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A Visit From Sheela

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Some days it’s interesting to see who just turns up each morning in that magical half light that isn’t quite dawn and isn’t quite day. Sometimes I sit alone and on others I have company. Sometimes it is the brush of crow’s wing and I know Talieasker is close. On other days I can feel a warming on my back and I know there are ancestors peering over my shoulder – curious to see what’s going on.

Then on some days, others swoop in to help – such as the appearance of Sheela-na-gig in offering her protection to help a young girl. Sheela’s story is multi-layered as the different era’s added on their interpretation. While she holds the power of regeneration I sometimes see her in a Baubo stance – yet instead of evoking laughter she can invoke a defending primal scream of terror which holds the fury of women everywhere.

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Jude Lally is a forager of stories. You’ll find her out wandering the hills around Loch Lomond, readings the signs which guide her to stories in the land. Stories that she then explores through art and ritual.

As a Cultural Activist, she draws upon the inspiration from old traditions to meet current needs, for our grief-phobic culture doesn’t offer the tools to grieve. She uses keening, a practice in which the Bean Chaointe (Keening Woman) guided a community through a grief ritual, as a cathartic ritual to express anger, fear, and grief for all that is unfolding within the great unravelling.

As a doll maker, she views this practice as one which stretches back to the first dolls which may have been fashioned from bones and stones and the ancient stone figurines such as the Woman of Willendorf. She uses dolls as a way of holding and exploring our own story, relationship to the land as well as ancestral figures.

She gained her MSc Masters Degree in Human Ecology at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) and lives on the West Coast of Scotland on the banks of the River Clyde, near Loch Lomond.

Website: www.pathoftheancestralmothers.com
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