“A lot of thinking you can't write is having a blind spot about stuff you know, but take for granted; and then there's the stuff you think you know, but don't. For me that would be The Triangle. I just assumed that everyone who'd ever taken college English knew that it embodied how to tell a story…”

What I didn't know was that my attempt to track down its origins would lead me to the far bigger, real-deal Mysteries of Eleusis, where the power of the birth/death/rebirth myth of Demeter is still making an indelible impact on all of us.

Here is my own personal & professional narrative of how I sorted it all out…

And here's UU's original website where the imagery of Demeter and the narrative triangle abound.