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Johanna's Tapestry: January 2014

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014. The city wants to eat us all up. But unlike being eaten by a wild animal, the city eats us from the inside out. Most of us don't notice this, because the city is just so good at dazzling us with a vast smorgasbord of distractions and simulations that feed our egos but can't actually fill the hollowness of an eaten soul. Posted by Goblin and Griffin. Friday, January 10, 2014. The Three Little Pigs. Or, domestication, industrialization, and the wild woods). A tapestry is created ...

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Johanna's Tapestry: November 2013

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Friday, November 29, 2013. Concerning the domestication of England. Bryan Sykes, " Saxons, Viking and Celts -. The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland. Posted by Goblin and Griffin. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Some weeks ago, I asked the Universe the question. I only do this occasionally, because sometimes I get an answer, and the answers are never a casual matter. This question was this:. 8220;Why couldnt I have been born at a time when people arent destroying the world? This was the answer:. The cut ...

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Johanna's Tapestry: An Offering of Gratitude

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Monday, March 30, 2015. An Offering of Gratitude. Gratitude, I thank you. Posted by Goblin and Griffin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Johanna (Yohanna) is the old form of my middle name, a name which I share with my mother's-father's-mother, and with my mother's-mother's-mother's-mother. These grandmothers and many of my other maternal Ancestors lived in the Overijssel region of the Netherlands, long before the sea waters were forced back, the rivers tamed, and the earth made dry. Carolyn Emerick -...

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Johanna's Tapestry: Gylfaginning and the lost tribe of Búri

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Friday, May 8, 2015. Gylfaginning and the lost tribe of Búri. Audhumbla), the cosmic cow, licks the first "god" Búri to life. From the Prose Edda. But something eventually came to tip that balance, shattering the equality of all forms of life, and setting in motion a terrible unfolding of events. So Vé and Vili and Odin slew the primeval, animate Ymer, and a vast and terrible flood drowned the original world. But because they were credited for the shape of and nature of the modern world that came aft...

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Johanna's Tapestry: May 2014

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Thursday, May 29, 2014. The Sacred Texts website has a great article. On pre-christian European winter festival rituals, originally published in 1912. Lots of references to Totemic animal masks. It also includes discussions of early mumming practices, the origins of Carnival, the connections between animal masks and animal sacrifice, and how the development of agriculture destroyed many of these traditions. Posted by Goblin and Griffin. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This web log presents my writings and in...

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Johanna's Tapestry: March 2014

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Brother Crow, Sister Osprey. Cormorants at the Columbia River. I admire how crows and other city birds, (along with animals like raccoons, coyotes, possums etc) are able to live so successfully in our paved, grey, seemingly-barren cities. But I wonder, do they look around them and recognize the dullness of billboard advertisements, freeway interchanges and corrugated iron? Perhaps instead, this is just where she finds herself, and so she makes do. Posted by Goblin and Griffin.

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Johanna's Tapestry: October 2013

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Sunday, October 13, 2013. I was born into a bubble. That wished it could save the world. When that bubble burst,. I found myself somewhere. That said it was the real world. House, marriage, kid, dog, car and more…. I made my home there. But as time continued,. I learned to see another bubble around me. That wished to destroy the world. And it is getting bigger. What will be left outside this bubble. Posted by Goblin and Griffin. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This web log presents my writings and insights a...

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Johanna's Tapestry: The Swallowing Monster

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Sillegny, St. Martin's Church, fresco detail. The Swallowing Monster Part I:. When I was twelve years old, I moved to a small community in the Midwest. It stood at the northern edge of a small town, and was surrounded on three sides by organic dairy cow fields and restored native prairie. And linking natural areas on the west and the east sides of the community was a beautiful creek flanked by three ponds. Until the day they took the ponds away. The Swallowing Monster Part II:.

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Johanna's Tapestry: July 2014

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Carnival Mask Traditions in the Netherlands. I have been looking for clues about old Dutch carnival and mumming traditions. Previously, I had found mask information and mask pictures for every European country except the Netherlands! Since I refused to believe they were the only European country without such a past, I decided to contact the wonderful folklorist and author GardenStone. And the images can be seen on pages 73-78. Thank you so much GardenStone, for sending me the link!

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Johanna's Tapestry: Where We Stopped Singing

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Where We Stopped Singing. Detail from Garden of Pleasure. Netherlands, S. (Bruges). But some of the songs carried SO much struggle and loss that some of the sons and daughters of those tribes traveled farther and farther away in an effort to lose or forget those songs. They didn’t realize that the songs themselves would heal them, if only they would stop running long enough to listen and to add their own voices. And so they stopped singing. Posted by Goblin and Griffin. Johanna (...