During Dreamwork events, we often explore Possibility Space where glimpses and fragments can emerge into reality.  As part of last week’s event we took our dreamers to Rosslyn Chapel, possibly one of the ultimate realisations of possibility space.

After reading about contemporary quantum physicists travelling to meet the MicMac Indians, I was keen to explore the similar journey undertaken by Prince Henry Sinclair over 600 years before in 1398.  Around one of the windows that illuminates the South Aisle are carvings of maize.  Maize is a native American plant and these Indian corn motifs support the story that Henry, first Prince of Orkney, sailed to Nova Scotia in 1398 with Antonio Zeno, the Venetian navigator.   According to historical record Prince Henry and his comrades wintered with the MicMac Indians where they shared their boat building and net fishing skills.

Henry Sinclair’s native language was Gaelic, and the phrase used by Gaels for ‘beloved son‘ is MicMac.  A neighbouring tribe of the MicMac were known as the Penikuk which echoes the Scottish town of Penicuik, close to Rosslyn, and the main town of Henry’s domain in Scotland.

These historical fragments are reflected in the MicMac legend of the white man-god Glooscap, who came from the east on a floating ’stone island with tall trees’ which is a wonderful InterObject description of a sailing ship.  The MicMacs still make pilgrimages to Rosslyn Chapel to pay homage to Glooscap, a supreme exponent of possibilty space.