There is a spring in the parish of São Brás de Alportel that has a name older than the town itself. It is called the Fonte do Mouro, the Spring of the Mouro. The name has survived centuries of conquest, conversion, and forgetting. The water still rises from the same place it always did. And … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 2:The Moura at the Bottom of the Spring: A Story from São Brás de Alportel and the Living Landscape of the Eastern Algarve
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New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology – part 1: The Beings in the Stone, A Historical Perspective
Long before the vocabulary of psychogeography, phenomenology, or esoteric psychology existed, the people of Portugal knew that certain stones were inhabited. The figure at the centre of this knowledge is the Moura Encantada, the Enchanted Moura, one of the oldest and most persistent beings in Portuguese and Galician folk tradition. She is beautiful, she is … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology – part 1: The Beings in the Stone, A Historical Perspective
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