...pleased to be in https://ricjournal.com/2024/11/17/maumau-blood-dreams-cecilia-chapman/
...and posting 2 recent collage postcards from MauMau Blood Dreams series of 8 postcards https://www.ceceliachapman.com/projects-2016-2025/maumau-blood-dreams-2024
“…the treacherous Queen feared the night…”
“…a Rainha traiçoeira temia a noite…”
“The dreamer wakes the shadow.”
“O sonhador acorda a sombra.”
La Reina Loba in Spanish...but it is in English here... https://youtu.be/kZBeHsFK37Y ...meet a post-Roman dark ages Iberian 'witch' queen taking on empires...
Al hacer esta película, quería “resalvajar” a Reina Loba, liberarla de siglos de propaganda. Reina Loba, Reina Loba de Galicia, Reina Lupa, c.45 d.C., gobernó un territorio importante en la Península Ibérica. Los romanos, los visigodos, sus vecinos y la Iglesia querían poseer sus tierras. Al investigar su historia, llegué a creer que Reina Loba resistió al Imperio cristiano. Ella entendió que era un sistema depredador de capitalismo imperial que beneficiaba a la élite con capital. La reina Lupa representó el fin del sistema de trueque y comercio. Un monje francés registró la historia de Reina Loba en el Códice Calixtino para el Papa Calixto en 1138. El libro era una guía de viaje, consejos para los peregrinos que seguían el Camino de Santiago, santo patrón en la lucha contra el Islam en Iberia. En el códice, la Iglesia católica calumnia a Lupa y a las mujeres de Galicia, llamándolas "brujas", "paganas" y prohibiendo sus "viejos métodos de curación, conocimiento y costumbres". Es difícil decir qué es más fantástico, el milagro de la iglesia. cuentos de James, o las historias de la reina Lupa. Reina Loba examina la relación entre registro histórico, mito y narrativa institucional. Tamara Pereira y Sayuri. Música de Jeff Crouch.
...doors are the most important places. The Roman god Janus guarded them and looked both ways with his head facing back and front...to the past and future. He is the oldest of gods from the time of Romulus and Remus. He is the god of doors, portals, passageways and transitions - concrete and abstract, life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace. Transformations and shifts. He ruled over all life changes, birth, death, harvest, planting, seasons, new beginnings. He held the key to heaven. Janus was celebrated first before any other god at all ceremonies.
Goth as a state of mind and Gothic architecture - more photographs of doors and portals photographed in Galicia, an area of Visigoth, Moor, Romanesque, local and Roman influences...
https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/05/goth-galicia-doors-and-portals.html
https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/06/some-new-door-photographs-from-goth.html
https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/06/few-more-from-goth-galicia.html
...doors are the most important places. The Roman god Janus guarded them and looked both ways with his head facing back and front...to the past and future. He is the oldest of gods from the time of Romulus and Remus. He is the god of doors, portals, passageways and transitions - concrete and abstract, life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace. Transformations and shifts. He ruled over all life changes, birth, death, harvest, planting, seasons, new beginnings. He held the key to heaven. Janus was celebrated first before any other god at all ceremonies.
Goth as a state of mind and Gothic architecture - more photographs of doors and portals photographed in Galicia, an area of Visigoth, Moor, Romanesque, local and Roman influences...
https://ceceliachapman.com/index/f/goth-galicia-photographs-of-doors-and-portals
https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/05/goth-galicia-doors-and-portals.html
https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/06/some-new-door-photographs-from-goth.html
...doors are the most important places. The Roman god Janus guarded them and looked both ways with his head facing back and front...to the past and future. He is the oldest of gods from the time of Romulus and Remus. He is the god of doors, portals, passageways and transitions - concrete and abstract, life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace. Transformations and shifts. He ruled over all life changes, birth, death, harvest, planting, seasons, new beginnings. He held the key to heaven. Janus was celebrated first before any other god at all ceremonies.
Goth as a state of mind and Gothic architecture - more photographs of doors and portals photographed in Galicia, an area of Visigoth, Moor, Romanesque, local and Roman influences...
https://ceceliachapman.com/index/f/goth-galicia-photographs-of-doors-and-portals
https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/05/goth-galicia-doors-and-portals.html
...notes from southwest Galicia...at the end of the world...Full moon over the castle Monterreal. Next week I leave the Spanish Highway and head south for the Portuguese coast...
