Andreas Kornevall: Storyteller, Writer & Rewilder

I occasionally post here but my main website is: kornevall.com

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I have loved working on these traditional dragon depictions, even though the style comes from the 10th century and some much earlier, they feel very vibrant and contemporary.  You hear about the "winged serpent" all across the world; such as the American Indian winged rattlesnakes, the Mesoamerican feathered serpent, the Egyptian winged-snake goddess Wadjet, and the serpent-tailed creator beings in Chinese myth, just to mention a few. 

When a serpent is represented as winged, the eagle is present, forming a dynamic cosmic harmony of union between spirit and matter, heaven and earth.  The serpent reveal the darkest times, the most difficult challenges (the raw tempering of soul), and the eagle flies high into illumination (the ascent of spirit).  It’s when these two images are joined  – the serpent and the eagle – that we have the alchemical birth of the dragon.  

Here the dragon becomes a force of psychological integration and reveals a whole person who has stood both in hell and heaven.  The dragon may say: you live a spiritual life, because you live a human life, that's enough.  Dragon wisdom in fairytales is closely guarded.  If you are interested in joining me with these inquiries, and explorations, please DM here for more info, as I am running small online workshops this year that look for this "Dragon" wisdom seen through the eyes of Norse Mythology and spirituality.  All welcome.

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The Fair-Wheel, The Grace-Shine, The Elf-Disc and The Day-Star. These are all old traditional names for the Daughter of the Sun, named Sunna. North of the Alps, the word Sunna is a feminine noun. In the Latin-South the Sun is masculine. At the darkest time of the year mid-December, before Solstice, the Sun gives birth to a daughter and she carries her like a posy of light in her arms.

Many believe the festival of St. Lucia in Sweden to be a modern variant celebrating her birth: young girls wear candles in their hair and come with light, gifts and songs to households cloaked in wintry darkness. It is something to experience if you ever happen to visit there. The runes I've drawn on the dragon praises her as the "golden sea above the world" - her name is the origin for our day of the Sun, Sunday, which carries her name "Sunnandag" in old English.

She brings with her the potential for reconciliation (yes, really!), motivation, relatedness, health and vitality - all Sun qualities for the bendy paths up ahead.

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words Are magic. 

Every sutra, every story, every stanza, every prophecy, every philosophy: is glyph-magic.  Our alphabet is made up of phonetic-glyphs, these twenty six glyphs have built our world: everything that we know rests on their shoulders.  We do not look at reality directly, instead humanity has created glyphs to reflect it.   Our experience of the world is an experience of the words describing it.  These sounded glyphs lift our spirits, bring us to tears, raise our pulse to war, or offer us divine intoxication.  "In the beginning was the word" is the first enigmatic sentence in the Bible.  Words create the world we inhabit. We are more homo-words than homo-sapiens. 

Scholars tell us that the origin of our alphabets around the world came from tracking animals - the first ancient poetic verse from the land.  When those same animal signs were added to the cave walls, our imagination sparked and we could smell, hear and feel the animal spirit behind the signs.  One print of a bird could transmit ideas of sublime magnitude and associations.  I will take the chance and say that "poetic-feeling" was our mother tongue when we first learnt to read the land and paint signs with our ochre filled hands.

Odin hung from the Tree of Life to dwell into the depths of rune-magic, which is glyph-magic of deep ancestry.  For those daring to look within the shapes of the staves, you may invoke Gods, worlds, trolls, and elves from ancient hours.  When the runes are sounded, written and spoken, you rouse their world. The dragon I have drawn here is from the traditional "Urnes style" from Uppland, Sweden.  The runes on her back speak of magic and are written in old Norse.  I leave them as a secret, but for those who can read old Norse (I know some of you can) I have moved in different directions on her vertebrae.  The dragon is traditionally painted to protect the runes on her body - the dragon guards them.  I used "soft" methods to paint and draw this, but historically it was done with only a chisel and hammer on large Stonehenge-sized granite boulders.

Thankfully, many of the dragon stones still roar in the wilderness of the witch-filled North.

Blessings from the Sussex dew-filled grounds.

Currently, I am running small study groups for people from all over the world, on northern mythology,  runic script, ceremony and much more, please DM directly if interested.

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This bind-rune I have been working on is inspired and brightened by the Baltic (Latvian patterns), and especially their "Tree of the Sun" images - all used in traditional embroideries.  The rune symbolism should be read as if the sap is rising, from the bottom and upwards.  There are many runic vowels within this Tree, which must be sung or chanted in order to feel and "activate" its meaning. Epic songs and poetry can be written in this way.  In Iceland there are rune-binds that can show you the way across the landscape if you know how to set the signs and words in motion.  A hidden and forgotten art.

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Europe needs the spring to arrive like a galloping sky-horse.  The rune sigil I have created here is for Skinfaxe: the Norse sky-horse whose mane lights up the sky and earth.  

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An Icelandic runic talisman by Andreas Kornevall - 2020.  

Inspired by the Sorcerer’s Creed, The Icelandic Book of Magic Spells.  

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Drawing runes to crack the seed open: welcoming the sun to arrive.

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The Tree of Life:

Telling the story of Icanshu’s drum - an ancient folkmyth from the South American Mataco tribe - an old story-ritual for the forest to grow back.   A wonderful day of music and story organised by: https://www.experimentalthought.co/

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Event: Human // Nature // Stories

Date: Feb 29th, 2020.

The Boiler House 152 Brick Lane, E1 5RU

London, United Kingdom

“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe" - Madeleine L'Engle

Humans have woven stories since the dawn of time. Speckled across the pages of our existence is the ink of myth, fable, & folklore, and the echoes of adventurous anecdotes and worldly tales linger from centuries ago…

From bedtime stories to the grandiose meta-narratives of our time, expect interdisciplinary, enlivening wisdom from a band of tale-telling poets, artists, and philosophers.

Question: How can we use stories to reevaluate and more effectively understand human nature in a time that requires a new way of being?

Aim: Understanding how humans have told their collective story throughout the ages, and what kind of story we need now.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2474328776113672/

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20th – 22nd March 2020 Boghill Centre, County Clare, Ireland

“An extraordinary and intense two-day adventure that will stir the soul, break your heart, summon the spirits and send shivers of deep mythic recognition down your spine. Andreas and Paul create a beautiful intimacy of relationships within the group, across the rugged Irish landscape and into the stories of the old North. An unforgettable experience from vastly insightful guides that will leave you with a profound sense of ‘hiraeth’ and wanting more…”

Ed Gillespie, Tales from the North attendee, August 2019

Have you heard of Earendel, the Dawn Wanderer? Or Erce, the white and shining – she who brings the remedy to a barren field? Or Iring, who rides the milky way? Do you know the story of Wayland, the magical goldsmith whose hammer thunders bloody revenge? Have you heard tell of Woden, one-eyed wanderer of the barrows, or the sad fate of the swan-children of Lir?

Join folklorist and storyteller Andreas Kornevall and poet and novelist Paul Kingsnorth for a weekend excavating some of the forgotten foundation myths of the old Atlantic islands we all call home. Around the fire and in the woods we will tell, hear and analyse some of the old tales that still haunt the wooded hilltops and the forgotten lanes that remain as ‘progress’ thunders on around us. Find out what these old stories still have to say to us today, and how they can inform and re-energise your creative practice.

Hear stories you have never before encountered, told around summer fires; learn to cast the runes; find Norse myths hidden in the night constellations; walk with old Celtic tales through the forests and bogs of the Irish landscape; listen to harp tunes by candelight; learn the power of ancient rituals.

Why should tales from more a millennium ago matter now? Are they anything more than entertainment? Or do they still live – within us, within our landscapes, and within our psyches? If so – what might they have to teach us?

Tales from the North is a unique weekend for writers, artists and anyone else whose creative process would be boosted by an immersion in strange, old magic. Whoever you are, wherever you hail from, whatever your practice, you are welcome around the storyteller’s fire as we delve into the past for a guide to our strange, unfolding present.

“This magical mythic weekend workshop brought together an international group of storytellers, poets and writers in the beautiful wild Burren. We sang, we told stories, we sat with the land, and we listened. I came away encouraged and inspired to keep writing, performing and transforming.  Regeneration in action! “ Serena Mitchell, Tales from the North attendee, August 2019

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(naturalsouls) - the great solitude of wilderness.

Double Barrel NA Flute: Andreas Kornevall

Guitar Charlie Roscoe

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Gatekeeper Annual Conference Presents:

“Walking Between the Worlds” - Andreas Kornevall

Andreas will take us on a journey of discovery into the mythic imagination, asking what is a myth? How do the old stories and legends still live in us and our landscape and how can we find there the "Lost Gods and Goddesses of Britain." 

Andreas will demonstrate how myth reveals to us the current predicaments our landscape is in, facing climate change and species extinction and what can be done.