Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Herne's Brigade

One of the things I've been labouring on, is the background for an outline for a script for a TV series (and breathe). I'm tentatively calling it Herne's Brigade - A private unit loosely connected to SOE in WWII, fighting the evil Nazis with witchcraft (as oppose to magick).

I'm hoping to capture the mythic/pagan feel of Robin of Sherwood. Hence Herne is ultimately petitioned for aid/patronage. Here's some of my 'bible' in progress:

‘One history passes by in full view and, strictly speaking, is the history of crime...This is one history, the history which everybody knows, the history which is taught in schools...The other history is the history which is known to very few. For the majority it is not seen at all behind the history of crime...The visible history, the history proceeding on the surface, the history of crime, attributes to itself what the hidden history has created. But actually the visible history is always deceived by what the hidden history has created.’
P. D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe

One of the mysteries bequeathed to the Romano-British towards the end of the Roman Empire, was the seed of knowledge that the Empire had, from far India to Ireland, attempted to capture not only as much of the known world as possible, but in particular the sites of power; Pyramids, lingam stones, the circles of Gaul, Malta and Ireland, ancient cities built beneath Anatolia, henges, groves, oracles and springs; for it was to the Romano-British that the administration of these places fell...

The loud retort of the First World War still echoed across Europe, as Imperial powers realised their futile constructions were about to crumble. Another ideal rose, no less an Empire in ambition, but forged in the conflict of Fire and Ice, sweeping aside the martyred Jew and nailing once more the creed of the Volk to the cathedral door. From lands that stood outside the Pax Romanum, this Reich was determined to grab those places of power for itself...

Unseen armies clashed with one another. This is the tale of one band of occult commandos who struck deep into the Nazi occult engine and won unsung honours; Herne’s Brigade.

Monday, October 03, 2005

And on the 30th Day he will arise

I get to rejoin the land of the living this week. Four weeks after being made redundant and, better yet, beating my previous recording of signing on (last time it was two, this time one). I should be careful though, not signed a contract yet, and the Gods are already messing with me by destroying my TV.

It's only stuff, but I made a lot of sacrifices to get it and for obvious reasons can't afford to replace it (getting the repair guy out will be...taxing). Not to mention missing the last half of Waking the Dead tonight...