Editorials:
Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D., Editor in Chief When All Seems Bleak and Dark…
Orly Salinas Misrahi, Ph.D., Coreopsis Editor. Ritual for Peace in Israel, December 2014
While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues, the local Neopagan community performed a peace ritual with the assistance of the local Canaanite gods Ba’al and Anat.
Papers:
What Happens in Alison’s Room: Depictions of Art and Craft in Orphan Black, Janet Croft, Ph.D., Rutgers
Alison is frequently seen in her craft room, a highly organized and regimented space straight out of a Martha Stewart magazine. This is the expected craft room of the stereotypical suburban soccer mom, but in going through the episodes one by one, we discover that she is rarely shown actually crafting in this space.
Earth-speak: Envisioning a Conversant World by Lauren Raine, MFA
When I saw Silbury through the mist, what opened before me was a vision of a time when the entire landscape was the sacred body of the deity, a cyclical mythos of an animated Earth that ensouled and enlivened and enstoried every hill, spring, river and forest within a cosmology of conversant belonging. I will never forget that moment of revelation.
Cripples, Bastards, Broken Things… and Villainesses: Game of Thrones’ Final Season By Valerie Estelle Frankel, Ph.D. Mission College and San Jose City College
Analyzing the Game of Thrones HBO television show (2011-2019) character by character helps to reveal the issues with the final season: Which characters did the showrunners reward and which did they condemn?
Is Trump a Modern-day Minotaur? by Jodi Lorimer
As an agent of transformation, Trump has pushed us to meet our darkest selves as Americans, the very darkest being a lack of moral courage to confront the Minotaur in the White House.
Artists’ Profiles & Galleries:
The Art of Gus di Zerega
interview by Helena Domenic
Interview with Hasse Fröberg
Steve Blomerth
New Releases:
Books, compiled by Jerry Kurtya, MA
Music, compiled by Steve Blomerth
Reviews:
Books
Laurie Dietrich: Runes, by Dana Corby
Privately printed and shared largely by word of mouth for a quarter of a century, The Witches’ Runes: A Traditional Divination System is available again after an absence of many years.
Laurie Dietrich: Blind Walls by Bishop & Fuller
Blind Walls is the story of the sightless tour guide’s last tour. It is also the story of those who accompany this tour, ghosts whose stories Smollett has told into rote repetitions, appearing for the first time as walking, talking entities on the dark stage of his internal vision.
Sharon G. Mijares, PhD.: Book review “Integrated Care for the Traumatized: A Whole-Person Approach”Edited by Ilene A. Serlin, Stanley Krippner and Kirwan Rockefeller
The medical model prefers treating these symptoms with medication. In contrast, the Whole-Person Approach is one that offers a treatment model incorporating “intention, awareness, and mindfulness as the mediating variables between cognition and behavior.
Music
Jon deCles: Somewhere Between The… Eidolorous: “Fragments of Thanatos” and “Telestrion”
Eidolorous manages a skillful blend of sound throughout. He has a definite voice, and you won’t mistake him for Mimaroglu, but you will catch the references to Schubert and Birger-Bloomdahl. He blends his electronic sounds and his musique concete with his traditional orchestra in a way that keeps you listening attentively.
Leslie Fish: Gerry O’Beirne: “Swimming The Horses”
Out in the odd and unclassifiable corners of the music biz one sometimes comes across remarkable little gems like this one.
In Memoriam Tribute
Denise Dumars: The Forever Princess and her Queen
Carrie Fisher, 10/21/1956 – 12/27/2016
Debbie Reynolds, 4/1/1932 – 12/28/2016
Announcements:
What we are up to: Staff Written
Festivals & Conferences
Call for Papers Spring 2020
The Final Word
Poetry: “Ripples of Redemption” by Rich Unger
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Papers: All permissions, reprints, and copyrights return to the individual authors upon publication.
Artworks used by permission of the artists credited.
Editors for this issue were:
Laurie Dietrich
Orly Salinas Misrahi, Ph.D.
and, Marylyn Motherbear, Poet in Residence
Lezlie A Kinyon, Ph.D., Editor
Reference: Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre Rituals of Resistance: Keeping our Hearts Whole & Strong
Autumn, 2019. Volume 7 Number 2. Editor, Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D. Berkeley, CA. ISSN 2333-0627 Society for Ritual Arts www.coreopsis.org
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