Tag: France
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A Druid’s Pilgrimage to Brittany continued: Honouring the Path at the Alignment of Saint-Denec
The Iroise County area of Finistère is alive with giants, literally. They take the form of gargantuan granite menhirs that stand like sentinels guarding the coast. Some stand alone, others form rows, some are engraved while others are ‘dressed’ in that the surfaces have been painstakingly smoothed giving them an almost polished appearance. The alignment…
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Tumulus of Bougon, Deux-Sèvres, France
“On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars,In a wood too deep for a single star to look through,You led down a path whose turnings you knew in the darkness,But the scent of the dew-dripping cedars was all that I knew.” Sara Teasdale I had the very unique privilege of spending…
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Carnyx Restoration with Samuel Meric
“Their trumpets are of peculiar nature… for when they are blown upon they give forth a harsh sound, appropriate to the tumult of war.” Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian, Library of History, 1st century BCE The carnyx was a beautiful bronze instrument implemented by the Gauls sometime between approximately 200 BC and 200 CE. The word…