(LIVE STREAM) "THE GREAT TALES": THE MOSSY FACE OF CHRIST
Father Andrew Stephen Damick, known from podcasts like "The Lord of Spirits" on Ancient Faith Radio with Father Stephen De Young (link), and talks on his YouTube channel (link), is running podcast, "The Great Tales" with filologist Richard Rohlin, who is well known from his association with Jonathan Pageau on "The Symbolic World" (link). Every new episode of "The Great Tales" is automatically uploaded on the playlist in the pages section of this blog (link). But every now and then we are also dealing with the most remarkable episodes here in separate posts.
The Great Tales - The Mossy Face of Christ with Dr. Martin Shaw [Ep. 13].
On Thursday, May 1 the channel is streaming a live episode with Dr Martin Shaw, a storyteller, mythologist, and author of many books, including Smokehole, Courting the Wild Twin, and Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems, as well as his wonderful and heartbreaking book Bardskull.
He is also the host of Jawbone, a new podcast and YouTube channel (link) dedicated to the old stories and their place in the modern world. Shaw’s work invites readers and listeners into the wild edge of myth and memory, seeking what he calls the 'mossy face of Christ' within the old tales.
In this episode of The Great Tales, Dr. Shaw shares two stories: the folk tale of The Three Golden Hairs of the Devil, and a local Dartmoor fairy story drawn from the wild hills and misty tors of southwest England.
Both stories circled the theme of Luck; what it is, where it comes from, and the mysterious question Dr. Shaw has been pursuing: where does one’s luck live? And is luck really just what we call grace?
Along the way, Father Andrew and Rohlin spoke with Martin about the ancient art of storytelling in the Celtic world, the tradition of the Seanchai (SHAN-ə-khee) — a bardic storyteller/culture historian of place — and how apprenticeships and the passing down of living story might look in the modern age.
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