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The movie Highlander has been "restored" in a 4K format. Don't ask me what that actually means. It will be shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival on 18th June. Clancy Brown, who played the Kurgan, will be in attendence along with other "special guests".


Clancy apparently noted : "It’s taken a while, but I swore to myself that I would return again to Scotland after filming Highlander 30 years ago where I first learned of Robert the Bruce, James Macpherson, The Fortingall Yew and, most blissfully, single-malt scotch whisky."

It's a fairly unusual esoteric combination.

Bruce was of course in charge at the alleged Battle of Bannockburn, the battle that ex Scottish political top-boy, Alex Salmond, claimed was the birthplace of modern Scotland. You can find more on it on the sidebar - mythomorph.

James McPherson translated the Ossian poems from Gaelic "word of mouth" myths and legends concerning ancient history of Scotland and Ireland.

The Fortingall Yew is allegedly the oldest  tree (living thing?) in Europe. There's a legend that Pontius Pilate of Bible fame played as a child in it's shade. A book has been written, with  claims of Druid worship and even a visit from Jesus. As a yew tree grows, it's branches become heavy and droop to the soil. At that point of contact new roots will often form, and from there over time another trunk. In the case of the Fortingall Yew, the "original" trunk is almost gone, leaving an outer circle of later trunks.

The whisky speaks for itself.

Bearing in mind the myths surrounding Scotland and historical links with Egypt, for example Scotland and Princess Scota, it strikes me that perhaps Clancy is alluding to something more especially given the premise of the film and that Scotsman Sean Connery was cast as an Egyptian immortal. 

I'll skip for the moment on the police investigation into grooming of minors by celebrities  - codename Operation Yew Tree - which sprouted after the death of Glencoe loving Jimmy Savile, although I have touched on it previously, and before.

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Greenfinger

Yesterday, 2/11, a pair of botanically themed reports propagated within the news.

The first concerns a yew tree, not exactly to do with the code name of the police investigation into Glencoe-loving Jimmy Savile, but rather one situated at Fortingall in Glen Lyon. The two actually tenuously relate, given it was a Robert Campbell of Fortingall who led the clan when they massacred the unfortunate MacDonalds for being late in pledging their allegiance to William of Orange and House of Stuart Mary in a potential magickal blood sacrifice, but I digress.

Dr. Max Coleman, a "science communicator" at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, has discovered female berries upon the hitherto male 2,000 - 5,000 year old  plant (BBC). It appears that the tree is waxing hermaphrodite, the small cluster of fruits appearing only on one small branch in the outer crown. I am not exactly sure what a science communicator is, but wonder whether it relates to the work of Robert Ogilvie Crombie, the chap who helped form the Findhorn Foundation and who met with mythical creatures including Pan in the aforementioned Garden. (The centaur spot)

Baphomet, the androgynous diety allegedly worshipped by the freemasons' prequel, the  Knights Templar

What one has to perhaps bear in mind is that the tree is allegedly the oldest in Britain and was apparently a hotbed of Druid activity many moons ago; whilst local legend claims that Pontius Pilate was born in it's shade and played under it as a child. A local man, Barry Dunford, wrote a book - The Holy Land of Scotland - in which he theorised that Jesus himself visited the tree. (wiki)

I've written before about the nefarious agenda of androgyny, the unisex human worker-slave of the future and perhaps, just perhaps, the sex-change yew alludes to that in a mystical manner. Certainly the Druids, who kept their beady eyes on nature, would have considered it some sort of portent.

Note the wording to the right concerning David Beckham :"ALL HAIL THE NEW "NEW MAN !" Meet the Child Rearing, Therapy loving, Overachieving, Super-breed of British Men. (Metrosexual Quarterly)

Second up was indie-band, the Stone Roses. The Daily Record told yesterday morning of a forthcoming huge announcement concerning the band, apparently promoted by lemon decorated posters, at 7pm it was made, they are resurrecting again to play, in 2016, two concerts in Manchester and a third at Scotland's T in the Park festival which now is sited at Strathallan Castle after it's move last year. It's only some 39 miles by road between Fortingall and Strathallan, the Roses last record release being Second Coming in 1994. 

James Bond @ Glencoe - Car Registration BMT 216 A

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Will I Am