June 11, 2008
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WCFQ 8d: Necromancy
If I could bring one person back from the dead… I’m afraid I’d have to be selfish about this. I’d like to bring my grandfather back, my mother’s father. He died shortly after my second birthday, and I have absolutely no memory of him. But from everything I’ve been told about him, he was a very Good man. I miss that I cannot remember him. My mother misses him terribly and he’s been dead over 30 years now. I guess you never stop missing a parent.
I think if he had not died, my childhood would have been Very different. My whole life would probably have been very different, and I would not be the person I am today. Maybe better, I don’t know. But I would have liked to have had one man in my life to look up to. I don’t really have a bad opinion of men in general, but I do have trust issues. I can even speculate that my mother would not have remarried. My sister would probably not be so needy when it comes to men because our grandfather would have filled the role of father-figure. I would probably not have a brother… not sure how I feel about that. He’s a pain in the…. posterior most of the time, but I couldn’t say how much of that is his father’s fault. I probably would have stayed in school and at the very least, I’d have had someone who expressed pride in my achievements.But mostly, I’d just like to get to know him like my mom did. Like my father’s mother, my grandfather’s father also ran out on him when he was four, but he never let that make him self-centered or a bully. You always hear that little girls want to grow up and marry someone just like their dad, and my mom kind of did, except my dad didn’t learn the same lessons from his childhood that my grandfather did.
So far, NightlyDreams and Lord_Wu answered all of this week’s Writers Choice Featured Questions.
June 11th
This day honored Fortuna in her temple in Rome. Fortuna or Fors (Fors Fortuna) is an Italian goddess identified in classical times with Tyche. Her ancient temple was in the Forum Boarium at Rome. As Concordia, she was honored by Livia.
The Matralia, festival of mothers, honors Matuta or more usually Mater Matuta, an old Italian goddess of dawn and of birth. Also a goddess of harbors and of the sea, she was identified with the Greek Leucothea. A matron who had not been married before was allowed to place a wreath on the statue of the goddess. The women would first pray for the well-being of their nephews and nieces, and then for their own children. This custom came from the myth of Ino-Leucothea, who acted as foster-mother to Dionysus, the son of her sister Semele. She was left offerings of flowers and yellow cakes (saffron?) referred to as Testuacium ‘pot-cake’ because they were baked in a heated earthen testu pot.
In 1912, spiritualist-medium Ruth Montgomery was born in Princeton, Indiana. Her interest in the world of the occult began in 1956, when she first began attending seances. She has written numerous best-selling occult books and is famous for her gift of communicating with spirit guides through automatic writing.
In 1604, James I Witchcraft Act repealed Elizabeth I’s 1563 mandate to replace it with stricter laws.
Comments (6)
It’s interesting to think about how different our lives would be with just one particular circumstance changed in them.
It’s the “what ifs” in life that give us even more perspective. I wonder if you discovered more of where this male figure would have helped define your life. I like to think that the folks who are gone from my life are looking out for me and their messages are right there in my mind to discover. So many twists along lifes path. I do believe that when we question, the answer finds us.
That was a much more eloquent response to the question than my response was. I put a pic of a zombie on my blog. lol
I think about what my great-great grandparents and other relatives would have been like if I’d met them, too, epecially after hearing all the crazy stories about them!
I would bring back my grandfather. I never really got to know him that well because I was 7 when he passed. I believe that if he were still here, I would have a better relationship with my dad’s immediate family. It’s strange to think how life could be so different just by one change.
just read the title…my dad – he’s ‘contacted’ me from beyond. Damn, if we could have gotten that stuff figured out just a few days earlier!!! (OK, that probably doesn’t make sense to you, but it does to Mara and I!
To my mentality all the things you exclaim looks like correct
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