Oh the bardly joy, I love it! I studied Slavic mythology for my illustrations before and I was pleasantly surprised to see the name Veles/Volos referenced. Definitely helps ground your poem in its time period.
I love the mystery behind it as well, and picking up all the same details that we still have nowadays.
Mine was a project with the combined Slavic/Latvian/Lithuanian mythology, the main character as Velnias, the god of the underworld, with 3 other servant characters; I drew them in my old cartoony style and I think I could draw them better nowadays, if I were to return to it.
Maybe I’ll bring it to my writing side as well, who knows!
Thanks! I think I heard on a Robert Bly documentary, either he said this or he was quoting someone: "musicians use notes as poets use vowels" or something like that.
That and Ian's sound exercise last week really has influenced me.
Oh the bardly joy, I love it! I studied Slavic mythology for my illustrations before and I was pleasantly surprised to see the name Veles/Volos referenced. Definitely helps ground your poem in its time period.
Oh nice! Yeah, Slavic mythology is fascinating to me because there seems to be so much mystery behind it.
I'm not sure there is any authoritative source and it all seems based on oral history. Which is another score for sound in my book 😀
Did you do Slavic inspired illustrations? How'd they come out?
I love the mystery behind it as well, and picking up all the same details that we still have nowadays.
Mine was a project with the combined Slavic/Latvian/Lithuanian mythology, the main character as Velnias, the god of the underworld, with 3 other servant characters; I drew them in my old cartoony style and I think I could draw them better nowadays, if I were to return to it.
Maybe I’ll bring it to my writing side as well, who knows!
As an audiophile, I appreciate this!
🎙💿🤣. But in all seriousness, appreciate that thanks for reading!
Love the auditory celebration on this one!
Thanks! I think I heard on a Robert Bly documentary, either he said this or he was quoting someone: "musicians use notes as poets use vowels" or something like that.
That and Ian's sound exercise last week really has influenced me.
Yeah, I can see the poetical evolution! But also your background in radio, it’s technology and philosophy (McLuhan) gives it depth and nuance.
Ah thank you, that's a very kind and thoughtful comment.