Post by Charlotte on Dec 25, 2009 12:34:20 GMT -5
The Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival
www.boarsheadfestival.com/
Here, the Hog's Head is nestles in grapes, a pear, mistletoe, and pomegranates which juice is said to be the blood of Dionysius, It, and grapes being symbols of transformation, Yule the "Feast of Entreaty", and under the sacred mistletoe of magical properties and healing powers to the Druid Priests, it is customary for lovers to kiss for good luck. Christmas, also known as "Christ's Nativity", was celebrated as early as the 1st century, at which time it was called the "Feast of Sol Invictus".
The Boar's Head on a Pewter Platter with a pomegranate or apple, in some renderings neither, is the Heraldic Emblem of Sir Francis Bacon, "the greatest Hog in History" in "Charlotte's Web". It is the Centre Piece of the festively decorated Dinner Table in some Homes in America, mostly on the East Coast and Mid-West, and has a 400 year history in terms of Francis Bacon. Withal, in most Homes the Boar's Head has been replaced by the Turkey as Centre Piece but nobody knows why, hence the expression "don't you know that, you Turkey", coined by Sarah Palin who knows all about Turkey's.
Besides the Turkey, "Baked Ham", or "Honey Glazed Ham", or a Goose is served, Roast Pork with chicken customary in Germany. However, sometimes my Sister roasts a Goose, the complaint always bein that it is too fatty. On Christmas Eve we had fish, mostly Carp with plain boiled potatoes as it was a day of fasting, which tradition my Sister still follows.
A Bacon bit of my childhood. One year, my Father presented me with the biggest, most perfect apple I ever saw, and my Mother told me later that for several month it was hidden on top of the closet and that He turned it every day to keep it unspoiled. I didn't fully appreciate the care He took and Love He had for me
because the words "I love you" were never spoken in my Home, and are not today. I also have a small apple since the end of February and turn it every day to keep it good.
It is well know to lovers of Bacon that the Boar's Head, the Christmas Ham, and the Goose, substituting for the Swan (of Avon) for the Swan is deemed to Noble a Bird to kill and eat, are all Emblems of Francis.
On a "Traditional German Christmas Dinners" site is written:
"After 1600, the custom of serving goose on Christmas was imported by Germany from Great Britain. This custom in Great Britain began on Christmas Eve in 1588 when Queen Elizabeth the First was having dinner. While goose was being served, she received news of the victory of the English Fleet over the Spanish Armada. In her joy, she declared the goose to be an indispensable part of the Christmas Dinner."
No doubt 'tis written by a German "Realist", conjectured in the typical cut and dry literalistic understanding, all else is "Hogwash", which it is in the moist, but the word "Hogwash", only, the word "Hogwash" has now taken on the opposite meaning from the original.
Another version
"A Christmas celebration with music and pageantry, the Boar's Head Festival appears to be an American Custom of English origin. Its roots are in the ancient English tradition of slaying a boar for the Christmas feast, roasting the severed head with an apple in its mouth and ceremoniously bearing it into the castle's dining hall so that royalty and guests might admire it and the hunter's prowess. With the passage of time, the slaying of the boar has come to represent the conquering of evil at the birth of the Christ Child."
It had meant that in the beginning, the slaying of the Boar is a sacrificial act. The Church was always involved.
Rather, the Twelve Nights and days of Christmas, and some more, was a time of joyous Revelries mostly at the Middle Temple and Gray's Inn, prepared by Francis, the Queen Herself being the Life of the Parties. Ben Jonson says, "Every Man out of his Humour", referring to the four Humours in the Galenic Tradidition I wrote about in the Dürer thread.
In the bigger context, St. Augustin, and St. Chrysostom the "Father among Saints" are incorporated in the Play, and so the Thread from the Saints to the Elizabethan Era is unbroken, in particular by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul, who lectured on the Epistles of St. Paul "akin to the Church Fathers", Saint Paul the Baptizer and Teacher of Dionysius the Areopagite who strongly influenced the great Luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance. All this is worth repeating to show whose Geistes Kinder we are, America is, but don't know it. Why did Francis make us aware of the Saints in the Play?
"Thomas Tusser in Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry" intimates that the Turkey as Centre Piece "does not seem to be the centrepiece in the way that the boar's head was in grander circles", and I would agree.
Sung after Midnight Mass, the Boar's Head Coral, Queens College Version, Oxford, England.
The Boar's Head in hand bring I
Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary.
I pray you, my masters, be merry
As many as are in the feast.
The Boar's Head, as I understand
Is the rarest dish in the land,
Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
Let us serve with a song.
Our steward hath provided this
In honour of the King of Bliss;
Which, on this day to be served is
In the Queen's hall.
Chorus
The boar's head I offer
Giving praise to the Lord.
More connection with the past
"The Reverend brought the tradition with him from Troy where is was called the Hoosac Boar's Head Ceremony. - The Boar's Head was roasted but not eaten. - While the new Church was built the festival was held in the Masonic Temple."
www.boarsheadfestival.com/tradition/index.shtml
As I mentioned before, "Uncle Sam" personifies Francis Bacon, hard to believe even though nobody knows how the character "Uncle Sam" came about. He is thought to be Samuel Wilson, who spent his childhood in Mason, New Hamshire, and who in 1789 walked with his brother Ebenezer to Troy, New York. No reason is given, but Troy, the Home of Uncle Sam, was adopted from Homer's Illiad. The fourth labor of Heracles was to slay the Erymathian Boar.
Another name for the Boar is "Razerback" Please scroll down for a good view.
www.sirbacon.org/links/whitneyemblem.html
Boars Head Bacon recipes
www.boarshead.com/ingredient.php?ingredientID=267
Another junction
"The Boar's Head" in Charlottesville, Virginia, a must be.
www.boarsheadinn.com/
Finally in the Boardom, Wilbur is told by the old goat in the barn cellar, who's been there for a long time and seen it all, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the Queens Chancellor, that with pig's it's just a matter of time before they are killed as soon as the cold weather sets in and turned into smoked bacon and ham, that everybody is in on it and everybody knows it, and Wilbur faints. Uncle Sam is the grumpy old pig at the fair who has won first prize long ago. Charlotte the spider asks politely if she may know his name? "No name, just call me Uncle" he grunts.
Again, Happy Holidays
Charlotte
www.boarsheadfestival.com/
Here, the Hog's Head is nestles in grapes, a pear, mistletoe, and pomegranates which juice is said to be the blood of Dionysius, It, and grapes being symbols of transformation, Yule the "Feast of Entreaty", and under the sacred mistletoe of magical properties and healing powers to the Druid Priests, it is customary for lovers to kiss for good luck. Christmas, also known as "Christ's Nativity", was celebrated as early as the 1st century, at which time it was called the "Feast of Sol Invictus".
The Boar's Head on a Pewter Platter with a pomegranate or apple, in some renderings neither, is the Heraldic Emblem of Sir Francis Bacon, "the greatest Hog in History" in "Charlotte's Web". It is the Centre Piece of the festively decorated Dinner Table in some Homes in America, mostly on the East Coast and Mid-West, and has a 400 year history in terms of Francis Bacon. Withal, in most Homes the Boar's Head has been replaced by the Turkey as Centre Piece but nobody knows why, hence the expression "don't you know that, you Turkey", coined by Sarah Palin who knows all about Turkey's.
Besides the Turkey, "Baked Ham", or "Honey Glazed Ham", or a Goose is served, Roast Pork with chicken customary in Germany. However, sometimes my Sister roasts a Goose, the complaint always bein that it is too fatty. On Christmas Eve we had fish, mostly Carp with plain boiled potatoes as it was a day of fasting, which tradition my Sister still follows.
A Bacon bit of my childhood. One year, my Father presented me with the biggest, most perfect apple I ever saw, and my Mother told me later that for several month it was hidden on top of the closet and that He turned it every day to keep it unspoiled. I didn't fully appreciate the care He took and Love He had for me
because the words "I love you" were never spoken in my Home, and are not today. I also have a small apple since the end of February and turn it every day to keep it good.It is well know to lovers of Bacon that the Boar's Head, the Christmas Ham, and the Goose, substituting for the Swan (of Avon) for the Swan is deemed to Noble a Bird to kill and eat, are all Emblems of Francis.
On a "Traditional German Christmas Dinners" site is written:
"After 1600, the custom of serving goose on Christmas was imported by Germany from Great Britain. This custom in Great Britain began on Christmas Eve in 1588 when Queen Elizabeth the First was having dinner. While goose was being served, she received news of the victory of the English Fleet over the Spanish Armada. In her joy, she declared the goose to be an indispensable part of the Christmas Dinner."
No doubt 'tis written by a German "Realist", conjectured in the typical cut and dry literalistic understanding, all else is "Hogwash", which it is in the moist, but the word "Hogwash", only, the word "Hogwash" has now taken on the opposite meaning from the original.
Another version
"A Christmas celebration with music and pageantry, the Boar's Head Festival appears to be an American Custom of English origin. Its roots are in the ancient English tradition of slaying a boar for the Christmas feast, roasting the severed head with an apple in its mouth and ceremoniously bearing it into the castle's dining hall so that royalty and guests might admire it and the hunter's prowess. With the passage of time, the slaying of the boar has come to represent the conquering of evil at the birth of the Christ Child."
It had meant that in the beginning, the slaying of the Boar is a sacrificial act. The Church was always involved.
Rather, the Twelve Nights and days of Christmas, and some more, was a time of joyous Revelries mostly at the Middle Temple and Gray's Inn, prepared by Francis, the Queen Herself being the Life of the Parties. Ben Jonson says, "Every Man out of his Humour", referring to the four Humours in the Galenic Tradidition I wrote about in the Dürer thread.
In the bigger context, St. Augustin, and St. Chrysostom the "Father among Saints" are incorporated in the Play, and so the Thread from the Saints to the Elizabethan Era is unbroken, in particular by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul, who lectured on the Epistles of St. Paul "akin to the Church Fathers", Saint Paul the Baptizer and Teacher of Dionysius the Areopagite who strongly influenced the great Luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance. All this is worth repeating to show whose Geistes Kinder we are, America is, but don't know it. Why did Francis make us aware of the Saints in the Play?
"Thomas Tusser in Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry" intimates that the Turkey as Centre Piece "does not seem to be the centrepiece in the way that the boar's head was in grander circles", and I would agree.
Sung after Midnight Mass, the Boar's Head Coral, Queens College Version, Oxford, England.
The Boar's Head in hand bring I
Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary.
I pray you, my masters, be merry
As many as are in the feast.
The Boar's Head, as I understand
Is the rarest dish in the land,
Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
Let us serve with a song.
Our steward hath provided this
In honour of the King of Bliss;
Which, on this day to be served is
In the Queen's hall.
Chorus
The boar's head I offer
Giving praise to the Lord.
More connection with the past
"The Reverend brought the tradition with him from Troy where is was called the Hoosac Boar's Head Ceremony. - The Boar's Head was roasted but not eaten. - While the new Church was built the festival was held in the Masonic Temple."
www.boarsheadfestival.com/tradition/index.shtml
As I mentioned before, "Uncle Sam" personifies Francis Bacon, hard to believe even though nobody knows how the character "Uncle Sam" came about. He is thought to be Samuel Wilson, who spent his childhood in Mason, New Hamshire, and who in 1789 walked with his brother Ebenezer to Troy, New York. No reason is given, but Troy, the Home of Uncle Sam, was adopted from Homer's Illiad. The fourth labor of Heracles was to slay the Erymathian Boar.
Another name for the Boar is "Razerback" Please scroll down for a good view.
www.sirbacon.org/links/whitneyemblem.html
Boars Head Bacon recipes
www.boarshead.com/ingredient.php?ingredientID=267
Another junction
"The Boar's Head" in Charlottesville, Virginia, a must be.
www.boarsheadinn.com/
Finally in the Boardom, Wilbur is told by the old goat in the barn cellar, who's been there for a long time and seen it all, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the Queens Chancellor, that with pig's it's just a matter of time before they are killed as soon as the cold weather sets in and turned into smoked bacon and ham, that everybody is in on it and everybody knows it, and Wilbur faints. Uncle Sam is the grumpy old pig at the fair who has won first prize long ago. Charlotte the spider asks politely if she may know his name? "No name, just call me Uncle" he grunts.
Again, Happy Holidays
Charlotte
