A symbolic ceremony to ‘awaken the giant’ took place in Glenshee on Saturday morning - the designated day of mass mobilisation for COP26.
The ceremony was the official opening of The Awakening, a 9000 sqm installation of a giant hand sited on the Coire Lairige at the Spittal of Glenshee, inspired by the Glen’s many Finn mac Cumhaill stories, and commissioned by the Cateran Ecomuseum, one of only two ‘museums without walls’ in Scotland.
A Pictish war horn, the Carnyx, was sounded in the glen three times by musical archaeologist and wind instrumentalist John Kenny to awaken the giant.The event was inspired by old Scottish giant lore which tells us that Finn is asleep under the mountains with his warriors ready to be awoken at a time of
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