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Mixed media painting. We came across a small stone, just outside the Avebury Circle which is used as a focus of devotion.
Secret Avebury.
We leave the circling sarsens,
peopling the village
with intimations of the distant past,
heading east into the sunrise, to the near horizon,
punctuated with the burial mounds of long-dead folk,
who forever overlook the sacred centre
of their ceremonies, beyond our certain knowledge.
A single pristine crocus pulls the gaze aside,
a snowy marker, a secret guide
indicating a faintly trodden path
between the hitherto unnoticed lines
of fading snowdrops at the trackway’s edge.
Runes, in white and red,
in green and blue, decorate the trees!
On Odin’s sacrificial ash are Odin’s signs:
protecting, proclaiming sanctuary and sanctity.
Behind the hedge, a hidden upright stone,
carefully selected, chosen for a private purpose,
as it is impossible to use those grey wethers
in the public’s eye, with offerings left to signify
allegiance to the earth, to sea and sky:
snail shells, starfish, feathers,
placed upon the ground,
and man-made gifts tied to the twigs above,
a clootie tree, hung with prayers
in form of woollen thread, of cotton scraps,
of coloured string, fluttering gently in the filtered breeze.
And someone has planted daffodils to bring to life
this tiny glade each coming spring.
Who knows what rites
the makers of this place perform?
what chants they sing, to whom they pray?
But it is enough to know that praise is given here,
and invocation made, that devotion is not dead
and grace is found,
today.
(1st prize Quantum Leap 5 x 5 competition 2006,
published in the anthology, March 2007.)
Colossal and rare in the extreme, Rune Giants were bred by the ancient Ruelords to enforce their tyrannical will.
I sent Rune to AngelToast to get looking more like what his old shell looked like and he got back today :)
The Book of Runes: A Handbook for the Use of an Ancient Oracle, the Viking Runes by Ralph Blum, St. Martin's Press, NY, 1982.
These scans are from the endpapers. These are "Viking Runes".
A Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC.
The runes date from the C12 and were inscribed by Norsemen who. had broken into the tomb. 'As described in the Orkneyinga Saga, Maeshowe was looted by the famous Vikings Earl Harald Maddadarson and Ragnvald, Earl of Møre[1] in about the 12th century. The more than thirty runic inscriptions on the walls of the chamber represent the largest single collection of such carvings in the world.'
We are offering Runic Cult items as our new items for the faire. They pair perfectly with some of the Rook Poses (also available at our booth in the YoZakura sim maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/YoZakura/197/82/62 ).
The items are HUDed but split in metal tones: a set for silver, a set for gold. Each item has an amazingly detailed embroidery of runes, satin accents, and trim.
The priest and priestess outfits have multi faces which makes the customization have SO MANY different ways to go to make your look unique.
The sacrifice and headresses have a less complex HUD system but still many options.
There is also specially made RFL versions that will only be available at this event, all proceeds from these items go to charity. They are all official RFL purple.
Day 6: Rune Stones
Smalltownspells
I have very little energy today, so I switched today's original prompt from later in the month.
I really wanted to do something with makeup again, but I think my skin has had it! My eyes have been swollen and burning for days now (probably allergies). Decided to go for something that wouldn't show my face instead.
I'm starting to feel like I have done everything over the course of my 6 or 7 years doing Photober. I know this is when people make the greatest breakthroughs, but for now I'm just a bit down about it, and I feel like I'm not creating to my full potential.
My remote is coming today, so I'll finally be able to stop using self timer! It also opens the door to full body shots, which will help me greatly I think.