The Ogham that we are most familiar with in a modern context is the Tree Ogham which associates each letter of the Ogham alphabet with a specific tree. However there are actually many different types of Ogham associations including River Ogham, for example, and Pig Ogham. Each one is layered, both a mnemonic device which associates the letter with a word that begins with that letter and also a…
The Kingship and Landscape of Tara
**This review was first published in Air n-Aithesc Volume II, Issue II.
Editor: Edel Bhreathnach
Publisher: Four Court Press for The Discovery Programme
Published: 2005
ISBN: 9781851829545
Synopsis: (From the Four Courts Press Website)
This volume is the culmination of an inter-disciplinary project undertaken as part of the Discovery Programme involving archaeologists, historians, linguists and place-name experts. It includes …
A Prayer of Personal Power
Experimenting with a little translation of a different sort. There’s an excerpt from one of the Carmina Gadelica prayers making the rounds (without credit to the source of course*) and when I took another look at the original Gaidhlig I realized that Carmichael’s translation was more poetic than literal. I don’t have any Gaidhlig myself but it’s close enough to Sengoidelc that I can actually read…
Speaking of restaurant work …
Blessings, Darlings!
I worry about my coworkers. Most of the folks at the restaurant I work at are on the hairy edge of…
Dirt Beneath Your Fingernails
Recently a friend of mine wrote two very insightful blogs ‘The Line in the Dirt’ and ‘Deepening the Line’. Both deal with looking at the way the pagan community, in general, approaches magical and ritual practice, the laziness that’s rampant among practitioners, and the idea of what happens beyond basics.
I’ve been thinking a lot since I read them, both because she raises some good questions…
Restaurant scrounging, Part 2
Blessings Darlings!
More ethical ways food is available to those who work in restaurants.
We cut off the heels of whole loaves of bread before slicing the bread for things like French Toast. Those heels often …
Excitement!
Blessings, Darlings!
I’m too excited to sleep! So I’m blogging at 4 am.
Oh, the sleeplessness STARTED because …
Restaurant Scrounging, Part 1
Blessings, Darlings!
RESTAURANT SCROUNGING
Those of us with lower end incomes – in my case, my second job working at a dead end restaurant job – don’t have the income to get a real ‘retreat’ where we’ll prepare for what will come in a future collapse. We’re too busy living too close to a personal la vida collapse now.
However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t glean things from the not-yet collapsed world out there.
Wodan
Many people are familiar with the Norse God Odhinn, but less well known is his German counterpart Wodan who is similar but not identical. Wodan (Old High German Woutan) although almost certainly derived from the same root as Odhinn has several distinct characteristics. In today’s blog I would like to discuss Wodan as we see him in the German material.
Duncan Royale German "Odin" statue…
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes
Author: Jonathan Bardon
Pages: 592 including works cited and Bibliography.
Synopsis: Jonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his book so valuable, however, …