Full Title: Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery
Author: Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Synopsis: Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream…
Goodreads Giveaway – Fairycraft
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Bullets for The Morrigan
So I came to post a blog today about how I am slowly coming back into my “warrior” training. My youngest son’s third birthday will be coming up soon and in typical “Celtic” fashion, threes seem to be what inspire my actions. It took three years …
Parental Dreams Vs Reality
Blessings Darlings!
When I was a kid, my father wanted me to become a teacher. He felt that teachers would always have good jobs.
This was odd from the get-go, since not only …
Brigid
Name of Series: Pagan Portals
Full Title: Brigid – Meeting the Celtic Goddess of Poetry, Forge, and Healing Well
Author: Morgan Daimler
Synopsis: Pagan Portals – Brigid is a basic introduction to the Goddess Brigid focusing on her history and myth as well as her modern devotion and worship. Primarily looking at the Irish Goddess but including a …
Restaurant scrounging, addenum
Blessings Darlings!
The place I work at has added a new product – bone in broasted chicken. But Corporate keeps auto-shipping us WAY more than we sell. Okay, we cook the extra chicken (it’s fresh, and has a short use-by date) unseasoned/breaded, then take the meat off the bones to use in …
Ostara versus Easter – or Lets All Just Color an Egg
Every year there’s a lot of commentary that floats around the pagan community claiming several things about the holiday of Ostara, most of them untrue. So lets take a look at the urban legends and the realities, shall we?
Firstly the idea that Easter is related to the Goddess Ishtar. Ishtar is not pronounced ‘easter’; it’s a pretty straightforward name actually and is pronounced ‘ishtar’ just…
Names
Blessings Darlings!
Sometimes the Gods give us names. Sometimes, however, they give us …
An Leabhar Urnai A Book Of Celtic Reconstructionist Friendly Prayers
By Air n-Aithesc (Our Message) in Air n-Aithesc Press Books
92 pages, published 3/1/2016
An Leabhar Urnaí: A Book of Celtic Reconstructionist Friendly Prayer, was inspired by Ceisiwr Serith’s book A book of Pagan Prayer. This book offers prayers and invocations in Old Irish, Gaulish, with their English translations; as well as prayers in English to Welsh, Irish and Gaulish Gods. The authors and editor also took the time to add a little information on the Gods they pray too and the reasons behind writing their prayers or…
Understanding Celtic Religion
Full Title: Understanding Celtic Religion – Revisiting The Pagan Past
Series: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
Synopsis: (From back of the book) Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination. This volume…