The Sidhe World Project
The Sidhe World project began twenty-five years ago among a group of English, psychology and history students as an anthropological thought-experiment, designed to explore questions surrounding humankind’s social, psychological and cultural development by positing an alternative history for the evolution of Earth’s sentient species. ‘What would the world be like,’ the experiment asked, ‘if homo sapiens weren’t the only primates to evolve into creatures capable of creating language and civilization?’
Research into human history and world cultures revealed that the question has been asked before, and the answer usually appears couched in the language and symbolism of religious myth, folklore, and urban legend. As the project evolved, the Sidhe Themselves began to take form, and little clues to what They might be like if They really existed sprung up in the products of human imagination: oral storytelling, literature, religious myth, languages and music.
The Sidhe World project is a collection of art, poetry, stories, songs and philosophical writing inspired by this anthropological research. The first experiment in ‘speculative anthropology,’ the Sidhe World project shows us our own world through the eyes of the Auld Ones.
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