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Review: Niamh Parsons

Reviews of the albums ‘Blackbirds and Thrushes’ and ‘In My Prime’ by the Irish vocalist Niamh Parsons. Lees verder

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The Morrigan Papers, part 4

Bride has the talent of bringing forth life. That is the connection with midwifery. As a midwife you have to have ‘healing’ hands, use poetry to soothe and to ‘foresee’ the future of the child to be born. And when she reaches the age to become pregnant herself, she is literally the ‘blacksmith of men’. Lees verder

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Rhiannon

A poem for Rhiannon. Lees verder

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Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism – part II

At the end of the Pagan world in the latter days of the Roman Empire several Hermetic and Neoplatonic scholars left the Empire to go ’to the East’. Where ‘in the East’ did classical Graeco-Roman knowledge survive until it came back to the West? One name comes up over and over again: Harran. Lees verder

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The ‘Obby ‘Oss… Padstow, Cornwall, UK … and Berkley, California, USA Part 2

FOLK TRADITIONS & CUSTOMS: The ‘Obby ‘ Oss.. Padstow, Cornwall, UK … and Berkley, California, USA – Part 2. (Have you read Part I?) In 2007 John Bishop & Sabina Magliocco compiled a DVD including the 1951 film Oss Oss … Lees verder

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Cord Magick

On whatever day humans learned to weave fibers into cords, they probably started tying them into knots that very same day. (And probably started using those knots for magick that very same night!) The simpler the tool, the older it probably is… Lees verder

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The ‘Obby ‘Oss… Padstow, Cornwall, UK … and Berkeley, California, USA – part 1

There is quite a lot known of the May 1st celebrations in Europe with the traditional maypole etc. Somewhat lesser known is the ‘The ‘Obby ‘ Oss’ a Mayday celebration from Padstow in Cornwall, England. Lees verder

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Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism – part I

At the end of the Pagan world in the latter days of the Roman Empire several Hermetic and Neoplatonic scholars left the Empire to go ’to the East’. Where ‘in the East’ did classical Graeco-Roman knowledge survive until it came back to the West? One name comes up over and over again: Harran. Lees verder

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Review: Magic of the North Gate

Magicians and occultists have long spent their time in isolation, indoors, ignoring the land and beings around; the magic totally disconnected from the tides of power, knowledge and contact that flow from the surrounding land. How to connect with the land? Lees verder

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Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism – part III – photo gallery

At the end of the Pagan world in the latter days of the Roman Empire
several Hermetic and Neoplatonic scholars left the Empire to go ’to
the East’. Where ‘in the East’ did classical Graeco-Roman knowledge survive until it came back to the West? One name comes up over and over again: Harran. Lees verder

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