13th February 2007, 12:23 PM
Ok, point taken, humour chip re-inserted... Perhaps relevant to this debate is the whole Seahenge debate. I just googled Seahenge and Druid, as I remembered that some Druids took particular umbridge to the excavation of Seahenge. This is from the website of the Loyal Arthurian Warband (!), http://www.warband.org/sehenge_theatre.html
'Blackbird: I wondered why Seahenge, being a Bronze Age monument, is so important for you as a Druid?
Raven: For me as a Druid - you have [at Seahenge] an oak timbered circle, and obviously Druid's have a very strong connection with the oak... My family, my ancestors also come from that point on the Anglia landscape... As we sit around this field today, I see oak trees with their leaves coming off. In fact all the trees are not expected to live as long as they used to and are actually dying off.
From the root systems, the water table, all changing, over-development, pollution - all that - and an upside down oak tree [at Seahenge] showing its roots to us at this time when the oaks of East Anglia are dying off - [It's] the symbolic nature of it today really.
Raven's affiliation with the antiquity contained within the landscape of Norfolk linked with his concern for the relationships between the living landscape and his own spirituality.'
Obviously there is no point fighting this battle as we have already lost...
G
'Blackbird: I wondered why Seahenge, being a Bronze Age monument, is so important for you as a Druid?
Raven: For me as a Druid - you have [at Seahenge] an oak timbered circle, and obviously Druid's have a very strong connection with the oak... My family, my ancestors also come from that point on the Anglia landscape... As we sit around this field today, I see oak trees with their leaves coming off. In fact all the trees are not expected to live as long as they used to and are actually dying off.
From the root systems, the water table, all changing, over-development, pollution - all that - and an upside down oak tree [at Seahenge] showing its roots to us at this time when the oaks of East Anglia are dying off - [It's] the symbolic nature of it today really.
Raven's affiliation with the antiquity contained within the landscape of Norfolk linked with his concern for the relationships between the living landscape and his own spirituality.'
Obviously there is no point fighting this battle as we have already lost...
G