Hello:

Wasn't it Weston's argument that the Grail legend was derived from a
theoretical colony of Attis followers in Roman England?   She does allow, I
think, that the sect may have been also gnostic Christians but insists that
the elements of the Grail legend are from their Attis worshiping past.  I
thought that her basic argument was against the ultimate Christian origin of
the legend.

I think that any serious understanding of Eliot's conversion (which Pound
was surely not engaged in) has to proceed from an understanding of the
English word "Parish".   Eliot was looking for what we carelessly call "his
roots" and he found those in the Anglican church and its "Parish".  Those
elements of Christian faith that Pagan Pound found to poke fun at may have
had little or nothing to do with Eliot's conversion.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM