As we have been doing for many years now (45+), we work with the great myths of many lands, and in landscapes associated with the myths. But although we have visited and worked with many landscapes in different parts of the world, Europe is our particular focus.

Europe was named after the myth of Europa and the Bull by the ancient seers, as they saw that mainland Europe had the shape of a bull, rising out of the Black Sea and flying over the Mediterranean Sea. On its mighty neck and shoulders they saw Europa manifested as the British Isles, the Blessed Isles of the Hesperides, equivalent to the Pleiades in the sky.

As the good version of the myth says, when the Bull (who is the incarnate god Zeus/Jupiter) and Europa (who is the incarnate goddess Athena/Britannia) are truly in love and friendship with each other, they produce their child, Hermes/Mercury. (The name Mercury is derived from the Ancient Egyptian, Maa Kheru, meaning 'True Word'.)

The Europa and Bull myth is, in fact, the Dionysian myth and mystery, wherein Dionysus (called Hermes or Mercury in the Europa and Bull myth) is born a bull-calf called Zagreus, but is chased, caught, torn apart by the Titans, dies, resurrects and ascends as a swan called Dionysus ('Son of God').

All of this has a landscape representation as well as being portrayed in the sky. As Hermes is reputed to have said: "As above so below, as below so above, for the doing of the Great Work."

On earth, mainland Europe is the Bull (the father), the British Isles is Europa/Persephone (the mother), and the Grail Land is their child, Zagreus, a bull-calf. Dionysus the swan (the ascended Zagreus) is represented by the Swan of Europe landscape temple, for Dionysus is at-one with his father, Zeus/Jupiter (the Bull). The Bull and Swan landscape temples of Europe form the Pilgrimage Cross of Europe, centred on Constance (Konstanz), the heart centre of both landscape temples.

In the sky, the constellation of Taurus ('Bull') is known as the Alpha sign of the Zodiac—the first of the twelve signs of the Zodiac that ushers in the new Great Age of c.26,000 years. This is the zodiac sign that the world is entering into right now, as marked by the retrograde position of the midsummer Sun in the sky. (The adepts of the mystery schools always used the solstice Suns as the markers of time, as they are more accurate than the equinoctial positions of the Sun.)

Taurus rules the throat, and it is the throat that sounds the creative Word. In other words, the zodiac sign of Taurus that we are entering into now, according to the position of the midsummer Sun, is already starting to sound its Word and create all things anew, so that a better, more evolved world is the result.

All myths are mysteries, which are plays that embody wisdom, and it is the Dionysian mystery that we are mainly working with.

As Shakespeare said, we are all actors on the stage of the world—and good actors need to know their parts and where on stage they should perform their role at any time during the play. This is what we endeavour to do.

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