The 13th tribe weaving's been quite a ride in itself, many challenges and trials manifested on the way, but even more unexpected help and good fortune did also. Once I managed to push through the initial inertia to getting involved, all sorts of confirmatory helpful synchronicities kept pouring in...


Looking back at it now the week spent preparing for it was just as valuable and important as the ritual itself, during it the reps of (some of) the 13 tribes got to meet each other, to work and play together and eventually to know each other quite well for the short time we spent together. It was a treat to work with people from such diverse origins and backgrounds, on various different magickal and spiritual paths, with different personalities and lives, all united by a common purpose and a shared vision.

"Unity in Diversity" indeed! Orryelle voiced this at some point during the rite, with each one of the 12 reps in turn echoing "Unity" in the native languages of the tribes they represented.
It made it obvious for us all how important it is to not just tolerate and accept, but to actively value and celebrate our differences.
...Even if it's not always easy; the obstacles in the process were just as illuminating as the highs. There were obvious N'Atonian themes in the intent and symbolism of the ritual, and it helped me see more clearly what stands in our way of achieving such unitary consciousness. Egoistic motives and judgmental attitudes need to be left behind, as well as the tendency to prefer some people over others. As Kieron, one of the 12 said at some point, "we're all reflections of each other after all".

I'll leave the description of the rite as a whole to Orryelle as he's bound to do a better job of it, but there were a couple of points that were particularly intense for me that I'd like to mention. One was the piercing itself; Orryelle suggested that we use this to concentrate on letting go of all negative emotional baggage, both personal and collective for the tribe(s) we represented. This really felt cathartic, especially as the piercer had to do it twice for me, the needle going too deep in the first attempt.
This resulted in a thin stream of blood running down my chest as I was thinking of the blood being shed in the middle east; I was representing both Arabs and Jews ironically, or appropriately, enough.
Images of tribal strife from many time periods flashed in my mind, as a soothing feeling of relief came over me at the realisation that from some perspective such bloodshed is as innocent as children's play... but pointless and unecessary nevertheless.

The extended chanting of the chakra tone itself during the weaving put me in a intensely altered state; the biting cold faded from my consciousness and all I was aware of was the inner circle of initiates buzzing with energy, as well as the outer circle of people who joined hands and joined the chanting. I felt an incredible sense of love and gratitude for their support, a true sense of kinship. During the worst parts of the hailstorm I was amazed at their persistance in keeping the outer circle intact, not to mention giving us shelter while they were getting the worse of the cruel wheather.

Eye contact with some of them was intense and seemed to go deep, and one seemed very familiar though I was sure I had never seen him before. Later Orryelle mentioned that Starshadow was there, and from the description realised he was the person I 'recognised'. (Grateful for the support from you and your coven!)

The ritual ended with us chanting down the chakra tones to the base, and while still weaved together and chanting the base chakra tone, all of us kneeling or sitting down to channel the energies raised into the earth. Only then I remembered that we were on the heart chakra of the planet. I felt the energies flowing down deep, the earth receptive but not entirely passive, which somehow took me by surprise.
It seemed that our channeling stirred some kind of response from deep down, something like a mixture of recognition of what we were up to, a strong appreciation and a kind of... reciprocation perhaps?
Hard to describe, but for me that was the most intensely felt and most rewarding part of the entire rite.

MARIOS

Eastern Europe and Middle-East Tribal Representative in the 13th-Tribe Weaving

My Journey to Glastonbury


At December 2002 I`w got the idea to ask Orryelle Bascule for initiation into the Horus Maat Loge.

At the time he told me about the XIIIth weaving, and I was quite interested in;
But since I have wery low money I did not know if I can manage it to come...
The problems already begun when my messenges endet at Orrys email trash, so I had no responce from him.At the same time it lookt I`m seriously ill,but the test where negative, :) as I was sure I`m not ill the next test needet to be maked because I was in long kontakt to someone who had mononucleosis. As if that was not egnouth I had allso some problems with my work.

But if such thing would stop me how could I ever be sure that they not spot me again the next time when I want to do some magickal praxis...

The main problem where still the money...Finaly I taken a loan to make my drivers licence and than I selectet to sacrifice the money to be able to get to the Weaving.

I realised that has to be a magickal jurny under the guardiance of the Will; thats no bussines travel with egnouth money and guestservise:)) So I begon to see it more as a fight, and a little as duty.I tryed to less think and more act, but my ego was still wery nervous :))

I brought my tickets but still had no answer from Orry so I was now thinkin two days to go to Glastonbury and no Idea how to find him there OK lets hope the Will is on my side and I just walk around and ask around if they know a crayzi guy from austrila called Orryelle :) and I gues so can I find him.

The next problem I had to arrive at midnight but my next bus goes at 6 in the afternoon!! What now OK its 30miles may be I can walk the way.

So I prepared my self to walkI created for this thin a own himn :)) Its a long way a long way to Glastonbury ... :)))))


Still I had only 20pound for the whole jurny some money has to be on the way but if they arriwe who knows.

Ha one day befor I got a call from Orry finaly :)) ok he told me about a other bus that goes at 7:30.
OK so may be I can sleep at the airport until 6 and then go and catch the bus.


My jurny begons at Thuersday at night I came to the airport and the next problem was on the way the plane comes later, ok lets wait on other hand I needed to get a bus at morning, and my arriwemend had to be at midnight so I was not in real hurry.
Finaly the plane came two houers later.At the time I had in my pocket cca 20pounds and was knowing some money are on the way to my account so I just trustet they arriwe.

In the plane I met two guys from Bristol that toke me in they car into the town, since my bus had to go at 7:30 I was thinking to stay at YMCA, they drive me there but it was no free room...:((
So one of them offered me to stay in his house.
This nice guy also gave me food and all, and also driven me at the mornign to the bus station.
Wow, I was totaly suprissed this guy wanded nothing for my staying.Even when I told I have food to care for me self he told me that I have to spare it for later england is expensive.

Here I begon to hope that from now everithing is OK and I`m on the rigth way.
But the next suprisse came not much later at the Bus Station the Cashmaschine dont accepted my card, so I needed to find a other in the time the bus left and OK I had to wait the next, cca a hour.
The good thing was my money arrived :)
I token the next bus writen a SMS at what time I arrive in Glastonbury.

After the next hour I arrived but no one was waiting for me. Shit I writen some SMS but no answer.

So I`m finaly in Glastonbury but no real wining at all, OK lets try to phone, but the number wasnt working.
Here I begon to thing may be the will doesnt wand me to be a part I sumarized all the problems I had and will have of course that I token the money for the licence for something else.

OK what now so I walked around and heh after some hours I got a call finaly where to meet and at what time :)))
OK I spend in the Bar more than three hours, but now we the first time meet.

He embraced and taken me to a totaly full car.A czech old skoda 120 :)

Later I met all the people and we where there like a family mixed from many continents :) and also from many diferend magical ways.

We spoken about the ritual and worked with the chakras.And now I`m realised I`m here in Glastonbury I didnot known anybody before and now I have many friedns.Realy a nice experience.
I came late the others already feasted nearly a week and I was also affraid to do something wrong in the ritual since I dont understanded all what was told also I dind known the dance that had to be performed ect...

At the time I also realised that the chackra piercing isnt mean symbolicali, "Oh shit man" I told to my self... soon will my "virgin " skin loose his virginity :)) but OK I came not tvo tousand mailes to be affraid of a piercing.

The next suprise the area the Tor is a realy frequented place! I never have done a ritual in public.
But OK Glastonbury is a town full of Fools so some more will not does a mather.This is real freedoom :)!!:))


We prepared us for the ritual and my position in the ritual was changing, but finaly it was so that I had to be a representand of Siberia and Mongolia.At least I know something about this areas.
It was realy cold there at least for me because I left Prague with nearly tropical weather,... there was a Nepalian Hindu Guy caled Baba looking at me and Laughting :"Hey man, if it cold for you already now what will you do later in the ritual??" And he was right what will I do..?? Ater thinking about it I answered:"I have no other choice than to try to survive :)) "

The Rite-

Begun with the serpend dance, the first time for me I`w don it...And I was supprosed that all people joined us.

The rite was wery nice but extremly hard to stay.My feelings mixet befor of a little affraid the piercing and also if I will be able to act in public.But the people around where so simpatic so I lost the stress.

The next problem two hours befor the rite started I get my rite position not realy much time to prepare...I found out that no one was knowing what Orgloj Chorchoj is so I got the Idea to talk about him.

When I saw the nice performance of the others I begon to thing of shit man I need more than only to tell some words about Orgloi Chorchoj, and became the Idea to speak a little in czech :) if it works in english why not in czech.

The rite was wery long some one told me nearly five hours.And in the middle it begans to rain wery strongli it was cold and windy I was shaking and realy tired, and than it hapened something amazing I realiset the wonderfull people around us that saw us there begon with us to vibrate the chackra tone and this vibration was about fifty minits and the people holded with us, this gave me the power to stay and work on the rite.
It was realy amazing to see the people not thinking "what crayzy guys are this" but realy supporting us and the time they vibratet with us was very long and the rain was falling also on them...

When Orry begon to bind us together I had a strange feeling ...I had a feeling that all this happened allready aeons of time before we already performed the rite and this is my memory waked up by doing it.(the tipe of consiousness was near to that I had in a Daathian vision)
I got a feeling I already know this people for a long time.I was totaly supprised by the feeling and also by the intensity of the feeling.It was so intensive that the time was still for a while...

After the rite I embraced Orry and called him Brother.So intensive was the effect of the rite, I also feld a unity with all people holding unto now.

Later at monday i still feeled the unity I was in a Bar in Bristol with one of the members and still I looked at her and hat the feeling to know her since a long time, I think that it is so we all are united trought the we are (like Jung says) born with exeperiences in our subconscious like sexual experience ect,... so posibli we all are trough our subconscious connected together we have the ability to have the common conscious and the rite opened for a while as I think this ability...
(Maat magick Hive Idea??)


I`m glad that I was a part of the rite...I sacrificed the licence, the tryp has token more money that I make in one month but it doesnt mathers these many where right invested :))

I will now walk here around and share the experience and energy with local people.

Its a greath experinece I made not only in the rite but with the people I met with the land I saw.


I have too limited commands of English to say what I feeled but may be even if my English would be perfekt it would not be good egnouth to write the feelings...

BENNU (/Imagios)

Last-minute stand-in Siberian/Mongolian Tribal Representative in the 13th-Tribe Weaving

...Just to say I too was present at Orryelle's XIII* weaving on Glastonbury Tor on the Solstice. With me too the members of our coven.

We arrived in G'bury in the early afternoon and consequently when we got to the Tor, the ritual was beginning. A longe serpent dance was snaking around the top of the Tor, around the base of the tower and among the people gathered there for Solstice.

The began the ritual proper, with the gathering of the representatives of the people of the Earth. I had to take a small break at that point - having mislaid a couple of people and wishing to make sure they got to experience the ritual.

Once back with the rest of the people in tow, I got lost in the ritual, the chakra chanting, the thunder and the rain.

Suddenly it was 10:00pm , the ritual wound down and in the chaos of getting camping organised I managed to miss making contact with people after the ritual.
Though later in G'bury I met Orryelle's friend Evan(Looking for coffee).


It has rarely been my privilege to attend a working so focussed, dedicated and Beautiful - thank you Orryelle

Blessings to All

StarShadow