Taversoe Tuick Side-chamber…..The Talking Rivers Collective……..Science Pics……
by Bernie Bell - 09:51 on 07 February 2024
Taversoe Tuick Side-chamber…..
Another most excellent piece from Sigurd Towrie….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/taversoe-tuick-outer-chamber/
And, once again, my tuppenceworth…
“Back to the cairn. It’s built on two ‘stories’, which is un-usual. It also has an off-shoot – an extra little chamber, lying just outside the main cairn. This is an intriguing little ‘cell’. I wondered was it for some kind of rite-of-passage, or initiation? as in, place someone in there, for maybe a few days, and they’d come out crazy, clear-headed, or both! Other cultures, even very modern societies, today, have isolation tanks. The idea, as far as I can gather, is to cut off all external stimuli, so that the person……goes inside them-self, to their inner world, to ……………….meet them-self. Maybe a similar idea, here? Initiation, through isolation.
We recently attended a seminar at Orkney College, where Julie Gibson ( County Archaeologist) mentioned that there is a small ‘channel’ linking this side-cell, to the main cairn. If noises (!) are made in the side-cell, they can be heard in the main cairn. Is this part of the function of the side-cell? Changing states of consciousness? It’s a small cell, so you’d have to be a small person, to fit in it, or a young person – a teenager?”
As written in this piece…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/05/18/bernie-bell-orkney-walks-with-stories-rousay/ “
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The Talking Rivers Collective…..
To quote Mr. Mac – again!
“To anyone interested in rivers, rights, re-thinking property & re-imagining water relations, these three seminars––by the excellent Talking Rivers collective–– have just been announced.”
For in case the Tweet disappears….
https://talkingrivers.org/we-are-all-in-this-together
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Science Pics…..
Marram Grass = Aliens!
There is nothing I can say about what happened in Japan.
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