July 26

​‘The atmosphere of this place’ continues Great Grandmother, ‘is also about the gods and goddesses of earlier times.

​Here, when times were bad, we prayed for help from gods and goddesses that had been prayed to long before ours. Up here during the war, I saw the women renew a sense of fittedness about their decision to continue the summer migrations. Up here after the war, I too came to accept a sense of fit with my motherhood and my other given roles. So did most of my friends.
 
No doubt we would have loved some dramatic intervention to prove that our prayers for help had been heard by the ancient gods and goddesses. In our lives we learn to look for causes and effects. But If there is another world that has influence in ours it has to be in a way that is compatible with our own responsibility in facing what is given’.
 
‘Perhaps when we look for help from our gods and goddess we should not look for cause and effect but for that sense of fit between our inner nature and the events, circumstances and help along the way that determine our lives’.