St Brigid and the Ox Way
4 February 2025,Solas Bhride, Kildare, Ireland
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PROGRAM
Performance
1_Uisce (recording) Entrance
2_The Roads (enchanted story)
3_The Roads part 2_(enchanted story with Vielle track and birdsong)
Artist talk
4_Introduction
5_Brigid and the ox stories
6_Bloodwood variations_violin solo performed by Anna McMichael (recording)
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Definition: “Ox”
An ox is to a cow and bull as a sheep is to a ewe and a ram. It is a gender neutral term for domesticated bovine animals. It is often used to refer specifically to castrated male bulls, because they are no longer gendered. In the ox way, the critical symbolism of the ox is that it is a gender neutral creature that is a beast of burden, both powerless and all powerful simultaneously, gentle and stern, that carries the yoke as it carries its cross. It symbol is represented by the first letter of the alphabet, Aleph/ alpha/ A and can be seen as a depiction of the journey of life from Aleph to Tau.
