p> <ul><li>The loud and lustful <b><a href="/wiki/Bromion" title="Bromion">Bromion</a></b>.</li> <li>The "mild and piteous" <b><a href="/wiki/Palamabron" title="Palamabron">Palamabron</a></b>, son of Enitharmon and Los (also appears in <i>Milton</i>).</li> <li>The tortured mercenary <b>Theotormon</b>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_mythology_and_the_prophetic_books">The mythology and the prophetic books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Blake%27s_mythology&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The mythology and the prophetic books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scholarship on Blake has not recovered a "perfected" version of Blake's myth. The characters in it have to be treated more like a repertory company, capable of dramatising his ideas (which changed, over two decades). On the other hand, the psychological roots of his work have been revealed, and are now much more accessible than they were a century ago. </p><p><i>America a Prophecy</i> is also one of the "prophetic works". Here, the "soft soul" of America appears as <b><a href="/wiki/Oothoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Oothoon">Oothoon</a></b>. </p><p>Other works concerning this pantheon: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/America_a_Prophecy" title="America a Prophecy">America a Prophecy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Urizen" title="The Book of Urizen">The Book of Urizen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Los" title="The Book of Los">The Book of Los</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Ahania" title="The Book of Ahania">The Book of Ahania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Visions_of_the_Daughters_of_Albion" title="Visions of the Daughters of Albion">Visions of the Daughters of Albion</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Blake%27s_mythology&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes 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<li><a href="/wiki/The_Fly_(poem)" title="The Fly (poem)">The Fly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Angel_(Songs_of_Experience)" title="The Angel (Songs of Experience)">The Angel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tyger" title="The Tyger">The Tyger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Pretty_Rose_Tree" title="My Pretty Rose Tree">My Pretty Rose Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ah!_Sun-flower" title="Ah! 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Sun-flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lilly_(poem)" title="The Lilly (poem)">The Lilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Garden_of_Love_(poem)" title="The Garden of Love (poem)">The Garden of Love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Vagabond" title="The Little Vagabond">The Little Vagabond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_(William_Blake_poem)" title="London (William Blake poem)">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Human_Abstract_(poem)" title="The Human Abstract (poem)">The Human Abstract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infant_Sorrow" title="Infant Sorrow">Infant Sorrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Poison_Tree" title="A Poison Tree">A Poison Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Boy_Lost" title="A Little Boy Lost">A Little Boy Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Girl_Lost" title="A Little Girl Lost">A Little Girl Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_Tirzah" title="To Tirzah">To Tirzah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_School_Boy" title="The School Boy">The School 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Auguries_of_Innocence" title="Auguries of Innocence">Auguries of Innocence</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Mental_Traveller" title="The Mental Traveller">The Mental Traveller</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/Notebook_of_William_Blake" title="Notebook of William Blake">Rossetti Manuscript</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">"<a href="/wiki/Never_pain_to_tell_thy_love" title="Never pain to tell thy love">Never pain to tell thy love</a>"</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Mythology" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mythology</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahania" title="Ahania">Ahania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albion_(Blake)" title="Albion (Blake)">Albion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beulah_(Blake)" title="Beulah (Blake)">Beulah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bromion" title="Bromion">Bromion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enion" title="Enion">Enion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzon_(Blake)" title="Fuzon (Blake)">Fuzon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golgonooza" title="Golgonooza">Golgonooza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grodna_(Blake)" title="Grodna (Blake)">Grodna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_(Blake)" title="Har (Blake)">Har</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leutha" title="Leutha">Leutha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_(Blake)" title="Los (Blake)">Los</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luvah" title="Luvah">Luvah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orc_(Blake)" title="Orc (Blake)">Orc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palamabron" title="Palamabron">Palamabron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectre_(Blake)" title="Spectre (Blake)">Spectre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharmas" title="Tharmas">Tharmas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiriel" title="Thiriel">Thiriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(character)" title="Tiriel (character)">Tiriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urizen" title="Urizen">Urizen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urthona" title="Urthona">Urthona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utha" title="Utha">Utha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vala_(Blake)" title="Vala (Blake)">Vala</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Art" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Art</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paintings<br />and prints</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Religions_are_One#Relief_etching" title="All Religions are One">Relief etching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_Stories_from_Real_Life#Illustrations" title="Original Stories from Real Life">Engravings for <i>Original Stories from Real Life</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ancient_of_Days" title="The Ancient of Days">The Ancient of Days</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europe_Supported_by_Africa_and_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Europe Supported by Africa and America">Europe Supported by Africa and America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_of_Enitharmon%27s_Joy" title="The Night of Enitharmon's Joy">The Night of Enitharmon's Joy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newton_(Blake)" title="Newton (Blake)">Newton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_(Blake)" title="Nebuchadnezzar (Blake)">Nebuchadnezzar</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night-Thoughts#Blake's_illustrations_of_1795–97" title="Night-Thoughts">Illustrations for <i>Night-Thoughts</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Grave_(poem)#Publication_by_Cromek_and_Blake's_illustrations" title="The Grave (poem)">Illustrations of <i>The Grave</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_and_Twenty_Elders_Casting_their_Crowns_before_the_Divine_Throne" title="The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne">The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_Lost" title="William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost">Illustrations of <i>Paradise Lost</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Vision_of_the_Last_Judgement" title="A Vision of the Last Judgement">A Vision of the Last Judgement</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Descriptive_Catalogue_(1809)" title="Descriptive Catalogue (1809)">Descriptive Catalogue</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Red_Dragon_paintings" title="The Great Red Dragon paintings"><i>The Great Red Dragon</i> paintings</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pity_(William_Blake)" title="Pity (William Blake)">Pity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_of_a_Flea" title="The Ghost of a Flea">The Ghost of a Flea</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Agony_in_the_Garden_(Blake)" title="Agony in the Garden (Blake)">Agony in the Garden</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_On_the_Morning_of_Christ%27s_Nativity" title="William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity">Illustrations of <i>On the Morning of Christ's Nativity</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers:_The_Harpies_and_the_Suicides" title="The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides">The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_Illustrations_of_the_Book_of_Job" title="William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job"><i>Illustrations of the Book of Job</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sketches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Visionary_Heads" title="Visionary Heads">Visionary 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title="Life of William Blake">Life of William Blake</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Works_of_William_Blake:_Poetic,_Symbolic_and_Critical" class="mw-redirect" title="The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical">The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fearful_Symmetry_(book)" title="Fearful Symmetry (book)">Fearful Symmetry</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blake:_Prophet_Against_Empire" title="Blake: Prophet Against Empire">Blake: Prophet Against Empire</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Witness_Against_the_Beast" title="Witness Against the Beast">Witness Against the Beast</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Musical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Serenade_for_Tenor,_Horn_and_Strings" title="Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings">Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings</a></i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_Blake_Songs" title="Ten Blake Songs">Ten Blake Songs</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Songs_and_Proverbs_of_William_Blake" title="Songs and Proverbs of William Blake">Songs and Proverbs of William Blake</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lamb_(Tavener)" title="The Lamb (Tavener)">The Lamb</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Themes_from_William_Blake%27s_The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell">Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake_in_popular_culture" title="William Blake in popular culture">William Blake in popular culture</a></li> <li><a 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