Fire on the Mountain: A Gathering of Shamans
1999 documentary. For five days, shamans & elders (and the Dalai lama) from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia meet to talk and share rituals at a Buddhist monastery in the French Alps.
Link Love
I have been updating the link sections for the Hedge and for the podcast. So I figure it’s time to point you all to a few of the blogs, articles, websites and podcasts that I wander over to now and then. (Sorry if there are any repeats from previous link posts)
If Witches No Longer Fly: Today’s Pagans and the Solanaceous Plants by Chas Clifton
Something I am Working On …
… a snippet of the start of something. Raw and unedited.
Abbé Henri Breuil sketched diligently by the dim gas-light, in a high alcove deep within a cave system. What he drew there and in other caves, what theories he later published about his discoveries, would help shape not only modern archaeology but also modern Paganism.
The Abbé was a man obsessed, crawling through narrow passages and scaling walls, only to lie upon the floors of caverns humanity had not set foot upon for thousands of years. All to draw the images he found there within. The most ancient of art in European history called to him. Cave art; depictions of bison and horses, lions and hand prints. And, in only a few instances, images of the human form mingled with that of an animal. The experts call these part-human, part-animal figures therianthropes.
The Trois-Frères cave was just one of many ancient cave systems Breuil would visit in his lifetime. In fact, it is far from the most famous of caves he worked in. Discovered in southern France, the art in this cave dates back to the mid-Magdalenian period of about 14,000 B.C.E. This cave features some 280 engraved images… Continue reading
The Phony Reading
So as many of you may know, the Samhain episode of Kakophonos featured a bizarre disappearance of its host and our friend Rikki. Please click here to catch up on the out come of the shenanigans before continuing to read.
You’re back? Alrighty …
As part of my contribution to the social theatre I posted an update on the podcast website, posted on Facebook, created a “missing person” poster and did a Collection casting “trying” to divine what had happened to Rikki.
It’s the augury that interests me and that is the focus of this blog post. That’s right! I faked a reading, a phony casting with my Collection (click here to see the blog post about it). While doing so I learned something.
Now first let me state clearly that I discussed this with my Collection … And to be honest writing that last sentence felt a little loony, but its true. I unwrapped the leather bag from it’s handkerchief (I keep the leather bag wrapped in a silk handkerchief sometimes), opened it up and explained that we were going to help a friend with a little joke.
Each piece in the set has something of a spirit… Continue reading
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