Sevenfold Silence

I see that on MySpace there's a blog called Sevenfold Silence already, or, rather, there's a band called SevenFold Silence that has a blog where nothing has happened for over a year. That's interesting, especially since the only other source I can find for the phrase is an essay by Thomas Brooks, entitled "The Mute Christian", providing commentary on Psalm 39. I wonder if they're a Christian or particularly literate band. (I'm guessing they aren't.)

As far as I know I pulled the name of the blog out of my nether regions; I'd heard of neither the band or "The Mute Christian" before. Sevenfold as in the heptagram (and, therefore, otherkin), and silence as in that lack of discussion that's been permeating the otherkin community for the last year or so. I thought about naming it something like "Breaking the Sevenfold Silence" but that was a) long and unwieldy and b) sounded like a power from a White Wolf book. I probably also named it, unwittingly, after my friend and mentor Francesca De Grandis' out-of-print chapbook "Her Winged Silence". Didn't mean to, FDG. Sorry.

So in case you were looking for the Thomas Brooks essay, and/or if you're wondering, because of the name, if this is a Christian blog at all: it's not, really. I'm a heathen but this blog doesn't really have a blessed thing to do with religion no matter how you slice it. Nor is it a blog for the band SevenFold Silence. Nor is it a blog for the band Avenged Sevenfold.

It's a blog for otherkin, and ideas and conversation about such. Yes, really!