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31 October 2011

"Autumn, The Hermitage, Scotland"  by Picture Girl
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Pagan Paeans

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The first anthology from the Pagan Poetry Pages, "Pagan Paeans: The First Anthology of the Pagan Poetry Pages ", is now available for purchase, either direct from the printers, Cafepress, or from the publishers, Pagan Poetry Pages, by emailing ppp(at)anfianna(dot)com. Bringing together a diverse range of poetic voices, from the comic to the heroic, this collection boasts some of the most provocative and interesting poets within the pagan poetry movement.

In the forest ...

In the forest ...

Previous Musings

Wyrd Web

  • Celtic Myth Podshow
  • Foamy Custard
  • Imramma ~ Meditations on the Celtic Otherworld
  • Irish Traditional Witchcraft
  • Megalithic Tours
  • Northern Earth
  • Story Archaeology
  • Tairis
  • The Mysteries ~ Essays on Traditional Practices
  • Wicca Moon

Festival Calendar

Là Fhèill Brìghde ~ A time to celebrate the end of winter, welcome the beginnings of spring, and the start of new life (and love), usually by the cleaning and purifying the home, and the blessing of animals and children.

Bealltainn ~ The start of the season of fertility.

Summer Solstice ~ A personal celebration wherein I "sit out" all night in contemplation of my ancestors, and how they might have viewed this time of the year, as the days now become shorter, and the nights longer, but the weather warmer.

Lùnastal ~ A time to contemplate blood, family, and honour and the coming harvest.

Samhainn ~ The end of summer and the beginning of winter; a time to honour the ancestors, of the family, older clans, countrymen, and pagan forebears.

Winter Solstice ~ A personal celebration wherein I "sit out" all night to ponder how my ancestors might have endured, and considered during the longest night and shortest day of the year.

Resources

  • Am Baile - Highland History & Culture
  • Book of the Deer (The)
  • CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
  • Celtic Folklore
  • Celtic Literature Collective
  • Celtic Mythology
  • Four Branches of the Mabinogi (The)
  • Mythical Ireland
  • Story Archaeology (Podcasts)
  • Traditional History of the Ogham
  • Traditional Irish Witchcraft

Online Journals of Note

  • Abhainn - the blog
    Family Ties & Traditions
  • Carmichael Watson Project Blog
    Alexander Carmichael and the Island of Scarp - II
  • Graveyard Dirt
    Page 89
  • Mo Thearmann
    Ch-ch-Changes
  • Northern Frontiers
    A Long time Since
  • Tairis
    The Grianán of Aileach
  • Traditional Irish Witchcraft
    Pagan Poets Needed
  • Warts n' all
    Nothing Doing

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