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cathrynsymons's review
4.0
Coming from the dark green edges of the environmental movement, the pieces in this 3-times-a-year periodical are always thought proving if sometimes a little self-indulgent. This issue with its theme of 'sanctum' or the sacred is very much in the mold. The presentation is beautiful, a hardcover reminiscent of a medieval manuscript with marginalia and an extended story of the Sybil running through it, told from her own point of view
How did human consciousness evolve as we developed language, eventually moved into settled agricultural life and on to modernity? Are animal gods memories of a time when we saw ourselves as simply part of the natural world?
We are now in the anthropocene, a geological era dominated by human influences on the planet. But is it right to call it an era, or is it a transition to something else?
In Iceland, a corpse leaves the house by a special door, designed to help them find their way to the grave, but also to stop them reentering.
Until about 100 years ago, families of Volga Finns kept a hut with a sacred, and ancient, milk pail. In the pail were the family deities, fed and tended by the senior woman. This only stopped with the rise of the Bolsheviks.
How did human consciousness evolve as we developed language, eventually moved into settled agricultural life and on to modernity? Are animal gods memories of a time when we saw ourselves as simply part of the natural world?
We are now in the anthropocene, a geological era dominated by human influences on the planet. But is it right to call it an era, or is it a transition to something else?
In Iceland, a corpse leaves the house by a special door, designed to help them find their way to the grave, but also to stop them reentering.
Until about 100 years ago, families of Volga Finns kept a hut with a sacred, and ancient, milk pail. In the pail were the family deities, fed and tended by the senior woman. This only stopped with the rise of the Bolsheviks.
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