#nonetheless in the fen. saturnalia— for howie to be tugged from influence to influence as king of his own demise. you know
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#thinking about sacrificial kings……. robin redbreast. punch the fool. jesus christ. john barleycorn#‘for you have chosen the role of king for a day— and who but a fool would do that?’#even milo tindle in sleuth is brought as a sacrifice. ‘now in your moment of dying you are yourself’#penda as he appeared to stephen franklin. last pagan king of england dying in the face of a sickened future but willing the flame to flicker#nonetheless in the fen. saturnalia— for howie to be tugged from influence to influence as king of his own demise. you know#‘all of it is for you and none of it is yours’. i’ve been contemplating yule on summerisle— if you haven’t read#the novelisation you’ve missed the interaction of his lordship and oak cutting down the mistletoe#i know beltane was the first time those good folk ever sacrificed a human being— and an outsider at that. so i don’t think they’d offer#a king in a bloody sense. but perhaps his lordship would present himself low and white-robed and holly-berried#for nuada’s midwinter ritual. i saw father-sun couple as teaser with mother-moon as boy yesterday#so why would it not be the parallel-inversion upon summerisle? some love rite amid the cold stones and a feast of kingly harvest afterward.#oh. we crown the king we reap the king we kill the king we eat the king. natural in the nut-brown bowl
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