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Category Archives: Sacred sites
Year of the Pig…
Image – Sue Vincent * The device of riddling is common to most traditional cultures. Maidens set riddles for their suitors: ‘What is sweeter than mead…?’ ‘What is whiter than snow…?’ ‘What is lighter than a spark…?’ * Antagonists use … Continue reading
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Time travelling: A place of kings and “holy air…”
“Holy air encased in stone” … that is how Sir John Betjeman described the crypt at Repton, and it was this that we had come to see… we hoped. On a previous visit, the crypt had been locked. This time, … Continue reading
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Big Stone Culture…
Two-Thousand-and-Twenty-Three an Asylum Reality… ‘That could almost be the watchtower of Amon Sul…’ *** … Exclaimed one of our Companions on their first view of Carl Wark. It was a well observed remark and one Tolkien himself would, perhaps, have … Continue reading
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Soul-Seer…
Bryn Celli Ddu – Interior *** Deep in the belly of the earth, somewhere in Wales… Bark Jaw-Dark was under attack… First she was a speck, black against the sky, then she was an arrow balancing the breeze, finally, after … Continue reading
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Time Bleed…
*** … “Stratford Strange Day!” “I don’t know what you mean?” “Well, the first thing was our conversation before we’d even properly decided we were going to Stratford…” “Which one?” “Statues!” “Oh, that one. It didn’t strike me as particularly … Continue reading
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St Michael’s-on-Wyre…
*** I first visited St Michael’s-on-Wyre over forty-five years ago. I was around eight or nine years old at the time and we called in on the way back from a day on Beacon Fell. Something about the memory of … Continue reading
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Phantom Inns…
* Count Jan Potocki (pron. Yan Pototchkee) was born of an aristocratic Polish family in 1761. In 1815, shortly after completing his masterwork, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, and suffering from a chronic illness he took his own life by … Continue reading
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Temples Too…
*** The space created by the temple, for augury, originally, appears to have been in order to better observe the flight of birds across the sky. To afford them focus and meaning. Their point of origin, the direction of travel, … Continue reading
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Living Ones…
‘Solar Bear’ – Sue Vincent 2009 *** … “Well,” says Wen, with a mischievous grin playing across her features, “I have some more shocking news for you.” “Really?” say I. Not really paying too much attention because most of that … Continue reading
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