You are a Revels-goer? I've been only two or three times in my life, but every winter I tell myself that I should go back: I need my "Lord of the Dance" fix. (Plus, I am pretty sure that the first time I went to the Christmas Revels, when I was in early elementary school, imprinted very strongly on my sense of myth. I no longer remember that year's theme, but they had two blue-and-golden sun-faces to either side of the stage; and at the midpoint, when Death had come for the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, these were turned around to reveal black-and-white skull-faces . . . I never got that image out of my head. It fueled my screaming nightmares for weeks. Of course when the light came back, the disks were reversed and we had suns instead of skulls again, but still: brrrr.)
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You are a Revels-goer? I've been only two or three times in my life, but every winter I tell myself that I should go back: I need my "Lord of the Dance" fix. (Plus, I am pretty sure that the first time I went to the Christmas Revels, when I was in early elementary school, imprinted very strongly on my sense of myth. I no longer remember that year's theme, but they had two blue-and-golden sun-faces to either side of the stage; and at the midpoint, when Death had come for the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, these were turned around to reveal black-and-white skull-faces . . . I never got that image out of my head. It fueled my screaming nightmares for weeks. Of course when the light came back, the disks were reversed and we had suns instead of skulls again, but still: brrrr.)