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Sacred Sites – Bridging Heaven and Earth by Guest Glenn Broughton

2012-02-07T14:42:52Z

Interestingly, more people than ever before are now visiting and interested in ancient sacred sites across the globe. Stonehenge in England, the Pyramids in Egypt and Machu Picchu in Peru, are household names. What is it that is attracting so many people to check out these places? Who built these ancient temples and why?

Glastonbury Abbey’s excavation records are being re-examined for new information

2012-02-06T13:27:04Z

West Cloister © Linda Witherill Pic: Glastonbury Abbey Symposium From 2009 to 2012, the current Glastonbury Abbey Excavation Archive Project is studying and analysing the records of archaeological excavations on the site since 1904 and will provide new information about the Abbey. The project is an exciting collaboration between the Abbey and the Archaeology Department [...]

Saint Brigit of Kildare, Patroness of Ireland

2012-02-02T11:17:18Z

Thanks to the wonderfully informative Kildare Town website, and in particular the section devoted to the Heritage Centre, we have some superb information about Saint Brigit for La Feile Bride or Saint Brigit's Day on February 1st.

King Arthur at Parliament welcomes Sir Tristram

2012-02-01T13:02:01Z

This is the second part in our new series of animated stories of King Arthur based on artwork found around the Houses of Parliament, courtesy of a wonderful Virtual Tour found at explore-parliament.net.

Nicol Williamson, the greatest Merlin ever, passes from us

2012-01-26T13:23:30Z

It is with incredible sadness yesterday that we heard that the great Nicol Williamson, muilti-talented actor and musician, whose portrayal of Merlin in the genre-breaking Excalibur broke the mould for many of us, had passed away.

The glorious Book of Kells comes to Sacred Texts

2012-01-23T21:29:11Z

During the dark ages the arts of bookmaking, illustration and manuscript illumination were preserved in remote Irish abbeys. This book by Edward Sullivan (1920) includes an extended introduction to the Book of Kells, along with its historic and linguistic background and is now available for us all to read and marvel at on the Sacred Texts website.

Build your own Stonehenge

2012-01-23T21:29:10Z

Gadget Champ has found this great item from Think Geek. Fancy a Stonehenge on your desktop? In the year 10,000BC, aliens from Uranus landed on Earth. They didn’t find anyone cool to talk to, so they just added graffiti to the countryside and left. That graffiti is Stonehenge. Since that time, druids and scientists have [...]

New Celtic Myth Podshow Episode – New Year Show for 2012 now available

2012-01-23T21:41:36Z

In this show, we follow the trail of the Wild Hunt as it leads through 5 fantastic pieces of music, through a poem and discussion of the Yule Log, via a wonderful story by our Bard, Chris Joliffe, about Midwinter and on into the origins of the Wild Hunt.

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

2012-01-23T07:53:53Z

CELT is a searchable online corpus of multilingual texts of Irish literature and history. In 2000, it had 2 million words of text. Now it has over 11.5 million words available, and is growing. From February 2006 to July 2008, our corpus has grown by over 3.3 million words in 255 new texts. We have [...]

The Way of Brigit ~ An Ancient Route to Self-Transformation

2011-09-07T17:37:22Z

We're proud to bring another post by Guest Blogger, Ishtar from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon blog and Ishtar's Gate about the ancient Celtic Goddess Brigit, Brighid or Bride. As Imbolc/Imbolg, the 2nd of February - which is the Fire Festival associated with her - is rapidlly approaching, this is an especially relevant post! Thank you, Ishtar :) Ever wonder where the word ‘Britain’ comes from? It originated with Brigit of the Fae, whose name the Romans, for reasons best known to themselves, combined with that of another indigenous spirit, Ana, to create Britannia. They changed her sun disc into a shield and her wand into a sword, and thus almost managed to emasculate the true spirit of these isles.

King Arthur at the English Parliament – a new series

2012-01-22T10:30:31Z

This is the beginning of a new series of animated stories of King Arthur baseds on artwork found around the Houses of Parliament, courtesy of a wonderful Virtual Tour found at explore-parliament.net. The first story, which is based on a piece called "Generosity", takes place near the end of Malory's Morte D'Arthur and is about how Arthur wages war on Lancelot in jealousy.

Episodes CMP 028 and CMP 029 are available again :)

2012-01-18T12:43:33Z

So, if anyone has had a problem downloading episodes CMP 028 & CMP 029, please try again. There has been a problem with the files and I've re-uploaded them.

Taliesin and the Battle of the Tress by our dear friend, Celestial Elf

2012-01-16T12:49:45Z

The Book of Taliesin is attributed to the 6th C. poet Taliesin and preserves a few hymns, a small collection of elegies and also enigmatic poems such as The Battle of Trees and The Spoils of Annwfn, in which the poet claims to have sailed to another world with King Arthur and his warriors.

Arthurian Book wins the Carnegie Medal

2012-01-12T08:28:57Z

BBC News reports that a Devon author who took more than 20 years to complete a book has won the UK’s oldest children’s book award. Philip Reeve was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Here Lies Arthur, an adventure story for teenagers. The legendary figure of King Arthur is presented in Reeve’s tale as a war-mongering, [...]

Archwilio – Historic Environment Records across Wales brought together

2012-01-12T08:33:06Z

Last July (2011) in Swansea, Alun Ffred Jones AM, Minister for Heritage, launched the Archwilio project at the Treftadaeth Conference. The system gives access to over 100,000 records maintained by the four Welsh archaeological trusts.