Lammas Gathering at Le Chalet Crepuscule -August 14th-17th
The Twilight Temple of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk in the lush Ardennes forest of southern Belgium re-opens its gates for three days and nights of workshops and rituals celebrating the Lammas/Lughnasad Harvest Festival.
Recently Le.Chalet Crepuscule sculpture sanctuary in process was vandalised, several statues broken and infrastructure (solar panels, battery etc.) stolen. However Thanks to the amazing support via a gofundme campaign everything has been restored for Lammas, and is actually looking and feeling better than ever!
Here you can see the stop-animated recreation of Cernunnos, the God of the Wilderness, re-emerging from his Celtic Cairn (grave mound), as the wilderness will always find a way:
Information about attendance possibilities (6 spaces remaining July 19th) further down…
In addition to the Labyrinth installation with ritual theatre, we have many new elements this year:
Metamorphic Clay body arts by Orryelle, Myrgon and other collaborator/s tbc, and in interaction with new sculptures on the land, rituals workshops and live music performances at the Feast of Valhalla… :
(Attendees are not obligated to participate in all activities, only those they resonate with)
Ritual of Hekate Phylos Akuia -the aspect of the Crossroads Goddess in relation to nature, to flora and fauna and the very earth from whose clay (from the land where She stands) Her statue is (re)formed.
Her arachnean aspect will be acknowledged for Her role in the Labyrinth as the Weaver of Fates Three.
Participants are asked to bring a sacred thread or talisman to tie into Her laced skirts…
In the traditions from Greece and India of ritual statue creation, the final stage will be the opening of the eyes, when the Goddess is drawn into the vessel for it to live again.
Double SphinX Gateway Opening – the female Greek Sphinx sculpture has been completed to sit opposite the entrance from the restored male Egyptian Sphinx. This portal will be ritually opened at Lammas.
UnVeiling and Consecration of new Pan statue -a new work at Chalet Crepuscule, to be revealed!
Dionysian Adonia ritual with Hedera Homoiophis– during the Dog Days (end July/beginning august), was held in Byblos, Cyprus or Athens a festival dedicated to Adonis, the beautiful god, Aphrodite and Persephone’s lover, who dies in the prime of his youth and is reborn the following year. In the late Antiquity in an orphic text (the Orphic Rhpasodies), Adonis appears conflated with Dionysos, both of them beging Gods of the vegetation, dying and being reborn. This ritual of the Adonia will be re-enacted in a revised version, inspired by the Orphic Rhapsodies, to lead the participants in a mystical and ecstatic night journey.
Daily pranayama, Sufi drum-breath and chanting sessions
Yoga sessions with Orryelle and Aime
Bio-electric Massage with Aime
Labyrinth interactive ritual theatre journey:
Lammas Feast of Valhalla :
Live Music (amplified and fireside acoustic) by FenetreSutra, Orryelle, FreOrr, more TBA…
Liber Qoph vel Hekate lunar adorations
Self-sculpting and Other-sculpting clay performance rituals with Orryelle and Myrgon:
The Web of Wyrd and the Breath of Time workshop with Orryelle -by mapping time onto a spatial plane as a mandala in your ritual circle, different timelines and their choice nodes can be explored on an emotional and intuitive rather than purely rational level.
Le Chalet Crepuscule is just 1 hr 40 mins by train (to Marloie station) from Brussels -then an 8-min bus or cab ride (so about 4 hrs from London or Amsterdam via the Eurostar). Pick-ups from the station can be arranged.
Facilities at the Chalet (interior of front room below) are basic: solar power, gas stove and lanterns, candles and fires -so be prepared for a real back to nature experience, part of the elemental enchantment of this place which is somehow simultaneously remote and yet in the middle of central Europe bordering 5 different countries by just a few hours. There is now a gas-powered hot shower also.
(If you wish for more mod-con comfort you are welcome to seek accommodation in nearby Nassogne, Rochefort, Marche-en-Famenne or other surrounding areas, while attending the activities at Le Chalet Crepuscule)
If you wish to attend this weekend of workshops, performances and rituals (or part thereof) please email Orryelle on odxob@yahoo.com ASAP.
Maximum capacity 27 (camping space), including performers (7 spaces left July 16th). The cost is 70 euro including food and camping, workshops, rituals, labyrinth and performances (this is a non-profit event). This cost can be reduced by arrangement if you wish to help out with preparations, cooking or cleaning, or if you only wish to attend one or two days/nights (please email odxob@yahoo.com).
