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A meditation piece inspired by the black madonna, the most overtly pagan of roman catholic icons.
She is a dark-faced version of the blessed virgin, sometimes veiled and kept in an underground shrine. Anyone familiar with the mysteries of Isis will recognise the symbolism in this.
Like the dark goddess, the black madonna is an archetype of protection, nurturing and transformation.
More particularly this meditation was inspired by a black madonna statue kept in a church crypt in the village of Messines "in Flanders fields", northern Belgium. The Messines Ridge was blown sky high in the first world war - the whole village was reduced to rubble, including its ancient church. But the stone crypt deep below the ground survived, briefly used as an emergency hospital for wounded soldiers, watched over by the dark veiled madonna - one of the only relics of the village to survive.
The church and village have since been rebuilt.
She is a dark-faced version of the blessed virgin, sometimes veiled and kept in an underground shrine. Anyone familiar with the mysteries of Isis will recognise the symbolism in this.
Like the dark goddess, the black madonna is an archetype of protection, nurturing and transformation.
More particularly this meditation was inspired by a black madonna statue kept in a church crypt in the village of Messines "in Flanders fields", northern Belgium. The Messines Ridge was blown sky high in the first world war - the whole village was reduced to rubble, including its ancient church. But the stone crypt deep below the ground survived, briefly used as an emergency hospital for wounded soldiers, watched over by the dark veiled madonna - one of the only relics of the village to survive.
The church and village have since been rebuilt.
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Nigra sum sed formosa
drakonis
sends shivers up my spine... love the drone and the ethereal sparse singing, whistling, and jingling. The half-tone bending of your voice was bewitching. So good to hear something new from you. Calls to primal dragon synapses in me.
ttfn,
Drakonis