Carolyn Hillyer - Drum Songs (White Horse Hill Woman)

Here is the third in a series of drum chants that we are recording and offering here each week during these fast-changing times. This is an honouring of ancestors and sacred land, made during the morning mist on Dartmoor, offered from beside the ancient cistvaen (small granite burial chamber), laid into the earth at our farm 6 years ago to mark the emergence from the moorland peat of the Bronze Age ancestor White Horse Hill Woman. Here is a sung prayer, a pilgrimage song and a wild horse herding chant - ple