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Mountain - Return of the Goddess
May 11, 2004, 08:52
Did anyone see Mountain on BBC4 last night about 8.30 ish ? It was centred around a community on Caer Idris (apologies to the welsh members here - I may not have the name right) and principally a Church of Wales minister who has also devoted himself to the Earth Goddess. He built a shrine to the goddess Sophia (goddess of Wisdom ? sic) and practices worship to her in a ome made stone circle built of large slabs of slate in his garden and in a purpose built temple which he has given over to the women of his congregation. He also recounted a vision he had in the woods of the goddess, who manifested herself as a form in the spagnum moss and declares herself regularly to him ever since. His heart seemed to be in it, but he reckoned that a good way to meditate on the earth goddess and to become one with her was to nip onto the nearby hillside armed with a trowel and start clearing away all the roots and vegetation clinging to the face of the rocky outcrops leaving the bare stone revealed. Unfortunately, the results of his 'meditations' were stripping out a whole natural habitat for small creatures and leaving scores of scratches and tool marks all over the exposed stones like an overexuberant miner. He also had a number of images of Buddha around the gardens and his mate was a local buddhist who looked like an ou of work bouncer in a dress who was off to minister in Denmark and entrusted two large golden statues to the minister for safe keeping. He was particularly fond of his mini stone circle as a place to meditate and visited regularly for a few hours peace and quiet. At one point, the minister was shown wandering the mountain and visited a small neolithic stone circle high up on Caer Idris, which i didnt catch the name of. On the whole, the programme was interesting and the scenery breathtaking, but i think it rather portrayed the community as being a little off the wall!
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