Changeling

 

Legends say that on certain moonless nights, a fey child will be switched at birth with a mortal child. This unknowing child grows up unaware of its true place in the order of things. But on a full moon, occasionally, the eldritch world will send out flashing ziya, and pull their lost ones back from mortal ways. Care to join us on the journey home?     info@cabiri.org www.cabiri.org 206-609-3212

 

Changeling Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. - From The Stolen Child by W.B. Yeats Since ancient times, tales of human infants abducted and carried away by the fey have been told throughout the world. In exchange, the fairy folk leave behind one of their own young, a strange child, often called a ‘changeling.’ Whereas the changeling children often met an unfortunate fate in the Common Era, in more ancient times they were given demigodery and evolved to positions that spanned the chasm separating the mundane from the mythopoetic. Suggested Texts: Hasan M. El-Shamy, Folktales of Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980) Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology (New York: Dover Publications, 1966) The Cabiri are: John Murphy, Charly Barker, John Mullally and Catherine Holmes with guests Kirsten Lauzon and Corie Brooke. Many thanks to the Let's Dance! House Band: Carold Nelson on djembe, Chalice Bailey on djembe, and Mr. Treat on juju. The Cabiri are the theatrical emissaries for The Anunnaki Project, a multidisciplinary organization that seeks to promote awareness of cultures that have passed to antiquity. www.anunnaki.org To contact The Cabiri: Call 206-609-3212 e-mail info@cabiri.org or visit www.cabiri.org