Forest Walking As a Way of Life

 

"Fenriz sharing tips, philosophy and warnings about hiking, forest walking, maps, getting lost, sticks, sandals, gloves, and stuff."

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About The Forest And Its Importance

The Return of Those In Black

 

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A Mother's Day in Ancient Hellas

The brothers from Argos and the divine gift of Death 

"Cleobis and Biton.They were of Argive stock, had enough to live on, and on top of this had great bodily strength. Both had won prizes in the athletic contests, and this story is told about them: there was a festival of Hera in Argos, and their mother absolutely had to be conveyed to the temple by a team of oxen. But their oxen had not come back from the fields in time, so the youths took the yoke upon their own shoulders under constraint of time. They drew the wagon, with their mother riding atop it, traveling five miles until they arrived at the temple. When they had done this and had been seen by the entire gathering, their lives came to an excellent end, and in their case the god made clear that for human beings it is a better thing to die than to live. The Argive men stood around the youths and congratulated them on their strength; the Argive women congratulated their mother for having borne such children. She was overjoyed at the feat and at the praise, so she stood before the image and prayed that the goddess might grant the best thing for man to her children Cleobis and Biton, who had given great honor to the goddess. After this prayer they sacrificed and feasted. The youths then lay down in the temple and went to sleep and never rose again; death held them there. The Argives made and dedicated at Delphi statues of them as being the best of men"

HERODOTUS Histories

Blood Bounds & Soldier Songs

 

WOLFNACHT returns with 2 full-length albums that will be released within 2022 through Dunkel Bunker musik.

The first one, entitled “Blutgebunden”, shall feature 7 new tracks that, despite their differences, share one common origin: they were all first conceived as Neoclassical compositions before evolving into their current Black Metal form.

The second one, “Soldatenlieder”, is WOLFNACHT’s first non-Metal album, consisting exclusively of Military Marches, a music genre that has been an underlying influence in every WOLFNACHT release, since the early days

SOON AVAILABLE FROM:

https://www.dunkelbunker.com/

The Return of Persephone

Gliding through the still air, he made no sound;

Wing-shod and deft, dropped almost at her feet, 

And searched the ghostly regiments and found

The living eyes, the tremor of breath, 

the beat

Of blood in all that bodiless underground.

She left her majesty; she loosed the zone

Of darkness and put by the rod of dread.

Standing, she turned her back upon the throne

Where, well she knew, the Ruler of the Dead,

Lord of her body and being, sat like stone;

Stared with his ravenous eyes to see her shake

The midnight drifting from her loosened hair,

The girl once more in all her actions wake,

The blush of colour in her cheeks appear

Lost with her flowers that day beside the lake.

The summer flowers scattering, the shout,

The black manes plunging down to the black pit --

Memory or dream? She stood awhile in doubt,

Then touched the Traveller God's brown arm and met

His cool, bright glance and heard his words ring out:

"Queen of the Dead and Mistress of the Year!"

-- His voice was the ripe ripple of the corn;

The touch of dew, the rush of morning air --

"Remember now the world where you were born;

The month of your return at last is here."

And still she did not speak, but turned again

Looking for answer, for anger, for command:

The eyes of Dis were shut upon their pain;

Calm as his marble brow, the marble hand

Slept on his knee. Insuperable disdain

Foreknowing all bounds of passion, of power, of art,

Mastered but could not mask his deep despair.

Even as she turned with Hermes to depart,

Looking her last on her grim ravisher

For the first time she loved him from her heart

THE POEM:

Alec Derwent Hope "The Return of Persephone" 

THE PICS:

1.  Frederic Leighton "The Return of Persephone" (1891)

2. The return of Persephone on ancient Hellenic Vase. Date 440 B.C.