Category: Culture
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The Heroes Journey For You & I: Return to Innocence
Many will know that I love to return to the wilderness, and especially to the wilds of north Wales periodically. What is it that calls out to me? One can only be in awe of the grandeur of the Welsh landscape, the rugged environment, the grey-green of the slate-grass, the heaven-ascending mountains, fresh valley streams,…
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The Druid and Fairie Doctor Practice of Saining
“Herbalism is based on relationship – relationship between plant and human, plant and planet, human and planet. Using herbs in the healing process means taking part in an ecological cycle.” Wendell Berry Burning herbs, herbal wands, smoke bundles, sacred wood or incense has had ritualistic, spiritual as well as practical purposes and uses throughout the…
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Seeing With Ancestral Eyes: Language and Celtic Worldview
Hello everyone, and the bright blessings of early summer to you all! Today I would like to talk about ways to deepen our practice of Celtic Paganism. One the many important tools that people may choose to utilize when walking a Celtic path is learning one of the modern Celtic languages – Scottish Gaelic, modern…
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Ancient Celtic Music – Research and Restoration
For many people, the term ‘Celtic music’ conjures up images of foot-stomping fiddle music, skirling bagpipes, or ethereal vocals floating over a bed of synthesizers. All of these genres are evocative and have many fans around the world – and for good reason: the music is wonderful, quite diverse, and appeals to our senses on…
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Earth and Bone – Searching for the Celts in Archaeology and History
To understand Celtic literature and the parts of that literature that may represent Celtic mythology, we must have at least a basic understanding of who the Ancient Celts were (and along the way, clear up some misconceptions that are quite prevalent in popular culture these days). First, we must emphatically state that there is not…