Noragh Jones - Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent, Celtic Women´s Spirituality

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When we think of woman's role in society, we tend to think that there is a choice between private life and public, between the home and the business world.  
Choosing home, we believe, leads to isolation and boredom, and feeling trapped within the world of housekeeping. (think The Feminine Mystique).  
Choosing career means personal fulfillment but often loneliness.  
And most women, out of necessity, juggle both, a formidable workload.  
 
Noragh Jones presents us with a different worldview here, one where the community it so tight-knit that "hearth-keeping" is both a private and a public lifestyle, and in which domestic work is sacred rather than drudgery.  
 
In "Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent", Jones has picked out the chants and prayers from the Carmina Gadelica that are most closely related to women's lives, and shows how they enriched the farm women's daily routine with a numinous holiness.  
 
Here are prayers to be said for every task done, as well as love poems, healing lore, and rites of passage.  
I found the last to be the most interesting; there are folk christening rites that blend the pagan and Christian; wedding songs, prayers for the child leaving home, and funeral laments.  
 
I don't know if I could have handled the sheer amount of work these farming women did. They worked hard and endlessly, but every moment was filled with meaning. Jones brings to life the essence of Celtic Christianity--that God is not only "up there", but present in every ordinary moment.  
 
Lindisfarne Press (1995), 238 blz. 
Grote paperback.  
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