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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Celtic religion
This is Volume 2 of a wonderful collection of Glasgow Celtic
quotes, notes and anecdotes. A perfect gift to share with any of
your friends, family or colleagues. Every Celtic supporter has a
story to tell.
This book is a magical journey into the realms of the Sidhe, the
graceful "People of Peace" who are the overlords of the Faery
Kingdoms. With beautiful full-colored illustrations by Jeremy Berg
and text by David Spangler, author of Apprenticed to Spirit and
Subtle Worlds, this is a journey not only into a mystical realm but
also into the potentials of the human spirit and the possibilities
of a new consciousness within humanity. "This joyous and powerful
story sits well amongst other tales of faery and brings its own
enchantment. I really found myself carried off as I read, and
emerged at the end with a feeling of having been a lot further than
I thought. I'd put this right alongside Goethe's 'Tale of the Green
Snake and the Beautiful Lily' as of a kind that can only be written
by a true initiate. And the pictures which accompany it carry their
own power - drawing deep on the wells of lore and truth." - John
Matthews, author of The Western Way and How To See Faeries.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Signs and Symbols
of Primordial Man, by Albert Churchward. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1564591050.
THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Signs and Symbols
of Primordial Man, by Albert Churchward. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1564591050.
Why do they still come? Fourteen hundred years after a handful of
Celtic monks withdrew to tiny islands in the sea, and almost a
thousand years after the last of them disappeared, a steady streams
of modern men and women make the difficult trek to these isolated
places. Why? What did the ancient monks know that we have
forgotten, or remember only dimly? What are we looking for when we
journey to such sacred places? We are looking, among other things,
for wisdom-for clues about how to live in a frantic, materialistic,
care-worn world that is, in many ways, hostile to life. And we
sense that those who lived here so long ago, though they have left
very little behind, have something to teach us. In Search of Sacred
Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands is the story of a
reluctant pilgrimage, taken by a man with no great faith in sacred
places. He is a man filled with modern questions and suspicions,
who nonetheless returns home from these thin places with a better
understanding of how to live. This book interweaves spiritual
quest, travel, memoir, history, theological reflection, cultural
analysis, and personal introspection-all conveyed in an engaging,
probing, and honest voice. It is a book for those on the hunt for
meaning who share the hope that God has sown it throughout this
world-perhaps more thickly in certain sacred places.
This is a practical manual for divination using the ancient Celtic
characters of ogham writing. However, it is much more than that as
well. It opens the doors to the authentic understanding of ancient
Celtic cosmology and psychology in ways that have never been done
before. This, as much as the divinatory material, opens the reader
to vistas as yet uncharted in the fields of Celtic studies.The book
contains a complete system of oghamic divination, the lore of each
of the 20 ogham characters, a Celtic psychology and Celtic
cosmology as well as a complete suggested curriculum for training
in Celtic spirituality based on the ogham system. One of the most
important new features of this edition is the information
demonstrating the fact that the ogham system was not originally a
"tree alphabet." This book is a thorough and substantial rewriting
of a book by Edred Thorsson by the same name published more than a
decade ago. This new edition takes into account important new
findings in the realm of ogham studies and must be read and studied
by all those who first read the older edition in order that a
deeper and more authentic understanding can be reached.
THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Signs and Symbols
of Primordial Man, by Albert Churchward. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1564591050.
THIS 46 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Druid Path, by
Marah Ellis Ryan. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN
1564596230.
PREFACE: This book is what its authors believes to be the only
attempt yet made to put the English reader into possession, in
clear, compact, and what it is hoped may prove agreeable, form, of
the mythical, legendary, and poetic traditions of the early
inhabitants of our islands who have left us written records - the
Gaelic and the British Celts...... This early, illustrated works is
a fascinating and detailed study of the subject and will appeal
greatly to any historian or student. Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing
these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions,
using the original text and artwork.
It has long been held by most theologians, anthropologists, and
other academicians that the world has never known pure
Goddess-worship. In particular they deny that it ever existed in
the British Isles. In fact, the exact reverse is true. For the vast
majority of the islands history, the veneration of a female Supreme
Being (Mother-Goddess) was the only religion known. Indeed, until
the Early Neolithic Age (4,500 BCE) the concept of a male deity
(Father-God) did not even exist in Europe. As award-winning
Tennessee author and Southern historian Lochlainn Seabrook readily
shows in his important work, The Book of Kelle, proof of
Anglo-Celtic Goddess-worship is overwhelming and plentiful. The
nations of Britain, Ireland, and Scotland themselves, for example,
were all named after goddesses, as were many of their rivers,
islands, towns, hills, and mountains. Reinforcing this evidence is
the fact that many surrounding countries and regions also take
their names from female deities. Among these we have Italy,
Holland, Denmark, Crete, Malta, Albania, and Scandinavia, just to
name a few. Europe herself is named after a goddess, as is our
planet, and even our universe. While Mr. Seabrook touches on these
various topics, the final focus of the book is on the Goddess
Kelle, who gave her name to her most ardent followers: the Kelts or
Celts. Known by poets as the Blessed Lady of Ireland, Kelle s story
is a rich and fascinating one; one that Seabrook traces back to
early Asia, where she is still worshiped to this day as the Goddess
Kali. Lochlainn Seabrook is the winner of the prestigious Jefferson
Davis Historical Gold Medal, awarded by the United Daughters of the
Confederacy. Known as the American Robert Graves after his
celebrated British cousin, Seabrook is a seventh-generation
Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage, the sixth great-grandson of the
Earl of Oxford, the twenty-first great-grandson of King Edward I,
the fortieth great-grandson of British Queen Boudicca, and the
author of over thirty popular books. A specialist in thealogy
(Goddess-oriented religion), his works include: Britannia Rules:
Goddess-Worship in Ancient Anglo-Celtic Society; Christmas Before
Christianity: How the Birthday of the Sun Became the Birthday of
the Son; The Goddess Dictionary of Words and Phrases; The Quotable
Jefferson Davis; The Quotable Robert E. Lee; Everything You Were
Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner ; Abraham
Lincoln: The Southern View; The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln: The
President s Quotes They Don t Want You to Know ; A Rebel Born: A
Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest; The McGavocks of Carnton
Plantation: A Southern History; Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern
Hero, American Patriot; Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True
Tales of the Unexplained From Tennessee s Most Haunted Civil War
House ; UFOs and Aliens: The Complete Guidebook; and The Blakeneys:
An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study.
A practical guide to using the sacred herbs of Samhain for healing,
divination, purification, protection, magic, and as tools for
contacting the Spirits The ancient Celts separated the year into
two halves, the light half and the dark half, summer and winter.
The festival of Samhain, from which the modern holiday of Halloween
originates, marks the transition from summer to winter, the end of
the Celtic year, a time when the barriers between the physical and
spiritual world are at their most transparent. The herbs most
characteristic of this time have specific magical and healing
properties that echo the darker aspect of the year and offer potent
opportunities for divination, contact with ancestors and Land
Spirits, and journeys in the Otherworld. Presenting a practical
guide to the sacred herbs and trees of Samhain, Ellen Evert Hopman
details the identification, harvest, and use of more than 70 plants
and trees in healing, divination, purification, magic, and as tools
for contacting the Spirits wandering the landscape at this liminal
time of year. She explores the most effective plants for protection
from the mischief of the "Good Neighbors," the Sidhe or Fairies, as
well as herbs for releasing the Dead when they are trapped on this
plane. Detailing the history, rites, and traditions of Samhain,
Hopman explains how to make an offering to the Land Spirits and
provides instructions for the traditional Samhain ritual of the
Dumb Supper, complete with recipes for the sacred foods of Samhain,
such as Soul Cakes, Colcannon, Boxty bread, and dandelion wine.
Primal Ancient Egyptian Magic Restored From the dawn of Magic,
there was a primal form of magic which was ancient before the
Pyramids were born. But unlike many religions, where belief and
worship of the forces of nature were persecuted until they died
out, Egypt built its new religions upon them. It is possible to
find a golden thread of shamanic practice that can be recreated and
still remain relevant and useful today. Nick Farrell presents this
system for the first time in his easy to approach and relaxed
style. It is a complete system in which a practitioner can
experiment with at their own pace.
"In our time when so much emphasis is on the quick and the facile,
the glamorous and the trendy, John Matthews offers something deep
and lasting. He bridges the ancient wisdoms of our past and the
possibilities of our future. He calls himself a shaman, but I call
him a sage. And as you read the treasures in this book, I believe
you will as well." David Spangler
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
A personal account of one mans journey through the dappled groves
of culture and tradition, who explores Druidry through the eyes of
a man in love with his heritage and land. Written with clarity,
humour and pathos, this journey through tradition descends into the
mysteries of Druidry and of its practice in the 21st century.
fundamental principles of Druidry from ritual, connection,
mythology, shamanism a personal ride through the Druid year Share
in a world of wondrous beings, of sheer potentiality beyond
comprehension, and the awe and childlike surrender one feels when
confronted with the enchantment of Druidry.
In "Stations of the Sun" and "The Triumph of the Moon", Ronald
Hutton established himself as a leading authority on the historian
of Paganism. His wealth of unusual knowledge, complemented by a
deep and sympathetic understanding of past and present beliefs that
are often dismissed as strange or marginal, and an ability to write
lucidly and wittily, gives his work a unique flavour. The essays
which make up "Witches, Druids and King Arthur" cover elegantly and
entertainingly a wide range of beliefs, myths and practices.
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