Moonrakers

Lois Provost Turchetti is a professional children’s storyteller (in
English and Caribbean Creole), who also conducts educational workshops
in Toronto.

Anthropologist and author Beth Hill was, in her own words, “born of
United Empire Loyalist and potato-famine Irish stock” in Ridgeway,
Ontario, in 1924. Moonrakers was begun as her legacy of wisdom, myth,
and knowledge to her children and grandchildren, a testimony of her
spirit-quest from childhood through cancer into death.

Hill’s writings, like the ancient ones she has studied, echo the
age-old idea of the blade used for cutting or carving messages into
stone; her understanding of the land is linked to her study of
petroglyphs in British Colombia and elsewhere. She makes it plain that
she is seeking peace with her own voices, as well as with the many
voices of the historical past, her own time, and the future she believes
she will enter as she confesses, “I write to discover myself.” Hill
acknowledges the existence of consciousness, explores the substance of
the soul, and discerns the esoteric in the mundane. She combines
findings from her work on petroglyphs with her knowledge of shamans,
dreams, ghosts, symbols, astrology, and magico-religious mythologies of
ancient times through to the present. Her uncanny insights and
observations bring the paranormal into the realm of the respectable,
shoring up intuition with fact, research, and scholarly observation. Her
worldview is that of the mystic unshakeable in her conviction that there
are such things as real magic, real myth, and real Goddesses.

Moonrakers provides mythology, parapsychology and philosophy for all
Hill’s progeny: it is a must for students and scholars of Canadian
lifewriting.