[OT] The Garden of Eden

[Wood Avens]

(I originally posted this to uk.religion.pagan, but I think arwm would
appreciate it too.)

>In other news, did anyone else hear this afternoon's Festival of Nine
>Lessons and Carols? The boy who read the first lesson, about God
>throwing Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, read it with more
>dramatic feeling than I've ever heard before. He made God sound
>utterly menacing.

It's now available on BBC iPlayer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pd1bb/Festival_of_Nine_Lessons_and_Carols/
or
http://tinyurl.com/yddehnp

The particularly evocative rendering of the vindictiveness of God
comes about 12 minutes and 40 seconds in, following the carol "Ding
dong merrily on high".

(IMO the relatively low ratio of religion to myth and music makes the
entire thing worth listening to, but YMMV. It's an hour and a half in
total.)

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Wood Avens

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[Paul Hume]

> (IMO the relatively low ratio of religion to myth and music makes the
> entire thing worth listening to, but YMMV. �It's an hour and a half in
> total.)

I rarely miss the annual broadcast of Lessons and Carols.

Without the myth, the art has no context.
Without the art, the myth has no power.