Hello Crane-friends,
You are cordially invited to join Three Cranes Grove over Zoom, a week from today, as we celebrate the Autumn Equinox and another year of druidry in Central Ohio.
Autumn Equinox is 3CG's anniversary rite — this year marks our eighteenth anniversary as a grove! At this rite we swear in new officers, we recite our grove's epic poem "Clutiā Trion Garanonon," and we praise Teutates, the Gaulish god of the tribe. Teutates is a multi-faceted figure, more a title than an identity, and (as we often sing) he is "known to each of us in our own way" — some 3CG members see Teutates as the god Esus, others as our beloved Crane-spirit Garanus, yet others as various deities and spirits from across the Indo-European cultures. No matter how we see Teutates, our understandings and our praise are bound together by our appreciation for the way he shelters and nurtures our communities.
In ghosti,
Mike Bierschenk
Secretary, Three Cranes Grove
