May-day! delightful day!
Bright colours play the vale along. Now wakes at morning's slender ray Wild and gay the blackbird's song. Swift horses gather nigh Where half dry the river goes; Tufted heather clothes the height; Weak and white the bogdown blows. Corncrake sings from eve to morn, Deep in corn, a strenuous bard! Sings the virgin waterfall, White and tall, her one sweet word. Loaded bees with puny power Goodly flower-harvest win; Cattle roam with muddy flanks; Busy ants go out and in. Through the wild harp of the wood Making music roars the gale--- Now it settles without motion, On the ocean sleeps the sail. White and tall, her one sweet word.
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He will be in the shape of every beast,
Both on the azure sea and on the land, He will be a dragon before hosts at the onset, He will be a wolf of every great forest........ He will be a stag with horns of silver In the land where chariots are driven, He will be a speckled salmon in a full pool, He will be a seal, he will be a fair-white swan. ~the Voyage of Bran ~This painting is part of a family of works related to a dream which I had 3 times in December. The visuals of these paintings will not be related necessarily to those in the dream. Rather the artist's own personal work, which is occurring as a result of the 3 dreams, is taking a physical form, symbolically, in these paintings. ( The actual landscape in the paintings was drawn from thickets and rushes at the Frog Pond wetlands near Seaside, CA). The white stag showed up, as he has been known to do in works of art off and on for at least 37,000 years.
"Dr. Tylor has brought together examples from all parts of the globe-----veneration paid to natural living objects such as trees, fish, animals, as well as inanimate objects of almost every conceivable description, including stones, because of the spirit believed to be inherent or resident in that particular object.-------Certainly well-defined Celtic traditions entirely fit in with this theory, e.g. Canon Mahe writes, 'in accordance with this strange theory they (the celts) could believe that rocks set in motion by spirits which animated them, sometimes went to drink at rivers, as is said of the Peulvan at Noyal-Pontivy' and I have found a parallel belief at Rollright, Oxfordshire, England, where it is said of the King Stone, an ancient menhir and according to some folk-traditions, a human being transformed, that it goes down the hill on Christmas Eve to drink at the river."
The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries ~ W.Y. Evans Wentz "I myself when I was a boy of ten or eleven, was perfectly convinced that on a fine dewy morning in summer when people were still in bed, I saw a strange horse run around the seven-acre field of ours and change into a woman, who ran even faster, and after a couple courses around the field disappeared into our haggard. I am sure, whatever I may believe today, no earthly persuasion would, at the time, have convinced me that I did not see this. Yet I never saw it again and never heard of anyone else seeing the same." The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries ~W.Y. Evans Wentz |
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