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5 50 pm no comments thursday february 23 2012 how to burn become an idol sheathed in gold leaf let no one touch you but the wind and then only through proxies have your hands replaced with hooks and your feet with augers avoid lakes and oceans thunderstorms and kisses dry out live on earth an unconsummated star smoldering under a thin crust of ash spend your holidays on a barely cooled tongue of lava or the slag pile from an old coal mine become coal yourself if necessary but avoid the extremes of heat and pressure that would turn you translucent diamonds are a poor fuel and their cold fires last nowhere near forever we need to burn carbon if we are to fulfill our destiny embark on a long distance relationship ideally with the assistance of an anatomically correct knitted heart listen through keyholes feed small rumors with bacon grease and fan them with the shoulder blades of race horses what is digestion but a controlled burn join the crowd for a public execution or the overthrow of a government dance the way flames dance leaping in and out of existence oxidize and exfoliate like a slow book made of rust glow if you can t flicker flicker if you can t blaze set fire to the crops so the harvest will never come cold and dark that death that grows inside you like a field of snow dave bonta posted by riven homewood at 11 19 pm no comments saturday october 29 2011 muirgeilt long among kelp strands i wandered swimming the sea silver with scales my voice a song in the wind no salmon s mouth have i but human lips and tongue human eyes bright poet s mind fingers like fins my silver tail flicking i long for the land shape half shifted no foot shall strike stone nor leave wet trails in sand all traces of me vanished only my song remains http erynn dreamwidth org 393040 html posted by riven homewood at 1 53 pm no comments muirgeilt from the blog searching for imbas she was lí ban once before the flooding of lough neagh she tended a sacred well keeping the door to its enclosure locked to prevent the waters from rising the well she guarded had been magically created by the hooves of a horse given to eochaidh her father by oengus mac ind óg eochaidh had been warned that if the horse ever stopped moving destruction was sure to follow and eochaidh knew that the well was dangerous because it flowed forth from where the horse had stopped the story says that lí ban one day forgot to lock the door and the waters of the well rose and flooded the countryside creating lough neagh and sweeping everyone away killing almost everyone but lí ban herself and her lapdog she took shelter in the enclosure that had guarded the well and remained there for a year safe beneath the waves at the end of the year and the end of her rope lí ban uttered a wish that she might be a salmon so that she could swim with the fish outside in the water she was transformed into a salmon with a woman s head and shoulders and her lapdog became an otter after three hundred years beoan a disciple of st comgall was traveling along the coast with his company and heard the voice of a woman chanting he looked down from his boat into the water and asked who was singing and lí ban responded to him they conversed and after he returned from his sojourn in rome he brought boats and nets and raised lí ban from the waters they kept her in a boat filled with water and took her around the countryside during these travels her lapdog was killed and she fell into despair at the church of beoan lí ban was told she could either live a very long life there or die and immediately be taken up into heaven tired of life and still grieving she chose death and was given the name muirgeilt some sources translate it as sea wanderer but as we have seen before in our explorations of the geilta here and in some of my other writing it can equally be translated as sea mad one a saint on the irish calendar her feast day is january 27th like suibhne she is a poet singing songs and chanting poems in her exile where suibhne grew feathers during his years in the wilderness muirgeilt became part salmon silver with scales they were both profoundly alone in the world none of her poems were recorded we have only beoan s report that she chanted and sang the acts of a poet she did not consume the salmon she became the salmon she embodied wild wisdom originating from a sacred well lí ban shares a name with the sister of fand who is the wife of manannán mac lir the sea god and the keeper of mists we find her in the tale the sickbed of cú chulainn where she and fand bring the warrior into the otherworld to fight a battle for them this lí ban is not known for her poetry but she like fand is another shapeshifter appearing as a seabird the intense liminality of shapeshifting of taking on the partial form of a bird or a fish or of total transformation into another species is deeply resonant of the place of the geilt in irish society they lurk at the edges of civilization half wild steeped in creative power they are unpredictable taking on new shapes and redefining the human they touch upon both human and animal nature partaking of both part of what i find fascinating about muirgeilt is that while her name contains the element geilt she does not appear to be mad in the same sense that suibhne is they share an exile from their own people and the trauma of death all around them but their isolation is different in quality there is more desperation in suibhne and a certain sense of resignation in muirgeilt both of them wander the wilderness his of the forest and hers of the sea both of them are poets even if we never see an example of muirgeilt s work there is a sad erasure of women s words here but we can imagine her sea songs and laments we can imagine the wisdom she must have possessed we can reclaim her salmon human flesh from christian sainthood and take her as a teacher from beyond the ninth wave i write about her today because of a friend s dream where i showed up dressed in a feathered cloak that was shaped like a salmon talking to him about the significance of the ogam letter coll the hazel and a cauldron filled with coals he was unaware of the multiple layers of resonance that the image had for me the feathered cloak is the tugen the mark of the fili s vocation the geilta after twenty years in the wilderness begin growing feathers in a bird transformation that bestows the tugen upon them by suffering rather than study the salmon shape of the cloak reminded me of muirgeilt and also of the strong presence of the salmon as a powerful spirit who embodies wisdom ingested through the nuts that fall from the hazels that grow over the well of wisdom the hazels themselves as the subject of the dream erynn s discussion are the root and source of wisdom and are a massively multi layered symbol all on their own they are one of the nine traditional woods used for sacred fires and fire is also a symbol of wisdom as imbas the fire in the head of the poet the three cauldrons found within the body discussed in the cauldron of poesy text are echoed by the cauldron in the dream my friend s cauldron contained embers that he could not allow to go out an apt metaphor for some of the things happening in his life at the moment in the dream i instructed him to ask a mutual friend about the use of the cauldron the image is a striking one and i will be trying to catch up with him for a chai to talk about the whole thing may your dreams be intriguing posted by riven homewood at 1 49 pm no comments the wife with two husbands a wife with two husbands a poor man who had an old mother and a young wife left them in his homestead and went to a foreign land in the hope of bettering his fortune he got lucrative employment and every year he sent home as much as would comfortably support his wife and mother but the agent to whom he entrusted the money for transmission kept it all and forged a return letter telling him of its reception and of the welfare of his relatives he invested wisely all his savings beyond what he thought sufficient for the support of the two women and by thrift and industry in the course of a few years amassed a competence meanwhile his mother and his wife never heard from him and thought themselves forsaken by him the wife earned what she could by sewing and weaving and took care of the aged mother but provisions grew dearer the mother became helpless and the wife ill then the old woman died and the younger one had not money wherewith to buy a coffin she therefore went to a go between and told him to find for her an honest man who wanted a wife and who would at once advance a betrothal present sufficient to meet the funeral expenses of her a wife with two husbands 189 mother in law and who would wait a hundred days for the completion of the obsequies before taking home his bride this being done the old mother was properly interred the wife locked up the home stead and was carried to the house of her new partner she was a good wife to him and he honored and loved her several years passed and the first husband returned with his fortune to his native village he had as he thought recently heard from his home and went to his door expecting to be greeted by his mother and wife the door was locked the house dilapi dated and the yard weed grown he inquired of a neighbor what had happened and as soon as he was recognized he was fiercely upbraided for having abandoned his family he told his story and heard for the first time of his mother s death and of his wife s marriage he had always been fond of his wife and he was made more fond by her faithful ness to his mother through poverty and apparent desertion he sought her in her new abode told her how he had been deceived and begged her to go home with him she said her new husband was kind to her and that she could not leave him to sorrow the first husband then conferred with the second declared his wrongs and offered half his fortune for 190 the strayed arrow the restoration of his wife the second affirmed that he had not sought the wife but had taken her at her own request and in legal form that she was rightly his that he preferred her to a fortune and would never give her up in the end the two claim ants of the wife went before a magistrate and stated each his case the wife was summoned with other witnesses and due investigation made after all the facts had been set forth to the honor of all the three principal actors the magistrate decided that as each of the two men had just reasons for considering the woman his own and as neither had knowingly violated any law the decision of the case should be left to the wife who might freely take her choice between the two contestants for her the wife responded that both men were upright and affectionate and had equally strong claims upon her regard were she to choose one she should wrong and grieve the other they each deserved a good wife and as she could not be a wife of both she would leave both wifeless she who was the cause of their troubles would die by her own hand the magistrate commended her judgment ordered her to be shut up fasting in a cer tain cell overnight and told the two claimants to return the next morning and see whether she should have changed her mind when the two came into 1 f worshipping a a wife with two husbands 193 court next day a constable was sent to bring the woman from her cell to give her final decision before the magistrate the constable soon came back alone pale and shivering and reported that she hung stark and cold from a beam in the cell where she had been put for the night the two husbands went under conduct of the constable peered in recognized her figure and garments and were brought back to be interrogated by the magistrate concerning their respective wishes they were informed that the one who wanted her could now have her by paying to the other a sum sufficient to meet the expense of getting a new wife the first husband thereupon fell on his knees and besought the privilege of taking away the corpse the second preferred no request and when the magistrate inquired whether he also wished to take part in the funeral rites he replied that his contest had been for a living not for a dead woman the magistrate on dismissing the woman from the court on the previous day had secretly sent her to his wife s apartments there she was dressed in borrowed garments and concealed carefully while her own clothing was used in making an effigy which was hung upon a beam in the cell she was supposed to occupy the constable saw the effigy and in un 194 the strayed arrow feigned terror reported the suicide of the wife to the two husbands the wife was placed where she heard her first husband s plea for her corpse and she then made up her mind that she ought not to die she accompanied the husband leal in death as well as in life to the old homestead where she and he with their children lived happily for many decades and worshipped at the graves of his ancestors from the book a chinese night s entertainment http www archive org stream chinesenightsen00fielgoog chinesenightsen00fielgoog_djvu txt posted by riven homewood at 1 47 pm no comments wednesday august 31 2011 i seldom end up where i wanted to go but almost always end up where i need to be douglas adams posted by riven homewood at 10 49 pm no comments wednesday january 5 2011 don t check don t hold don t be attached only go straight what am i don t know zenmaster seung sahn greatdoubt donotknow posted by riven homewood at 4 39 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom the real within the apparent a sleepy eyed grandam encounters herself in an old mirror clearly she sees a face but it doesn t resemble her at all tung shan 806 869 ad i am not i i am this one walking beside me whom i do not see whom at times i manage to visit and whom at other times i forget the one who remains silent while i talk the one who forgives sweet when i hate the one who takes a walk when i 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