Kari Tauring and Friends present:
"Crossing the River 2006"
Thursday September 28th

Script:

These shows are created through process method. This means there is a skeleton structure that songs, stories and dances are "hung" on. The skeleton is the intention of the show which relates to what season it is and the global traditions surrounding that season. In process method, the final script is "written" at the time of performance. This means that much of the show is improvisational, thus lending itself to the flow of ritual.

Here is the skeleton for September 28th, 2006

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Crossing the River 2006 - call 5pm, doors 6pm, 7pm show out by 9

"Round and Round"
Pete: East
Ken: South
Maren: West
Matt: North

Kari Center - Welcome to our final production of the "Discovering Origins….

"Directional Invocation"

"The One Who Loves Me" (Matt dance from North, full circle, end in West. Maren takes you across the river to the East, Matt end in SE between Pete and Ken.)

"Winter's Come"

Kari: Death and Grieving - Higan -e "other shore"
Greeting our ancestors, reincarnation, they visit us in many ways

Hindu, Nordic and Celtic traditions…

Cauldron - Words you wish to speak to them, words you wish to hear from them…

East/Pete: Who guides you to the other side?

SE/ Matt: Angels from the beginning of time

South/Ken: Follow the Cow Path through the woods

SouthW/Kari: In the beginning was the cow!

West/Maren: (reads the "In the beginning…)

East/Pete: Who can cross the over the river and back again?

SE/Matt: The gods did it.

South/Ken: The warriors of old could do it.

Kari (SW to Center): Karna was such a man! Story…

Krishna was an Avatar who…(Maren interrupts)

West/Maren: Followed the way of the Gopikaas! I will tell you who can cross over and back at will. The milk maids who churn from the milk of the stars!

Kari (Center): Krishna was such an Avatar to come…introduce Paul.

"Milkmaids" by Paul Chamberlain

*Tom Grant on "Ghee" (Kari introduce)

Mahalysha Panka - Food Karma - Cauldron - Crops and karma

Maren: The expert Gopikaas of Norse Mythology were the Huldre!

"Kari og Mari"

Many rivers, three roots, cauldrons and the Need for Seidr.

"Marens Voluspa"

Staving Chant/Drum Jam…do you dare swim in the river itself? who is in the river? What will we find there? What if we have been polluting the rivers on this shore?
How will we live here or there?

The river is cleaned in olden times by the women who washed and cooked there, by the Sheila naGig with her sacred moon blood, marking the banks of the river as she goes.

"Black River Song" - and Matt Reads…

When we clean it up here, we clean it up there. Think if we could drink straight from the Mississippi!

"Sedna" Inuit Goddess

Cauldron Instructions

"Cycle"

Now I will show you how to cross the River (Children extend the River)

"When Death Came Knocking on my mother's door, he said come on mother aint' ya, ready to go. And she jumped right down and buckled up her shoes, moved on down to the Jordan stream den she shout, Haleluia! Done done my duty, got on my traveling shoes!"

Breathe to balance and bless the cauldron.

Open the circle
Bows

"This little light of mine" jam

PETE: What will we do on the other side?
All Feast and Drink in the company of our kin!

Readings and Hennas set up.