{"id":14444,"date":"2017-08-01T01:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=14965"},"modified":"2017-07-27T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:07:20","slug":"sacred-art-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/08\/01\/sacred-art-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14966\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sacredart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"888\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The God Pan in His Bee Keeper Manifestation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I made this painting in the year 2012. I t was inspired by a powerful dream I had where the ancient god Pan came to me. This painting sold a few years ago, it lives in Switzerland now.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><\/h4>\n<h2 lang=\"en-GB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Green Dreams<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">These days<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">I dream in green<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">A wise maiden appears<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">and promises me a dream<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">And in that dream within a dream<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">I meet an ancient bee keeper<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">He has horns, and a beard and the hooves of a goat<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Says he<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The Honeybee tells us how to be<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">and not to be<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">that intimate connection between life, death and new life<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">On that knife&#8217;s edge<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">we live and breathe<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">and that is the knife<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">this wise maiden wields<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Only when I open my eyes<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">do I realise<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">that the great god Pan spoke to me<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">These days I dream in green<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">and bees accompany me. &nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">***<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>About the Artist<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Imelda Almqvist<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Imelda Almqvist teaches shamanism, sacred art and internationally.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>Her <\/i><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">book \u201cNatural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life\u201d,&nbsp;Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages&nbsp;was published by Moon in August 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" 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I t was inspired by a powerful dream I had where the ancient god Pan came to me. This painting sold a few years ago, it lives in Switzerland now. Green Dreams These days I dream in green A wise maiden appears and promises me a dream And in that dream within a dream I meet an ancient bee keeper He has horns, and a beard and the hooves of a goat Says he The Honeybee tells us how to be and not to be that intimate connection between life, death and new life On that knife&#8217;s edge we live and breathe and that is the knife this wise maiden wields Only when I open my eyes do I realise that the great god Pan spoke to me These days I dream in green and bees accompany me. &nbsp; *** About the Artist Imelda Almqvist Imelda Almqvist teaches shamanism, sacred art and internationally.&nbsp; Her book \u201cNatural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life\u201d,&nbsp;Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages&nbsp;was published by Moon in August 2016.&nbsp; http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/ https:\/\/imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com\/ Imelda is a presenter on Year of Ceremony with Sounds True http:\/\/affiliate.soundstrue.com\/aff_c?offer_id=124&amp;aff_id=2260&amp;url_id=86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}