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- From: amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: "Winds' Four Quarters"
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 05:24:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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- an5445@anon.penet.fi (Bad Elf) writes:
- > I have been informed by someone who I believe has good reason to
- >know that the song "Winds' Four Quarters" by Mercedes Lackey (found on the
- >filk tapes "Magic, Moondust, and Melancholy" and "Oathbound" and frequently
- >performed at SF&F conventions and SCA bardic circles) is basically a
- >Wiccan invocation of the Goddess. I would be very interested in comments
- >on this; it's one of my best performance numbers, but I would probably either
- >drop it or cut down on its use if it turns out that it's a "real" religious
- >song and not a "pretend" one. I have no problems whatsoever with Wiccans
- >or other pagans (I wouldn't travel in the circles that I do now if I did),
- >but I feel fairly strongly about using a religion not my own to entertain
- >people or to "freak the mundanes". Any comments on this would be greatly
- >apprieciated.
-
- Well, Misty is indeed a Wiccan high priestess, and I imagine any such
- song that she wrote or co-wrote would be most effective in calling the
- quarters (or whatever other ritual act she might put to music).
- However, I'm sure she knows that many people who are not Witches will
- be performing this song (and others). Besides, her songs are not part
- of any Wiccan "liturgy" or anything -- except, maybe, to people who
- take her stories a little too seriously.
-
- In short, although the song can be used as a "real" invocation, its
- purpose is most likely entertainment first, utility second. So go
- ahead and sing it; you'll commit no blasphemy.
-
- > Wind to your wings,
- > Keighvan
-
- Would you like to know how bogus all of Misty's "Irish" etymologies
- and orthographies are in the book from which that spelling of Kevin
- comes? Actually, you probably wouldn't.
-
- Good luck with the music...
-
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