Happy Halloween!
Today let us wake the dead. Hallows or
Samhain is a Celtic holy day on which people used to remember and celebrate the
blessed dead and long gone ancestors. Today, many of us who follow the path of
the Ancient Celts or a general Pagan path still celebrate this way.
In fact tonight I will cast a circle and
sit with a picture of my father who made his transition to the other side back
in 1984. I will remember him and write him a letter as I have done every year
for the past 14 years.
This week’s prompt is to remember your
ancestors, those recently gone or ancient. Remember them in song, in poetry, in
story, in painting, in sculpting…the point is to remember them, to wake them in
your own being. And once you’ve created please share it with us in Mr. Linky
below. I’d love to learn more about your ancestors!
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By Charles Elliott/Beautyseer
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This picture is of the Ancestor Altar at
Temple of the Goddess’s Hallows Celebration this past Saturday.
The following spoken word piece was
performed at the Hallows Celebration:
The
Dead are Never Gone
By the
twentieth century Senegalese poet and storyteller Birago Diop
Hearing
things more than beings,
listening
to the voice of fire,
the
voice of water.
Hearing
in wind the weeping bushes,
sighs
of our forefathers.
The
dead are never gone:
they
are in the shadows.
The dead
are not in earth:
they’re
in the rustling tree,
the
groaning wood,
water
that runs,
water
that sleeps;
they’re
in the hut, in the crowd,
the
dead are not dead.
The
dead are never gone,
they’re
in the breast of a woman,
they’re
in the crying of a child,
in the
flaming torch.
The
dead are not in the earth:
they’re
in the dying fire,
the
weeping grasses,
whimpering
rocks,
they’re
in the forest, they’re in the house,
the
dead are not dead.
Now...here's how to play along:
- Post your response to the prompt above to your blog. The medium is of your choosing. Words, color, image...how ever the prompt strikes you.
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