{"id":16060,"date":"2018-04-01T01:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=17489"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:29:55","slug":"magickalarts-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2018\/04\/01\/magickalarts-41\/","title":{"rendered":"MagickalArts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><b>(en)LIV(en)ING with the Muses \u2013 Terpsichore<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17490\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arts1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\">(<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\">Image: Carnegie Museum of Art: Terpsichore by Antonio Canova (1821)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><b>)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>This is the Fifth posting of the (en)LIV(en)ING with the Muses Series<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Terpsichore has been with me longer than I can remember. I was born to dance and the pure joy and thrill of moving through space, weaving energetic patterns and being so completely absorbed by the music are all of her gifts as you open to her magickal inspiration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Her name means \u201cdelighting in dance\u201d and is derived from the Greek word \u201cTerpo\u201d which means to be amused. She is often depicted as wearing laurels on her head and holding a harp or Lyre as she dances. As one of the Nine Muses, her joy in movement is contagious as we see depicted in all the Muses forming lines of flowing grace, regardless of their primary attributes. Her name has come to be synonymous with \u201cdancer\u201d in its English use. As a daughter of Mnemosyne (memory) and Zeus (authoritative power), she is also called upon to assist with the creative effort of choreography and labanotation (the scribing of choreography using symbols that indicate movement and tempo). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">This reference calls forth the need to remember in order to re-create the steps given and the ability to command the audience\u2019s attention.<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Just as her sister Muses have multiple attributes, so too, Terpsichore is also considered the Muse of Choral Music and education, as a lessor inspiration. The Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus writes&#8230;..<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>&#8220;Hesiod even gives their names [the Muses&#8217;] when he writes: \u2018Kleio, Euterpe, and Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsikhore and Erato, and Polymnia, Ourania, Kalliope too, of them all the most comely.\u2019 To each of the Mousai (Muses) men assign her special aptitude for one of the branches of the liberal arts, such as poetry, song, pantomimic dancing, the round dance with music, the study of the stars, and the other liberal arts&#8230; For the name of each Mousa (Muse), they say, men have found a reason appropriate to her&#8230; Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), because she delights (terpein) her disciples with the good things which come from education.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">1.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">The Greek lyric poet, Pindar writes of Terpsichore\u2019s sweet song in the\u00a0Isthmian Ode 2 (In memory of the victories of Xenocrates of Acragas\u00a0Chariot Race\u00a0470 B. C.)&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>&#8220;Then the Mousa (Muse) [i.e. the poet] had not yet bowed to love of gain, or made herself a hireling journeyman; nor in the market clad in masks of silver did honey-tongues Terpsikhore (Terpsichore) barter her gentle-voiced and sweetly sun refrains. But now she bids us pander to that word the Argive spoke, to sadly near to truth: Money, money makes man.&#8221; 2.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">In some accounts Terpsichore is attributed as the mother of the Sirens (sea nymphs who lured sailors to their death), fathered by the sea God Akheloos and a son, Linos, fathered by the God, Apollon (the Solar God of prophecy and oracles). She is referenced again by Pindar in his\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Dirges<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a0as singing the lament over her dead son, Linus, who was struck with his lyre by Heracles\u2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>&#8220;But in another song did three goddesses [Mousai, Muses] lull to rest the bodies of their sons. The first of these [Terpsikhore] sang a dirge over the clear-voiced Linos [personification of the lamentation song].&#8221; 3.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">In the epic poem,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Dionysiaca\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">by the Greek Poet, Nonnus, the River God of Aitolia, Akheloos is credited as fathering the sirens with Terpsichore&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>&#8220;The Seirenes (Sirens), whom rosy Terpsikhore (Terpsichore) brought forth by the stormy embraces of her bull-horned husband Akheloos (Achelous).&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a04.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Terpsichore\u2019s gift of song is gifted to her children and the stories of these sirens songs have long held legend of fateful death on calm seas. The Greek epic poet, Apollonius Rhodius, speaks of the seductive songs of the sirens in the Argonautica&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>&#8220;The clear-voiced Seirenes (Sirens), Akheloos&#8217; (Achelous&#8217;) daughters, used to bewitch with their seductive melodies whatever sailors anchored there. Lovely Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), one of the Mousai (Muses), has borne them to Akheloos, and at one time they had been handmaids to Demeter&#8217;s gallant Daughter [Persephone], before she was married, and sung to her in chorus.&#8221; 5.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17491\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arts2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>(<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>Painting:<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i><b>\u00a0Terpsichore, Muse of Dance\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>by Jean Marc Nattier.1939<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><b>)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Terpsichore\u2019s gift of music is depicted in the traditional fashion of her holding the Lyre in the painting above by Jean Marc Nattier. I particularly like this painting. The artist gave the feeling that she can barely contain herself in rest and at any moment will break free and dance away. Other representations of Terpsichore show her playing the Flute. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Terpsichore\u2019s influence is perhaps the most wide spread of all of the Muses. In terms of artistic expression, she is the quintessential master. Music, song, dance and education all held within her powers of inspiration. And, if we consider the effect of these art forms on society as a whole, she is the bringer of cultural delights. Dance is infectious and every culture throughout time has incorporated dance as art of their social and often spiritual traditions. Her image graces dance studio Logos, titles of choreographic wonders and educational materials, all singing praise to her inspired movement and flow.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">The statue below is found in the Bavarian Gardens at Beyruth Court. Her image graces the gardens as inspiration to the joys and pleasures to be found in the dance of nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17493\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arts3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Join me as we enter the world of dance and take center stage as Terpsichore in the Ballet &#8211;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>\u00a0\u201cApollon Musagete\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">choreographed in 1928 by Serge Diaghilev. This ballet was later re-choreographed by George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, and re-named simply as\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>\u201cApollo\u201d, <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">where it has become a classic staple of the company.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">The ballet features Apollo, god of the arts and the sun. The ballet begins with Apollo playing the Lute and dancing alone. Three of the Muses, Calliope &#8211; Polyhymnia and Terpsichore enter the scene. The three dance with Apollo, each in turn, as they weave moving across the stage in sheer delight. Apollo then gives each of the Muses a gift and asks that they dance for him. To Calliope he gives a scroll of parchment; to Polyhymnia a mask. And, to Terpsichore, a lyre. She dances joyously, filling the space with her passion for movement and the love of the music. Apollo judges her dance to be the most perfect of the three and she and the God, dance a beautiful and slow pas de deux (duet); both\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>\u201cdelighting in the dance\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17492\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/4-Come-Dance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">(<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Come Dance with Me<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">Terpsichore has been with me for longer than I can remember and her transformative grace holds me forever in her embrace\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">My first magickal experience occurred as a dancer performing at the age of 10 or so. I did not, at the time, realize I was setting up the gateway and intent for magick to move through me. My only intent was to connect so fully and deeply that I would become the persona of the role I was portraying and lose my human nature in the process. The desire was to transcend human form and become something more. The intent was powerful enough and the music and rhythm acted as the keys that opened the gates to the other realms through movement and motion. I became the swan flying high above the earth. I was the beautiful being that was shot through the heart and gracefully fell to earth, wounded and in the throes of death.\u00a0 A final arch and curve of beautiful elongated neck, gentle flutter of white feathery wing and the final lifting upwards towards eternal ascending flight as death welcomed me into its soft sleep.\u00a0 The music stopped and I once again returned to the land of human and living; applause awaking me from this deep connection forged as the gates of magickal working closed until called forth again.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>The next post will focus on the Muse, Polymnia and her Gifts of Sacred Hymns and Music<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><u><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><b>References:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">1. Diodorus Siculus,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Library of History<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a04. 7. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">2. Pindar,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Isthmian Ode<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a02. 6 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">3. Pindar,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Dirges<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a0Fragment 139 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">4. Nonnus,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Dionysiaca<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a013. 313 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">5. Apollonius Rhodius,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><i>Argonautica<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\">\u00a04. 892 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #333333;\">***<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #333333;\">About the Author:<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15304\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Robin-Fenelly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Robin Fennelly<\/b>\u00a0is a Wiccan High Priestess, teacher, poet and author. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She is the author of:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>The Inner Chamber, Vol. One<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It\u2019s Written in the Stars<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Astrology<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>The Inner Chamber, Vol. Two<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">poetry of the spheres<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Qabalah<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>The Inner Chamber, Vol. Three<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Awakening the Paths<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Qabalah<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>A Year With Gaia<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Eternal Cord<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Click Image for Amazon Information<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1365683702\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1365683702&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=paganpages-20&amp;linkId=8437a1647380964d0f7e7a9614abd76c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ASIN=1365683702&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=paganpages-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; 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Facebook.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(en)LIV(en)ING with the Muses \u2013 Terpsichore &nbsp; (Image: Carnegie Museum of Art: Terpsichore by Antonio Canova (1821)) This is the Fifth posting of the (en)LIV(en)ING with the Muses Series Terpsichore has been with me longer than I can remember. I was born to dance and the pure joy and thrill of moving through space, weaving energetic patterns and being so completely absorbed by the music are all of her gifts as you open to her magickal inspiration. Her name means \u201cdelighting in dance\u201d and is derived from the Greek word \u201cTerpo\u201d which means to be amused. She is often depicted as wearing laurels on her head and holding a harp or Lyre as she dances. As one of the Nine Muses, her joy in movement is contagious as we see depicted in all the Muses forming lines of flowing grace, regardless of their primary attributes. Her name has come to be synonymous with \u201cdancer\u201d in its English use. As a daughter of Mnemosyne (memory) and Zeus (authoritative power), she is also called upon to assist with the creative effort of choreography and labanotation (the scribing of choreography using symbols that indicate movement and tempo). This reference calls forth the need to remember in order to re-create the steps given and the ability to command the audience\u2019s attention. Just as her sister Muses have multiple attributes, so too, Terpsichore is also considered the Muse of Choral Music and education, as a lessor inspiration. The Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus writes&#8230;.. &#8220;Hesiod even gives their names [the Muses&#8217;] when he writes: \u2018Kleio, Euterpe, and Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsikhore and Erato, and Polymnia, Ourania, Kalliope too, of them all the most comely.\u2019 To each of the Mousai (Muses) men assign her special aptitude for one of the branches of the liberal arts, such as poetry, song, pantomimic dancing, the round dance with music, the study of the stars, and the other liberal arts&#8230; For the name of each Mousa (Muse), they say, men have found a reason appropriate to her&#8230; Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), because she delights (terpein) her disciples with the good things which come from education.&#8221;\u00a01. The Greek lyric poet, Pindar writes of Terpsichore\u2019s sweet song in the\u00a0Isthmian Ode 2 (In memory of the victories of Xenocrates of Acragas\u00a0Chariot Race\u00a0470 B. C.)&#8230;. &#8220;Then the Mousa (Muse) [i.e. the poet] had not yet bowed to love of gain, or made herself a hireling journeyman; nor in the market clad in masks of silver did honey-tongues Terpsikhore (Terpsichore) barter her gentle-voiced and sweetly sun refrains. But now she bids us pander to that word the Argive spoke, to sadly near to truth: Money, money makes man.&#8221; 2. In some accounts Terpsichore is attributed as the mother of the Sirens (sea nymphs who lured sailors to their death), fathered by the sea God Akheloos and a son, Linos, fathered by the God, Apollon (the Solar God of prophecy and oracles). She is referenced again by Pindar in his\u00a0Dirges\u00a0as singing the lament over her dead son, Linus, who was struck with his lyre by Heracles\u2026. &#8220;But in another song did three goddesses [Mousai, Muses] lull to rest the bodies of their sons. The first of these [Terpsikhore] sang a dirge over the clear-voiced Linos [personification of the lamentation song].&#8221; 3. In the epic poem,\u00a0Dionysiaca\u00a0by the Greek Poet, Nonnus, the River God of Aitolia, Akheloos is credited as fathering the sirens with Terpsichore&#8230;. &#8220;The Seirenes (Sirens), whom rosy Terpsikhore (Terpsichore) brought forth by the stormy embraces of her bull-horned husband Akheloos (Achelous).&#8221;\u00a04. Terpsichore\u2019s gift of song is gifted to her children and the stories of these sirens songs have long held legend of fateful death on calm seas. The Greek epic poet, Apollonius Rhodius, speaks of the seductive songs of the sirens in the Argonautica&#8230;. &#8220;The clear-voiced Seirenes (Sirens), Akheloos&#8217; (Achelous&#8217;) daughters, used to bewitch with their seductive melodies whatever sailors anchored there. Lovely Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), one of the Mousai (Muses), has borne them to Akheloos, and at one time they had been handmaids to Demeter&#8217;s gallant Daughter [Persephone], before she was married, and sung to her in chorus.&#8221; 5. &nbsp; (Painting:\u00a0Terpsichore, Muse of Dance\u00a0by Jean Marc Nattier.1939) Terpsichore\u2019s gift of music is depicted in the traditional fashion of her holding the Lyre in the painting above by Jean Marc Nattier. I particularly like this painting. The artist gave the feeling that she can barely contain herself in rest and at any moment will break free and dance away. Other representations of Terpsichore show her playing the Flute. \u00a0 Terpsichore\u2019s influence is perhaps the most wide spread of all of the Muses. In terms of artistic expression, she is the quintessential master. Music, song, dance and education all held within her powers of inspiration. And, if we consider the effect of these art forms on society as a whole, she is the bringer of cultural delights. Dance is infectious and every culture throughout time has incorporated dance as art of their social and often spiritual traditions. Her image graces dance studio Logos, titles of choreographic wonders and educational materials, all singing praise to her inspired movement and flow. The statue below is found in the Bavarian Gardens at Beyruth Court. Her image graces the gardens as inspiration to the joys and pleasures to be found in the dance of nature.\u00a0 Join me as we enter the world of dance and take center stage as Terpsichore in the Ballet &#8211;\u00a0\u201cApollon Musagete\u201dchoreographed in 1928 by Serge Diaghilev. This ballet was later re-choreographed by George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, and re-named simply as\u00a0\u201cApollo\u201d, where it has become a classic staple of the company. The ballet features Apollo, god of the arts and the sun. The ballet begins with Apollo playing the Lute and dancing alone. Three of the Muses, Calliope &#8211; Polyhymnia and Terpsichore enter the scene. The three dance with Apollo, each in turn, as they weave moving across the stage in sheer delight. Apollo then gives each of the Muses a gift and asks that they dance for him. To Calliope he gives a scroll of parchment; to Polyhymnia a mask. And, to Terpsichore, a lyre. She dances joyously, filling the space with her passion for movement and the love of the music. Apollo judges her dance to be the most perfect of the three and she and the God, dance a beautiful and slow pas de deux (duet); both\u00a0\u201cdelighting in the dance\u201d. (Come Dance with Me) Terpsichore has been with me for longer than I can remember and her transformative grace holds me forever in her embrace\u2026 My first magickal experience occurred as a dancer performing at the age of 10 or so. I did not, at the time, realize I was setting up the gateway and intent for magick to move through me. My only intent was to connect so fully and deeply that I would become the persona of the role I was portraying and lose my human nature in the process. The desire was to transcend human form and become something more. The intent was powerful enough and the music and rhythm acted as the keys that opened the gates to the other realms through movement and motion. I became the swan flying high above the earth. I was the beautiful being that was shot through the heart and gracefully fell to earth, wounded and in the throes of death.\u00a0 A final arch and curve of beautiful elongated neck, gentle flutter of white feathery wing and the final lifting upwards towards eternal ascending flight as death welcomed me into its soft sleep.\u00a0 The music stopped and I once again returned to the land of human and living; applause awaking me from this deep connection forged as the gates of magickal working closed until called forth again.\u00a0\u00a0 The next post will focus on the Muse, Polymnia and her Gifts of Sacred Hymns and Music References: 1. Diodorus Siculus,\u00a0Library of History\u00a04. 7. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.). 2. Pindar,\u00a0Isthmian Ode\u00a02. 6 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.). 3. Pindar,\u00a0Dirges\u00a0Fragment 139 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.). 4. Nonnus,\u00a0Dionysiaca\u00a013. 313 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D).\u00a0 5. Apollonius Rhodius,\u00a0Argonautica\u00a04. 892 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.). *** About the Author: Robin Fennelly\u00a0is a Wiccan High Priestess, teacher, poet and author. She is the author of: &nbsp; The Inner Chamber, Vol. One It\u2019s Written in the Stars Astrology \u00a0 The Inner Chamber, Vol. Two poetry of the spheres Qabalah \u00a0 The Inner Chamber, Vol. Three Awakening the Paths Qabalah &nbsp; A Year With Gaia The Eternal Cord Click Image for Amazon Information \u00a0 Temple of the Sun and Moon Luminous Devotions &nbsp; The Magickal Pen, Volume One A Collection of Esoteric Writings &nbsp; The Elemental Year Aligning the Parts of SELF &nbsp; The Enchanted Gate Musings on the Magick of the Natural World Click Image for Amazon Information &nbsp; Sleeping with the Goddess Nights of Devotion &nbsp; A Weekly Reflection Musings for the Year \u00a0 Her books are available on\u00a0Amazon\u00a0or on this website\u00a0and her\u00a0Blogs\u00a0can be found at:\u00a0Robin Fennelly\u00a0 \u00a0 Follow Robin\u00a0on Instagram &amp; Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060","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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}