'' The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem,
The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death. In this work, Blake traces the fall of
Albion, who was "originally fourfold but was self-divided". This theme was revisited later, more definitively but perhaps less directly, in his other epic prophetic works,
Milton: A Poem and
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. The parts into which Albion is divided are the four
Zoas: •
Tharmas: representing instinct and strength. •
Urizen: reason and conventional society; a cruel god resembling the
Gnostic Demiurge. •
Luvah: love, passion and emotive faculties; a Christ-like figure, also known as
Orc in his most amorous and rebellious form. •
Urthona, also known as
Los: inspiration and the imagination. The Blake pantheon also includes feminine
emanations that have separated from an integrated male being, as Eve separated from Adam: • The sexual
Enion is an emanation from Tharmas. • The intellectual
Ahania is an emanation from Urizen. • The nature goddess
Vala is an emanation from Luvah (Orc). • The musical
Enitharmon is an emanation from Los (Urthona). The fall of Albion and his division into the Zoas and their emanations are also the central themes of
Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
Rintrah first appears in
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, personifying revolutionary wrath. He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in the
Visions of the Daughters of Albion: • The loud and lustful
Bromion. • The "mild and piteous"
Palamabron, son of Enitharmon and Los (also appears in
Milton). • The tortured mercenary
Theotormon. ==Notes and references==