tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560448700150815176.post1052568927651083938..comments2023-10-31T08:06:48.834-07:00Comments on Westcountry School of Myth and Story: the old, low notechange agenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18397784181515222007noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5560448700150815176.post-44272864604064787322015-08-01T06:12:21.765-07:002015-08-01T06:12:21.765-07:00Lots to chew on here.
I am very interested in the...Lots to chew on here.<br /><br />I am very interested in the character of different stories. There are some, which would probably fall into the more 'pastoral' category which trip off the tongue and don't feel heavy to carry. However I don't agree that we don't need these sorts of tales - I think these more affirmative and pastoral stories have their place and are needed to keep the village stable. These stories are not heavy or ponderous and we do not need to speak in the language of the stars to tell them, but they must be treated with a light touch and level of care as these are the tales that tell us how things are in the day-to-day. There is a need for a bright eyed elder to keep their ears open for when the pastoral becomes polluted and twisted... or maybe these stories have younger guardians - children and young people who challenge the concrete senex churning out the same old tales and break through the pastoral past... These stories will shape a person from the outside so I suppose it is the young who will grow into and then desire to grow beyond the external mould these sorts of stories have created for them.<br /> <br /><br />Then there are the other stories; the wild murmurings of the earth that seems to echo from within and without the human soul. These are the stories I hear you tell and write and these are the stories that, when I have told them myself, have made me realise how little I know and how much I want to learn. They are the tales that have stirred audiences and, more often than not, stirred me so deeply and in such an unfamiliar and strange they have sometimes made me physically ill. These are also the stories that have healed me and I know these are the stories we are desperately in need of today. <br /><br />So maybe we need both, but I think we need the prophetic most desperately. How can we know and be awake and be aware of the shapes our pastoral folktales have created unless we have been blown apart of silently schooled by the beings within those wild, prophetic tales. <br /><br />We need to regrow our furry ears, starlit tongues and wear oak-bark armour so there are more individuals who can bring these ancient stirrings to more villages across the land. AbbieStoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889014267248014030noreply@blogger.com