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The Sacred Circle of Home and Hearth

Our homes were round once – a sacred circle.  Imagine. A home with no corners.  A roundhouse.  Folk say the Romans made houses rectangles and introduced the cross-cutting corners of bureaucracy.  The ideal Roman city was a regular grid of streets dividing square building plots or insulae. From here, the Insulae became a public marketplace. The Basilica was located on one side, and on the other, the Council Chamber and Civic Offices. You can’t provide hierarchical order without squares. There’s equality and the ‘chaos’ of equity in circles.  The roundhouse, the meeting place of communities. There were very few large

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Wheat field in Scotland
Folk Crafts
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Straw craft , Wheat Weaving, Corn Dollies and Kern Idols

It’s nearing that time of year again. The wheat, rye and barley are almost ripe and the Raspberries and Bilberries are coming out in force. Poppies dot red the yellowing seas of grain. It’s nearing Lunastal and folks are readying to take in the harvest from the fields. This was a time of celebration, coupling up before the hard work starts and the construction of Corn dolls, straw craft and wheat weaving. One way that folks used to show their affections for one another was with wheat weaving or with barley or rye weaving. Basically straw craft – known as a country man’s favour.

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