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Thread #116157   Message #2542037
Posted By: Sleepy Rosie
18-Jan-09 - 06:48 AM
Thread Name: Pagan Songs
Subject: RE: Pagan Songs
Strikes me from what I've seen out there thus far, that I might be better off looking for literature which draws on historical/mythological/poetic material (be it fact or fantasy, or preferably a nicely ambiguous blurring of both) and scavenge lyrics and imagery, which evoke the essence of whatever it is that I'm hoping to find - but which appears not to be out there. And with these, forge my own songs. The Wiccan songs I've found, frankly seem to fail dreadfully. No lust no fury no insanity no mana.

I've posted this elsewhere, but by rights I think it belongs here, evoking as it does, a primal earthy celebration of the 'Black Madonna' (and IMO one might equally well read 'Earth Goddess' there) which possesess the listener with a force (this listener in any event) and compells them to dance. I also utterly adore the singer/storytellers (unfortunately I can't remember her name..) stunning vocals, which she draws up out of some bloody womblike source: Cuncti Simus Concanentis from the Red Book of Monteserrat.