Our next adventure recorded in Ehi Passiko was up north to see Jo. This is partially shown in this set but also some other landscape format pics from the following weeks while some other portrait format are still to come. Jo had taken Kev and me to see, on Hadrian’s Wall the ruins of a temple to the Persian god of light Mithras - often favoured by Roman Soldiers. I wanted to draw but it was drizzling so I wandered round it to look instead. There were three small altars still intact at the front and some devout local pagans had honoured the ancient space by leaving buttercups on the altars. In the spirit of the Buddhist puja- “I make offerings at all the holy places and places in which the Bodhisattvas have been” I put the spare change I had on the altar. Coincidentally the rain immediately stopped - which made Kev and I laugh. I sat and drew for a while until a local school group arrived on a coach and noisy kids ran everywhere. One walked along the top of the ruined walls (without the staff member stopping him!) and got to the altars. He saw my offering and shouted to his friends “look! Free money!” And pocketed the coins. Immediately the rain started again, the outing was hurriedly cancelled and the kids put back in the bus- which made me realise one should not fuck with Mithras. Next day we visited the castle which was apparently Hogwarts in Harry Potter (which is a book by some transphobe), then to beautiful Lindisfarne to draw and honour Saint Cuthbert, Saint Oswald and Saint Aiden. After that, back home was an afternoon in the Albert with Kev and @extremenoisejasper and a drink in PKs with @steve73uk and a wander around the Victoria Gallery #kerismithbooks #kerismith #journaling #drawing #sketchbook #haidrianswall #mithras #temple #shrine #offeringstothegods #holyground #pagansofinstagram #queerartist #liverpoolartist #lindisfarne #harrypotter #fucktransphobia #ancientruins #castle #memories #nostslgia #summer #2000s (at Hadrian's Wall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiscstoMMTS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
