Category: Folk Symbolism
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A Summary of Irish Spell Craft
“Fear cannot be where knowledge is. There is no danger where there is light.” James Stephens
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The Sacred Center in Ritual Continued
“If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred – ever brushed against the holy – you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.” Daniel Taylor
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The Power of the Sacred Center in Ritual
“Ogma Sun-Face raised four pillars of equal length” The Book of Ballymote, written in 14th Century CE
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House Martins Colonize My Eaves
“In September countless sand and house-martins jazz above the river, taking insects from the surface, from the air, thousands of birds kissing the river farewell. They creak, a sound like the air rubbing against itself. Summer is everything they know; they’re preparing themselves, sensing in the shortening days a door they must dash through before…
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The Division of the World
Cover art by Piotr Stachiewicz “There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.” Sean Taylor