**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 …
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…
Blessings, Darlings!
I worry about my coworkers. Most of the folks at the restaurant I work at are on the hairy edge of…
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…
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 …
Blessings, Darlings!
I’m too excited to sleep! So I’m blogging at 4 am.
Oh, the sleeplessness STARTED because …
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.
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…
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, …
Author: Laurance Flanagan
Pages: 288 including sketches, figures and glossary.
Synopsis: When the Celts first arrived in Ireland around 250BC, the island had already been inhabited for over 7,000 years. These pre-Celtic peoples …