Irish Solstice, Newgrange, Aengus Ogh

[Guest guest]

Dear Greg, thank you for your beautiful letter. I'll have to go dive

into my mythology books and find out more about Wotan -- I certainly

think about him on Wednesdays -- and whenever I remember the song from

THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM called " Wednesday's Child " (Wednesday's Child is

full of woe..quote is in my Opie nursery rhyme book, which has given me

the slip .) I think Barry was the composer -- that was one

haunting movie. Segal and Senta Berger. I think it's important,

that Wotan mythology -- maybe one of the reasons I'm so interested in

the work of Anselm Kiefer.

I hope you'll take a look at Ann Yeoman's book, which mentions Newgrange

(there's even a photograph -- Frances recognized her favorite triple-

spiral motif in it last night). Ann will perhaps be startled to see

what I've done to Aengus Ogh (view from the womb/tomb) but it's all

there. Yeats wrote other poems about Aengus and Etain, but it's this

poem that brings up the Puer Paradox (and plenty more) and suggests a

way to free an important " stuck " archetype -- and ourselves. All

inherent in Ann's book, NOW OR NEVERLAND.

For some reason I found myself looking up Ogh and Og in

my paperback modern Irish dictionary -- to see if there was a

connection between Aengus Ogh and Tyr nan Og. And of course

there is. Og/Ogh/Oige seems to mean youth, young, virgin (the Virgin

is Muire Ogh in modern Irish) and ice! -- I'm still thinking about

the last two -- especially in connection with my dream of the

frozen animals with the wounds in their right sides. The one

that led via active imagination to the melting and healing of the

animals (instincts?), the Polar Bear first, then a procession of

all the animals with Gerda the child in the Hans Andersen SNOW

QUEEN to melt and heal the boy Kay, melting the Snow Queen (who

is also Little Snow White) along the way so that she too becomes

a human being.

Carroll