If the gods want you for a hollow reed (I like that image) then surely it's because they want their music to be heard by mortals.
Mostly not, actually. A lot of my work has to do with participating in and fostering the flows of certain energies. Another big bunch has to do with the realms of the ancestors, and although some of that definitely involves mortals they're not incarnate mortals.
(Thank you, BTW. I don't remember where I got the image but it resonates very powerfully for me.)
Either way we're talking about the priest/priestess as someone who acts as a conduit/bridge/connection between the worlds.
This stuff is diffcult to talk about. We have to use imagery- and it's never sharp enough- and one image excludes other images.
On both of these points I think we definitely agree. (And ironically, for me personally, the last sentence of your original post is absolutely true. I'm just not sure it's true for every priest/ess.) It's damnably difficult to talk about, not least because some of the process of being a bridge between worlds is really quite nonverbal.
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Date: 2008-12-20 10:18 pm (UTC)Mostly not, actually. A lot of my work has to do with participating in and fostering the flows of certain energies. Another big bunch has to do with the realms of the ancestors, and although some of that definitely involves mortals they're not incarnate mortals.
(Thank you, BTW. I don't remember where I got the image but it resonates very powerfully for me.)
On both of these points I think we definitely agree. (And ironically, for me personally, the last sentence of your original post is absolutely true. I'm just not sure it's true for every priest/ess.) It's damnably difficult to talk about, not least because some of the process of being a bridge between worlds is really quite nonverbal.