First and foremost of the material we deal with are issues of Place and Space, and how we experience them. This section includes phenomenology and psychogeography as ‘ways of seeing’.
For Queen and Country The Eleanor Crosses are among the outstanding monuments of the Middle Ages. They represent one of the most developed of our ancient funeral routes, and embody a wide range of architectural style and innovation. They also carry a weight of symbolism drawn from the mythic aspirations of a mediaeval dynasty. John […]
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Victoria and Paul Morgan help raise Cheshire’s prehistoric profile INTRODUCTION Cheshire is not a county famed for it its prehistory. At a push the megaraks can only really name The Bridestones (the remains of a Neolithic long cairn near the town of Congleton), but even that is often listed as belonging to Staffordshire. The
A Load of Old Bull? A Cheshire long barrow Read More »
With tales of oak and mistletoe, holy wells and miraculous images, John Palmer takes us to meet the Virgin Mary in the old wetlands of Flanders Many of the houses lining the Veertien Bunderslaan, in Blaasveld, have a miniature wooden chapel attached, each containing an image representing the Virgin Mary; the lane leads towards
The Little Chapel of the Fourteen Bunders, Netherlands Read More »
Stuart McHardy introduces the idea of geomythography, with an example of the insights to which this process may lead. Geomythography is a process of analysing landscape and society over time through evidence from oral tradition, archaeology, place-names, ritual and belief and the landscape itself. Significantly shaped hills – ‘paps’ – in various parts of
An Intriguing Find: Geomythography from Scarba and Jura Read More »
John Billingsley walks a haunted and fated ‘spirit road’ in Japan’s spiritual heart Ujibashi: The bridge and torii mark the entrance to the sacred precincto Amaterasu at Ise Naikū shrine. It is aligned on the winter solstice sunrise Visitors purify themselves in the isuzu River at Naikū The Grand Shrine of Japan’s
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Steve Sneyd describes a legendary spiritual journey in West Yorkshire Berry Brow is a hillside suburb a little south of Huddersfield. It is also the location of an unusual natural feature notable equally for its name and its associated weight of folklore. Deadmanstone is a massive rock, perched above a dogleg of a minor road,
DEADMANSTONE: Spirit Path To The Otherworld? Read More »
In the early days of ‘earth mysteries’ research, exploratory steps were being taken towards place and the meanings that attach to it, culturally and subjectively, past and present. However, the field was rather thrown off course in the 1970s by the unproductive ‘earth energy’ fascination. NE believes it is time to retrace those steps, and
Psychogeography: An assessment of meanings Read More »
There has been a lot of discussion on the NEReaders Forum about transpersonal experiences at ancient sites. This inspired David Taylor to share with NE readers two of his own experiences at Avebury a few years ago. A Flash of Inspiration In the Winter on 1992 a series of events were about to
Experiences in the Avebury Landscape Read More »
Robert W E Farrah suggests an archaeo-astronomical interpretation of a carving on a lintel-stone at the Parish Church Of St Margaret And St James, Long Marton, Cumbria. Long Marton is a fell side village in the Eden Valley below the Pennine fells on the E side of the R Eden, some 5km (3.11m) N
Where The Solstice Sun Rises… Read More »
Christine Rhone visits a little-known piece of London’s mystical heritage No need to travel to Poland or Spain – the cult of the Black Madonna is thriving in NW London. Not just one, but two major shrines exist in the borough of Brent. The name of this recently created borough comes from the River
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