A Feriferian Idyll
In the heat of the afternoon, Kouros lay in the leafy shade by the side of the forest pool.
Deep into its dark waters he gazed. There he beheld a Youth of shining beauty gazing back at him. Their eyes met.
Filled with wonder, Kouros stretched forth his hand. The Youth took it, and he drew him forth naked from the waters. They stood gazing, one upon another, admiring.
“How beautiful you are,” said Kouros.
“No more beautiful than you,” said the Kouros of the Pool.
“How sculpted your chest, how tender your nipples,” said Kouros.
“How broad your shoulders, how full your lips,” said the Other Kouros, and their lips joined.
Their bodies pressed together, strength to strength.
Through all that long Summer's afternoon, the grove rang with the sounds of their love play: the Dark Twin and the Light.
Listen well, my love, and you can hear them still.
This morning I dreamed of Feraferia's Frederick Adams, one of the Pagan Revival's most visionary pioneers.
Though premised on the Courtship and Love-Play of Kore with Kouros, Divine Youth with Divine Maiden, the Feraferian vision has always embraced the beauty and sanctity of other forms of love as well. At a time when much of the pagan world was still resistant to this truth, this generous clarity of vision opened for me a door through which, once and for all, I entered in in gladness.
In this spirit, I make my offering.
Frederick MacClaren Adams
1928-2008
Reborn to the People
Above:
The Piraeus Apollo, circa 530-520 BCE