Discovered my 2005 pencil notes
on stone age religion that had come to
me in a dream of finding myself in a
henge barrow religious ceremony
circa end of new stone age copper age
for someone uncomfortable
with crowds I tried
to reconstruct what I remember from
a barrow talk with woolly Neolithic people
strange I could give time or time slip to
such things in 2005
Everyone talking at once and indicated a changing pantheon of deities afterlife, creations and belief systems around a central
old stone age core
Neolithic divinity names were
simple nouns Sun, Vegetation,
water, underworld etc but I here i use archetype names ie Neksa
Kal was
their ancient and once universal ancestral
goddess from the
paleolithic the world feminine holding up the natural
world supreme creator totally obeyed totally without mercy yet all mercy all love
A survival from the old
stone age hunting female
magic and realisation
Kalanash is the name of her
wild and untouched nature that was once the whole earth passionate
untamed a underworld and
fertility goddess, all
the dead who dwell in her earth are alive her rituals are dreams and spirits
Dana the goddess of
human nature, keeper of the crop,
the calendar and seasons,
the pathways and boundaries
Dananash is the name of her cultivated and settled land
and Dana can be seen to be
the generic term for a local
goddess as the real name of Dana is known only to the individual
worshipper as to say the name of Dana would have her power stolen by Kal
Dana receives
regular ritual and human lives as
boundary sacrifices
Bele the
sun in travelling also Bele the moon and Bele the
earth and what can be taken from the earth
Neksa the waters
rivers and springs
lifeforce wedded to Bele sun and moon
Dunos the
sun in shining sky
and earth in shining
wedded to Dana. Creator of Tir
Tir the new son the
greening of copper and the greening of the land sun god who shines on his believers
as a lover wedded to Neksa the waters where he drowns daily in her love
and is then reborn daily to Dana
on land. Creator of Finta from this union with Neksa
and Dana
Finta the
boundaries between earth
and ocean bog,
mere and marsh Finta
is the other and
the underworld and grants life everlasting to those born
to Bele
Changes in theology
late Neolithic
Kal has no secret name like Dana
and is depicted as the wanderer driven from her land
hidden from people who
turns the dead into animals and
knows all secrets A lover of Bele she makes the earth fruitful and wild. Kal raises the storm and
the clouds to beguile Bele and
break down the boundaries and
pathways. A vengeful nature blinding Bele in the arms of Neksa with her wild
thorns
Bele is the rising
sun a blind man guided by Dunos
who guides Bele on his pathways marked
out by the trails and causeways and which
make up the cultivated land Dananash
Bele is further guided by the running streams and springs
of Neksa and the irrigation
channels her believers make to bring water
to the dead to bring them to Finta
who takes them to the other
life as
bird like people not animals
Kal the Bone goddess
the idea of wild places ( Kalanash) and undomesticated animals turn the once
absolute feminine Kal into a
nightmare demon and
outside goddess always present always at birth and death
The union of sky and earth in Dana
Dunos and the creation of the new
child Tir at winter solstice who
becomes the greening of
copper and foliage a
metal working nature god who takes Neksa from the arms of Bele
and confines her waters and
flowing rivers so that Sun and Ocean die
in the power of settled humanity and are taken to Finta celebrated by separating
lovers, widening ditches and
pathways
Tir is a god
greater than and neither sky or earth who
enters all believers in times of
ritual using metal and growing
crops turning them into "shining people" who will live
forever where as Kal
now referred to as Cal is goddess
of outsiders and the wild.
Her forests and
rivers are seen as "standing people"
and a transformation of Kal
/Cal into a green
goddess of docility accompanied by
the wandering birds of the ancestors
Cala
Late
neolithic stone age to bronze age changes in society mirror changes in the pantheon
Tir as ultimate god of
metal working, nature and land also
creates other deities to serve him as
the shining people are so weakened
by their devotions to Tir such as
Belin the sun in fire and sun in moon.
Ke the human woman who learnt from Dana who she
served from childhood to old age and supplants Dana as the
new goddess of Agriculture.
Gwy the
spear a man who becomes a god of war and wages a successful war
against Tir by stealing his metal working powers.
Suldoc
the creator of a post Tir earth the long man surveyor kept imprisoned underground after his
creation of a new earth and who speaks across the
other boundaries ,
Danu
the former great goddess now only a boundary marking goddess
receiving human sacrifice to mark the calendar.
Cala
the goddess of
outside secrets and dreams
whisperer and wanderer.
Finte the
goddess of rebirth and the
underworld.
late Neolithic copper
age religion increasing patriachical with recited community anthems telling of hero quest
warriors who change sex and
live other peoples lives ( Agarrtha,
Arro and Sone) celebration of a god/goddess , lover and leader
who speaks to believers directly in ritual and recitation
of community anthems
strangely enough little emphasis
on the henge and
the solstice seasons
some feedback on Zennor
wedding see previous post including
one reviewer who had
contemplated on the meaning of the title
Zennor wedding -- honestly its
just a place name! Zennor in Cornwall
Don't contemplate the meaning
it is like spending a day
meditating on the meaning of
place names like Trenton New Jersey or Walgett
New South Wales
"Seems every
civilization has some tale of forlorn love, widowed wanderers that haunt young
lovers...I really liked the line about the goddess of the sea...but maybe it is
female, jealous of love and hungry for sailors to make women on land feel her
loneliness! or not...great write!"
"it's always interesting
to hear about folklore from different places, especially that from the ocean
which seems to have a unique appeal and set of legends attached to it. I like
how you play upon the siren element, a bit like the mermaid luring sailors to
their deaths before vanishing into the briny abyss."
"Sounds like maybe he
ran off to the sea, or was monstrous kin to Grendel, and persisted through
Greek legends - very clever and the sea, the mermaids and the men will always
be romantically wondrous. Much enjoyed and thanks! (contemplating the title
still)"
"loved it, not much more
to say than that"
Not written
any poetry since early September "the Ragletters" my
kindle e book available on Amazon
world wide now in third edition
unsuccessful in my application for volunteer
in help with Dreamweaver
website design and me a former teacher of Dreamweaver !!!
expressed "disappointment"
in interview delivery re email in response to make them feel important and me as
loser but truthfully my
disappointment with their interview delivery- was that I was interviewed by
people with no skills or experience in website design
an IT support manager who
commented" I was using IT
jargon and terminology the "IT support manager" had never
heard of" and who to their frustration totally
failed to gain the higher ground in
IT points scoring with me and the other who spend all the
time asking me "what I had been doing in the past year"
as interviewers go they were a
comedy sketch
"I would love to meet
and have a chat about what we can do. I do not have any paid tutoring at the
moment, relying instead on volunteers. However, I would hope this may change in
the future."
yet again a Advert for
part time IT tutor in my
specialist area like other
organisations in this area they are charities wanting to be community learning centres but lacking the expertise or funding
that they expect the services
of skilled qualified staff but dependent on declining government funding have nothing to pay
them with
it is
nothing new
Recently an organisation was keen to have me on their team as adult learning co coordinator 5 days a week but as
volunteer staff only and can you recall how many volunteer
IT tutor and volunteer Website
developer positions have I
had interviews for and then
discovered they do not
even pay travel expenses even if it is to the next town or city
but expected a minimum of 16 hours a week from me
and what is the
UK governments solution announced
this week re long term unemployed
ie the ones I use to teach that if they
do not want to pick up litter or cook
for the elderly everyone on JSA job seekers allowance £55 a
week will work at least
30 hours a week unpaid for local
charities in what ever role makes them useful!
what a way for charities to cut those nuisance
salary costs!!!
funny thing is cleaners and
caring for the elderly are one of
few areas still advertising jobs obviously
government with its new buzzline "a
country and a party for hardworking people" unrealistically see unemployed as a welfare
millionaire sub culture to be
solved to be forced
like criminals into free community service instead of actually
creating jobs and funding training
