William Blake’s Europe Prophecy is very lengthy and mythological. It has many different characters that form an intricate story. The prophecy jumps around a lot and was a little hard for me to follow.
Once winter starts in the story Enitharmon sees a meeting that is going on with her sons and daughters. Urizen is released and his sons seize all spirits of life out of envy of Los, possessor of the moon. Orc, Enitharmon’s eldest born is then awakened. Rintrah and Palamabron are also released they are sent to tell the humans that women’s love is a sin and they might have a chance at eternal life. Rintrah is commanded to go and bring more “people” if that’s what they are or more characters. I would like to know why Blake didn’t explain the relationship between the characters better. Also why he didn’t make it more obvious what the characters were if they were monsters? Or gods? Enitharmon then goes to sleep for a very long time. During the time that she sleeps the story goes into describing that the heavens of Europe are divided.
Albion’s angel leaves. What happens after is a cloud filled with demons crushes a council house that was filled with Albion’s angels. They were buried under the ruins until a fiery king brings them back. “Thought” changes “Infinite” to a serpent whether it’s a character or an object I don’t know, but the serpent scares man away. Eternal forests are divided into earths rolling in circles in space. This is probably talking about how the planets were created. Man became an angel. An ancient guardian then arrives.
Albion’s angel sees Urizen on the Atlantic with a book that has been copied on earth by kings and priest. The book I’m guessing would be the bible since the priest has it. The guardian then leaves driven away by the flames of Orc. Europe celebrates this and Orc is happy as well to hear shadows howling again. But Palamabron shoots his “lightings” at his back. Rintrah and his legions end up in the “nether deep”.
Enitharmon wakes up to find “woman’s triumph” she also calls all of her sons and daughters. They came to meet her but left as soon as the sun was coming up which left Enitharmon sad. Orc released his “light of fury in the vineyards of red France”. All his terrors came on golden chariots and went around with red wheels, dripping with blood. The lions and tigers did horrible things and all Enitharmon did was watch and cry. Los had to come and “call all his son’s to the strife of blood”. I wonder why Enitharmon did nothing but cry why didn’t she try and stop Orc? I also wanted to know why Los came and basically declared war on Orc.
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