The power and diversity of ritual and ceremony: join us, Colin Williams and Ian Rowlands, as we look at how the cycles of the natural, human and non-human world can be viewed and recognised through ritual. Why do humans create rituals? How do they relate to our experience of a world of ‘other’?
THEME MUSIC BY DAVID ROTHENBERG. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY KIND PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST http://www.davidrothenberg.net
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Carpathian Mountains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains
Walbiri rain ceremony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSyp65n9AZk
Gamilaraay people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamilaraay
Watership Down, Hampshire, UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down,_Hampshire
Falmouth Harmony Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idN5ZBXDllk
Papua New Guinea spirit house http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/creativeinstinct/sepik-spirit-art/4404386
Wagogo Marriage Ritual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1TcTzeF7A
Silurian Morrismen http://www.silurianmorris.org.uk
Oak Apple Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Apple_Day
Crying the Neck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crying_the_Neck
Soul Caking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_cake
On Silbury Hill, by Adam Thorpe https://www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/little-toller/on-silbury-hill/
Folk Song in England, A L Lloyd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._Lloyd
Navajo corn grinding songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7Z4vGIHbs
Sky burial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
Dolmen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen
35. Tide ~ time & tidings
34. Extinction ~ loss, hope and redemption
33. Sense of scent ~ second nature, beyond words
32. Sam Lee. The Nightingale ~ totem, identity and hope
31. Black Shuck ~ and the hounds of the liminal lands
30. Ed Parnell. Ghostland ~ In Search of a Haunted Country
29. Ed O’Brien. Earth ~ the album and in nature
28. Gillian Burke ~ storytelling & the light and shade of being alive
26. Karen Parry. Wild Swimming ~ held by water
25. Eva Gunnare. Wild Food ~ tradition & knowledge
24. The Wolf ~ and humanity
23. Interspecies ~ a language between us?
22. The River ~ all things merge into one
21. Roger Hardy, Rhett Griffiths. Sea Voices ~ Siren voices
20. Owl ~ mythology, motif and mastery
19. Wilderness ~ is it beyond our reach?
18. The Sea ~ a prelude
17. Dan Richards. Outpost ~ wilderness and the other
16. Pilgrimage ~ endurance, faith and the 'other'
15. Julian Hoffman. Irreplaceable ~ the fight to save wild places
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