The Spirit of place
I am starting withAppalachia as I come from and have ancestry of that range. ButAppalachia is not just the mid and southern states. The range spansthe Atlantic and includes the UK and Greenland, Finland, Morocco andWestern Sahara. This gives a lot to explore. Place is as important asthe civilizations that inhabit them. To me being animistic all thingshave spirit whether we create that spirit or if it existed before us.Appalachia is a mountain range which began 1.3 billion years ago asan ocean floor. Rising up through centuries of tectonic action andhaving many creatures and peoples living in them. The land has spiritand memory. This is archetypal in its essence. Primordial in itnature and alien to human minds. The horned gods are a depiction ofour understanding of this spirit. Wodin, Cernunnos, Ammon, Pan, aresome names which become masks of this entity. Ancient and powerful.It’s life spans eons. It is as unpredictable and wild as theforests and deserts that span its edges. So knowing the Appalachianmountains is a complex and rich telling.
References
Finish Gods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_mythology
Scottish Gods
https://hylia.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/scottish-deities-list/
Gods of Morocco
https://mythicalencyclopedia.com/berber-mythology-gods-and-goddesses-discover-north-africa/
Moroccan Magic
https://mediorientedintorni.com/index.php/2020/01/15/morocco-and-magic/?lang=en
Writtenby Allen Lunn
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Musicby Kevin MacLeod
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