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Tree Rune

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Tree Rune

Soon a dark stranger will come to stand in the living room, and the house will fill with the smell of the forest.

It's an odd custom, fraught with mystery, and equally mysterious is the fact that the decked tree—for all its iconic status as the veritable embodiment of the holiday—has inspired so little music.

Forthwith, a meditation on the mysteries of what novelist Richard Grant calls the “seedling of Yggdrasil.”

And if someone should feel inspired to write a tune, so much the better.

 Tree Rune

 

dark stranger

house guest

green god

sacrifice

 

forest

star-bearer

stag of light

sacrifice

 

Yule tree

World Ash

well-spring

sacrifice

 

 

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.
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  • Mabnahash
    Mabnahash Friday, 04 December 2015

    I wrote a tune for this, but I can't figure out how to post it here. Maybe it's not possible with the site?

  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch Sunday, 06 December 2015

    Quick work, Mabnahash; I can't wait to hear. One moment while I consult the technomeisters.....

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