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Category: Egyptian Myth

March 16, 2023 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, Egyptian Myth, English Lake District, esoteric psychology, Lake District, mystical travel, Silent Eye Workshops, Travel and Photography

Thickening the Plot

by Steve Tanham

May 2023 is fast approaching, and that realisation puts urgency into the need to create the ‘physical’ part of the landscape workshop ‘Water, Circle, Cross’, the Silent Eye’s spring event for 2023. Lake Windermere is cold and icy now, but two months on, a band of explorers will be disembarking from a boat at Waterhead in the early mildness of May. Walking, we will … Read More Thickening the Plot

July 2, 2020 + Ancient Landscapes, Consciousness, Egyptian Myth, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

Never West

by Steve Tanham

I’ve always loved maps… I can remember, when a child, being bought a fold-out schematic of a town with streets, main roads, a river, a hill and a railway line. It was just a layout – a map – but I had lots of my own cars, a model train and some small figures of the right scale to populate the town with activity. … Read More Never West

April 12, 2020 + Celtic Christianity, Christianity and modern mysticism, Consciousness, Egyptian Myth, Goddess Isis, Osiris, Spirituality

The Sacrificed King

by Steve Tanham

Easter is symbolically the time of the celebration of the death and resurrection of Christ. This thread of story and principle runs through our civilisation very deeply; and Easter Sunday is the most important day in the Christian calendar. Jesus (the) Christ did not proclaim himself king, despite being labelled ‘King of the Jews’ – quite the opposite. He said he came ‘from the … Read More The Sacrificed King

September 22, 2015 + Egyptian Myth, Life and Death, Mystical poetry, Osiris

The Last Tailor

by Steve Tanham

The Last Tailor — The clothes he wears are not his own They dressed the flesh to suit the dead With colours picked from nature’s prime And perfumes rare that round his head Entwine a crown of rule and law In broken pieces whispering of a thread ——- The white ones came and spun the rope That covered tailored blood and green And in … Read More The Last Tailor

April 17, 2015 + Egyptian Myth, Mystical poetry

On Golden Wave

by Steve Tanham

On Golden Wave On golden wave our life is passed In joy or sorrow’s dance As solar heartbeat pulses through And upward lifts our glance — We choose the crest or anguished trough In looking with fixed eye We play the chosen role that looks For gaolers in the sky — But he is neither high nor low Who judges our intent And in … Read More On Golden Wave