Ly De Angeles Author

Writer /Psychic /Storyteller

LANGUAGE OF ANIMACY

All witch-people are edge-dwellers. Often living oddly, through necessity, on the clifftops and in the caves of mythworld. Many have fallen or jumped because they cannot pretend to be what others want them to be. Sometimes because they haven’t a language that does not sound like a made up version their mothers or sisters have heard in a trashy movie. Being witch is a way of living that requires paying attention to earth, to patterns and weather conversations, to communicate, create ritual and art, in language that defies justification.

The word shaman, originating from the Tungus people of Siberia, means one who sees in the dark.

Many terminology need euthanizing. Much that is demanding and thoughtless. Words that ring of the Abrahamic religions: sacredness, worship, holy, divine, adore. Evoke, summon, banish. Alien to the language of crop circle and bog. Neither is it the language of a seven-tines stag, the iron muscle when you bite into salmon flesh, the scent of vernix, the howler winds across the Cairngorms, the reek of goat in musk or the shock of a ribbon-fleshed, barnacle-encrusted once-woman’s body caught on the line instead of brother mackerel.

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