tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642118029917636850.post2233814038339707812..comments2023-10-30T12:47:20.240+00:00Comments on Musings from Gelli Fach: True Poetry and Ecology: The White Goddess RevisitedHilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642118029917636850.post-80644865053388954982012-12-07T08:57:19.577+00:002012-12-07T08:57:19.577+00:00Hilaire, each time I visit your blog I find I can&...Hilaire, each time I visit your blog I find I can't even begin to comment. (I'm trying this time!) There is so much here with which I resonate, and recognise, and so much here that is hugely inspiring. Thank you for putting it out into the world, and reminding me - in your Brigit Pilgrimage post (on Brigit's Forge) - that we shape the world as it shapes us. <br /><br />And I'm sure you've mentioned it elsewhere, but I am struck reading that by the White Cow, once again, and her sacredness to the Celts; and how on Iona, a supposedly ancient druidic teaching place, as I'm sure you know (and a place where I lead retreats every year), a white cow was befriended and adopted by St Columba, allegedly - I have always assumed that this was a way of speaking about a fusion of the Celtic spiritual tradition and the new Church, which in its early days was more receptive to pagan practice and the feminine than the later church. (However, it does have to be said that St Columba behaved pretty appallingly towards pagans in his native Ireland, and banished the women on Iona, later, too - so maybe the melding was more virtual than actual.). Anyway, I love these convergences. Thank you.rosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642118029917636850.post-45683132847123264072011-05-17T19:51:06.060+01:002011-05-17T19:51:06.060+01:00Also, lol, didn't understand quite how to &quo...Also, lol, didn't understand quite how to "label" my post, I am such a tech dinosaur, and it was not meant to be "anonymous", lol, sorry!<br /><br />Love, Lianna CostantinoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642118029917636850.post-86948152623246795752011-05-17T19:49:53.775+01:002011-05-17T19:49:53.775+01:00I so loved the way he wrote about so many things, ...I so loved the way he wrote about so many things, even though I, as a modern Pagan woman, disagreed with some of his more personal views about women...?? Can't even really be totally sure of that since I never met him. I count you as SO lucky that you did! I also love the way you seem to think, and the way you write. I am working through The White Goddess with students right now, more for the poetry than the Celtic scholarship, and their final assignment will be to write an invocation to the Goddess. I am sharing your blog with them. I have shared with them some of the controversy regarding his scholarship, but I remain a fan of his for so many other reasons. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your experience of him. <br />Love, LiannaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642118029917636850.post-82978542375675179632011-03-29T19:25:10.997+01:002011-03-29T19:25:10.997+01:00Thanks for that, Elizabeth.
Since I wrote it I...Thanks for that, Elizabeth.<br /><br />Since I wrote it I've been thinking about what he said about the woman poet writing as the Muse. I'm trying to divorce it from both my own dislike of being told what to do and his view of women shaped by his needs and desires to see if there might be something interesting to consider. Might post something another time if it seems a fruitful musing.Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698057844619063857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642118029917636850.post-56243269934696180702011-03-28T08:35:33.613+01:002011-03-28T08:35:33.613+01:00A great post - I feel a bit the same about Robert ...A great post - I feel a bit the same about Robert Graves, but it doesn't stop me being inspired by that mythological visionForthvalley scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05128591514560815991noreply@blogger.com