Category Archives: Trickster

Loughcrew: Corvids…

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Friday, 29th July 2022… *** *** These birds seem somehow aligned with the structure. *** *** And it is not just here. * They hang out at Castlerigg and Whiteleaf Cross Barrows too, amongst other megalithic sites… Continue … Continue reading →

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Loughcrew: Moots…

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Friday, 29th July 2022… *** *** Some of these gatherings of stone seem distinctly gravid. *** *** Some of them much less so. *** *** It has something to do with perspective. *** *** The top of the … Continue reading →

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Feichin at Fore…

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Stuart France

County Westmeath, Friday, 29th July 2022… *** *** That is St Feichin to you! * Some of the Irish saints are less holy men and more your itinerant geomancers, which some might argue is equally holy but in a different … Continue reading →

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And Drift…

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Stuart France

County Westmeath, Thursday, 28th July 2022… *** ‘Place of the ford of Luan’ *** Athlone on the Shannon. * It did not always look like this! *** *** For one thing, it used to be a lot greyer. *** *** … Continue reading →

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The Burren: Skull Rock…

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Stuart France

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** A glacial erratic deposited in a ‘stony place’. *** *** The ancients would have venerated such a stone and may well have adapted it for symbolic purposes. *** *** The limestone ‘shelving’ … Continue reading →

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Odin’s Steed…

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* We have to travel far and wide before we can comprehend this story, but in psychological terms ‘Loki’ is straightforward enough. He represents the shadow side of the personality. * In the Myth Cycle as a whole, Loki’s binding … Continue reading →

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