by Gareth Boyd | May 20, 2021 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Across cultures and across time, the iconic image of horse and rider is ever familiar. By such images, the wars they brought and their conquest of kingdoms or wilderness is communicated in romantic invocation. We understand its meaning intuitively. We...
by Gareth Boyd | Feb 22, 2021 | Articles, Bible, Liturgy
(Custom Artwork from David Flores) This Symbolic World is of course heavily concerned with symbolism, and the apprehending of those symbolic patterns which we see played throughout history and within our very lives. As many in this space are either Orthodox or Roman...
by Gareth Boyd | Sep 14, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Short Stories
This will be the second, and final installment in a short series dealing with The Golden Key by George MacDonald. If you haven’t read it already, the first article can be found here, and the full text of The Golden Key can be read for free online. While there is...
by Gareth Boyd | Aug 12, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Short Stories
In good sooth, my masters, this is no door. Yet it is a little window, that looks upon a great world. – the opening words of Phantastes George MacDonald is well known to many for his longer works, such as Phantastes, Lilith, or The Princess and the Goblin. ...
by Gareth Boyd | May 15, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Within the panoply of Western mythic imagery, perhaps few things excite the imagination like that picture of a brave knight, armed with sword and shield, fighting and defeating a scaled dragon while rescuing a damsel in distress or liberating a town terrorized by...
