“I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread.”
W.B. Yeats
One possible arrangement of these qualities and associated worlds-gods-strains is given below. The groupings are: Cauldron (Quality) – Harp Strain (Music). Each grouping is also associated with specific deities.
Coire Goriath (Sustenance / Warming) – The Sleeping Strain The Dagda / Iuchar – salmon, the spawn of salmon
- Sall – dirt; a prop? a post or beam? sallow? a willow? – Poetry (éigse; filíocht, Stone- Banba / Cailleach)
- Fall – satire; an enclosure; a ring; a circuit; a spot – Reflection (machnamh; meabhrú, Land-Áine)
- Fuball – (fafall) filth?, (fáball) a moving land?, a course?, a decision – Meditation (léirsmaoineamh, Life- An Dagda) Coire Soís (Wisdom / Áiged-Celebration) – The Laughing Strain
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Searles O'Dubhain
Searles O’Dubhain is an American Celtic scholar, writer and story teller who has been practicing Druidry for over 30 years. Searles created ‘The Summerlands’, one of the very first beloved online Celtic pagan communities in the early 90’s. He additionally published ‘Ogham Divination’, that lays a detailed and creative pathway of recreating and discovering the ancient ways of the Druids. This and much more available on his website.
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