Connecting With Ancient Architecture
by Bernie Bell - 08:19 on 19 July 2022
Monday was a quiet day - so I stepped into the archives..... https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/08/20/what-the-architecture-tells-us/
In their book Marianne and Elisabeth have a section about Vinquoy Cairn, Eday, which friend Wendy wrote a poem about….
Vinquoy Cairn
Two of us enter
on hands and knees
through close dark passage
to round chamber of stone
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thin light filters from
circular hole above
where layered rocks
draw up and lean in
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fingers stretch out
to touch each side
the green dampness
of ancient walls
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four low small rooms
from the centre lead out
in cardinal directions,
we pray to each:
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fire, air, earth, water
then sound begins
in my throat
with my breath
****
seeping out from the stones
up through my body
resonating vibrations
of some other voice
****
strong and deep
a masculine intonation of
powerful prayer from
old earth rituals
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then, slowly, softly
female song rises
harmonic waves
possess this space
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body and rock
mind and place
resound as one,
in the voice
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time falls away
I return to myself
and the quiet
and the now
and you.
*****
Wendy Alford May 2019
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While on th subject of connecting with ancient architecture - just in from the dig at the Ness of Brodgar..... https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-diary-probing-the-mega-drain-while-more-of-structure-eighteen-is-revealed/
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