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Feast of Bread News 2010

The Turning of the Wheel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:42:10 +0000

~ THE TURNING OF THE WHEEL ~ Loaf Feast 2010

* New Hex Website is Here! *

That’s right folks, The Hex Harvest is in! We’ve been hard at work rebuilding the website to feature mountains of online content, book and music reviews, and a more interactive format…and here it ...

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Summer Solstice News 2010

The Turning of the Wheel — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:00:03 +0000

~ THE TURNING OF THE WHEEL ~

Summer Solstice 2010

Issue #6 is Here!

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Review: An English Arcanum (Telling the Bees)

Reviews — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:30:12 +0000

Imagine being seduced into the world of Merrie England, as John Michell would say: a quasi-mythical realm of music, craft, magic, the whole rustic tapestry of rural life. A world where animals are wiser than humans, and hedgerows bristle with mystery. No, that isn’t quite the world of Telling the Bees – they’re far too wise to naively devolve into such idealism – but it certainly echoes through every note of their new album, An English Arcanum, and if ever the folk mythology of Merrie England were attested by any kind of evidence, this album would be ...

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Review: Untie the Wind (Telling the Bees)

Reviews — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:17:43 +0000

Telling The Bees are a four piece folk band with a strong classical influence and they sing their stories with a poignancy and magic all their own. Oh, and every time I put this album on to play I am immediately, utterly ...

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Review: Where Life Springs Eternal (Celestiial)

Reviews — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:32:30 +0000

US nature-loving doom outfit Celestiial are an unusual beast. Where Life Springs Eternal, their second full length album, is a fascinating mix of heavy, droning funeral doom guitars, tortured vocals, and glacial percussion. Somehow they’ve managed to take the usually oppressive and choking tools of the funeral doom metal trade to evoke an almost soothing animistic atmosphere of forests and streams and mist on the air. It’s a strange and impressive ...

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Review: Loss (Wodensthrone)

Reviews — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:38:08 +0000

Loss is the debut album of UK black metal band Wodensthrone. It was recorded with the assistance of pagan black metal giants Negura Bunget, and sets out to explore the historical and cultural spirit of Europe’s pagan ...

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Review: Azimuths to the Otherworld (Nechochwen)

Reviews — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:35:08 +0000

Nechochwen’s second album, Azimuths to the Otherworld is an unusual and very creative release which takes time for the listener to fully absorb. The effort is worth ...

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May Day/Beltaine/Walpurgisnacht News 2010

The Turning of the Wheel — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:40:05 +0000

~ THE TURNING OF THE WHEEL ~ May Day/Beltaine/Walpurgisnacht 2010 Issue #6 is Here!

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Review: TYR Volume 3

Harvest — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:01:37 +0000

By now, I would assume most readers spanning these pages have read or at least heard of the journal TYR. Originally conceived as an annual publication that has proven otherwise over time, this third installment is nonetheless well-worth the wait. Dedicated to pre-Christian myth, culture and tradition in an Indo-European context, TYR contains a wealth of articles, music and book reviews with an undeniably anti-modernist slant that maintains a high standard of erudition and scholarship. Anyone looking for mere ideological rants should look elsewhere. As the editors make clear in the editorial preface, the radical traditionalism espoused provides a “nexus where any different number of ideas might intersect.” Echoing Oswald Spengler’s distinction of a “people” as opposed to a “mass” several decades ago, the various authors hardly treat the underlying key themes – "culture" and "civilization" as ...

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Review: Welsh Witches and Wizards (Michael Howard)

Reviews — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:09:00 +0000

Welsh Witches and Wizards is the first book to appear, in a series of four, focusing on the witchcraft of four regions of the British Isles. Well-researched and drawing mainly on documentary evidence, this initial treatise on the Welsh lore and practice of cunning-folk is carefully hewn into 8 concise ...

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