Thursday, July 14, 2016

Relating to Rhetoric and Hi Tech



Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling

Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories.

Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories.
TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM|BY EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FROM THE ARXIV

Saturday, July 2, 2016

B: Free Books on Poetic Grammar for the Bard

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Here I will try to share free downloadable (most often very old) books on Poetic Grammar, Meter and the like. That can be a great aid to the becoming Bard or even the Elder Bard.

TDK


1) A really nice find and something on this line I have been look for for a long time.
Not having any formal training on the subject. tdk

"The Original Rhythmic Grammar of the English Language or the Art of Reading and Speaking on the Principles of the Music of Speech"
by  THE REV. JAMES CHAPMAN,
Teacher of the Science and Practice of Elocution  at Edinburgh.
(1821)

Ref. this book may be searched for by title and downloaded free from Books.Google.com

Monday, April 11, 2016

R: Princess Elizabeth (Queen) Initiated A Welsh Bard (1946).

"Princess Elizabeth being initiated into the Gorsedd of Wales (the national Gorsedd of Wales, the Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain, meaning "The Gorsedd of Bards of the Island of Britain") by two Druid priestesses, 1946."Most interesting bit of recorded history.


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Mountain Ash, Wales. Princess Elizabeth becomes a bard in ancient Welsh ceremony.

Druids raise the ancient and sacred sword above their heads for the ceremony at the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Dyffryn Park. High angle shots of the ceremony in progress. Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), dressed in ancient robes, is led to the Arch Druid to become a bard, everyone applauds her. M/S as a lady-in-waiting adjusts the ancient head-dress for Princess Elizabeth. She walks from the ceremony. C/U of Princess Elizabeth dressed in the robes of a novitiate. M/S as the Arch Druid drinks from the "Horn of Plenty". C/U individual shots of various druids in the ancient white costume of the calling. Various shots of the ceremony. <<
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/princess-a-welsh-bard/query/DRUIDS+CEREMONY+AT



2) Same as above, movie and newscaster soundtract

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Young+Queen+Elizabeth+and+druid&&view=detail&mid=EB2D070C89959F6F355EEB2D070C89959F6F355E&FORM=VRDGAR

3) Video and live soundtrack, with horns and singing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUtGN2rdyw

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Queen Elizabeth Meets the Druids
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) in a robe of green is led by an acolyte to Archdruid Crwys Williams, who will initiate her into the Mystic Circle of Bards at the national Eisteddfod, or festival, at Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales, August 6, 1946. Men and women who have made a significant and lasting contribution to Welsh culture are sometimes initiated or ceremonially welcomed into Druidical mysteries. But again — there’s no certainty that these mysteries, so many hundreds of years after the original Druids thrived, are related in any way to the actual practices, beliefs, and rituals of the ancients themselves.
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https://eternalidolinterlude.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/film-of-princess-elizabeths-initiation-into-welsh-druid-order-1946/

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  • Soon, Princess Elizabeth started accompanying her parents on official trips both within England
  • and abroad.

  • She was inducted into the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1946.
  •  A year later, on her first official visit with her parents, she travelled through the South African countries.

Read more at:

 http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/queen-elizabeth-ii-2987.php#cupiZZfUKZ4u6GgJ.99



Generally accepted colors for Druidic Robes:and Vestments.

http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/.../druidic-chains-robes