Too Salient not to Quote

Written by Allegra Printz : “The Ring (Wagner’s opera and the ancient stories) speaks to such current experiences as the need for the old order – “ancient fires” – of the Piscean Age to recognise and yield to the incoming qualities of the Aquarian Age in an energetic transition due to the precession of the […]

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Rheingold

Oh. I may’ve got sidetracked somewhere today. Back to me, me, me. I’ve reached the Synopsis.v Do not get me on that subject. Writing a synopsis Hurts one’s brain! Anyhoos Plot Synopsis of the four part Ring of the Nibelung Prologue. What? Get on with the juice!! Oh, The Rhinegold. Or Rheingold, Or…. Scene One […]

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Prophesy of Völuspá – The Seeress

Finally. After almost 2 hours. I get to open my new delivery. The first thing I read is…   Prophesy of Völuspá – The Seeress Hear me, all you hallowed beings, Both high and low, THE FATES I FATHOM, YET FARTHER I SEE Icelandic Poetic Edda – 9th -11th Cent. C.E.   I have sooooo […]

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Prose Poem

The illustration above comes from the original epic poem (which is really prose) that I’m reading now. I have Never come across this before but it is a beautiful gift that’s a bit (!) addictive :o) The TBR pile just fell over. M’eh!   The poem, strangely enough, is not set in Georgia, but in […]

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H.G Wells. 1895

I’ve only seen the b & w film. (Edit. Sozzies. It wasn’t b and w. It was COLOUR. My bad memory) Always hated….sorry….disliked this story. Yukky. War of the Worlds Album – much better. Oscar Wilde…? Richard Burton? Silly me. Orson Welles! Tut.

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The Cat in Magic and Myth

I have this weird obsession with the Egyptology bits of museums. The best I’ve ever seen was/were in the Louvre. I have a zillion photos. Many of them of the mummified cats. I still can’t work that concept out. Why do that to a cat? Anyhoos – a book I have but (my bad) haven’t […]

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False Prophets

Oooh! This one is GOOD! It can go soooooooooomany ways. Let’s start with Kanye and move sideways :o)  

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Hells Bells & Buckets of Fire

I had a funny feeling that I’d end up back with Voivode Vlad the Impaler. Denn die Todten reiten Schnell    

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Disney Vault

Y’all know the Fairy Tale. Y’all are EXPERT Tellers of Tales! Do you GET IT YET???  

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Middle High German

In my world : Zwei bier, bitte. Or ~: Alles Über Die Platz.   Original Nibelungenlied MS   Uns ist in alten mæren || wunders vil geseitvon helden lobebæren,|| von grôzer arebeit,von fröuden, hôchgezîten, || von weinen und von klagen,von küener recken strîten || muget ir nu wunder hœren sagen.   Thank goodness for translators […]

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Polyarchy, The Mother of Anarchy

Wiki : Polyarchy   I’m finding this intro to Choniates work quite interesting. An earthquake in  1162? A comet in 1182 that FORETOLD the end of Andronicus I Comnenus?      

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