Cauldrons of the World

How do you compare the call of the wild and cauldrons of the world?

How do you compare a ding with a pudding?

You may know something about the Da He ding, the Da Ke ding, the Da Yu ding and the Mao Gong ding.

You may know something about Nine Tripod Cauldrons and Lidded Ritual Food Caudrons with Interlaced Dragons.

You may be quite familiar with Chinese ritual bronzes from around 1650 BCE.

There have been many types of ding.

What is your acquaintance with the Shang dynasty and the caudrons of that time?

A Korean cauldron is a gamasot.

What do you call a large cooking pot?

What do you know about the Gundestrup cauldron?

Perhaps you know something about Dutch ovens.

What do you know about the Latin-based word caldo and foods associated with it?

What do you know about soup and sop and supper?

You may be familiar with the French word chaudière from which the word chowder may derive.

You may associate cauldrons with hearths.

You may be acquainted with the caldera of a volcano.

You may know about Olympic cauldrons and their symbolic association with the hearth of Hestia.

You may know about the prophetic books of William Blake.

What do you know about the history of fire worship in various parts of the world?

What do you know about the pit firing of earthenware, particularly for fire pots?

What do you know about the sculpture known as the Giustiniani Hestia?

What do you know about Vesta and other goddesses of the hearth?

Perhaps you associate magic cauldrons with Celtic mythology.

You may not necessarily associate magic or cauldrons or mythology with the wonderful witches of Australia.

If you have been picturing witches with cauldrons, why have you been doing so? 

Who else do you picture with cauldrons, and why?

Perhaps you regard Cinderella as a witch.

Do you sing when you cook?

Do you perform incantations when preparing food and/or producing other items?

Perhaps you prefer using an incantation bowl rather than a cauldron.

Traditional cooking vessels in France are called marmites.

Perhaps, through the work of Shakespeare, you associate large pots with witches.

Have you ever made and used a solar cooker?

You may be aware that the enlightened re-enchantment of the world requires adaptions of habits and simple techniques in order to live and work more in harmony with nature, in cities as well as in rural areas.

William Blake believed that real prophecies are not about making claims about the future.  He thought the prophetic involve being committed to the wise expression of truth in daily life, in the present.

But who really knows what is meant by the wise expression of truth?

William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in the early 1600s.

What did he know about the magic of serendipitous reasonableness?

What did he know about superstitions, political ambition and human aggression?