The Great Pyramid, evidently, conforms to this mystical plan; and strikes one, therefore, all the more forcibly as the most remarkable structure for initiatory ceremonies ever constructed on our planet.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Thus we may have here a Celtic poetical parallel to the initiatory journey of Aeneas to the Land of the Dead or Hades.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And, as we suspect, there may be even in the ancient Celtic legends of mortals who make that strange voyage to the Western Otherworld and return to this world again, an echo of initiatory rites-perhaps druidic-similar to those of Proserpine as shown in the journey of Aeneas, which, as Virgil records it, is undoubtedly a poetical rendering of an actual psychic experience of a great initiate.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz