"Coreopsis"
 "Kore-Opsis??"

"Maiden-Looking???????"
- William Albert Baldwin

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A Journal where Ritual, Sacred and Folk Performance Arts and Scholarship meet.
Like a bright little wildflower, folk, myth, and ritual theatre grows where it can, blooms brightly and seeds itself for future generations. There is an alliterative reference to Kore, the Maiden of the Eleusinian Mysteries in simply saying the name of this wildflower. By doing so, one may evoke the image of the Court of Beautiful Dances, a place where ritual theatre flourished for many thousand years. Like wildflowers, folk theatre flourishes in unexpected places: street corners, alleyways, open fields and along roadsides. It is my hope that this journal will like wise flourish and become part of the whole that keep the traditions alive and flourishing.

kōrēŏpˈsĭs, or tickseed, names for species of Coreopsis, a chiefly North American genus of the family Asteraceae (aster family). They are easily cultivated annuals or perennials with daisy like heads of flowers in various colors—commonly yellow or variegated. Garden kinds are sometimes called calliopsis. Coreopsis is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.
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