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Solstice Songs anyone??
newyearsday:
Thanks, everyone. I was thinking, "I wonder if anyone will reply to this message," and then I've got all these great replies! Warms my heart. One reason I wanted songs with words (rather than instrumental music) is that my family has a big tradition of singing Christmas carols together for about an hour on Christmas Eve, and I wanted to put a little balance into the tradition with the Solstice songs.
Yes, Mists of Avalon is long, but I love it! I've got about 200 pages to go, and I'll be sad when it's over.
Elle, I might just take you up on that offer! It'd be a great chance to talk, too.
Jenny
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: newyearsday on December 15, 2006, 01:16:33 pm ---Yes, Mists of Avalon is long, but I love it! I've got about 200 pages to go, and I'll be sad when it's over.
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It's a great book. Marion Zimmer Bradley, the author, is one of the Founding Mothers of the Society for Creative Anachronism, the medieval/Renaissance re-enactment/recreation of which I'm a member.
Front-Ranger:
Would one of you like to start a book club thread about The Mists of Avalon? I just went up to my daughter's aerie to look for it, and I found High Priestess of Avalon and three or four other books with Avalon in the name, but no Mists of...I know we have it around here somewhere, as well as the movie, but my daughter informs me that the movie is far inferior to the book and besides, ew, it has Morgana having sex with her brother! That would certainly turn off my daughter completely!!
Jeff Wrangler:
Spoiler Alert: The Mists of Avalon
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 16, 2006, 02:14:36 pm ---I know we have it around here somewhere, as well as the movie, but my daughter informs me that the movie is far inferior to the book and besides, ew, it has Morgana having sex with her brother! That would certainly turn off my daughter completely!!
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Well, so does the book. That's where the movie got it from. But it's not like she just decided to go out and have sex with her brother. It's a religious ritual, it's a very important plot point--and she doesn't know it's her brother when she's having sex with him. There's nothing creepy or icky about the way it's depicted, and I hope no one will let this be a deterrent to reading a really great novel.
David In Indy:
Winter Moon Rapture
cleanse my wounds in winter moon desire
this endless quest for sanctuary pure
as formless levithans swim avernian seas
crystal citadels call me in my dreams
desolate epochs, the statues they weep
through eons passing, the guardians still sleep
the towers of silence
a fortress of strength
this wealth of compassion
would ease my descent
my heart greets forests, once sacred, profane
the earth my mistress in pleasure and pain
seeking solace in the glory that was
of hidden shrines to gods now lost
amongst hopes ruins to find my true place
I orphaned of heritage a man of no race
cleanse my wounds in winter moon desire
this endless quest for sanctuary pure
drown nights sorrow, in rapture divine
enchantment delirium, and yet do I seek
winter moon rapture, the ebb of her light
but I cannot see, for the tears in my eyes
winter moon rapture, the ebb of her light
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