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This article is about the being from William Blake's mythology. For the character from the Spawn comics, see Urizen (comics).

Urizen is depicted in Blake's watercoloured etching "The Ancient of Days".

In the complex mythology of William Blake, Urizen is the embodiment of conventional reason and law. He is usually depicted as a bearded old man; he sometimes bears architect's tools, to create and constrain the universe; or nets, with which he ensnares people in webs of law and conventional culture.

As a Zoa

Urizen is one of the four Zoas that result from the division of the primordial man, Albion. He has an 'emanation', or paired female equivalent, Ahania. According to S. Foster Damon, Ahania stands for Pleasure.

Children

Three of his daughters are Eleth, Uveth and Ona. His sons are differently organised, in different poems: as Thiriel, Utha, Grodna, Fuzon, aligned with the four classical elements; or as twelve, aligned with the signs of the Zodiac, and builders of the Mundane Shell.

Interpretation

He receives much of his characterization from popular conceptions of Yahweh, the god of the Old Testament. The name may come from "You Reason" or "Your Reason", i.e., the accepted wisdom of the age; or from the Greek horizein, "to set limits"; or, conceivably, from both equally. Not a benevolent character, Urizen oppresses Orc, who embodies revolutionary passion and creativity, and who serves as a suffering saviour figure. He is also an enemy of Luvah, the spirit of love.

Derivation

Urizen has clear similarities with the creature called the Demiurge by Gnostic sects, who is likewise largely derived of the Old Testament god (more specifically, like Blake's Urizen, the demiurge is a radical remodelling of that figure achieved by expanding that figure's original contextual setting, or by removing him to one that is almost completely new). Speculative Freemasonry is another possible source of Blake's imagery for Urizen; Blake was attracted to the Masonic and Druidic speculations of William Stukeley. The compass and other drafting symbols that Blake associates with Urizen borrow from Masonic symbolism for God as the "Great Architect of the Universe".^[1]

References

1. ^ Stuart Peterfreund, William Blake in a Newtonian World: Essays on Literature as Art and Science (Univ. Oklahoma Press, 1998). ISBN 0-8061-3042-3

Spawn is a fictional comic book character created by Todd McFarlane. Spawn primarily appears in a comic of the same name, published by Image Comics, and his first appearance was in Spawn #1 (May 1992).
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Urizen is a fictional character in the comic book world of Spawn. He is a Dark God, a powerful entity that existed before the current universe and the coming of God and is a fan favorite character despite his brief appearance and minor role in the book.
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The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich invented mythology (mythopoeia), in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age.
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William Blake

William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Born: November 28, 1757
London, England
Died: August 12, 1827
London, England
Occupation: Poet, Painter, Printmaker William Blake
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Conventional wisdom (CW) is a term coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society, used to describe certain ideas or explanations that are generally accepted as true by the public.

Conventional wisdom is not necessarily true.
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Lightweight Anti-tank Weapon, like the M72 LAW (US Army) and the LAW 80 (British Army)
Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights (also known as LAW)
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An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction. The word "architect" (Latin: architectus) derives from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi (chief) + tekton (builder))")^[1]
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The Universe is defined as the summation of all particles and energy that exist and the space-time in which all events occur. Based on observations of the portion of the Universe that is observable, physicists attempt to describe the whole of space-time, including all matter and
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Albion is the primeval man whose fall and division results in the Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Orc/Luvah, and Los/Urthona. The name derives from the ancient and mythological name of the British Isles (see Albion).
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S. Foster Damon (February 12 1893 – December 25 1971) was an American academic, a specialist in William Blake, a critic and a poet. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts.
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In the mythological writings of William Blake, Thiriel is the first son of Urizen. There is a possible confusion with Tiriel, the protagonist of the first prophetic book, of that name.
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In the mythological writings of William Blake, Utha is the second son of Urizen.

In Chapter VIII of The Book of Urizen his birth is briefly described:

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In the mythological writings of William Blake, Grodna is the third son of Urizen.

In Chapter VIII of The Book of Urizen his birth is described:

Grodna rent the deep earth, howling

Amaz'd; his heavens immense cracks

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In the mythological writings of William Blake, Fuzon is the fourth son of Urizen. In The Book of Ahania he fights Urizen for control of the world.
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Yahweh is a proposed English reading of יהוה, the name of the God of Israel, as preserved in the original consonantal Hebrew Bible text. These four Hebrew letters [ i.e.
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Old Testament (sometimes abbreviated OT) is the first section of the two-part Christian Biblical canon, which includes the books of the Hebrew Bible as well as several Deuterocanonical books. Its exact contents differ in the various Christian denominations.
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Orc (a proper name) is one of the characters in the complex mythology of William Blake. Unlike the medieval sea beast, or Tolkien's humanoid monster, his Orc is a positive figure, the embodiment of creative passion and energy, and stands opposed to Urizen, the embodiment of
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In the mythological writings of William Blake, Luvah is one of the four Zoas, who were created when Albion (Blake), the primordial man, was divided fourfold. He represents love, passion, and rebellious energy. His emanation (female counterpart) is Vala; his fallen form is Orc.
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Demiurge (from the Greek δημιουργός dēmiourgós, Latinized demiurgus
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Gnosticism (from Greek gnōsis, knowledge) refers to a diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect spirit, the demiurge,
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druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe and in Britain and Ireland until they were supplanted by Roman government and, later, Christianity.
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The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (November 7, 1687–March 3, 1765) was an English antiquary who pioneered the archaeological investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury and was one of the founders of field archaeology.
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compass (so called by people in the USA, Canada, Australia, India, some people in the UK) or pair of compasses (so called by some people in the UK) is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs.
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Urizen
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As a Zoa

Children

Interpretation

Derivation

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References

Urizen (redirected from Uveth)

As a Zoa

Children

Interpretation

Derivation

See also

References

Urizen
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