This was taken seven years ago, when I wanted to give my kids a sense of some of what I grew up with.
We were at Aberlemno, Tayside (Scotland, for anybody who isn't clear on that) having driven quite a way, that day, chasing Pictish stones. Not that the stones were moving, but the accounts I had were not always clear, and I'd forgotten what the road was like from Forfar to Aberlemno.
The stones stand by the road, with another in the churchyard: but this is the oldest one. Did the 'Picts' of the sixth century or so, C.E., deliberately use an older cup-marked stone, though, as repository of their symbols, I wonder, or was it simply convenient?
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Yes, the kids have changed, in these seven years: grown. One
would expect it. So have I, in other ways. Perhaps the stone has
changed also: at least in how it seems to me, and the mystery
it represented when I first met it, as a child living in Dundee,
out for a day-trip with family members; and what it may represent
for me, today.
(under continuous construction)
Please note that Wyrd's Well now has its own site at home.freeuk.net/wyrdswell
From Kilmartin valley
I think of this now as the tomb
of the ancestors.
Rock art at Achnabreck.
From Shamanism in contemporary Society conference field trip in Northumbria. Also my reflections on the conference (read this first, and you can link to the images).
Assorted research
images, from Iceland, Canada and US.
(Warning -- these are on geocities and so the page is slow to
load.)
CASCA
homepage
Anthropology
on the Internet (article by Brian Schwimmer)
Anthropology
webring sites
Archaeology on
the net
Nova Scotia
Museum Archaeology homepage
Kilmartin House Museum
Stone
Pages (megaliths)
The Troth
Ásatrúarfélagið
The Icelandic Ásatrú Association
Fiskiörn
Kindred
Asatru
links
Óðsmál
by Gudrun Kristin Magnusdottir
Nature
Religions Scholars' Network
The Pomegranate
Some of my papers on Anthropology,
Heathenism, and (mostly) Seiðr;
The
Return of the Volva. The original article describing the attempts
within Heathenism to reconstruct seiðr, by Diana Paxson.
The
Seidhman Rants. The author Bil Linzie is one who I've described
elsewhere as the heathen who comes closest to the model of the
'traditional shaman'.
Spirit
Talk issue on Seiðr, including material by Diana Paxson,
Bil Linzie, Malcolm Campbell, Annette Høst, Karen Kelly,
and me.
And then, my stuff again, much of it on Anthropology,
Heathenism, and Seiðr;.
Sorry that little recent anthro. material is here, i.e. within
last two years. It will be... I just have to be a wee bit careful
with copyrights for journal publishing purposes. However, this
link also includes 'Rules for Journeying the Otherworlds',
ideas about the etiquette of European trance states, derived from
folktales.
Shaman
journal homepage.
For other points of view: I have about a million neoshamanic urls,
or that's what it looks like in my bookmark file. Which to use,
though? For 'Core Shamanism', try the London Core
Shamanism site. Will have a look out for a good neoshamanic
site with a lot of links.
Back to my geocities pages for material on: The Sanctuary at Avebury; opinions from 'liberal Heathenism'; or more from Kilmartin...
A Permeability
of Boundaries: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion
and Folklore. Southampton, UK, Dec. 1999.
The conference volume is now out - available from British Archaeological Reports (and in the Oxbow Books catalogue), edited by R.J. Wallis and K. Lymer.
Viking Millennium International Symposium, Newfoundland and Labrador, Sept. 2000.
New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology Conference in Cambridge, 2000. Volume expected in 2002, from Oxbow Books, eds Gilly Carr and Patricia Baker.
From Avalon East Pagan Gathering, Nova Scotia, August 1998.
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updated December 12, 2001