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morfe

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lest we forget

Aug 09, 2005, 18:30

The Song of Amergin

I am a stag of seven tines,
I am a wide flood on a plain,
I am a wind on the deep waters,
I am a shining tear of the sun,
I am a hawk on a cliff,
I am fair among flowers,
I am a god who sets the head afire with smoke.
I am a battle waging spear,
I am a salmon in the pool,
I am a hill of poetry,
I am a ruthless boar,
I am a threatening noise of the sea,
I am a wave of the sea,
Who but I knows the secrets of the unhewn dolmen ?

This man belives the World is sacred, likewise all that grows in it. The stones and the mounds seem 'extra', as in 'other'. Not necessarily 'sacred' in the same way that life and the universe is, but linked to family/time/death/life/returning-place/birth. They seem not to BE the sanctity, but a mirror of it.

I don't feel veneration of these objects, stones, mounds, but rather the symbolism and representation of these people-made places 'within' the sacred landscape. That's exactly how they makes me feel , even after 30 years of 'involvement.'

*be*

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"Sacred" as a prehistoric adjective... (Pilgrim)

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