Tag: France
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A Druid’s Pilgrimage to Brittany continued: Honouring the Path at Kergadiou’s Menhirs
Plourin is a liner village on the western most coast of France. It is picture postcard pretty and has a history that spans from the Bronze Age evidenced by the menhirs of Kergadiou, one of which is the second tallest megalith anywhere, to the 21 st century windmills which sit on the headland and much…
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A Druid’s Pilgrimage to Brittany continued: Honouring the path at the Buried Dolmen of Saint Gonvel
On the western coast of D’Iroise in Finistère between Argenton and the village of Landunvez sits a dolmen known locally as “Men Milliget” – The Cursed Stone. It is in fact the Dolmen of Saint Gonvel, not that the so called saint is interred here for this monument is a couple of a thousand years…
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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…