Hey come on perhaps you can tell me. No one comments. I guess no one has interest. But then they only leave generic posts on my page/site.
I have built some great relationships on line, but it will not happen on this site.
If anyone comments I will keep as a contact/ friend, and not boasting I am am a.great friend to have. I am also a genious.
Talk to me as an individual or I am not interested.
I will work on the assumption thatb almost none will read this.
Now you may well be asking yourself what a “Tale from the Beck†is, and while asking that you may be wondering what the heck a Beck is any way. I will attempt to clarify both of those for you.
A “Tale from the Beck†is the title I gave to a blog tears back, sorry that should read years back, when I used to play on Multiply. It was to be one but was quickly pursued across my page by “Another Tale from the Beck,†“Yet another….†“4th Tale…., “ I’m sure you get my drift. It escaped my grasp and just seemed to snowball. “Oh what were they?†In short they were my waffles, rambles, silly narratives, call them what you will, of news from around where I live, walks, things I, or others may have done, which you may find vaguely interesting, possibly amusing at times, but certainly not day-to-day boring bits. They were both words and photos that I took on my travels. That said I’m not sure if I can post photos here in a blog.
As far as the Beck bit is concerned, that is the second half of the name of the village where I currently find myself, namely Boosbeck. What is the names origin, you could be wondering, if so I will put you out of your misery.
It’s Viking in origin, and means the stream near the Cow Shed, Beck being a Viking word for stream. So now you know. OK.
All I wish to know now is simple. Will anyone read my offerings, To be honest I doubt it, and to be honest I have always liked sites to share, be it silly, poetry, tales, stories etc, I do all, but if not, and if no one cares then so be it.
For now I will just say this was once an Iron Mine village, and totally self-contained. Of course this was long before my time, but I know, by talking with my elders, of the history around here.
No ramble today, perhaps a few photogs so you may appreciate from whence I come,
Shh They had ghost hunters in the Top House last night. Weird. If interested, say and I may write.
p.s I can not enter photos, thus a lot can be lost of what I write. Maybe I need a different site where I can use art with words.
Tags: Beck, Waffle
The episode of St George and the Dragon was Eastern in origin, brought back with the Crusaders and retold with the courtly appurtenances belonging to the genre of Romance. The earliest known depiction of the mytheme is from early eleventh-century Cappadocia, and in the iconography of the Eastern Orthodox Church, George had been depicted as a soldier since at least the seventh century. The earliest known surviving narrative text is an eleventh-century Georgian text.
In the fully developed Western version, a dragon makes its nest at the spring that provides water for the city of Cyrene in Libya or the city of Lydda, depending on the source. Consequently, the citizens have to dislodge the dragon from its nest for a time, in order to collect water. To do so, each day they offer the dragon a human sacrifice, the victim being chosen by drawing lots. One day, this happened to be the princess. The monarch begs for her life with no result. She is offered to the dragon, but there appears the saint on his travels. He faces the dragon, slays it and rescues the princess. The grateful citizens abandon their ancestral paganism and convert to Christianity.
The parallels with Perseus and Andromeda are inescapable. In the allegorical reading, the dragon embodies a suppressed pagan cult. The story has roots that predate Christianity. Examples such as Sabazios, the sky father, who was usually depicted riding on horseback, Zeus’s defeat of the Titan Typhon in Greek mythology, along with examples from Germanic and Vedic traditions, have led a number of historians to suggest that George is a Christianized version of older deities in Indo-European culture.
In Sweden, the princess rescued by Saint George is held to represent the kingdom of Sweden, while the dragon represents an invading army. Several sculptures of Saint George battling the dragon can be found in Stockholm, the earliest inside Storkyrkan ("The Great Church") in the Old Town.
Tags: St George, Legend, English
