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David Pinner - Ritual - Arrow - 1968
The Brushwood People
A strange but welcoming people made of brushwood and woven twigs. As I walked through their home in the hill, I realized they were all dead & wrapping elaborate brushwood weavings around their bones. They remained warm, friendly, and hospitable
Death was no obstacle to them, and they spent eternity in warm camaraderie with friends and family. Every wooden skin was hand-crafted and unique, works of art to retake the anonymity their lack of flesh had brought
(based on a dream)
Eibon la Furies - Winter Kings, Wicker Men & Her Imperial Majesty Brigantia
Remember Remember the Fifth of November...
There are very legitimate arguments that Guy Fawkes Day is historically a celebration of authoritarianism and anti-Catholic bigotry. And then on the other political extreme, you have (thanks to V for Vendetta, which was a brilliantly subversive comic, the point of which is grossly missed by the people in question) want-to-be anarchists (mostly highly privileged internet-libertarians) co-opting it as a celebration of the mass murder that Fawkes failed to commit.
But if I may offer another hypothesis for the possible real meaning of this day. The year grows darker and colder. We pass Samhain (Halloween) approaching the Winter Solstice. People have marked this time of year with ritual sacrifice to the make it through the dark and cold for all of human history - but in the traditions of the people of Britannia, even after the end of literal human sacrifices, the rite has always called for the symbolic offering of the man to the flames. The burning effigies and wicker men predate Fawkes by millennia, in one form or another. The gunpowder treason merely offered a convenient 17th Century justification. It's not about authoritarianism. It's not about anarchy. It's about giving up an offering to the gods or to the land to see spring.
The Wicker Men
