Fascinating, Peter, thank you. I linked to your first installment in my travel-ish essay posted last week. I have a collection of photos related to Tanit and Hecate shrines from Sicily, including the amazing private collection of stelle and stairs from Mozia. Please get in touch if you’re interested and I can share with you. My research is limited to a sort of psychogeography - ancient and contemporary antidotes to the poison of technic - but I’m certain you can glean more connective tissue from the wealth of symbols and sites than I.
Thanks Micah, that's very kind of you. If you send an email to the address on the scarletimprint website that would be great. Be interested to see them.
Not sure how pervasive the Brutus story was in the folk memory, but it certainly was prevalent with the learned. I'll have to look at the haplotype info to see it there is any trace there...
I love these articles Peter - theyre really fab and really inspiring! I'm working on a history of Cecils museums atm and I m certain that Doreen visited Bourton. It stayed open til 1966 so was concurrent with Boscastle. But also her 1961 diaries include a very telling detail. She caught a bus from Cheltenham to get to it (!)
Also sorry if youve mentioned this elsewhere but the Tan thing may have come from TFG Dexter who - in the 30s - had a thing about eg St Antony being a place name linked to the sun god Tan.
That's a great catch, I've got some more Tan info in the next piece, which I think is pivotal in what Cecil was thinking. Dexter had some pretty mad ideas...
Very interesting Peter, a substantial build on your earlier essay on trade routes with the Carthaginian empire. I remember reading somewhere that Cornish gene testing revealed some halotypes in common with Berbers, suggesting a fairly ancient North African connection.
One thing that struck me is the old 9th century Historia Brittonum which claimed that one of the earliest kings of the Britons was Brutus of Troy, a cousin or something of Aeneas. I always thought that was just early English monks jumping on the Roman "we come from Trojans" bandwagon, but there may be some kind of folk memory at play here.
Fascinating, Peter, thank you. I linked to your first installment in my travel-ish essay posted last week. I have a collection of photos related to Tanit and Hecate shrines from Sicily, including the amazing private collection of stelle and stairs from Mozia. Please get in touch if you’re interested and I can share with you. My research is limited to a sort of psychogeography - ancient and contemporary antidotes to the poison of technic - but I’m certain you can glean more connective tissue from the wealth of symbols and sites than I.
Thanks Micah, that's very kind of you. If you send an email to the address on the scarletimprint website that would be great. Be interested to see them.
Great article, Peter. Please keep them coming.
Not sure how pervasive the Brutus story was in the folk memory, but it certainly was prevalent with the learned. I'll have to look at the haplotype info to see it there is any trace there...
I love these articles Peter - theyre really fab and really inspiring! I'm working on a history of Cecils museums atm and I m certain that Doreen visited Bourton. It stayed open til 1966 so was concurrent with Boscastle. But also her 1961 diaries include a very telling detail. She caught a bus from Cheltenham to get to it (!)
Also sorry if youve mentioned this elsewhere but the Tan thing may have come from TFG Dexter who - in the 30s - had a thing about eg St Antony being a place name linked to the sun god Tan.
That's a great catch, I've got some more Tan info in the next piece, which I think is pivotal in what Cecil was thinking. Dexter had some pretty mad ideas...
Very interesting Peter, a substantial build on your earlier essay on trade routes with the Carthaginian empire. I remember reading somewhere that Cornish gene testing revealed some halotypes in common with Berbers, suggesting a fairly ancient North African connection.
One thing that struck me is the old 9th century Historia Brittonum which claimed that one of the earliest kings of the Britons was Brutus of Troy, a cousin or something of Aeneas. I always thought that was just early English monks jumping on the Roman "we come from Trojans" bandwagon, but there may be some kind of folk memory at play here.