Lahana Quotes

“Body of Earth, body of woman
call unto the stars
Carry –
as the river which carries the touch of the forest
– carry Earth unto sky
Enliven within my body of woman
union with Earth, union with sky
I am daughter of stars
a clear river of light
My soul, it is flowing
unto body of woman,
body of Earth woven with light”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon. She listened to the crashing distance in the waves: formless and curving into the Earth, reaching for the wide basin of the sky. The ocean’s longing to embrace – not understanding stillness or the way others might be tied to the ground.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“feeling all the moods of the ocean. Crystalline in a still morning, beckoning under the midday Sun, a mysterious and ancient divinity at dusk, wild and unconquerable in storms. Always a new tide coming in, and an old tide leaving on a new journey. I feel like the ocean remembers the touch of every place it has been to and washes our skin with it, takes part of us with it when it goes.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“Tears fall like liquid leaves
into the streams and full,
autumn-coloured rivers of our blood
And liquid leaves become crystal
in our winter fortress
before they flow
shifting, changing
rich red by grace of autumn
and fertile in the spring”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“She closed her eyes and could feel the Earth talking, could hear it talking itself into being. The generosity of this energy – pure in the darkness, pure in the cold air and in the hot smell – it flowed into the glyphs as it flowed so generously into all of life. It filled the polluted incantations here as the pure river continues to flow unguarded into the polluted bay.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“Past the azure mist, out into the deep sky pierced with stars. They who watch our path as surely as they did our ancestors, as surely as they shall our descendants: watching all the small stories weaving across the vast journey of time.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“Watching all the small stories weaving across the vast journey of time. What can the Sun and the Moon and the stars tell us that they did not yet know to tell our ancestors? What do the great souls of the mountains learn as their bodies change, as they meet with the rivers and the sands of the ocean? And what of the knowings of the Earth – the cloth of Lahana’s own body – the layers of time within the flesh, reclaiming body and form after body and form. The Earth changing with each life lived out within her.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism

“May we be new and always new upon the Earth – allowing the autumn’s spent leaves to fall away, reaching bare branches to the Sun without ache or regret.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana: A Saga of the Savage Innocence and Power of Ancient Druidism