Poetry – Solstice 2 – Our ancestors used to hold ceremonies to celebrate this. Mine’s just a little late.
We’re tried worshipping most things. The sun makes more sense that most. We live within its atmosphere and it gives us the light and heat that gives us life.
The Green Man and the sun gods Helios, Ra, Kehpri, Atum, Inti, Lugh, Hepa, Garuda, Huitzilopocthli, Apollo, Surya, Sol, Sol Invictus, Shemesh, Sunnya, and a host more, were all widely worshipped.
The longest and shortest days are good reasons for having a great festival and celebration. Nature is what supports us. We should respect it and celebrate its bounty.
I wrote this poem after seeing Nazca Nine on the Summer Solstice. It was a great gig. They were definitely waxing lyrical and many of the monarchs of yore were thought to be incarnations of Sun Gods.
Then there’s the Moon. It’s been a long time since we walked on it. I think some ancient cultures would have shuddered at the very thought.
Solstices are like a rebirth. I like the idea.
Solstice 2
Waxing on the lyrical
Beneath the sacred sun
Getting quite satirical
When God and Queen are one
Verging on the mystical
Beneath the sister moon
Leaning metaphysical
Hope we get there soon
Nineteen Nazca nine
Is looming from the dawn
Me and thee and thine
Are going to be reborn
Opher 31.12.98
I may be entirely off-track here, but it remains a curiosity to me Opher as to why so many gods and goddesses are personified – attributed a personal nature or human-like characteristics when for all intents and purposes they are supernatural, omnipotent, omnipotent entities/beings. It is as though we reach so high conceptually – beyond our four dimensional grasp – only to lessen or distil such magnificence into a three dimensional form more readily digested and earth-bound.
Enjoyed the poem and pagan-like perspective. With Spring nigh on the horizon our beautiful Earth, and its occupants, will soon be reborn.
DN
Cheers Dewin. People are strange!
Lovely!