Archive for April, 2010

The King of May

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

  
Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?
With his long tail hanging down.
He sits quietly under every tree, in the folds of his velvet gown.
He drinks from the empty acorn cup, the dew that dawn sweetly bestows.
And taps his cane upon the ground, signals the snowdrops it’s time to grow.
                                                                Jethro Tull (Songs from the Wood) 
 
The Clan of Tubal [...]

A White Goddess

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

 
 
They worshipped the Great Goddess Danae, or Danu, and it is suggested that another band of these refugees went to Ireland, where they were known as the Tuatha De Danaan, “the Children of the Goddess Dana”.
Gerald Brousseau Gardner (1884 -1964)
 
Doncaster in South Yorkshire owes it’s name to the now more beautiful than it has been [...]