Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April

23 Apr 21 - 03:48 AM (#4103194)
Subject: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Dave the Gnome

To make it a music thread lets have a bit of Maggie Holland

And before anyone points out that I am part Russian - He is one of their patron saints too :-)

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23 Apr 21 - 04:30 AM (#4103197)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Long Firm Freddie

Happy St George's Day; here John Kirkpatrick:

John Kirkpatrick - St George

LFF

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23 Apr 21 - 05:12 AM (#4103199)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

Would have been at Horwich tomorrow.....

Roin

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23 Apr 21 - 05:13 AM (#4103200)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

My letter B seems to be sticking on my laptop!

RoBin

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23 Apr 21 - 10:23 AM (#4103229)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: GUEST,Henry the Human Fly

Leave your factory, leave your forge...

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23 Apr 21 - 05:29 PM (#4103272)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: The Sandman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594JpY2ahFg The world turned upside down

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24 Apr 21 - 03:35 AM (#4103304)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Acorn4

Here's the world turned upside down again:-

Mick Mangan - Song for George

and again:-

On the Side of the Angels

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24 Apr 21 - 08:10 AM (#4103320)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Jack Campin

Nearly all the messages about St George's Day I've seen this year have been from Catalonia.

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24 Apr 21 - 08:17 AM (#4103322)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Jos

I have heard that the Catalan tradition for Saint George's Day is to give your loved one a book. (I don't know how old the tradition is. Maybe it was started as a promotion by a struggling bookseller.)

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26 Apr 21 - 06:30 AM (#4103542)
Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Jack Campin

I've been getting a lot of book-related posts from Catalonia which fits in with that.

I recently listened to a CD "Igry Bagou" (Games of the Gods) from 2005 by the Belarus ethnographical vocal group Guda. They have some songs related to the Indo-European god Yaryla, who was Christianized as Yurya (St George). He is associated with thunder and the spring, in opposition to the dragon, who is a principle of darkness and the underworld. Seems to be an emanation of the supreme god Perun/Piarun. Which helps explain why he is so significant in some European traditions despite being such a dead loss as a historically real Christian saint (Gibbon had the goods on him).

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