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ANCESTORS
When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.
When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.
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Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (The Final Episodes)
Entrance into the Earth by Gilbert Williams
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โThere Lancelot, low and softly to himself singing, the sun greeted - life from darkness lifted, shining in the dome of heaven by death exalted.
Ever times would change and tides alter, and oโer hills of morning hope come striding to awake the weary, while the world lasted.โ
Wishing a powerful Summer Solstice to those who observe.
XCII
Ever times would change and tides alter, and oโer hills of morning hope come striding to awake the weary, while the world lasted.โ
Wishing a powerful Summer Solstice to those who observe.
XCII
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โThe mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains โ mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Natureโs workshops.โ
John Muir
John Muir
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Pictish symbol stone depicting a battle against Anglo-Saxon invaders, from the churchyard of Aberlemno, in Angus; Scotland. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟโ๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
The stone is thought to depict the Battle of Dรบn Nechtรกin, fought on May 20 of the year AD 685, between the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the Pictish Kingdom of Foirtriu. Northumbria had been extending its power northward into Scotland, trying to subdue and annex the whole of northern Britain. Resistance seems to have coalesced around the Pictish king of Foirtriu, Bridei III, son of Beli. The Anglian king Ecgfrith, son of Oswiu, led an immense army into Scotland in hopes of finally crushing that resistance. According to the English historian Bede, the Picts lured the Anglo-Saxon army deep into Scotland to a pre-selected battlefield, where it was defeated and cut to pieces in one of the bloodiest battles of that entire period. Ecgfrith himself was killed โthe stone seems to show him in the lower right, being eaten by a ravenโ along with his entire army. The Picts not only shook off Northumbrian domination, they permanently broke the kingdomโs power; Northumbria would never again achieve hegemony in Britain.
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The stone is thought to depict the Battle of Dรบn Nechtรกin, fought on May 20 of the year AD 685, between the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the Pictish Kingdom of Foirtriu. Northumbria had been extending its power northward into Scotland, trying to subdue and annex the whole of northern Britain. Resistance seems to have coalesced around the Pictish king of Foirtriu, Bridei III, son of Beli. The Anglian king Ecgfrith, son of Oswiu, led an immense army into Scotland in hopes of finally crushing that resistance. According to the English historian Bede, the Picts lured the Anglo-Saxon army deep into Scotland to a pre-selected battlefield, where it was defeated and cut to pieces in one of the bloodiest battles of that entire period. Ecgfrith himself was killed โthe stone seems to show him in the lower right, being eaten by a ravenโ along with his entire army. The Picts not only shook off Northumbrian domination, they permanently broke the kingdomโs power; Northumbria would never again achieve hegemony in Britain.
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James I of Scotland with his consort Joan Beaufort, queen of Scotland. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
*He has the coat of arms of Scotland on his tabard and is holding a sword and scepter, while she has the coat of arms of England on her clothing, and is holding a scepter and thistle.
*He has the coat of arms of Scotland on his tabard and is holding a sword and scepter, while she has the coat of arms of England on her clothing, and is holding a scepter and thistle.
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Jacob Grimm recorded a survival of Woden worship in Blekinge, Sweden and Mecklenburg, wherein farmers would leave a section of rye unharvested for Odinโs horse. They would braid the tops together and sprinkle them with water, take off their hats and bow, and recite thrice;
"Woden, take care of your horse now, with thistle and thorn,
so next year we may have better corn!"
Another version was;
"Woden, Woden, feed your horse now, with thistle and thorn, next year, better corn!"
He noted that it was said during winter nights, he could be heard roaming the fields with his hunting dogs (Freki and Geri?).
This was likely a remnant of offerings on Winterfylleth and/or รlfablรณt; in the Austrfararvรญsur, Odin is mentioned during a sacrifice to the รlfar. In rural regions of Scandinavia and Germany, the Old Ways never fully disappeared.
Art by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. โดฒ
"Woden, take care of your horse now, with thistle and thorn,
so next year we may have better corn!"
Another version was;
"Woden, Woden, feed your horse now, with thistle and thorn, next year, better corn!"
He noted that it was said during winter nights, he could be heard roaming the fields with his hunting dogs (Freki and Geri?).
This was likely a remnant of offerings on Winterfylleth and/or รlfablรณt; in the Austrfararvรญsur, Odin is mentioned during a sacrifice to the รlfar. In rural regions of Scandinavia and Germany, the Old Ways never fully disappeared.
Art by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. โดฒ