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< Linda
Hunter
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Spirit of Fire
Acrylic on paper
This
painting was inspired by two stylistically very different chants, medieval
mystic, Hildegard of Bingen's The Origin of Fire: The Fiery Spirit, and
Navajo/Apache musician, Perry Silverbird's Spirit of Fire. Of the
Spirit that dwells in all, Hildegard said "I the fiery life of divine
wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the waters, I burn in
the sun, and the moon, and the stars."
Her vision and words sounding
uncannily in sync with Native American spirituality, led me to Native
American chant and dance.
I have envisioned the Holy Spirit as a
fiery bird in the full-feathered regalia of a Native American dancer,
moving in the characteristic spiral of the galaxies, dancing the
cosmos into being.
Albums:
Anonymous 4, The Origin of Fire: Music and
Visions of Hildegard of Bingen;
Perry
Silverbird, Spirit
of Fire: Native
American Chanting
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