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Bromion is a character in the mythology of William Blake
William Blake's mythology
The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich invented mythology , in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the cosmos is the heart of his work and his psychology...

. According to S. Foster Damon
S. Foster Damon
S Foster Damon was an American academic, a specialist in William Blake, a critic and a poet. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was one of the Harvard Aesthetes, and married Louise Wheelwright, sister of John Wheelwright who was another poet identified with that grouping...

 (A Blake Dictionary) he represents Reason, from the side of the poet's mind.

Incidence

  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion
    Visions of the Daughters of Albion
    Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a 1793 poem by William Blake, produced as a book with his own illustrations. It is a short and early example of his prophetic books, and a sequel of sorts to The Book of Thel....

    , in which he plays a major role
  • Milton
  • Jerusalem
  • Vala, or The Four Zoas
    Vala, or The Four Zoas
    Vala, or The Four Zoas refers to one of the incompleted prophetic books by English poet William Blake, begun in 1797. The titular main characters of the book are The Four Zoas: , who were created by the fall of Albion in Blake's mythology. It consists of nine books, referred to as "nights"...


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In Vala, or the Four Zoas he is one of a quartet of four sons, with Rintrah
Rintrah
Rintrah is a character in William Blake's mythology, representing the just wrath of the prophet. Rintrah first appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air" shows him personifying revolutionary wrath...

, Palamabron
Palamabron
Palamabron is a character in William Blake's mythology, representing pity.He is the brother of Rintrah , Bromion , and Theotormon , represented together as either the Sons of Los or of Jerusalem....

, and Theotormon, whose parents are Los
Los (Blake)
In the mythological writings of William Blake, Los is the fallen form of Urthona, one of the four Zoas. He is referred to as the "eternal prophet" and creates the visionary city of Golgonooza. Los is regularly described as a smith, beating with his hammer on a forge, which is metaphorically...

 and Enitharmon
Enitharmon
Enitharmon is a major female character in William Blake's mythology, playing a main part in some of his prophetic books. She is, but not directly, an aspect of the male Urthona, one of the Four Zoas. She is in fact the Emanation of Los, also male. There is a complex verbal nexus attached. The Zoa...

 (or alternatively, sons of Jerusalem).

He is a major character in Visions of the Daughters of Albion. He rapes Oothoon, and then is bound to her, back to back.
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