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Post by Lee on Aug 24, 2016 21:51:17 GMT -1
I will do a second part (and possibly a third too), can I plump for the October date?
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Post by Heron on Aug 26, 2016 15:47:28 GMT -1
I will do a second part (and possibly a third too), can I plump for the October date? OK I'll do mine early in September.
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Post by lorna on Aug 27, 2016 10:37:57 GMT -1
I've posted Gwenno's post as 'Two Giantesses: Moll and Melangell' on the blog today - dunbrython.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/two-giantesses-moll-and-melangell-by-gwenno/So, with what we've agreed above... we're looking organised early-September - Heron 'Welsh Bards and the Gods' mid-September - Lorna 'Final Harvest and Gwyn's Feast' early-October - Lee 'Lord of the Waters II' mid-October- (TBC) Calan Gaeaf seasonal festivals early-November - Gwyn's Guest - Robin/Lorna mid-November - Collen-Giantess - Lorna early-December - (TBC) Midwinter seasonal festivals mid-December - Lee 'Gwyn and the Koryos' early January - Lorna 'Brythonic Polytheism and the Land' Later in the year Lorna 'Giants' and Lee 'Lord of the Waters III'
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Post by Lee on Sept 30, 2016 9:44:04 GMT -1
early-October - Lee 'Lord of the Waters II'
mid-October- (TBC) Calan Gaeaf seasonal festivals
early-November - Gwyn's Guest - Robin/Lorna
mid-November - Collen-Giantess - Lorna
early-December - Lee Midwinter seasonal festivals
mid-December - Lee 'Gwyn and the Koryos'
early January - Lorna 'Brythonic Polytheism and the Land'
late January - Lee - Lord of the Waters III
Later in the year Lorna 'Giants'
I will take the Midwinter Seasonal festivals one
i was thinking of doing some one off, pictures of shrines for festivals or something. i am going to do one over the next 2 days for Gwyn's feast. just to add a bit of variety maybe?
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Post by Heron on Oct 1, 2016 8:42:13 GMT -1
early-October - Lee 'Lord of the Waters II' mid-October- (TBC) Calan Gaeaf seasonal festivals early-November - Gwyn's Guest - Robin/Lornamid-November - Collen-Giantess - Lornaearly-December - Lee Midwinter seasonal festivals mid-December - Lee 'Gwyn and the Koryos' early January - Lorna 'Brythonic Polytheism and the Land' late January - Lee - Lord of the Waters III Later in the year Lorna 'Giants' I will take the Midwinter Seasonal festivals one i was thinking of doing some one off, pictures of shrines for festivals or something. i am going to do one over the next 2 days for Gwyn's feast. just to add a bit of variety maybe? As you haven't got anyone for Calan Gaeaf I could try to do something. Should it be late- rather than mid-October?
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Post by lorna on Oct 3, 2016 8:48:40 GMT -1
@ Lee Thanks for taking mid-winter. I'll look forward to seeing your shrines for Gwyn's Feast.
@ Heron 'As you haven't got anyone for Calan Gaeaf I could try to do something. Should it be late- rather than mid-October?'
I'd say it would be best posted on Nos Galan Gaeaf or Calan Gaeaf. What do others think?
Should we also add Eponalia?
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Post by Heron on Oct 22, 2016 8:36:34 GMT -1
@ Lee Thanks for taking mid-winter. I'll look forward to seeing your shrines for Gwyn's Feast. @ Heron 'As you haven't got anyone for Calan Gaeaf I could try to do something. Should it be late- rather than mid-October?' I'd say it would be best posted on Nos Galan Gaeaf or Calan Gaeaf. What do others think? Should we also add Eponalia? I've saved a draft of 'seasonal festivals at Caan Gaeaf' on the blog. Are we agreed that I should delay posting it until the end of the month? Yes I think we should have Eponalia. But if so should we amend the proposed schedule which has Lee doing 'Gwyn and the Koryos' in mid December or are we happy squeezing things in? I think there's an argument for letting a new post sit for a while before posting again, but as everything can be seen on the blog format we are using perhaps this doesn't matter?
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Post by Lee on Oct 24, 2016 9:20:28 GMT -1
I think posting it a few days before would be fine, it gives people a chance to read and maybe even incorporate something into their own practice Totally agree on this one, Eponalia is a shared thing and celebrates a goddess who to some degree connects all of us here. I can do the Koryos post on Christmas Day - it fits nicely with the 12 days of Christmas being he prime wild hunt time. Scheduling means I dont have to be up and posting early on the day too
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Post by lorna on Oct 26, 2016 7:37:29 GMT -1
Ok...
So we're going something like this? -
End of October - Calan Gaeaf seasonal festivals - Heron
early-November - Gwyn's Guest - Robin/Lorna
mid-November - Collen-Giantess - Lorna
early-December - Lee Midwinter seasonal festivals
18th December - Eponalia - Heron
25th December - Lee 'Gwyn and the Koryos'
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Lee, are you happy with Midwinter festivals being before midwinter? May it be easier, if you haven't written the piece already, to amalgamate Gwyn and the Koryos and midwinter?
I'd totally forgotten I was meant to be retelling Collen and the giantess! Better get on to that...
I recall we'd also planned something for 'The Dark One' in November. If someone wants to take the lead on that, that's cool. If not maybe something to think about next year?
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Post by Lee on Oct 26, 2016 9:29:02 GMT -1
Midwinter festivals is fine in early Dec, I haven't written it yet so no problems.
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Post by Heron on Oct 27, 2016 10:59:29 GMT -1
Ok... ... I recall we'd also planned something for 'The Dark One' in November. If someone wants to take the lead on that, that's cool. If not maybe something to think about next year? There will be an intuition of this in my seasonal festivals for Calan Gaeaf in a day or so ... Though it doesn't feel like Winter just yet, only confirming me in my long held opinion that because of calendar change putting it out of synch with the season, and more recently also climate change, Calan Gaeaf in Nature might be as much as 3 weeks into November by now. But the traditional Calan Gaeaf date does have some significance still and must be acknowledged. For my personal observances I'll wait till after the last quarter of the Moon which will be quite late in November. We have previously discussed having a 'Winter Night's' festival around then, or was that accommodating Heathen practice in response to Jez when she was with us? This, surely, is the time of the Dark One.
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Post by Lee on Jan 1, 2017 18:45:55 GMT -1
early January - Lorna 'Brythonic Polytheism and the Land' late January - Brigantica - Early Feb - Lee - Lord of the Waters IIILate Feb - Early March - Late March - Early April - We are almost at our anniversary of the blog. I have put up the blank schedule for us to fill out As we planned to focus on the festivals to get a complete annual cycle for this first year, I wonder if we should think about a 'theme' or focus on the coming year? Lee
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Post by lorna on Jan 2, 2017 8:16:39 GMT -1
@ Lee - thanks for posting the schedule for the next few months. Yes - go us! Two more festivals to go and then we're back to the beginning I'd be up for covering the Spring Equinox, as I've got some thoughts on how that relates to Creiddylad and Blodeuwedd, and I recall that others didn't feel too connected with it, if that's ok? I'm also planning to do something on giants, but that will be later in the year. We did have the idea of writing essays on a group of subjects for a primer, which we listed here - caerfeddwyd.proboards.com/thread/1992/brython-primer We could carry on working through these unless anyone has a more exciting idea? Were we going to start loading the essays on the festivals and on more general topics onto the website at some point?
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Post by Heron on Jan 3, 2017 14:30:42 GMT -1
I look forward to seeing what you come up with for Spring Equinox Lorna.
I see that I offered to do the Mythological/Literary/ Cultural topic, so I'll aim to do this in the late February slot, or at least a concise version with possibly a longer piece later for the website.
I notice that there is a 'Walking the Land' topic in that list too. That's something I wouldn't mind considering for a later date.
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Post by Lee on Jan 3, 2017 14:34:24 GMT -1
The Primer is a great idea! The first two sections could fit comfortably into 12 months with some merging (Greg said he would do the first three as one) such as the Walking the land and pilgrimage for example.
If we were to do 1 a month from April or May, it would leave another 12 slots available in which we can drop other things we come up with or even to invite other writers to contribute to?
Perhaps, after the Spring Equinox post, we could do an 'anniversary' post looking back at the year, mentioning some stuff will go up on the website and to lay out the primer as the next 12 months.
On the subject of of the website, once we get to April, I will turn the festivals blog posts into pages on the website. If there are suggestions for other articles to go up on the website, let me know. I have added to the Nodens one already.
The Primer sections could be done as 12 chapters as follows;
Background Archaeological/historical, Mythological/literary and Cultural - Greg
Deities Gods & goddesses - I think this is largely covered on the website, so perhaps we think about how to broach this one. Spirits of the land & Faeries - Ancestors -
Devotional Practice Ritual - Prayer - Meditation - Trance - Journeying - Dreams and Dreaming - Lorna Poetry, song, storytelling - Walking the land & Pilgrimage -
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Post by lorna on Jan 3, 2017 17:31:04 GMT -1
@ Lee - EDITED 5/01/2017 as I got the wrong of the stick of something! Plus an addition at the end.
One of the 'Primer' themes a month with us sharing the work - 4 each over the year beginning Calan Mai - sounds very doable, with extras slotted in if they come to us.
My essay on Inclusivity in Brythonic Polytheism is ready to post on the main site.
I've completed 'Dreams' but it needs re-writing following some comments on the blog.
My piece on Brythonic Polytheism and the Land has actually come out as Brythonic Polytheism in the Lancashire Landscape as my experience of gods and place is really specific to the relationships I've built up over years and I find it very difficult to speak in the abstract. I'll post it over the weekend and await comments to see if it's suitable for the site.
Didn't you cover ritual, Lee?
I've noticed we have two different essays on Gods & Goddesses - 'A Brythonic Pantheon' by Megli, and 'An Indo-European Perspective of the Gods' by Deiniol Jones (admittedly this is missing the goddesses!). Maybe these can suffice for now? If we're going to be posting the other essays individually rather than under specific headings maybe they need separating out? I guess it depends on the choice of layout?
It's possible that prayer, meditation, trance and journeying could be covered in a single post under the heading of Devotional Practice? I know that the latter three aren't always devotionally focused in paganism, but I'd say they are in Brythonic Polytheism (I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this!). I also think we need to make room for offerings somewhere in this area.
I'm wondering whether land spirits and fairies should be in separate essays as the former are of thisworld and the latter are of the otherworld although, of course, the worlds are connected and many fay are connected with specific places... I think land spirits could be quite wordy as we'd need to cover the spirits of everything from rivers to animals, trees, plants, stones etc. I think fairies could be quite wordy too as there's a lot of fairylore. It's possible I could write something on the relationships between Gwyn and the spirits of Annwn and the fairies/Tylwyth Teg, but I'm aware others are knowledgeable in these areas and may want to cover them?
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Post by cunedda on Jan 5, 2017 10:07:29 GMT -1
Just a quick note to all you experts!
I would love to help and contribute but sadly I feel I would be a tad out of my depth. That said, please don't hold back of any of your ideas, your work is greatly appreciated and avidly read!
Cunedda
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Post by lorna on Jan 5, 2017 15:50:39 GMT -1
@ Cunedda - if you'd love to contribute please do. Your contribution can be as short or long, experiential or academic as you wish. Plus it's not only essays/research we'd like to share but prayers, devotions, pictures of altar space, personal experiences, general thoughts on Brythonic Polytheism. If there's anything you'd like to share please let us know and we'll work together on getting something up for you
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Post by solsdottir on Jan 5, 2017 21:44:47 GMT -1
Hi, this is Solsdottir. I wrote a blog post for you on Brigantia, at Lorna's kind invitation. I have been thinking about posts on Sucellus (especially as a working-class god) and on Cernunnos and Flidais as deities with similiar concerns and powers. Would either of these be interesting to you?
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