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Friday night
Apr. 14th, 2007 10:34 amA diverting evening. We met up with T's friends, who are down from Oxford - I'll out one of them as Iranian-born writer Payam Nabarz, author of THE MYSTERIES OF MITHRAS and a book on the snake calendar. We've done an interview with Payam on both contemporary and Roman versions of the religion, which should air on the Witching Hour on the Tuesday after next.
It was very interesting talking to him, not only because I know so little about this martial cult (the contemporary version is less military, and admits women, by the way), but because I have, in Canada, a host of Zoroastrian in-laws whom I never see (my later partner's sister and her family).
After the interview, we went for dinner at Cafe Galatea, which was excellent, and then out to Godney for a 3 hour slot on Glastonbury Radio. This went well and I had the delightful Lulu the Radio Cat to play with, as well as some other guests: someone who has researched into the Ark of the Covenant, and a couple who run ghost tours in Gettysburg.
Right now, we're pottering about waiting for some more friends to come into town. I'm looking forward to having a relaxed weekend.
I gather, for those who might be entertained by this, that Glastonbury will be hosting a Mayan fire festival later in the summer. I'm not sure what this will involve (presumably not the forced removal of the beating hearts of tourists on the slopes of the Tor, or am I maligning the Mayans?) but I gather that some oracular person will be coming to town. Sounds like fun. It's all based around this 2012 prophecy, which I'm afraid I consider to be a load of old bollocks (I have a professional historian friend who has actually read this prophecy in the original, and it refers to some heavy flooding in Mexico and not, as often claimed, the destruction of the entire universe. But never let fact stand in the way of a good money-making opportunity, eh?)
It was very interesting talking to him, not only because I know so little about this martial cult (the contemporary version is less military, and admits women, by the way), but because I have, in Canada, a host of Zoroastrian in-laws whom I never see (my later partner's sister and her family).
After the interview, we went for dinner at Cafe Galatea, which was excellent, and then out to Godney for a 3 hour slot on Glastonbury Radio. This went well and I had the delightful Lulu the Radio Cat to play with, as well as some other guests: someone who has researched into the Ark of the Covenant, and a couple who run ghost tours in Gettysburg.
Right now, we're pottering about waiting for some more friends to come into town. I'm looking forward to having a relaxed weekend.
I gather, for those who might be entertained by this, that Glastonbury will be hosting a Mayan fire festival later in the summer. I'm not sure what this will involve (presumably not the forced removal of the beating hearts of tourists on the slopes of the Tor, or am I maligning the Mayans?) but I gather that some oracular person will be coming to town. Sounds like fun. It's all based around this 2012 prophecy, which I'm afraid I consider to be a load of old bollocks (I have a professional historian friend who has actually read this prophecy in the original, and it refers to some heavy flooding in Mexico and not, as often claimed, the destruction of the entire universe. But never let fact stand in the way of a good money-making opportunity, eh?)
