https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdFxyBBCaZs
https://www.theotherfolk.blog/dissections/wicker-man
- Wickerman/Body Structure: In these practices, the body is seen as a "cauldron" or "stove," where the lower Dantian acts as a furnace to refine the generative force, and the "Wickerman" reference may relate to the internal cultivation and transformation of this essence through intense focus and breathwork.
- The Goal: The aim is to turn the generative force (Jing) into Qi (vitality), which then rises to the brain (Ni Wan) to nurture the spirit, cultivating health and potentially immortality. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
the start for the folks of Summerisle, who get into public orgies at night, dance naked around fires, and teach kids to venerate “the penis … as symbolizing the generative force in nature.”
https://yeoldewitchcraftshoppe.co.uk/2020/03/21/how-the-golden-bough-inspired-the-wicker-man/
Frazer then goes on to give examples of the primitive fire rituals performed by those all over the world. Customs such as leading a bride to or around a hearth in hopes of making her fruitful through the generative virtue ascribed to the fire. The story of Tullius “expresses in daily life the same idea…[that] virgin mothers conceived through contact with a spark or tongue of fire.”
Frazer’s explanation for the procreative virtues attributed to fire is that the very ritual of creating fire, that is rubbing sticks together, is the sexual union that creates the child, flame. “This of itself suffices to impress on the mind of a savage the idea that a capacity for reproduction is innate in the fire, and consequently that a woman may conceive by contact with it.”
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Further on in this chapter Frazer decides to change his view on the motives behind the may pole tradition “However in these and similar European customs it seems that the influence of the tree, bush or bough is really protective rather than generative; it does not so much fill the udders of the cows as prevent them from being drained dry by witches, who ride on broomsticks or pitchforks through the air on the Eve of May Day (the famous Walpurgis Night) and make great efforts to steal the milk from the cattle.”
It is clear that in the case of the Wicker Man, the power of the May Pole is indeed a generative one,..........
The teacher says “Thats right, the pole represents the phallus, or penis which is the generative force in nature.”
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