The Sacred Scenes of Cræft | 2019 . Cræft, origin Old English, meaning 'power, force, strength, cunning of a skill', and the holistic wisdom connected to it. "A hand-eye-head-heart-body coordination that furnishes us with a meaningful understanding of the materiality of our world." - Alexander Langlands, from Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts. . "Attempts to trace [the word] witch to it's Indo-European roots have been inconclusive.. two separate roots have been reconstructed as *weik, meaning to bend, turn, move. From it came the Anglo-Saxon, wik-, meaning to bend, twine, twist and turn. The root associated with spinning, twining and plaiting. Women's cræft of spinning, weaving, plaiting, wickerwork and knitting reflected a central sacrament of tribal European religion. It was the image of the Fates' transformative power, under whatever names they were known... . In spinning and weaving and knitting, weirding women partook of the Fates' power to shape and transform reality. They were literally witches, bending and twining and binding the fibers of being." - Max Dashu, from Witches and Pagans . . #woolwitch #sacredarts #crafter #wool #sheep #wildwoman #witchcraft #theoldways #goddessworship #ancientcraft #storyasmedicine #winterwonderland #sharingalaska #thealaskalife #seasonspoetry #ancestors #spinning #wisewomen #handcrafts #wip https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjsrQjBAlH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qn9xdnuw5vth
