CloudCatcher 2018 - Theme and Myth
THEME:
Our bellies open, the wild floods in …
Embodying deep listening in a play of many forms, our hearts open and connection tumbles out.
Our story ever emerging, honey-drenched and light of wing, we move with the wild into the world.
MYTH:
Hermes and the Bee Maidens.
Hermes!
Clever magician, playful trickster, noble thief, tender of souls,
liminal herald!
Edge-crossing, mind-bending, form-shifting!
Swift-growing - born of the Mountain - child of Maia.
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After reconciling with their brother Apollo, Hermes journeys to Mount Parnassus, famed as a place of poetry and prophecy.
There to meet with, listen to, learn from, the triumvirate Bee Maidens
- identities surrounded in mystery:
wild nymphs of mountain streams, sweet swarming spirits of nature, keepers of oracular magic and wisdom, ancient bee goddesses ...
More to come as the journey to CloudCatcher 2018 unfolds!