Moonlight is my Silver, Sunlight is my Gold …
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Music was my first love
And it will be my last.
Music of the future
And music of the past.
The card, from where the title of post comes from, depicts this immortal tiger … reminding me of William Blake’s poem … but also bringing to mind John Miles' beautiful song from 1976 ...
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| Blake's original copy see link |
Tyger Tyger, burning bright …
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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| The Nebra Sky Disc - the Pleiades represented as the circle of stars |
Then I remembered the Pleiades … their rising heralded
the start of the Ancient Greek sailing season using celestial navigation … which
cultures around the world have known since antiquity.
Onto the Cyclades … the island group in the Aegean Sea
- with uninhabited Delos considered the birthplace of Apollo – the God of Sun
and Light …
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| See antipodes for Crates Mallus |
My wandering
thoughts went on to Antipodes … any spot on earth diametrically opposite to it …
each point is as far away from its opposite as possible.
We are used to
referring to Australia and New Zealand as our Antipodes – not quite true, but
for the chit chat of life, near enough …
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| Trondholm Sun Chariot |
Well Bran Tub # 17 has let me wander around … each
word or image leading to the next … it seems my world always leads me onwards,
reaching out beyond the silvery moon into the great unknown of life beyond the
glowing sun …
With these thoughts and images I leave you … it is a
wonderful world.
Links to poems and images: for more information and credits ...
John Miles - musician, songwriter - who wrote "Music" ... the first verse appears here ...
Tyger Tyger referencing Blake’s original painting of
The Tyger c 1795 held by the British Museum …
Pleiades ... including the Nebra Sky Disc (c 1600 BC)
The Terrestial Sphere of Crates Mallus (c 150 BC) ... showing the region of the antipodes in the southern half of the western hemisphere ... and see Antipodes ...
Trondholm sun chariot ... a Nordic Bronze Age artifact, c 1400 BC
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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