Gothic Scotland

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 16:10.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Pajerico

Marina Warner

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 12:03.Reading time 4 minutes.

Two for the price of one I’ve read Marina Warner for a long time. These two books of hers are sort of special to me. BTW – Usual usual, I don’t agree with the mainstream history stuff but that does Not take away from her work. This unique study of the cult of the […]

John Keats

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 9:20.Reading time 1 minute.

I’ve been reading Keat’s poem, Endymion. I’d started looking into Perseus but came across this and went off the rails, as per! Endymion, iv …“Over wide streams and mountains great we went, And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent, Onward the tiger and the leopard pants, With Asian elephants: Onward these myriads—-with song […]

I Am in Heaven

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 15:20.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A RARE gift. I love John and Caitlin Matthews and their works. Today, another deep love/obsession/joy connected with them.

The Wild Hunt

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 9:49.Reading time 1 minute.

From the Peterborough Chronicle 1127 : Many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black, huge, and hideous, and rode on black horses and on black he-goats, and their hounds were jet black, with eyes like saucers, and horrible. This was seen in the very deer park of […]

Milan, Final Fabulous Flatsmack

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 5:21.Reading time less than 1 minute.

That’s what’s called a RESULT Much admiration to them all :o)

Just Call Me Herself.

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 15:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Or Lady xyz of Glencoe. As a sort of/kind of Joke(!?) Eons ago, I bought about 3 square inches of Glencoe from Highland Titles. I’m a Lady. Check it out. Less Narcissist. More Conservationist? “The conservation of wilderness in Scotland” M’eh.

The Viking Spirit

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 11:20.Reading time 13 minutes.

I love Daniel McCoy’s work. This book is fabulous and so is his website Norse Mythology for Smart People. Please check it out. I’m very drawn to Freya. Mrs Story/His Story? I just read the myths and legends slightly differently nowadays :o) From https://norse-mythology.org/ FREYA “Freyja and the Necklace” by James Doyle […]

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 8:57.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wiki : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite A “take-it-or-leave-it” post. The Celestial Hierarchy Go away, Robbie :o)

Theodicy

Monday, 4 November 2019, 17:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Odilon Redon’s c. 1914 oil painting of Pandora as an innocent Eve REwind. REpeat. Sorry to be SOOOOO Boring. I love Odilon Redon’s work. A banner/header or two above shows that. REwind. REpeat. The first story in the book was Pandora. SlickiWiki : Pandora

Owl of Athena

Monday, 4 November 2019, 16:58.Reading time less than 1 minute.

5 to 5 here. Dark. And the owls are calling. I just heard ’em. Wiki : Owl of Athena

La Terra Á Piatta

Monday, 4 November 2019, 14:21.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Family Globe Busting in Bella Italia. Oh. YES. Molto Bene :o)

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.