Orkney Native Wildlife Project Talk…..Maes Howe – 1964!....From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 09:43 on 16 January 2024
NOTA BENE.....DUE TO THE WEATHER - THIS TALK WILL NOW BE BY ZOOM ONLY!!!!!
Orkney Native Wildlife Project Talk…..
https://www.facebook.com/events/959975245546427/?ref=newsfeed&locale=en_GB
Who can resist a Nudibranch? I can easily resist the ‘cuteness’ of a stoat!....
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16248
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Maes Howe – 1964!....
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/maeshowe-1964/
This brought back fond memories of our friend Lilias ( Mathers) and her tales of when folk would knock on the door of Tormiston Farm – Lilias would put on her headscarf, get her torch and keys, and take them over for a tour of the mound.
Times change.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/08/20/what-the-architecture-tells-us/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/12/22/the-light-in-the-mound/
The film is mostly about the Maes Howe runes, and doesn’t mention the other Viking carvings of a seal, a sea-serpent/snake? and what is referred to as the Maes Howe Dragon. I’m of the view that it’s more likely to represent Fenrir – the wolf – pierced by a sword – that’s just how I see it! …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenrir
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From 'Emergence' Magazine...
An Interview with Paul Salopek
“We are this wondrous walking machine. We have evolved to set one foot in front of the other. We are exquisitely tuned to do this.”
For the past ten years, journalist Paul Salopek has been on a 24,000-mile journey retracing the migration pathways of the earliest humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age. Moving at the pace of his own footfalls—an epic experiment in slow journalism—Paul has traveled from Africa’s Rift Valley, heading eastward across the Middle East and Asia, and is currently walking through northeastern China. Over the coming years, he will continue to wind his way around the Earth, venturing across the Bering Sea by boat to Alaska and then continuing south on foot through the Americas to the southern tip of Chile.
In this conversation, Paul speaks to us from Liaoning province in China, seven hundred kilometers north of Beijing, before commencing his day’s journey to the northeast. Through the practice of walking, he has cultivated a deep sense of the “natural RPM” of the human body: about three miles per hour. Moving through the world as our ancestors did, Paul has become attuned to the ways time passes through and within us, from the wonder of the ancient pulse underfoot, to the fury of modern, mechanized time, to the long stretch of geologic time that turns everything—himself, cities, even rocks—ephemeral. Having experienced the power of walking to bring mind, body, and landscape together in conversation, Paul invites us to remember how the metronomic beat of our steps can help us rediscover the extraordinariness of the world around us. “
Plus…..
“Walking, Witnessing, and Our Primordial Nature
Paul Salopek & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
“I think the task before us is to re-learn what it means to walk as if everywhere is a temple. To approach how we are in relationship to the Living Earth as if it were a temple.”
— Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Saturday, January 27th, 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT)
Join Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Salopek and award-winning filmmaker, Emergence Magazine founder, and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee to explore the relationship between walking, witnessing, and our primordial nature. This online event is part of St. Ethelburga's Faith and Moral Courage series.
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