Littlestone
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Re: (Appropriate to) "Silbury" from Bode's Ballads
Oct 04, 2007, 12:39
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Great stuff!
Note the large white blotch in the photo on page 144. There's also a little ditty on pages 329 and 330 (the stories old voke do tell) about Wayland's Smithy.
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Vybik Jon
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A Long Line
Oct 04, 2007, 15:26
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I should be penning lines that recall
The ancients from whom we’ve been sundered
But the purpose of writing this is all
To see this thread pass six hundred
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Littlestone
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Re: A Long Line
Oct 04, 2007, 15:30
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Thanks VJ (and everyone who's contributed) 'tis done :-)
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nigelswift
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Silbury Hill - Rev William Crowe (of Alton Barnes)
Oct 09, 2007, 05:37
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O Thou, to whom in the olden time was raised
Yon ample Mound, not fashion'd to display
An artful structure, but with better skill
Piled massive, to endure through many an age,
How simple, how majestic is thy tomb!
When temples and when palaces shall fall,
And mighty cities moulder into dust,
When to their deep foundations Time shall shake
The strong-based pyramids, shall thine remain
Amid the general ruin unsubdued,
Uninjured as the everlasting hills,
And mock the feeble power of storms and Time.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:GKJc2Xpm6_IJ:dev.hil.unb.ca/Texts/EPD/UNB/view-works.cgi%3Fc%3Dcrowewil.1336%26pos%3D1+%22william+CROWE%22+%22silbury%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8
Page 125
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moss
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Re: Silbury Hill - Rev William Crowe (of Alton Barnes)
Oct 09, 2007, 06:53
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I do so love 18th and 19th C vicars; one working day a week, a light ramble over the hills and then some 'noble' poetry.. luckily Crowe seems to have spent so much time at the theatre, and penning poems to his lady loves that he quite forgot to go excavating as well - a very unvicarish vicar... ;)
The Tor of Glastonbury! Even but now
I saw the hoary pile cresting the top
Of that north-western hill; and in this Now
A cloud hath pass'd on it, and its dim bulk
Becomes annihilate, or if not, a spot
Which the strain'd vision tires itself to find.
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Littlestone
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Re: Silbury Hill - Rev William Crowe (of Alton Barnes)
Oct 09, 2007, 09:36
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Thanks Nigel.
Seems there are two Rev William Crowe - this one of (1745-1829) and another of (1691–1743). Wonder if they were related.
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nigelswift
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Dowsing History's Mysteries - Denis Wheatley
Oct 16, 2007, 17:54
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To map the magic of the Rollright Ring
To feel the lines of force pulse through the air
To lay its megalithic secrets bare
In the stillness of a summer evening
To walk in wonder through the Avebury Stones
And track earth’s whispering patterns there
Then dowse the rings about the Devil’s Chair
And know the nature of their undertones
To stand in awe within the Stonehenge zone
And check the powers that charge the winter’s air
To probe its dazzling patterns, then dare
To sound the secrets of the Slaughter Stone
To view the world from Silbury’s soaring crest
And sense the power throbbing in its core
In tune with Gaia’s geodetic law
These earthly enigmas I treasure best.
These monuments were raised by men who knew
The patterned secrets in the planet’s crust
Who harnessed Gala’s power with sacred trust
In circle, barrow, hill and avenue.
Their sacred circles now stand vandalised
The sarcens grey and shattered lie around
Razed by religious zealots to the ground
Who saw Satan in the circles they despised.
Yet Silbury Hill still thrusts towards the sun
Like the breast of a giant Amazon
Immune to all, this cryptic paragon
Preceded Mycenae, Crete and Babylon
And like the pyramids win also be
As enduring as Everest, or the sea
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Littlestone
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Re: Dowsing History's Mysteries - Denis Wheatley
Oct 16, 2007, 18:32
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That's a stunner Nigel. Is the Denis Wheatley the Denis Wheatley of [bThe Devil Rides Out[/b] fame?
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nigelswift
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Re: Dowsing History's Mysteries - Denis Wheatley
Oct 16, 2007, 18:48
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No its not.
It IS a stunner isn't it?
It must be (genuinely) wonderful to be a dowser and feel you are experiencing that whole other dimension at ancient sites.
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Littlestone
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Tony Grist: Henge, barrow and midsummer hill
Oct 24, 2007, 08:35
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Henge, barrow and midsummer hill
Are stations in the sacred landscape.
Here the timeless Goddess enters
The times of her tribes. It was lifetimes back
And what it meant we have almost forgotten,
Almost forgotten.
We killed a child
With great honour and buried her body
Curled like a snail at the heart of the henge
Where earth spirits might rise through her grave,
Follow the curve of the bent bones
And spiral out among villagers dancing
The sunwheel dance that is danced in spring.
A captive ghost, in my meditation,
She takes my hand, but I cannot lead her
Beyond the ring where the magic fixed her.
She will be four years old forever,
And crowned with flowers.
But all the rest of us
Have to be laid in tribal earth
To be remade by the winter Goddess
Before we come back to the world again.
She is the sow that eats her farrow,
Old bones cracking within the barrow,
But to those whom she fails to frighten
A giver of gifts.
No corpses lie
On midsummer hill, but of all the stations
This is the saddest. The sun on high
Burns, burns as midsummer’s Queen
Hands over her whitening world to death-
The fields by severance and the woods
By slow decay. With her hair combed out
In its red gold sheaves she is perfect strength
And perfect beauty about to fade
As from this moment summer does-
And the child will leave its mother and
The long procession wind down the hill.
Tony Grist
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