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A passage in this book that cites The Hearings of the Scholars connects the nine materials used to construct the Tower of Babel to the nine parts of speech and argues that the 72 assistants of Feniusa Fosa lend their names to the letters of the Ogham (“AW-gum”) alphabet. The first chapter of this book examines the differences between refined court bards and vernacular gleemen before an extended gloss on the poem The Battle of the Trees. (-5[1])A passage in this book reinterprets the Judgment of Paris to actually represent agriculture (10[1])being gifted to pastoralists (-5[1])by the title figure. (10[1])This book, which was written concurrently with its author’s novel King Jesus, argues (10[1])that Stone Age rituals dedicated to (10[1])a tripartite moon deity (10[1]-5[1])are preserved (10[1])in (-5[1])surviving (10[1])Welsh (10[1])and Irish poems. (10[2])For 10 points, name this book of mythography (10[1])by Robert (-5[1])Graves (10[2]-5[1])named for (-5[1])a reconstructed ancient feminine (10[1])deity. ■END■ (10[3]0[7])

ANSWER: The White Goddess [or The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2374%0%30%127.00

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jason HongBrown AWUSTL A75-5
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AMaryland A8910
Gio MazzeoVirginia APenn State A93-5
Tracy MirkinFlorida AYale A9710
Sky LiToronto ACornell B11010
Matt JacksonChicago AOhio State A11610
Kevin ParkClaremont AIowa State A120-5
Brad MacLaineTexas AIndiana A12010
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BRutgers A12210
Amogh KulkarniChicago BDuke A123-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AMIT A12410
Ben DahlPurdue AMinnesota B12510
Michael MaysImperial ANYU A12810
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AUC Berkeley A12810
Mitch McCullarIllinois APenn A13610
Cormac BeirneMcGill ASouth Carolina A138-5
Nathan ZhangCornell AStanford A13910
Todd MaslykMichigan AHouston A139-5
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AChicago C13910
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BVanderbilt A141-5
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AColumbia A14510
Charles HangWUSTL ABrown A14710
Jerry LinDuke AChicago B14710
Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins AFlorida B1470
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BJohns Hopkins A1470
John BroussardHouston AMichigan A1470
JD KrothIowa State AClaremont A14710
Julian GatchSouth Carolina AMcGill A1470
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AUC Berkeley B1470
Matthew SiffYale BGeorgia Tech B1470
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BYale B1470