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STORIES TOLD
It’s all about the stories we tell. Mythology comes from a time before the world was a thing. As modern humans, we live in the era of “It”, where the workings of the world around us are explained...
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HIRAETH, OR HEKATE AS THE MUSE
ORPHIC HYMN TO HEKATE You, of roads and crossways, Of heaven, of earth, and sea as well. You, the saffron-clad, among the tombs, Dancing with dead souls the Bacchic rite. You, daughter of Perses, lover...
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HORIZONS NEAR & FAR
Travels in the Ur-real Landscape “Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation…” – Joseph Campbell Players and painted stage took...
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AT DESTINY’S CROSSROADS: THE ART OF LÉO SCHNUG
This summer, I wrote a short foreword for a book about a long-neglected artist from the Alsace: Léo Schnug. I discovered Schnug’s work on my first visit to Haut-Koenigsbourg in the Vosges. I am certain...
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CTHULHU CALLING
This last summer, I was delighted to receive a request to do a foreword for a new illustrated Lovecraft book. (This is always mixed with mild dismay at my own enthusiasm, as the more sensible part of...
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EPIDAURUS: THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
The tour guide is expostulating with equal measures of enthusiasm and malleable exactitude on the Golden Mean. We listeners are scattered in a loose, meditative but fidgety herd of participants of all...
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HERMENAUTICA: TRAVELLING WITH THE TRICKSTER
Hermes is a tricky fellow, the ancient Greek equivalent of Raven, Coyote or Loki. He is a mediator, a guide between worlds, principally the worlds of life and death, a messenger between gods and...
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IN DEFENCE OF MEDEA
BUT, knowing now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand close to her mouth touching her cheek, Opening lines of The Defence of Guenevere, from The...
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THE SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON, THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN
‘Within the sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of its boughs. Success in the attempt entitled him...
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STRANGE BOUGHS
THE UPAS AND OTHER UNUSUAL TREES OF DEATH AND EVIL At the annual British Institution exhibition of 1820, a singular tableau by an unheralded artist was on display. Entitled “The Upas, or Poison Tree of...
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THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY
FORGOTTEN BOOKS… A few years ago, I acquired a couple of books. I know what you are thinking, and you are right, I have indubitably bought more than that – a healthy amount of books pass though my...
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EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT US
“Everything you are not stares back at what you are.” Adam Nicolson, from The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters “In the very earliest time When both people and animals lived on earth A person could...
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WANDERING BUT NOT LOST
“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.” — Rudyard Kipling[1] Late last year, I was asked if I would consider doing a preface for a book on Tolkien. I...
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ON RAVEN WINGS: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MARVELOUS
ON RAVEN WINGS: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MARVELOUS Jul 24, 2023 | Chroniclesread more WANDERING BUT NOT LOST Aug 5, 2021 | Chronicles“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously....
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