Category: Detritus

Sublimation made a monster out of me.

I could burn for a thousand years and never be warm enough

Could melt with a thousand suns

and never feel a thing

In the burning lands

where old gods wither

and dead men walk

with their eyes of glass

and cold,cold souls

In the underworld

lower than beyond

and further still

This poem’s beginning to suck again, but I’ll get it eventually.

There’s a baby doll hung in effigy from the window blinds. She’s tightrope walking the bag of the couch to the strains of Oingo Boingo and when admonished responds with a sullen “I just don’t like you Mom.” Now, one can only tolerate this to a certain degree, but you still have to admire her spirit.

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URL: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/green_man.html

Green Man: “Green Man

by Alan G. Hefner

A legendary pagan deity who roams the woodlands of the British Isles and Europe. He usually is depicted as a horned man peering out of a mask of foliage, usually the sacred oak. He is known by other names such as ‘Green Jack, ‘Jack-in-the-Green’ and ‘Green George.’ He represents spirits of trees, plants and foliage. It is believed he has rain making powers to foster livestock with lush meadows. He was frequently depicted in medieval art, including church decorations.

Green George, as he is usually called in spring Pagan rites, is represented by a young man dressed head to foot in greenery, who leads the festival procession. In various festivals, Green George, or an effigy of him, is dunked in a river or pond to ensure that there will be enough rain to make the meadows and pastures green. >{? It is also believed by some the Green Man shares an affinity with the forest-dwelling fairies since green is the fairy color. In some locals of the British Isles the fairies are called ‘Greenies’ and ‘Greencoaties.’ In the myth of ‘The Fairy Children,’ there appears two fairy children, a brother and a sister, who have green skin and claim to be of a race with green skin”

“Green Man.” Encyclopedia Mythica.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/green_man.html

[Accessed October 14th, 2003.]

http://www.spiralgoddess.com/GreenMan.html

courtesy of online-mythology.com:

Endymion was a beautiful youth who fed his flock on Mount Latmos.

One calm, clear night, Diana, the Moon, looked down and saw him

sleeping. The cold heart of the virgin goddess was warmed by his

surpassing beauty, and she came down to him, kissed him, and

watched over him while he slept.

Another story was that Jupiter bestowed on him the gift of

perpetual youth united with perpetual sleep. Of one so gifted we

can have but few adventures to record. Diana, it was said, took

care that his fortunes should not suffer by his inactive life,

for she made his flock increase, and guarded his sheep and lambs

from the wild beasts.

The story of Endymion has a peculiar charm from the human meaning

which it so thinly veils. We see in Endymion the young poet, his

fancy and his heart seeking in vain for that which can satisfy

them, finding his favorite hour in the quiet moonlight, and

nursing there beneath the beams of the bright and silent witness

the melancholy and the ardor which consumes him. The story

suggests aspiring and poetic love, a life spent more in dreams

than in reality, and an early and welcome death.

S. G. Bulfinch

The Endymion of Keats is a wild and fanciful poem, containing

some exquisite poetry, as this, to the moon:

‘The sleeping kine

Couched in thy brightness dream of fields divine.

Innumerable mountains rise, and rise,

Ambitious for the hallowing of thine eyes,

And yet thy benediction passeth not

One obscure hiding place, one little spot

Where pleasure may be sent; the nested wren

Has thy fair face within its tranquil ken.’

Dr. Young in the Night Thoughts alludes to Endymion thus:

‘These thoughts, O Night, are thine;

>From thee they came like lovers’ secret sighs,

While others slept. So Cynthia, poets feign,

In shadows veiled, soft, sliding from her sphere,

Her shepherd cheered, of her enamored less

Than I of thee.’

Fletcher, in the Faithful Shepherdess, tells,

‘How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove,

First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes

She took eternal fire that never dies;

How she conveyed him softly in a sleep,

His temples bound with poppy, to the steep

Head of Old Latmos, where she stoops each night,

Gilding the mountain with her brother’s light,

To kiss her sweetest.'”

appears to be broken:)

No one’s writing to me, but everyone’s invading my subconscious, it seems.

Nobody’s emailed me all weekend long. Except for spam. I really need to get a nonelectronic social life.

Yggdrasil: The World Tree

Yggdrasil: “In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (‘The Terrible One’s Horse’), also called the World Tree, is the giant ash tree that links and shelters all the worlds. Beneath the three roots the realms of Asgard, Jotunheim, and Niflheim are located. Three wells lie at its base: the Well of Wisdom (M?misbrunnr), guarded by Mimir; the Well of Fate (Urdarbrunnr), guarded by the Norns; and the Hvergelmir (Roaring Kettle), the source of many rivers.

Yggdrasil.” Encyclopedia Mythica.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/y/yggdrasil.html

[Accessed October 11th, 2003.]

Four deer run across the branches of the tree and eat the buds; they represent the four winds. There are other inhabitants of the tree, such as the squirrel Ratatosk (‘swift teeth’), a notorious gossip, and Vidofnir (‘tree snake’), the golden cock that perches on the topmost bough. The roots are gnawed upon by Nidhogg and other serpents. On the day of Ragnarok, the fire giant Surt will set the tree on fire.

Other names for the tree include: Ask Yggdrasil, Hoddmimir’s Wood, Laerad and Odin’s Horse.

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