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A man works a cornfield on St. Helena Island, where "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" was first attested. "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" (also called "Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore", "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore", or "Michael, Row That Gospel Boat") is a traditional spiritual first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. [2]
Pentacle. A pentacle (also spelled and pronounced as pantacle in Thelema, following Aleister Crowley, though that spelling ultimately derived from Éliphas Lévi) [1] is a talisman that is used in magical evocation, and is usually made of parchment, paper, cloth, or metal (although it can be of other materials), upon which a magical design is drawn.
Drawing a circle around the five points creates a similar symbol referred to as the pentacle, [1] which is used widely by Wiccans and in paganism, or as a sign of life and connections. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον (pentagrammon), [2] from πέντε (pente), "five" + γραμμή (grammē), "line". [3]
If you pull the Four of Pentacles tarot card in a tarot reading, here's what it could mean, including upright and reversed interpretations and keywords.
There are two distinct sets of lyrics in popular culture for the song. The theme of the TV series of the same name, sung by Alex Glasgow, was released as a BBC single and uses the traditional lyrics. The songs represent a boy waiting for the boat to come in, dancing to his father, singing to his mother, eating a fish.
The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems .
The first recording of the song was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1915. [1] [5] The folklorist Alan Lomax recorded several traditional variants of the song in the 1930s, 40s and 50s across the United States, from Mississippi [6] to Ohio [7] to Michigan, [8] including one version by Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) of Louisiana in 1935.
Sailors heading down the Mississippi River picked up the song and made it a capstan shanty that they sang while hauling in the anchor. [4] This boatmen's song found its way down the Mississippi River to American clipper ships—and thus around the world. [5] The song had become popular as a sea shanty with seafaring sailors by the mid 1800s. [6]