Comments | chronarchy: Three Cranes, Esus, and Tarvos

chronarchy

Three Cranes, Esus, and Tarvos

Jul 23, 2007 10:42

I've been working on further developing my connection with our Grove's namesake, Trigaranus (aka "Three Cranes", who we usually refer to in the singular as "Garanus" or "Crane"), within my own mind. If these 6th night rituals work out for the Grove, we'll talk about developing this a tad further as a Grove, too ( Read more... )

deities, myth, dedicant path, three cranes grove, esus, piety, gaul, adf, reflections, 6th night, rituals

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peaceful_fox July 23 2007, 15:11:10 UTC

This is a wonderful exercise, and I think I might use this when teaching the 9 Virtues. It would be interesting to see which of the 9 Virtues their (the people who are taking the class) patrons exhibit most. We could even do a cross cultural analysis - and how do the 9 virtues differ in different cultures? Is hospitality different for the Celts and the Greeks and if so how? We could even break it down into the myths. What virtues are exhibited in certain myths? And...oh dear - you're giving me millions of ideas. Thank you!

chronarchy July 23 2007, 17:04:25 UTC

It's fun to come up with new ways to get people to think about the Virtues, and having more and more ways to do it is good because person A might get it if you teach them one way, person B might get it if you teach it another, and person C might need you to teach it in a specific way :)

I'm glad I could provide another avenue of thought on these :) Let me know how it goes?

dragynphyre July 23 2007, 15:40:45 UTC

...the last thing I want to do is jump off the deep end and into fluff. The best I can do is avoid pretending that this stuff is "really the way it was" and say, "Well, if I were practicing Gaulish religion today, what on earth would I be doing?"I, for one, am less reconstructionist (fundamentalist?) than many, so I'm definitely interested in this sort of interpretive work. For me, religion should be an evolving thing, not static. I tend to get snippy with anyone that insists that their way of doing things is the way that it has always been done, and that it is the ONLY way, anyway ( ... )

peaceful_fox July 23 2007, 16:11:04 UTC

Shhhh. You can't tell anyone that he was a temple priest at Atlantis. It's a secret, except for of course, those that buy his new book, "I Was a Temple Priest at Atlantis" for $29.95. ::::evil grin::::

All kidding aside, I think this work is helpful as well.

chronarchy July 23 2007, 17:08:58 UTC

Shush! I don't need people telling folk what my next book is titled and what it's about!

chronarchy July 23 2007, 17:18:48 UTC

Thanks. I'm big on labeling, after I've found numerous interpretations of the Esus myth that . . . well, they make no sense, but they're presented as "Ooh, this is the Gaulish myth of Esus and his bull!" Like this one: creative, pretty, and complete speculation.

The thing I worry most about, I think, is someone stumbling on it and co-opting what I'm doing and thinking it's somehow authentic. *shivers* If someone thinks I know what I'm doing, well . . . *shivers again* :)

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chronarchy July 24 2007, 12:44:24 UTC

*grins* Someone should :)

acousticdryad July 24 2007, 11:08:30 UTC

Very perceptive. Though I'm curious, what significance does the Crane have with your Grove in general?

chronarchy July 24 2007, 12:47:47 UTC

Primarily, we use Garanus as our Gatekeeper. We may be the only Grove in ADF that doesn't use a deity for a Gatekeeper, and we're fairly consistent in that. It's kind of odd, but it works very well.

And, I have noticed, there is a real. . . well, a real love for Garanus within the Grove. People feel a very special connection to him, and express it in a variety of ways. Plus, he's not tied to any pantheon, so we can use him for all sorts of things that we do, and no one has to worry about being dragged "kicking and screaming" into another hearth culture if they don't want to :) The name may be Gaulish, but everyone has a crane :)