Grodna (Blake)

In the mythological writings of William Blake, Grodna is the third son of Urizen.[1]

The birth of the four sons of Urizen, depicted in The Book of Urizen, copy G, collection the Library of Congress. Grodna appears in the bottom right

In Chapter VIII of The Book of Urizen his birth is described:

Grodna rent the deep earth, howling
Amaz'd; his heavens immense cracks
Like the ground parched with heat,[...]

His identification is with the classical element Earth, in the alignment of Urizen's four sons.[1]

Notes
  1. Damon, Samuel Foster (1988). A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. UPNE. p. 168. ISBN 9780874514360.
gollark: Ah, that most pointless and stupid of questions.
gollark: Or in your case, manually type it out for some stupid reason.
gollark: And *this* is why you should ACTUALLY LEARN THINGS and not just copy-paste code.
gollark: If this computer is plugged into the reactor I can modify this to display actual data.
gollark: ```luawhile true do for i = 1, 5 do print("RF/t:", math.random(0, 100000)) print("Heat:", math.random(0, 100000)) os.sleep(30) end -- do stuff to clear screen hereend```
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