Rintrah is a character in
William Blake's mythology
The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain an invented mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the cosmos is the heart of ...
, representing the just wrath of the prophet. Rintrah first appears in ''
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'' is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary belief ...
'': "Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air" shows him personifying revolutionary wrath.
He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in ''The Vision of the Daughters of Albion''.
Rintrah is the brother of
Palamabron Palamabron is a character in William Blake's mythology, representing pity. He is the brother of Rintrah (wrath), Bromion (scientific thought) and Theotormon (desire/jealousy), represented together as either the Sons of Los or of Jerusalem
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(pity),
Bromion (scientific thought), and
Theotormon (desire/jealousy), represented together as either the Sons of
Los
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to:
Science and technology
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* Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance ...
or of
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
.
References
William Blake's mythology
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