Quests, Journeys, and Wayside Attractions
Spring 2020 Vol 8 #1 ISSN 2333-0627
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet. – JRR Tolkien
Editorials
A Word from our editor …
Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D. “The Elements of a Quest”
“It is within this mythic time that the great quest stories take place: in a ‘time not of this time. A place not of this place’. We can, by reciting these tales within a self created mythic time, learn how to integrate the Grail stories, how Raven stole fire, or how Gilgamesh sought his companion Enkidu in the wilderness into our personal mythologies and quests.”
Sharon Mijares & Mark Scholl:
From Counter Culture to Rising Culture: Stanley Krippner’s Life and Work in Progress
Dr. Krippner is the Society for Ritual Arts Lifetime Achievement Awardee 2019-2020
“Asking Krippner in a personal interview what the most significant experience of this life was he simply responded, “My birth,” but one has to wonder what early life circumstances could have contributed to his heroic life journey.”
Papers
Special addition: Sue Bridgewater, Ph.D, Independent Scholar
The Place I Belong: the Misfit’s Quest
“Yet the goal of the quest is more than a life-long battle against the onset of death. The quest itself is the life we lead.”
Martina Lamberti,
In Search of Revelation: a Metaphorical Siϸ in the Old English poem “Elene”
“How to define the manuscript containing the Old English Cynewulf’s poem Elene? A travel book, a religious florilegium, a collection of texts used for preaching, or a monastic book?”
Ron Boyer,
Descensus Ad Inferos: Dante’s Nekyia in The Inferno
“Dante crafted his uniquely historical Christian theological interpretation, and political critique of the Church and various powers of his day, on a mythic symbolic superstructure of pagan imagery that is undoubtedly primordial and presumably universal in origin.”
Words of Wisdom
From The SRA Artist in Residence
Welcoming the SRA Artist in Residence for 2020/21: Carly Jean Journeyhawk Turner
- About the Cover art
Dreamquest for Unknown Gifts – Carly Journeyhawk Turner, Jan Radović, Lezlie Kinyon
“A long time ago two young women barely out of their teens had a series of dreams …”
Profiled Artist
Walter J. Johnson – Native Flute Player, interview by Carly Jean Journeyhawk Turner
Gallery
Walter Ogi Johnson – Native American Flute in Berkeley, CA, Performed at “Rock & Reel,” an Irish Dance to benefit Standing Rock.
Reviews
Books
Dana Corby
Review: Indian Summer: Music and Reflections by Deborah J. Hamouris
“Indian Summer is a music book, but so much more. It’s a distillation of the life of a musician. Sure, it has both standard musical notation and dulcimer tablature for 23 songs plus – this is so cool! – links to recordings of most of them.”
New Releases
The Final Word
by Marylyn Motherbear Scott, Poet in Residence, Society for Ritual Arts
“Open roads go north
Into cloud-dappled sunset …”
Call For Papers:
Autumn 2020: The Rituals of Earth’s Defenders: Dancing through the Darkness
Everything in the universe has rhythm, everything dances.— Maya Angelou
Spring 2021: Emerging from the Dark: Will Hope Prevail?
“What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.” — Starhawk
–Thank you to everyone who made this issue of Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre possible. See you in the Autumn! —
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Cover art, design, and incidental art: Carly Jean Journeyhawk Turner, Artist in Residence – used by permission, all rights reserved.
Web design: Kristen Neassa Skold. Photos: L. Kinyon, T. Boodhoo – used by permission, all rights reserved,
Editors this issue: Lezlie A Kinyon, Ph.D., Laurie Dietrich, and Laura Plaquette. Marylyn Motherbear Scott, Poetry Editor.