Historical setting: Pyrenees Mountains, 6th Century C.E. We are on our journey, two horses a good distance behind the ox cart with the pace set by the little desert father and the ox. We are sent on our way most rudely this morning by the seller of Gallo-Roman stone gods and goddesses because we rejectedContinue reading “Post #16.2, Wednesday, January 6, 2021”
Category Archives: Dark Ages
Post #16.1, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Historical setting: Pyrenees Mountains, 6th Century C.E. The elfin monk wanders pensively among the Roman statues as we had done at first, seemingly lost in a maze of promised pagan fixes. He is gazing into the laughing face of the fertility goddess with her huge bowl of too much grain. Maybe he too isContinue reading “Post #16.1, Tuesday, January 5, 2021”
Post #15.15, Thursday, December 31, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees In these days of waiting for the oxcart and driver, Nic and I decide to take a morning ride to give the horses a stretch and explore the various paths going out from this place possibly to find our direction on toward the north. Continue reading “Post #15.15, Thursday, December 31, 2020”
Post #15.14, Weds., December 30, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees We are here for a few days at this place where sandstone is sculpted into statuary, awaiting transportation for the sculpture of Mary and her baby. Nic paid a healthy sum to this man, Antton, to take this Christian work as a gift to theContinue reading “Post #15.14, Weds., December 30, 2020”
Post #15.13, Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees We’re guests at this place where statuary is carved from the quarried sandstone. Most of these works are icons for pagan ritual. But here amid the cacophony of Roman talisman is also a carving in a Christian theme of a common woman of Galilee withContinue reading “Post #15.13, Tuesday, December 29, 2020”
Post #15.12, Thursday, December 24, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees Nic and I carried the statue of the mother and child into the adjacent ox shed and away from the pagan statuary so we could have a better look at the work. My thought, this would make a wonderful gift to bring with us toContinue reading “Post #15.12, Thursday, December 24, 2020”
Post #15.11, Wed., December 23, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees We asked the one who markets stone carvings what artist created this sculpture of the baby Jesus and his mother. Antton explains, “We were at the quarry we use to cut the stone for this winter’s work when we discovered another man using ourContinue reading “Post #15.11, Wed., December 23, 2020”
Post #15.10, Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees “Christian convicts you are? I understand.” Of course he says that. Antton is trying to sell Nic a stone statue. Nic explains, “Our thanksgivings are to the invisible God of all Creation.” “And that doesn’t seem to be working out for you veryContinue reading “Post #15.10, Tuesday, December 22, 2020”
Post #15.9, Thursday, December 17, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees We stopped at a place with houses hoping to fill our grain sack, but we have been escorted into a most unusual world. In this place the people carve Roman pagan gods and goddesses from stone to be sold at a summer marketplace. NicContinue reading “Post #15.9, Thursday, December 17, 2020”
Post #15.8, Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Historical setting: 6th Century C.E. Somewhere in the Pyrenees Our immediate search to replenish our supplies and our hope for hospitality led us on a path and into a community of round thatched houses in the style of the grass houses we see often in these mountain places. On hearing our horses, a manContinue reading “Post #15.8, Wednesday, December 16, 2020”
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