Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Little Known Words From Our Pagan Past… Part 1
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As we ( The Dusty Millers ) are the modern descendants of an extremely ancient tribe of Wealdenfolc (Wild Woodfolk) from the area known today as 'The High Weald of Kent and Sussex'; we thought we'd try and keep alive, some of the words that were common in my father's day, but are sadly getting forgotten from lack of use, in modern English.
We hope that this item will prove to be popular with our readers,as we have so many words that we would like to tell you about, that we could go on for many years.
The 'Weald' of Kent and Sussex, mentioned above, was originally 'Andredsweald, the Home of the Goddess. It was the Dwarfish invaders in the so-called 'Bronze Age' who named it after their Earth Mother Goddess, Andred. We were living there long before they came, but we didn't know about giving places proper names, so we just referred to it as our WildWood Homelands.
Later, in the Iron Age, the Celts, called The Earth Mother Goddess, Tann. Which is probably where the German word 'Tannenbaum' comes from.
Later still, she was called Saint Anne, when she was converted to Christianity.
The word 'Weald' means a natural self-seeded forest, that is so old it was there long before mankind found it. Sometimes it is referred to as a The WildWood, GreenWood or TangleWood, due to its thick undergrowth and lack of paths.
In Celtic times it was home to lots of aboriginal tribes like us, who were forced to live out of sight and outside the law, and were considered no better than animals, by the Celtic invaders and their descendants.
Later, when we used to attack travellers (rather like Robin Hood in Sherwood) as our way of getting revenge; the Celts made a lawforbidding travellers from 'leaving the path'.
This sage advice of 'Don't Leave The Path' has been handed downover the centuries and even today, you still find the instruction 'When in the Woods, don't, whatever you do, leave the Path!'
As we ( The Dusty Millers ) are the modern descendants of an extremely ancient tribe of Wealdenfolc (Wild Woodfolk) from the area known today as 'The High Weald of Kent and Sussex'; we thought we'd try and keep alive, some of the words that were common in my father's day, but are sadly getting forgotten from lack of use, in modern English.
We hope that this item will prove to be popular with our readers,as we have so many words that we would like to tell you about, that we could go on for many years.
The 'Weald' of Kent and Sussex, mentioned above, was originally 'Andredsweald, the Home of the Goddess. It was the Dwarfish invaders in the so-called 'Bronze Age' who named it after their Earth Mother Goddess, Andred. We were living there long before they came, but we didn't know about giving places proper names, so we just referred to it as our WildWood Homelands.
Later, in the Iron Age, the Celts, called The Earth Mother Goddess, Tann. Which is probably where the German word 'Tannenbaum' comes from.
Later still, she was called Saint Anne, when she was converted to Christianity.
The word 'Weald' means a natural self-seeded forest, that is so old it was there long before mankind found it. Sometimes it is referred to as a The WildWood, GreenWood or TangleWood, due to its thick undergrowth and lack of paths.
In Celtic times it was home to lots of aboriginal tribes like us, who were forced to live out of sight and outside the law, and were considered no better than animals, by the Celtic invaders and their descendants.
Later, when we used to attack travellers (rather like Robin Hood in Sherwood) as our way of getting revenge; the Celts made a lawforbidding travellers from 'leaving the path'.
This sage advice of 'Don't Leave The Path' has been handed downover the centuries and even today, you still find the instruction 'When in the Woods, don't, whatever you do, leave the Path!'
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