{"id":18831,"date":"2018-11-01T01:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=19436"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T03:45:08","slug":"art-video-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2018\/11\/01\/art-video-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><u><b>Swedish Petroglyphs<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_52720\"  width=\"960\" height=\"540\"  data-origwidth=\"960\" data-origheight=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Slo9jbw2duI?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Sweden has an abundance of mysterious petroglyphs. The Swedish word for petroglyphs is &#8220;h\u00e4llristningar&#8221;. This refers to figures and shapes carved in rock surface<\/span><span style=\"color: #111111;\">s<\/span><span style=\"color: #111111;\">. Most of these images are pre-historic in origin. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Scandinavia has a very large concentration of rock art, created around c. 9000 (the first century BCE). There are about 30,000 registered sites (but new sites are being discovered all the time). Vivid interpretations have been attempted, based on Old Norse beliefs and Sami ethnography. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">In truth we do not know until today what their purpose or meaning really was. Do they tell stories? Were they a backdrop for community rituals and ceremony? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">This video offers an introduction and some key information followed by shamanic drumming inviting people to meditate on (or journey into) five photographs of Swedish Petroglyphs. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">I invite you to share your experiences in the comments section for this video. Who knows, this might just give us some powerful (if non-scientific) clues to the lives of the Bronze Age inhabitants of Scandinavia! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">I look forward to reading your responses!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>***<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>About the Author:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Imelda Almqvist<\/b> is an international teacher of shamanism and sacred art.\u00a0Her book\u00a0<i>Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages)<\/i>\u00a0was published by Moon Books in 2016 and her second book\u00a0<i>Sacred <\/i><i>a<\/i><i>rt: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where <\/i><i>a<\/i><i>rt Meets Shamanism)<\/i>\u00a0will be published in March 2019.\u00a0 She was a presenter on the Shamanism Global Summit\u00a0in both 2016 and 2017 and is a presenter on Year of Ceremony with Sounds True. She divides her time between the UK, Sweden and the US. She is currently in the editing stages of her third book\u00a0<i>\u201cMedicine of the Imagination\u201d<\/i>\u00a0and has started her fourth book <i>&#8220;Evolving Gods: The Sacred Marriage of Tradition and Innovation&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\u00a0\u00a0(website)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">https:\/\/imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com\/\u00a0\u00a0(blog)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=imelda+almqvist\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=imelda+almqvist<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>(YouTube channel: interviews, presentations and art videos)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1785353683\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1785353683&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=paganpages-20&amp;linkId=bb07346490d80a999583ade8d83671c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natural Born Shamans &#8211; A Spiritual Toolkit for Life: Using Shamanism Creatively with Young People of All Ages on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2D4BqKg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17449\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Natural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish Petroglyphs &nbsp; &nbsp; Sweden has an abundance of mysterious petroglyphs. The Swedish word for petroglyphs is &#8220;h\u00e4llristningar&#8221;. This refers to figures and shapes carved in rock surfaces. Most of these images are pre-historic in origin. Scandinavia has a very large concentration of rock art, created around c. 9000 (the first century BCE). There are about 30,000 registered sites (but new sites are being discovered all the time). Vivid interpretations have been attempted, based on Old Norse beliefs and Sami ethnography. In truth we do not know until today what their purpose or meaning really was. Do they tell stories? Were they a backdrop for community rituals and ceremony? This video offers an introduction and some key information followed by shamanic drumming inviting people to meditate on (or journey into) five photographs of Swedish Petroglyphs. I invite you to share your experiences in the comments section for this video. Who knows, this might just give us some powerful (if non-scientific) clues to the lives of the Bronze Age inhabitants of Scandinavia! I look forward to reading your responses! *** About the Author: Imelda Almqvist is an international teacher of shamanism and sacred art.\u00a0Her book\u00a0Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages)\u00a0was published by Moon Books in 2016 and her second book\u00a0Sacred art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where art Meets Shamanism)\u00a0will be published in March 2019.\u00a0 She was a presenter on the Shamanism Global Summit\u00a0in both 2016 and 2017 and is a presenter on Year of Ceremony with Sounds True. She divides her time between the UK, Sweden and the US. She is currently in the editing stages of her third book\u00a0\u201cMedicine of the Imagination\u201d\u00a0and has started her fourth book &#8220;Evolving Gods: The Sacred Marriage of Tradition and Innovation&#8221; www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\u00a0\u00a0(website) https:\/\/imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com\/\u00a0\u00a0(blog) https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=imelda+almqvist (YouTube channel: interviews, presentations and art videos) Natural Born Shamans &#8211; A Spiritual Toolkit for Life: Using Shamanism Creatively with Young People of All Ages on Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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-18831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831","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=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}