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22 May 2020 02:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonIn practice what this means is, I watch a lot of folk horror and read a lot of children's books. Seeking rhe Landweird means seeking those who heard its voice. This is its spiritual purpose, and it's practical purpose is that more time spent immersed in evocative media changes the timbre of life towards what one is really looking for as a Pagan - the mystery, the wonder in the woodlands.
Anyway, so Robin of Sherwood (1981) is a Brit TV show and, frankly, the first and only Robin you should consider. It's sincere, with a fiercely political edge; it's the first adaptation to depict the political and racial context of the era with accuracy ; the music, by ethereal Irish folk band Clannad is so good ive got it on cassette tape and on vinyl inherited from a family member. I read that vinyl insert so many times, with the pictures and descriptions of the characters, and it's formed my vision of Robin almost as long as I've been alive.im watching the series for the first time at the age of 32. I'm bowled over, it's everything I wanted and more. It's all on YouTube. Don't hesitate.
Did I mention Robin is literally running a Horned God mystery cult in the forest? It's everything. This is the Robin Hood of a man who's just read The Witch Cult In Western Europe. It's got it all: Beltane rites, sacred trees, Guy of Guisborne harming the forest and being struck mad with land-panic in the undergrowth, witches, May Day mumming plays, literal Satanists, stone circles, that glorious 1970s thing where spooky sound effects are used to represent the presence of something Stellar and eerie, magic swords, literal Satan, 'don't open the secret book of incantations or you will be struck down".
So as well as the fun scripting & great sense of historic place & a great soundtrack and an extremely attractive cast and a brilliant camp scenery-chewing Sherriff, it also has the capacity to strike me with a very sincere religious awe.
Anyway, so Robin of Sherwood (1981) is a Brit TV show and, frankly, the first and only Robin you should consider. It's sincere, with a fiercely political edge; it's the first adaptation to depict the political and racial context of the era with accuracy ; the music, by ethereal Irish folk band Clannad is so good ive got it on cassette tape and on vinyl inherited from a family member. I read that vinyl insert so many times, with the pictures and descriptions of the characters, and it's formed my vision of Robin almost as long as I've been alive.im watching the series for the first time at the age of 32. I'm bowled over, it's everything I wanted and more. It's all on YouTube. Don't hesitate.
Did I mention Robin is literally running a Horned God mystery cult in the forest? It's everything. This is the Robin Hood of a man who's just read The Witch Cult In Western Europe. It's got it all: Beltane rites, sacred trees, Guy of Guisborne harming the forest and being struck mad with land-panic in the undergrowth, witches, May Day mumming plays, literal Satanists, stone circles, that glorious 1970s thing where spooky sound effects are used to represent the presence of something Stellar and eerie, magic swords, literal Satan, 'don't open the secret book of incantations or you will be struck down".
So as well as the fun scripting & great sense of historic place & a great soundtrack and an extremely attractive cast and a brilliant camp scenery-chewing Sherriff, it also has the capacity to strike me with a very sincere religious awe.
