An eclectic mix of book and music reviews, ramblings and other flotsam and jetsom encountered on an expedition to find a place in the pre-Christian religious traditions, and practices of the British Isles.
Showing posts with label sidhe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sidhe. Show all posts
25 November 2010
Is the Curse of Tara affecting those who have desecrated the complex?
I have only just finished reading Eddie Lenihan's "Meeting the Other Crowd", so this article make interesting reading indeed.
12 May 2009
What I Believe ... continued
Further to my post of 18 February 2009, "What I Believe", I have considered other people's ideas and am now able to add to my list:
I believe in:
I believe in:
- the pre-Christian gods of the British Isles;
- genius loci, i.e. spirits of place and/or landscape;
- animism, i.e. spirits in plants, animals and some objects scientist might deign inanimate;
ancestor worship; - an energy, or force that permeates everything, though I am unsure as to its source (it could be the gods, or perhaps they are a part of it, like us);
- the effectiveness of magic and/or witchcraft, i.e. the ability of humans to source and utilise that energy and/or force;
- the ability to craft magic is unconnected with religious beliefs;
- crafting magic is a gift, in the blood, not a skill anyone can harness;
- the connectiveness of all, not unlike the heathen Web of Wyrd;
- the gods are separate from us, external, not something we project;
- (most of) the gods/goddesses are separate individuals and not aspects of just one;
- the gods are superior to us in some ways, mostly their ability to wield power/magic/energy;
- the gods are fallible, just like us;
- there are planes of existence other than this one, and they touch at certain points, even interact, with ours;
- it is possible to know the non-human denizens of the Otherworlds, such as the Sidhe and other beings, and that we can communicate with them.
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