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“Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can. Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A song of gratitude to Éire for a regenerative pilgrimage to gain perspective, transform, heal, and do a life reset. Endless thanks to @maddyharland and @gracelachemy for the brilliant adventure of a lifetime.
Our pilgrimage comes to a close at Dubhadh (Dowth), the third and oldest of the great neolithic structures of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site. These temple monuments are palaces of the Tuatha Dé Danann, folk of the goddess Danu, including druids and bards, heroes and healers, craftspeople and mages with supernatural powers. They dwell in the Otherwold but interact with humans and are associated with the sídhe, ancient ancestral mounds such as those at Brú na Bóinne, which are entryways to Otherworldly realms.
Built by a creative community during a temple building civilization in the Stone Age, this fairy mound includes three passage temples and a souterrain (underground chamber), surrounded by large kerbstones. Some of the stones are decorated with neolithic art including the famous Stone of the Seven Suns featuring eyes and rayed sun symbols perhaps depicting a total eclipse of the sun.
Aligned with cosmic events and connected to the temples at Knowth and Newgrange. For example at a moonrise at the time of a minor standstill north has the moon coming up over Dowth as viewed from Newgrange. At a minor standstill south, the moon sets over Newgrange as viewed from Dowth.
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“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.” - Thomas Merton
Our pilgrimage hit peak synchronicity! Weaving through the beauty of Brú na Bóinne, we passed through an ancient landscape of nature, farming and megalithic sites. Delighted to visit the beautiful workshop and garden of @breidin_na_boinne - Bréidin na Bóinne (Boyne Valley Tweed). We marvelled wondrous work of Anna who is dedicated to keeping the tradition of tweed made on a heritage loom. Her tweed patterns are inspired by the megalithic art found in ancient sacred sites of the Brú na Bóinne. These incredible fabrics may only be purchased in-person from the weaver, reflecting the inspirational level of intention that goes into this craft. Anna’s delightful husband gifted us a tour of beautiful gardens and wonderful bees, a brilliant example ecological and regenerative garden design.
The path led us to the Neolithic passage temple Na Fuar Cnoic (Fourknocks), part of a small Neolithic landscape of fairy mounds. A mile away from the site we met with a most wonderful keeper of the key, then we were able to let ourselves into this temple chamber under a grass covered mound containing profoundly well preserved examples of Neolithic visionary art. Aligned with Newgrange, the inner chamber was only illuminated with natural light for some minutes around Winter Solstice. Now the rebuilt roof lets in light to illuminate the neolithic art. We met spontaneously met some Irish allies here to do ceremony with including blessings the fabric we bought as gifts for friends from @breidin_na_boinne under some of the Neolithic art that inspired the tweed pattern.
Epic epic epic day with @maddyharland and @gracesolkinson at peak synchronicity in our pilgrimage to ancient sacred sites.
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“Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.” - Joseph Campbell
In Brú na Bóinne, the Womb of the Moon, we were inspired to visit the ancient temple of Sí an Bhrú (Newgrange), an extraordinary passage temple built by a creative community in 3100 BC. This massive fairy mound is ringed with 116 kerbstones covered in well preserved neolithic art made by many different people of different experience levels. There is grass growing on top of the mound estimated to cover 200,000 tonnes of material. This unique site is adorned with a a reconstructed facade of flattish white quartz stones studded with round cobbles. We visited the inner chamber illuminated for only 17 minutes each year during Winter Solstice. The temple is further ringed by a Great Stone Circle surrounding it majestically. It is a ceremonial site that could host hundreds and hundreds of people.
Sí an Bhrú was said to be built by The Dagda, the druid-leader of the Tuatha De Danann associated with fertility, magic, druidry and wisdom. His supernatural powers include giving life and altering the weather. In this sacred place it is said that magicians met and fairies united. The Dagda had a léine (shirt) of protection from sickness, lumman (cloak) of shape-shifting and color-change, lorg mór (great staff) that could give life, and a magic harp that helps put the seasons in order.
@maddyharland@gracesolkinson and I had limited time at this Unesco World Heritage Site a memory we will treasure. Wonderful to have a bit of time to do creative practices and have a sit at this epic level site.
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“I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.” — Jean Houston
The pilgrimage path led us to a serene sacred site. It is home to a fling of sandmartins demonstrating joyful agility. As we sit silently, they dart in and out from long passage nests into the sacred ‘fairy mounds’ containing a series of passage temples. Their underground nests mimick the passage temples. Or perhaps the passage temples mimic the sandpiper nests?
Sandpiper’s are amongst the oldest shorebirds and their evolutionary lineage goes back millions of years.
Brú na Bóinne, the Palace of the Boyne in County Meath contains UNESCO World Heritage sites as part of a megalithic complex and ritual landscape including 90 sites as old as 5000 years ago. Many of these are from the ‘Stone Age’ temple building civilization of the ancient world and predate the construction of the pyramids in Egypt.
Some astroarcheologists believe that the sites have a complex of cosmic alignments where light from the sun, moon, stars as well as comets, galaxies and distant celestial objects appear inside dark temples or above standing stones at certain repeating moments in time. These places were built with incredible sophisticated understandings of the world and the cosmos.
On huge stones at various sites are a extraordinary collection of well preserved stone artwork.
@maddyharland@gracealchemy and I visited the many fabled Knowth. We ducked off the tour and explored the site. A large passage temple (tomb) is surrounded by 17 other smaller passage tombs. Grace reflecting on this site as an enduring legacy of a highly artistic community co-creating temples to the ancestors, adorned with visionary art made to last 5000 years. It certainly is an artful temple and time machine to the neolithic past and through all ages of humanity.
