And to turn the page to find the old Gods come back from
hiding under a thin veil of disguise to make unoffensive
their form im the new dark age of Christianity.
Such a s when a traveller comes into a village pub to ask
directions and to sit a while to drink.The villagers see it
is Odin i)ack from the underworld in disguise of-modern dress
although the design is over larger than that is realism a   •
Hawthorn walking stick and dark over sized ctoak'.A hat' "
that obscures one eye and the faint smell of cinamon: '
this being a coorispondant to the planet mercury :'protecter
of all travellers. The villagers in fear disbelief and confus-

-ion give the traveller beer in plenty for free.Walking where
there are cars and modern implements of transportation a
walker with a destination lacking conjures fear and mystif-

-icatiicn. The price of the beer sacrifice no where-near out-

-weighs the burdon of doubt the simple ritual lifts-.
The mythical old gods return with vengence in unrelated out-

-posts of the imagination .In certain ficyion works their
power characteristics return.They are the first know attempts
at building block reality constructs, .and although the mass
media have put their meddeling nose into the a:stral light
more than once spreading distortions accross its surface
with television personalities and realistic social dramasso
they-think •   The light remains clear and the''images of
theseancient ones comes through clear when ever an artist
writer. . . Magickian having a mental block falls into free-
fall chaos.                •              :   ,' r.
Images of the cinamon god come through in characteristic
disguise.a shape changer when ever possible, mutates into
forms that will last through the dark ages. worm their ways
into pulp fiction and soap opera banalities.
Riding thru the middle ages on a horse. In the form of death
a skeleton with over sized hawthorn spear and dark cloak
riding after country folk loitering by a cross roads. . .Two
Ravens squawk over head rules the dead and the lost spirits
chases the plague across europe. .with two wolves lurching
at the dead. .riding out accroes the sky from Glastonbury
Tor leading the dead souls out across on their play day of
Huntingmoon.Halloween the break between the two worlds.

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ANTS AND RATS.

WANDERING at random through the city once I came accross
a black box that was lying at the side of the road.It was a
smooth shiney object that didnt seem to have any joins in it.
The cube was "n penetrable to the eye but I knew there WQS a
secret of some kind contained within . On getting closer I re-

-allsed that .instead of being totally smooth as I had first ob-

-served that/cube was made of a multitude of smaller cubes
that were arran'ged in an orderly grid fashion accross it surface
Nearer still and;! imagined the cube to be of immense proport-

-ions for I'.had been walking for some minutes by now and still

had not got passed it.

Eventually I reached the base of this object and observed hum-

-an beings entering the cube in rapid succession. The people
seemed to be coming out of the ground through a small hole
and each of them were earring a smaller black rectangle with
a handel on top of it. At first I though they were build'ng the
object out of these other smaller black boxes but a passerby
answered when pressed that the smaller boxes contained food.
and then when pressed aga'n told me that the smaller cubes
that made.:t.he surface of the building were what they called
windows. Then the thought struck me that this object contained
some k''nd of-a-,:"QueBn ant" and these her workers were br'ng-

-ing food for.her. ..•,. they seemed confused when I said "ants"
and told- me.'.'" . .No. .this which you are see'ng now is: -.no
ants, .this is the Rat Race. , ".

On further-observanc''es of the hole from which they sprang
and the roda-nt-like movements of the scared nervous creaters
I had to- agree. .11 eft the place rapidly.

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