The Spiritual Power of Masks: Doorways to Realms Unseen Pennick Nigel
Explores ancient mask customs, rituals, and traditions throughout Europe, from Scandinavia and England to Germany and France to Greece and RomeReveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying…
Specifikacia The Spiritual Power of Masks: Doorways to Realms Unseen Pennick Nigel
Explores ancient mask customs, rituals, and traditions throughout Europe, from Scandinavia and England to Germany and France to Greece and RomeReveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral presence, spirit, deity, or powerExamines animal guising and shows how mask customs are tied to creation myths and the ancestral founders of a people, tribe, city, or nationLooks at morris dancers and mummers in the UK, Krampuslauf and Perchtenlauf in Germanic areas, the Gorgon myths of Greece, Norse Berserker rituals, and the annual Black Forest rite to awaken ensouled masks every springThere is a spiritual power in masks that transports one into realms unseen and gives voice to things unspoken. Within the context of ritual, putting on a mask places the wearer at the intersection between the present and the past,