ON THE Clink OF AMERGIN, The Clink of Amergin is an ancient Celtic poem which speaks of the origin of the Invention, the smooth of the Gods and the path to Prudence.Engaged from The Irish Part of Invasions first in print down in the archaic medieval leg, this poem is attributed to Amergin (Irish;Amhairghin) major Rhymester and Druid of the Milesians. Have a yen when the magical Tuatha D'e Danann, the Faerie Band who were slow as Gods, had arrange their territory in ancient Ireland or 'Eire, a new invasion took place and the first Gaelic human resources stylish.The Tuatha D'e Danann's Brighten Sovereign, The Dagda, invoked his powers to make you feel sick the strangers, he sank their ships and prayed to the winds to presume them out.They landed notwithstanding and Amergin sang a poem of remembering, aligning himself with the powers of the Stately. Set down his Awen (poetic appreciation) he became the elements and the Liberty, charging them with his diffused spirit and never-ending understanding, he overcame all obstacles and his human resources took imprisonment of the Stately.Robert Graves has imaginary that '"English poetic education want really begin not with Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Emergence, but with the Clink of Amergin"'By answering a series of riddles in an ancient Welsh procure of Taliesin', Robert Graves first naked 'The Scene of carnage of the Plants. This was a poetic campaign clearly charged with the drift of preserving the masked Druidic knowledge of a secret tree alphabet or Ogham, from the unqualified concerning a time of cultural hurricane as the newly stylish Christianity sought to replace the rather than pagan and Druid traditions.Also following its Irish poetic identical 'The Clink of Amergin', Graves discovered the use of a drawn alphabet that likewise operated as an ancient Celtic calendar. By austerely adhering to the poem's come into being, Graves worked out the dressed cycle of the Irish alphabet, which was subsequently comprised of 13 consonants and five vowels. (It is merely later that it grew to 15 consonants).'"The suggestion to the model of this alphabet is found in Amergin's allusion to the dolmen",' says Graves. "It is an alphabet that bests explains itself formerly built up as a dolmen of consonants with a ceiling of vowels."'DEC 24-JAN. 20 B"I AM A STAG OF THE SEVEN TINES", (BIRCH/BETH) JAN. 21-FEB. 17 L"I AM A Gigantic Spill out ON A Obvious," (ROWAN/LUIS)FEB. 18-MAR. 17 N"I AM A Crisscross ON THE Honest WATERS, "(ASH/NION)MAR. 18-APR. 14 F"I AM A Mighty Run OF THE SUN," (ALDER/FEARN)APR. 15-MAY 12 S SUN,"I AM A HAWK ON A Cape, "(WILLOW/SAILLE)MAY 13-JUN. 9 H"I AM Exonerate Amid Flowers," (HAWTHORN/UATH)JUN. 10-JULY 7 D"I AM A GOD WHO SETS THE Inconsequentiality Excited In Smoke," (OAK/DUIR)JULY 8-AUG. 4 T"I AM A BATTLE-WAGING Deposit," (HOLLY/TINNE)AUG. 5-SEPT 1 C"I AM A SALMON IN THE Pool, "(HAZEL/COLL)SEPT. 2-SEPT. 29 M"I AM A Embankment OF Verbal skill, "(VINE/MUIN)SEPT. 30-OCT. 27 G"I AM A Unforgiving Worm, "(IVY/GORT)OCT. 28-NOV. 24 NG"I AM A Murky Screech OF THE SEA," (REED/NGETAL)NOV. 25-DEC. 22 R"I AM A Confession OF THE SEA, "(ELDER/RUIS)DEC. 23WHO BUT I KNOWS THE SECRETS OF THE UNHEWN DOLMEN?Rhyme by Amergin, Restatement From The Snowy Divinity, by Robert Graves. The Clink Of Amergin by celestialelffGraves maintains that the architectural come into being of the Dolmen with its shipshape capstone sleeping treat two shipshape stone pillars, served as teaching tool for Druid priests on which the Irish alphabet was superimposed in serialized form on three go away slabs.So for develop starting upwards from the nub used up of the first stone are the manner B, L, N, and F. On the capstone from used up to nationality are the manner S, H, D, T and C. Down downwards on the evidence pole are the surviving consonants, M, G, NG, and R. Impassable below this stone formation as a result brilliant the Celtic belief, 'As treat, so below,' are placed the ceiling of vowels, A, O, U, E and I.Fittingly this alphabet Dolmen may transfer as a calendar, with one post for Get, novel for Autumn, the rafter for Summer, the ceiling for New Year's Day.OF GRAVES DOLMEN OGHAM, MERLIN AND STONEHENGE;Graves' bowl over of the dolmen entity used as teaching fashion for the Irish alphabet makes the myth of Merlin transporting the stones of Stonehenge from Ireland to Salisbury greatly vivid.Conceivably the stones he ferried were added of a stone alphabet delight runes. If so, exhibit is a strong risk of a drawn alphabet in use at Stonehenge and this prerogative likewise elucidate the feature of Merlin's alleged bay in its casing.. William Blake. Jersualem.Spoils Grave's re-examine of the Clink of Amergin a comprehend give preferentiality to, the worst sifter, '"WHO BUT I KNOWS THE SECRETS OF THE UNHEWN DOLMEN"?' raises questions about whether Stonehenge might be clarify delight a book.Graves suggests that radically delight Braille, the dolmen's dimples, indented grooves and angles are an essential part of reading the alphabet and in consequence the stone. Ideal 1. OGHAM Granite. Ideal 2. OGHAM Print.given that one Dolmen can be used as a teaching tool on which the Irish alphabet was placed, might not an impressive circle of stones tone a tale?If it were possible, we can surmise that it might be a revelatory, almighty epic. ( Munya Andrews )OF Bran THE BLESSED;Br^an the Deified (Bendigeidfran, the blessed Raven') was a be winning highlight in The Mabinogion, counted as Britain's note prop up at an earlier time Sovereign Arthur and one of the 'Three Deified Kings of Britain' according to the ancient Triads.He was likewise Guard of a magical Cauldron of Suggestion and Resurrection from the Divinity Cerridwen.Give is an ancient Celtic tradition about Cauldrons of restoration, appearing in which reorder, dead or dying mass were plunged, and came out healed and reborn.Sundry scholars exercise likewise noted similarities amongst Br^an and the Arthurian have an effect on of the Fisher Sovereign, curator of the Sacred Grail which likewise bestowed health, healing of wounds and tumor upon its bearers. Additional put forward suggests that Cerridwen's cauldron is in in fact the Sacred Grail for which Sovereign Arthur moved out his life questioning as noted in Taliesin' poem, the raid of the Annwfn'Following a fight because of Bran's sister Branwen,(the Snowy Raven) when her wedding to the Irish Sovereign Matholwch (the Pin down), Bran offers him concord in the form of his Cauldron. So far Matholwch mistreats Branwen in Ireland and she sends word for Bran to liberate her. On their dawn the Irish stage uninterrupted but actually evaluate trickery and a callous campaign breaks out.The shrewdness of the campaign was very catastrophic, every Irish countrywide but five having a baby women lay dead, and of the forceful armies of Bran, merely seven men survived.These men were instructed by the mortally reorder Bran to cut off somebody's head him and exist his primary to Caer-Lundein (London) to factory it at Gwynfryn, the frozen Multiply (where on earth the Ascend of London now stands) to protect the Atoll.On their return take a trip the men chanced to enter the Otherworld and for seven go the seven survivors (symbolic of the seven planets that uniformly ablaze appearing in the Criminal world and subsequently remain standing from it) stayed in Harlech, entertained by Bran's primary which educated them everything he had learned from the Divinity Cauldron, squander on his wisdom for all complex generations.That Bran, the Raven's cut off primary was likewise skillful of sign connects him with the ancient Celtic practice of warning, divination honest bird mass departure.The group set off once more and land to exploitation a give preferentiality to 80 go away from of time, in a fortification on Ynys Gwales, Grassholm Coral island off Dyfed, where on earth they feasted in spiritual neglect and joy.In the end they arise the primary to the Gwynfryn, the frozen Multiply thought to be the site where on earth the Ascend of London now stands, and drawn it pool liner France to neighborhood off invasion.According to the Welsh Triads, as long for as Bran's primary remained in The Snowy Ascend pool liner France to neighborhood off Saxon invasion, Britain would be steady from invasion, which it was for numerous generations at an earlier time it was dug up by the holy Sovereign Arthur. 'Arthur disclosed the primary of Bran the Deified from the Snowy Embankment like he did not require that this desert island want be wary by anyone's potential but his cling on to - Welsh Triads.Sovereign Arthur had confirmed that he looked-for no talisman to protect his own glory and dug up Bran's primary as reputation that he might perform the rations himself.Miserably, he did not believe and fundamental following fight led to his death and to the drag out of Saxon settlements in Britain. Sovereign Arthur Pendragon. 2011.Over of late and followers the ancient prophecies and the Celtic belief in resurrection, the returned Sovereign Arthur has reburied a symbolic Ravens lead at The Snowy Multiply, Ascend Of London, in an shot to save the protective power of Bran in these green about the gills epoch.A Take in UPON SAMHAIN;The night of Samhain (pr; SOW-in, SAH-vin, or SAM-hayne) literature one of the two sturdy gates of the year; Beltane and Samhain entity the doorways that disclose the court appearing in Glow and Shade.Samhain itself is a Gaelic word representative the end of summer and begins at sundown October 31.This is supposed by numerous to be a magical time formerly the margins amongst the worlds of the living and dead become thinner, allowing spirits and other fairy-tale entities to be in charge amongst them.Conservatively, Samhain was a time to arise have an account of the herds and makeup supplies, to permit which plants would be slaughtered for the human resources and sell to stay the winter. Bonfires played a generous part in the revelry talented down honest the grasp evident centuries, and villagers were imaginary to exercise cast the bones of the slaughtered store on the combustion in consequence the name bone fires', some say these bones want subsequently be clarify for their far-seeing powers.In the community enliven passionate, the villagers extinguished all other fires. What's more household subsequently mortally lit its chimney corner from the ill-mannered sparkle, as a result bonding the families of the area together.The pagan Romans likewise established Samhain with their own celebration of the dead, the Lemuria,(observed in the days leading up to May 13).In Christianization, the carnival in November (not the Roman carnival in May) became All Hallows' Day on November 1 followed by All Souls' Day, on November 2.Smooth time, the night of October 31 came to be called All Hallow's Eve, and the break carnival religious to the dead at last morphed appearing in the at all holiday unrestricted as Halloween.So far, historian and writer Ronald Hutton points out that so medieval Irish authors do bring out a elapsed pagan respect to the Beltane carnival, they are secret in this usefulness in regard to Samhain, clearly like no resistant of pagan ritual as a Northern European carnival of the dead had survived appearing in the Christian leg. According to Hutton, most of the inside myths about the start of Halloween can be tracedback to two nineteenth century British authors: Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer (The Yellow Local office) who speculated about radio amongst Halloween andpagan Celtic rituals, but provided no real resistant to back up theirclaims. At the time they were speech, modern folk ethnicity weretypically seen as break of prehistoric holy rituals whichsurvived between the ill-mannered, unaware glory folk long for when theiroriginal drift had died out.Little historian Nicholas Rogers follow-up that every folklorists exercise detected its start in the Roman celebration of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the carnival of the dead called Parentalia, by match up to Mr. Hutton claims it is added ordinarily interconnected to and derivative from the Catholic holidays of All Saints and All Souls Day. This carnival began on All Hallows Eve (hallow is an old-fashioned English word for 'saint') the grasp night of October, included a Cathedral mass for the dead, torchlight processions and bonfires.Objectively, Mr. Hutton does take in the resistant for both of these subsequent in the rather than festivals.Ronald Hutton, "The Stations of the Sun: A Details of the Ritual See in Britian", Oxford School Beg, 1996 (See the followingchapters: 35. Samhain, 36. Saints and Souls, 37. The ModernHallowe'en)THE 'SURVIVING' SAMHAIN AND HALLOWEEN TRADITION; Deduce because of other aspects of this carnival and followers extrapolations from Beltane, the other sturdy point resolve in the Celtic world, chains numerous peoples views that a celebration of the uninteresting might definitely exercise been an ancient tradition as the human resources saw smooth fall to go stale so intelligence more often than not turned to precious ones likewise passed on show. Load ethnicity were likewise arrange, such as the touching on time of evil entity regarded with pointer and a take for protection by bonefires and charms. Gatherings were protected and equal are, feasts and gifts were free, blessings were prearranged and invoked and the mischievous spirit of spirits nomadic amongst worlds is felt, these traditions inform our belief and practice today.In such a view, assistance may be made to receiving only family tree and a community's beloved dead home, songs, words and dances can performed to bear in mind them.The opening of cheek or legroom to the west lit with a candle or light is thought to aid their cite home and yet candle lanterns impressed with astounding faces are placed in windows to neighborhood off any a pity evil spirits abroad on this fantastic night.The practice of tiresome costumes and masks, desire dress or mask has established at this time and been slow an hazard to shape the spirits or to conciliate them. Such 'Guising' has been a part of Christmas and New Existence Eve ethnicity in Britain andother parts of Europe like medieval epoch. By the nineteenth centurythe practice had likewise become a presume of Halloween in Scotland and Ireland.The practice of Trick-or-treating clearly originates in the in arrears medieval practice of 'Souling', formerly signify folk would go cheek to cheek on Hallowmas (November 1), being paid cooking in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls' Day.Blessed SAMHAIN AND Intelligent HALLOWMAS,BY Granite AND NicknameSpace ELF ~http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/pVkE
