Both sides previous revision Previous revision Next revision | Previous revision Next revisionBoth sides next revision |
2013_foam_winter_solstice_ceremony [2013-12-18 19:14] – alkan | 2013_foam_winter_solstice_ceremony [2013-12-19 08:49] – alkan |
---|
<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/6258271583/" title="Fort Hoskins band by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6095/6258271583_12dbc4feb9_z.jpg" width="640" height="548" alt="Fort Hoskins band"></a></html> | <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/6258271583/" title="Fort Hoskins band by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6095/6258271583_12dbc4feb9_z.jpg" width="640" height="548" alt="Fort Hoskins band"></a></html> |
| |
| <blockquote>Unbalanced power is the ebbing away of life. Unbalanced mercy is weakness and letting evil go unchecked, therefore becoming an accomplice of evil. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and the bareness of mind.</blockquote> |
| |
==== 2013 Foam Winter Solstice Ceremony ==== | ==== 2013 Foam Winter Solstice Ceremony ==== |
=== Soundtrack: === | === Soundtrack: === |
| |
| - Sama Veda |
- Silence | - Silence |
- Pärt: Sarah Was Ninety Years Old [25m 30s]\\ | - Pärt: Sarah Was Ninety Years Old [25m 30s]\\ |
| |
=== The Modes of Observance of the Proceedings: Solemnities. Frivolities === | === The Modes of Observance of the Proceedings: Solemnities. Frivolities === |
| |
| <blockquote>The difference between ‘rituals’ and ‘feasts’ is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one’s superfluous force in the other. Yet a feast implies periodical nourishment.</blockquote> |
| |
- Fumigation | - Fumigation |
Chymical Indication: Tincture of Tartar | Chymical Indication: Tincture of Tartar |
| |
The Space is dimly illuminated by draped white and red fairy lights swaddling the air, while a hanging garden of silvery green has been arranged. | The Space is dimly illuminated by draped white and red fairy lights swaddling the air, while a hanging garden of silvery green has been arranged. The evening chants of the Sama Veda have been voiced. |
| |
The Brazier of Consumption has been set in Luciferic disequilibrium, the Celebrants have assembled in the Singular Circle, from where they proceed to light multitudinous waxen candles, and set them, flickering, in the corners and upon certain protuberances; two red candles are ignited as an offering to the Twin Red Satyrs; then incense of cedar and thyme is kindled from the Brazier. | The Brazier of Consumption has been set in Luciferic disequilibrium, the Celebrants have assembled in the Singular Circle, from where they proceed to light multitudinous waxen candles, and set them, flickering, in the corners and upon certain protuberances; two red candles are ignited as an offering to the Twin Red Satyrs; then incense of cedar and thyme is kindled from the Brazier. |
Silent, ~10 m | Silent, ~10 m |
| |
The Demons are but lost facets on the Wheel. We begin to merge and writhe with them. By merging with them, we dissolve their bonds and transmute them. The ecstasy of sundering, the agony of reuniting. We honour the infinite, let ourselves fall and fall into the infinite depths. | The Demons are but misconstrued facets in the cogworks of our minds. We begin to merge and writhe with them. By merging with them, we dissolve their bonds and transmute them. The ecstasy of sundering, the agony of reuniting. We honour the infinite, let ourselves fall and fall into the infinite depths. Butoh. Noh. |
| |
| |