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<<Before Elizabeth was crowned by Bishops, she underwent coronation by
the people. Attending the ceremony were a host of "Wild Forest Dwellers"
who'd come to bless the new Queen. Later in her reign she attended a
curious ceremony in the Forest of Windsor Great Park. Seated before a
pavilion in a clearing one Spring morning Queen Elizabeth, with her
complicity & consent presided over one of the most ancient druidic &
shamanic ceremonies in Eurasian culture. A ceremony that harkened back
to the time when much of Britain and the continent was covered by
massive forests, namely the trial and accession of the King of the
Caille Daouine, the Lord of the Forest.
.
The King of the Forest is the Stag of 9 Tines. In the lays of Robin
Hood Robin himself is revealed as the Green Stag and the Totem is
repreatedly interwoven into the fabric of ancient northern Kingship.
In pre-christian & non-christian Europe, to claim the Kingship of
the vast greenwood, the pretender was obliged to ride and kill whilst
mounted, the great Stag of 9 Tines. This task was possibly one of the
most dangerous stunts anyone could pull. During the Spring Rut the Stag
is vicious, belligerent and half mad with lust and territorial rage.
Getting anywhere near him was a feat of courage in 'itself. However,
to be rightly invested with the true kingship of the Forest Peoples,
it was necessary first to depose the reigning monarch, the Great Stag.
.
On the spring Morning in question one of Elizabeth's favourites, the
Queen's Chamberlain Edward de Vere charged into the self same clearing
mounted upon the great Stag of Windsor Forest. Its throat had been cut
by the rider and he and the Stag came to an abrupt halt at the Queen's
feet. Edward de Vere was the premier Count of England and the senior
Peer of the Realm. His lineage was far superior to that of Elizabeth,
he descended from the the House of Anjou, from MELUSINE & the ancient
Pictish & Danann druid Kings of Gaul, Albany & Eire. A necromancer, anti-christian & libertine, Edward had contempt for the Tudors. He was
student of Dr John Dee and it is still insisted that Edward was the true William Shakespeare, whose work is teaming with stories of Elphame and
Magic. Shakespeares Oberon is Alberic whose name literally means Elf
King, whilst his Titania is Diana, whose Druidic, woad coloured Boar
wears her crescent Moon upon its flank in the crest of the ancient
family of Vere. Three of Edward's recent ancestors had borne the name
Alberic and the first of them in England had adopted also the falling
star of LUCIFER as a badge to denote, as Verily Anderson expresses it,
the Vere's "near divinity" as descendants of the line of priest
kingship that originated with the first Elf King - Samael or LUCIFER.>> -------------------------------------------------------------
. MMW Act 5, Scene 5
.
FALSTAFF: Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will
. keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow
. of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.
. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like HERNE the hunter?

. Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes
. restitution. As I am a TRUE spirit, welcome!
.
MISTRESS QUICKLY About, about;
. Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:
. Strew good luck, ouphes, on EVERy sacred room:
. That it may stand till the perpetual DOOM,
. In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,
. *WORTHY* the owner, and the owner it.
. The sEVERal chairs of order look you scour
. With juice of balm and EVERy precious flower:
. Each fair instalment, coat, and SEVERal crest,
. With loyal blazon, EVERmore be blest!
. And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
. Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:
. The expressure that it bears, green let it be,
. More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;
. And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write
. In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
. Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,
. Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:
. Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
. Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,
. Our dance of custom round about the oak
. Of HERNE the hunter, let us not forget. --------------------------------------------------
Stanley crest: argent, on a bend azure
THREE STAGS HEADS cabossed or,
. a crescent for difference.

http://www.renaissance.dm.net/heraldry/blazons2.html -------------------------------------------------------------
. St. HUBERT of ARDENNE (d. May 30, 727) http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1103.htm#hube ------------------------------------------------------------------
Died at terVuEREn (near Brussels), Belgium, May 30, 727

<<In medieval times many saints derived both the pleasure of sport and
some of their food from hunting. According to legend both Saint Eustace
and Saint Hubert came upon a stag with a crucifix between its antlers.
The stag's warning to Hubert was sterner than that to Saint Eustace,
since Hubert had been hunting on Good Friday. Stopped in his tracks by
the sight of the stag and crucifix, Hubert heard a voice warning him
that unless he turned to Christ he was destined for hell.

This was in the forest of ARDENNE. Hubert had been a COURTIER whose
wife died giving birth to their son in the year 685. He retired from
the service of Pepin of Heristal and became a priestly servant of Bishop Lambert. For 10 years Saint Lambert taught the future Saint Hubert self-discipline by making him live alone as a hermit in the forest.

Around 705 Lambert publicly criticized King Pepin for his adultery with
the sister of his wife. The woman called on her brother and some other
men to murder Lambert in the tiny village of Liège. Hubert was elected Lambert's successor.

Hubert courageously cherished the memory of Saint Lambert. Since the
saint had been MURDERED at Liège, Hubert decided that his bones should
not lie in the cathedral at Maestricht. He transferred them to Liège
and also made that village the seat of his diocese. In consequence Liège
grew to be a great city. There today Saint Lambert is regarded as patron
of the diocese and Saint Hubert as patron and founder of the city.

In the 8th century, the forest of ARDENNE was filled with men and
women to whom the Gospel had never been preached. They worshipped idols.
The saint assiduously worked to convert these people and destroy their
pagan gods. He loved to go in procession through the fields, chanting
Christian prayers and blessing the crops.

In 726, while fishing from a boat in the Meuse, he met with an accident
that caused him much suffering, and he died fifteen months later,
murmuring the Lord's Prayer on May 30, 727, while on a trip to
consecrate a new church. His son succeeded him as bishop of Liège.

In art Hubert is represented as a huntsman adoring a stag with a
crucifix in its horns. Variously, he may be shown:

(1) as a knight with a banner showing the stag's head and crucifix;
(2) as a young courtier with two hounds;
(3) kneeling in prayer, a hound before him;
(4) kneeling before a stag as an angel brings him his stole;
(5) as a bishop holding a stag with the crucifix on his book;
(6) as a bishop with a hound, hunting horn, and stag with a crucifix
(not to be confused with Germanus of Auxerre);
(7) celebrating Mass as an angel brings him a scroll (very similar to
the Mass of Saint Giles).

Hubert is the patron of hunters and trappers, METAL-WORKERS, and MATHEMATICIANS. It is believed that the 15th century legend of his
conversion developed because he was regarded as a patron of hunters
in Ardenne.
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Art Neuendorffer

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