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22 May 2020 02:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaon& this is, in part, the concept of encountering the Landweird: rediscovering what has been forgotten, through our shared sense of What Ought To Have Been. There is a fairly consistent mythos that has been developed to fill the gaps, a nameless longing, a sense of presence which has been evoked by many hands and in remarkably similar ways.
The Horned God is case in point, the beloved Horned God who's formed in part from Herne, from the Green Man, from Robin, from Cerunnosand from the God of the Witches. Now, each of the syncretic deity figures I just mentioned are on some of the shakiest vidence grounds possible. Do the research, and each of them is thin, modern, or entirely made up/speculative. Still, we love him. And we have consistently sought him: we can see these parts of the Horned One as not poor neo-pagan research skills, but as longing. As innate knowledge of a presence who has always been here. Different laths, same forest.
This is what I mean by a blend of reconstructionist and popcultural sensibilities. This is what I mean when I say that gaps and inconsistencies are not problems, but a source of Mystery in a spiritual sense. The land is palimpsest, writ by many hands; it is our task to remember it.
The Horned God is case in point, the beloved Horned God who's formed in part from Herne, from the Green Man, from Robin, from Cerunnosand from the God of the Witches. Now, each of the syncretic deity figures I just mentioned are on some of the shakiest vidence grounds possible. Do the research, and each of them is thin, modern, or entirely made up/speculative. Still, we love him. And we have consistently sought him: we can see these parts of the Horned One as not poor neo-pagan research skills, but as longing. As innate knowledge of a presence who has always been here. Different laths, same forest.
This is what I mean by a blend of reconstructionist and popcultural sensibilities. This is what I mean when I say that gaps and inconsistencies are not problems, but a source of Mystery in a spiritual sense. The land is palimpsest, writ by many hands; it is our task to remember it.
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Date: 22 May 2020 18:42 (UTC)