Half facetiously I said that I thought Pound's religion was "Olympian Calvinism". I never expected Duncan's analysis (serious I presume) to be so close i.e. "pagan fundamentalism" although I suspect especially in his "fundamentalism" a bit of irony from Duncan. How about it Duncan? I am now leaning more on "Arboreal Hermeticism". Pound's constant use of tree imagery is linked with an overall Weltanschauung of the "Baum Kultus". For example, let us take his statement "The only vigorous feasts of the Church are grafted onto European roots, the sun, the grain, the harvest and Aphrodite." Pound would never admit it, I am sure; but I think there was some careful reading on his part of Robert Grave's "The White Goddess". Neither of these 20th. Cent. gentlemen lived in a cultural vacuum. More food for thought. Pardon me if someone has already done their dissertation on this very subject and I haven't read it. Charles Moyer p.s.I had previously brought up the subject of Fortune, but can anyone else think of examples of religion in Pound related to the growth of trees w/ branches, roots, etc. or is this just idol speculation?