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In her foreword to the 2004 version of Mircea Eliade’s Shamanism, Wendy Doniger states that, ‘…myths (and, to an excellent extent, rituals) retold and reenacted in the current transport the worshipper back to the world of origins, the world of events that occurred in illo tempore, in that point”.’³ There is, in different phrases, a rupture in on a regular basis, linear time and its substitute with the ‘supratemporal’.

That afternoon they paint themselves with genipapo drawings, and when it’s time the next day they each put on their latest uluri belts and best yanakwimpi beads round their necks and paint a vivid orange epitsiri band across their plucked brows.

Dark Mountain gives no dogma or ethical instruction, but when it has generally brushed up against the experience of the sacred, I assume it’s as a result of that is simply what occurs when folks come collectively in the face of the unknown, discovering a way of communion that’s typically missing elsewhere, and making room for the unusual kinds of words that point towards the wordless.

I think of a line from Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker – ‘It wer like the first time I seen a girl open for me I wer considering: This is what its all about then.’5 This is the core, this is the nub, one particular person stripped back to calligraphic bones, one frail body as ideogram for all Mortality.