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Jun. 1st, 2006

I just finished reading 'Into the Green' by Charles de Lint ... for anyone who hasn't read it yet, I highly recommend it. In perusing through some messages on PW (the coherant ones, anyway, I tend to skip over the others), I got to thinking about the 'Wiccan' deities.

When I was studying with the coven last year, there was a lecture on the Wiccan god (I had come just after the one about the Goddess, I guess). About how he is has the qualities of a lot of gods ... of Dionysus, of the Green Man, of Cernunnos, the Oak King ... in the book (Into the Green), they called him the Summerlord. One who is in constant rivalry with his brother, the Winterlord ... or as we know him on this side of fantasy, the Holly King.

The stories about the Oak and Holly Kings have always held an attraction for me. Sitting here, I can look out onto my balcony and see my two trees ... oak and holly ... sitting in their pots right next to eachother. The oak is a full season older than the holly, but the little evergreen is rapidly catching up.

I think that the time has come to spend some time in contemplation of the two year kings. Also, I believe that my little kings out on the balcony could use a drink ~_^

--Phae

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