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Stones

Stone Worship
Clocha Breca (Speckled Stones)Bullan StonesLogan Stones (The Rolling Ones): Divining stones....Druidic emblems of the Sacred Floating Arc Shrine placed on the side of the mountain for Cerridwen and anchored by an umbilical cord to the bowels of the earth, enabling the earth’s oil to reach the surface of the Ark, the oil would then be heated by the suns rays allowing its eggs to be fertilised. The most ancient name for the Rocking stone is Celwrn or Cauldronæ (154).Dolmens, Cromlechs: Burying place of giant or hero.
‘Why, don’t you know,’ inquired the ox, ‘that once very hundred years the stones on Plouhinec heath go down to drink at the river, and that while they are away the treasures underneath them are uncovered?’ ‘Ah, I remember now,’replied the donkey, ‘but the stones return so quickly to their places, that you certainly would be crushed to death unless you have in your hands a bunch of crowsfoot and of five-leaved trefoil.’
Tighthe nan Druidhneach: Arched conical stone structures with hole at top for smoke escape.
Cairns (Stone Tombs of the Dead): Plouhinec near Hennebonne in Brittany is a good example. They are usually piled with small pebbles thick on the ground. It is customary to place memorial piles of stones for the dead after a funeral.Gallán (Standing stones):
Two rows of huge stones that surround the stone tombs and pebbles
Rath (Womb): The hills that are around Stone Tombs are called this.Dun (Fortress): The location of stone tombs. These are usually place-names.Caiseal (Stone Wall): Stone wall.
Solar Fire
Carneach (Solar Priest)Vaulur (Priestesses)Gabha-bheil (Ordeal by Fire) Tine-tlached-gha (November Fire)Gobban-saer (Sacred Fast)
Glaine Nan Druidhe (Druid Glass) Cead-rai-re (Sacred Ship): Crescent ornaments.Dealgoir (Gold breast Pins)Coel-creni (Oak Omen Sticks): Ollamhs: Chief poets, carry a branch of gold [Oak], Anradhs, or poets of the second order, carry a silver branch [Apple], and all other poets carry a branch of bronze. Seamróg (Shamrock): God of México. Hares devour it
Crosses
Myfyr: Cross within a circle. Seen in the Far East and México.Tau (God): Live oak cut into a cross. Pagan crosses are indistinguishable from Christian ones. Spirals, chevrons, lozenges, cups, dots, crosslets, folios, cable weaving. Pre-christian faith at New Grange. Snakes at Killcullen. Mithras, Vishnu, Buddha, Indra: All were crucified on the cross and sacrificed at winter solstice. (79)
Water
Sacred Wells: Whenever a white-thorn or an ash-tree shadows the place, the well is held to be peculiarly sacred; and on leaving, having first drunk of the water, the patient ties a votive offering to time branches — generally a coloured handkerchief or a bright red strip cut from a garment; and these offerings are never removed. They remain for years fluttering in the wind and the rain,. ..They are signs and tokens of gratitude to the patron saint, and are meant to show the devil that he has no longer power to harm the praying pilgrim, or torment him with pains and aches as heretofore.– Lady Wilde

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