In the Borderlands

"All of the drama of divination serves to move the participants out of their normal modes of thinking, shaking them up in order to change their minds because their current understanding of the situation is inadequate."February 25th 2022 sees the premiere of a brand new collaboration between performance storyteller Mikael Öberg and butoh artist KAI-EN: HRIST – an act of divination. We investigate the ingredients and inspirations for this performance and learn about butoh, Norse Mythology, divination practices and the search for the alive-space in between.(Divination quote from Philip M. Peek, African Divination Systems)

KAI-EN Butoh Companywww.kai-enbutoh.sehttps://www.facebook.com/KAIENBUTOHCOMPANYhttps://www.instagram.com/kai_enbutohcompany/

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REFERENCESTatsumi Hijikatahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsumi_HijikataYoko Ashikawahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7nSr8BnGs&t=71sSU-EN Butoh Companyhttps://www.suenbutohcompany.netBook: Divination – Perspectives for a New Millennium, edited by Patrick Curryhttps://www.routledge.com/Divination-Perspectives-for-a-New-Millennium/Curry/p/book/9781138268210#Book: African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing, edited by Philip M. Peekhttps://iupress.org/9780253206534/african-divination-systems/Book: The Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Pontyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203348.The_Visible_and_the_Invisible

https://nordicanimism.com

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https://www.youtube.com/user/Runehr

The Phallus and the Wild Goddess-video

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REFERENCESTHE QUOTE READ IN THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODERune Hjarnø Rasmussen:”Defining mythology as symbolism is reductionist in two senses:1) it shortcuts that slightly too long discussion about how mythology relates to reality in order to uphold and perpetuate a distinctly modern epistemology that interiorizes religious meaning.2) it is therefore wildly Eurocentric and sees any religious reality from the symbolic perspective because of the compatibility with modern perception and therefore occludes that in most animist, or even religious, perceptions symbolism is only one out of a whole range of devices used to relate to non-human subjects and produce reality.”John Dominic Crossan:”My point is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen:”My point would be that those ancient peoples did not tell symbolic stories that people are now unfortunately so dumb that they take literally. But rather that they told them literally and that we are now dumb enough to need symbolicism to understand them rather than try to grasp the infinitely complex and exquisitely attuned realities that they express."

Candombléhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candomblé

Orisha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisha

Mana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana

Megin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/megin

Fetishism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetishism

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_of_Reality

Maria Kvilhaug https://www.patreon.com/MariaKvilhaug https://bladehoner.wordpress.com Publishing company: The Three Little Sisters https://the3littlesisters.com/shop/?swoof=1&post_type=product&authorname=maria-kvilhaug 

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REFERENCES Hyndluljod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyndluljóðPoetic Eddahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_EddaKrishnahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KrishnaHelgi Hjervardssonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helgakviða_HjörvarðssonarRigvedahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RigvedaSomahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(drink)Disirhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADsGarudahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GarudaMead of Poetry storyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_of_poetrySigrdrífumálhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrdr%C3%ADfumálHeimdallhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeimdallHypnagogiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HypnagogiaEleusishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_MysteriesHerodotushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HerodotusHyperboreahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperboreaDeloshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DelosTemple of Artemishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_ArtemisGoddess Isishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsisVanirhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VanirSeidrhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeiðrMetamorphosis (Story of Lucius)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_AssMithraismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MithraismKykeonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KykeonKing Amangong and the Maidens of the Wellhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElucidationToltechttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToltecCarlos Castanedahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_CastanedaQuetzalcoatlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuetzalcoatlRánhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RánHelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(location)Haustlönghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haustlöng

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REFERENCESGlosonhttps://burialsandbeyond.com/2020/01/02/the-gloson-demon-ghost-pig-of-sweden/Year WalkArticle by Tommy Kuusela: ”He met his own funeral procession: the Year Walk ritual in Swedish folk tradition” https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:944806/FULLTEXT01.pdfCarnivalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarnivalBaba Yagahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_YagaFrau Holle (also ’the two sisters’-type of story)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_HolleThe World (Tarot card)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Tarot_card)Hyndluljod (The Lay of Hyndla from the Poetic Edda)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyndluljóðThe river Lethehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LetheOdysseushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OdysseusCircehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe

Jo Blakehttps://www.jo-blake.co.ukBlodeuwedd Untold video trailerhttps://vimeo.com/303024064Pdf about Jo’s storytelling course Body, Breath & Storyhttps://ce0d3962-23fd-4385-84a5-f1c07de41738.filesusr.com/ugd/271cc3_bb1025dfbe46464c80210844a66a569...

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REFERENCESFour Branches of the Mabinogi (Blodeuwedd is in the Fourth Branch)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Branches_of_the_MabinogiRobert Blyhttps://robertbly.comMalleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_MaleficarumLwa (Vodou)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LwaThe sword from the lakehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_LakeSnorri’s Eddahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_EddaVoluspahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VöluspáIn the Beginning was the Scream by Henning Kurehttps://www.academia.edu/8766740/In_the_beginning_was_the_Scream_Conceptual_thought_in_the_Old_Norse...Ben Haggarty on commentary - Extract 3: The Storyteller’s Grammarhttps://crickcrackclub.com/the-secret-art-of-the-storyteller/Book: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaportahttps://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talkOdin on the world treehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YggdrasilBook: Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hydehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56450.Trickster_Makes_This_WorldCarl Junghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_JungNuminoushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuminousBook: The Soul’s Code by James Hillman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/970831.The_Soul_s_CodeTorgrim Mellum Stene's poem The Fallhttp://www.mythopoesis.net/2021/02/14/the-fall/?fbclid=IwAR2WQav06n8Zqy5GlVdWKf5tZo2gqhvwVg_sxeVLJBd...Marie-Louise von Franzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz

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Inanna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna

Hymns to Inanna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

Burning bush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush

Mesopotamia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia

Gilgamesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh

Lennart Warring & Taina Kantola

Inanna (in Swedish)

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Interview (in Swedish)

vimeo.com/74611719

Arvet och Arvtagarna: fem tusen år av mesopotamisk lärdomshistoria

boktugg.se/bok/9789127143951/

Diane Wolkstein & Noah Kramer

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns

archive.org/stream/input-compressed-2015mar28a29/done-compressed-2015mar28a29_djvu.txt

Vodou drums

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Pandavani

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandavani

Video clip of Pandvani performer Ritu Verma

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Pandvani 108

http://pandvani108.com/

Vodou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou

Candomblé

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9

Santeria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa

Yoruba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion

The Bacchae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae

Dionysos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus

Orpheus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus

When Hubble Stared at Nothing for 100 hours

nationalgeographic.com/science/article/when-hubble-stared-at-nothing-for-100-hours

Zecharia Sitchin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin

https://www.brittle.one/

http://www.mythopoesis.net/

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John Higgs: William Blake vs the world

John Higgs: The KLF

Aphantasia

Chimera (mythology)

Gremlins

Avatar

The Tower (Tarot card)

Fight Club

Henning Kure: I begyndelsen var skriget

Voluspa: voluspa.org/voluspa.htm

Tryzub: symboldictionary.net/?p=894

Bearskin (German fairy tale)

Robert Graves: The White Goddess

Corpus callosum

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