title: The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
author: Roger Sherman Loomis
description: "In terms of serious scholarship, there has been little that supersedes or countervenes this work from a major Authuriad scholar at the height of his powers." (<i>Parergon</i>)
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  # The Curse of Lono
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Curse of Lono
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Curse of Lono
  
  
  Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Arian brown,
  
  
  For the Christian riles, and the Arian smiles, and it weareth the Christian
  down;
  
  
  And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late
  deceased,
  
  
  And the epitaph drear: 'A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'
  
  
  Rudyard Kipling
  
  
  “The Naulahka”
  
  
  The Romantic God Lono
  
  
  I have been writing a good deal, of late, about the great god Lono and Captain
  Cook's
  
  
  personation of him. Now, while I am here in Lono's home, upon ground which his
  terrible
  
  
  feet have trodden in remote ages -- unless these natives lie, and they would
  hardly do
  
  
  that I suppose -- I might as well tell who he was.
  
  
  The idol the natives worshipped for him was a slender unornamented staff
  twelve feet
  
  
  long. Unpoetical history says he was a favorite god on the island of Hawaii --
  a great
  
  
  king who had been deified for meri