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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
Just by way of slight biographical commentary, by the time one gets to the "four doors" section, one has a clear sense that George MacDonald had "mother" issues. Anodos "crashes and burns" in between mothering figures.
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I had often thought that MacDonald's mother/ grandmother figures represent the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 11:2, Proverbs 8...) and that's why they are so "pervasive"-- not just in Phantastes, but in just about every work of MacDonald's. "The Back of the North Wind", for instance.