tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post228776747426394782..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: In a Pagan PlaceWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-50434337964088064602017-10-31T09:28:32.523+00:002017-10-31T09:28:32.523+00:00This quote from WB Yeats sums up Paganism, and the...This quote from WB Yeats sums up Paganism, and the mythopoeic world-view, for me:<br /><br />"Once every people in the world believed that trees were divine, and could take a human or grotesque shape and dance among the shadows; and that deer, and ravens and foxes, and wolves and bears, and clouds and pools, almost all things under the sun and moon, and the sun and moon, were not less divine and changeable. They saw in the rainbow the still bent bow of a god thrown down in his negligence; they heard in the thunder the sound of his beaten water-jar, or the tumult of his chariot wheels; and when a sudden flight of wild duck, or of crows, passed over their heads, they thought they were gazing at the dead hastening to their rest; while they dreamed of so great a mystery in little things that they believed the waving of a hand, or of a sacred bough, enough to trouble far-off hearts, or hood the moon with darkness."Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-88175834276448652872015-10-23T13:22:44.570+01:002015-10-23T13:22:44.570+01:00Thank you - definitely resonates and sort of fits ...Thank you - definitely resonates and sort of fits with my ponderings on the 'I AM' sayingsCatrionanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-51703124813775776372015-10-22T21:27:51.600+01:002015-10-22T21:27:51.600+01:00There are places of power, yes. Our remote ancest...There are places of power, yes. Our remote ancestors sensed this and they built altars, and rings of earth and timber and stone, to try to control and harness this power, whatever it is. Because the power isn't always benevolent. Wherever the Christians came, they replaced the pagan altars with shrines to the Virgin Mary and assorted saints, they built churches, to try to protect themselves against what they saw as demons. But go to the right place (such as Rollright) at the right time and you can still sense it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-25291232842319097432015-10-22T21:11:02.311+01:002015-10-22T21:11:02.311+01:00Genesis 28 too - "a certain place" - II...Genesis 28 too - "a certain place" - IIRC at least one translation suggests it was a pagan shrine... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com