We don't mess with the "wee folk", well the older generation doesn't. Highways are usually routed around them and their "Fairy forts" . However, the practice is fading with, what some are argue, present dire consequences

This from a few years back, and the departing from respecting those liminal spaces. Yes the places where “the fairy folk” known as the “Sidhe” (pronounced like “She”) reside and rule. In folklore recorded as the remnants of the Tuatha de Danann ( pronounced too-aha-day-Don-an), one of the early invaders (and gods/goddesses) of Ireland. From ringfort to ring road: The destruction of Ireland’s fairy forts – The Irish Times , However there have been an ongoing set of road traffic accidents since the road was built cutting through the Curtaun fairy fort. TikTok - Make Your Day . The highway was rerouted around a fairy tree in the construction of the Latoon bypass section of the highway…

"The core of the story of the peopling of Ireland was built on top of biblical traditions. It begins with Noah and the Flood, and Noah’s granddaughter Cesair (she does not feature in the Bible), who was said to be the first to arrive in Ireland. The next wave involved the Parthalonians, descendants of Japhet, son of Noah, but they succumbed to plague. The third wave of settlers, descendants of Nemed, were vaguely related to the Parthalonians. The Nemedians were eventually defeated by the Formorians. Some Nemedians later returned from Greece as the Fir Bolg. They, in turn, were replaced by the Tuatha Dé Danann.

A second strand traces other descendants of Japhet, including Fénius Farsaid and his grandson, Goídel Glas (the term ‘Gael’ is traced to him). Later, Breóghan, descended from Goídel Glas, viewed Ireland from a tower in Galicia on a clear night. His grandson, Míl Espáine, went to Ireland, where he defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann. The Clann Mhíleadh (‘sons of Míl’), Ír, Éibhear and Éireamhón and their descendants, became established in Ireland."

Clann Mhíleadh were also known as the Milesians (originating from the Iberian Peninsula).

References to the Tuatha de Dánann are recorded in subsequent extracts of other early medieval and later books from an originating 7th Century work, most likely by a monk, in the ‘Leabhar Gabhála’ (Book of invasions) preserving local folklore and history. https://www.ria.ie/collections/manuscripts/irish-language-manuscripts/leabhar-gabhala-the-book-of-the-invasions/

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Don’t mess with the “Plasmas”!
Ghostly consequences!

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Precisely everything is energy

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Inflationary Faeries is a novel set in medieval Ulster about members of the Tuatha Dé Danann that form a central bank:

Macha elbowed Brighid. “Cheer up, gnat,” Macha told her. “Ya may have lost the bank, but ya completed the task.”
“Aye,” Fódla agreed, “yer now a full member of the Morrígna. An’ the sages already foretell of the day when the bankin’ name ‘o Morgan will tap the legacy of our Irish Morrígan.”

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:rofl: :rofl: Living in Cavan which is an an Ulster county, I so get that. And as an analogy can see how it might work on many levels. Looking forward to reading and have bought it on amazon .image|168x226.

I became a member of this organisation several years ago (physicists, neuroscientists, medical professionals/surgeons, psychologists, shamanic practitioners, philosophers, performance arts, writers, etc etc). My own interest came through psychology into transpersonal psychology, consciousness and where are we really and what the &*(% are we doing here anyway.
The common denominator is interest and research into consciousness, spirituality and the evidence emerging which posits that reality is described by more than scientific materialist paradigms. You might enjoy and if interested here is their webpage … https://scientificandmedical.net/about-the-smn/

Other sources which may or may not be of interest:

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Many thanks, very interesting. He translates it well for a major scientist to lesser science inklined peoples.

A Wile Q.[quantum] Camel; trying to pass through, the eye of a needle.
He does it!
No batteries included.
Nor spirit.

Just an extempraneous; brilliant explosion, of quantum consciounes from your body!
Being both; the oberver/the observed - at once!

Must admit.
I did not watch, but a few niutes of the begining and/or the end.

Yes.
I’m bias, to a fault.

Nothing against the Plasma Temples…
Nor, the Irreducible Quantum Conscious Faggins…

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That’s really sad.

Thank you for your on the ground reporting about Ireland that we Yanks will usually never see.

Esp. "The legislation was amended in the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2004 to further empower the State to demolish any newly discovered national monument on every motorway route in Ireland, without any kind of environmental impact assessment. This was used, for instance, to allow the M50 motorway to proceed through Carrickmines Castle.

Hallowed

The idea that these were once considered, as Mercier writes, “places of magic, sacred, hallowed and revered, ultimately representing a sense of oneness and yet otherness,” ended in the eyes of the State with the 2004 Act. The complex and nuanced status that fairy forts held in the nation’s consciousness now survives in the minds of mystics and romantics."

Sounds like I need to visit Ireland before it’s all trashed by the government and the one million new ‘Irish’ arrivals.

I still leave some of my leftovers for ‘the gnomes’ ,when I am done eating, as, a form of thanks for the food back to the elemental spirits from whence it came, who need it to survive.

There is a lot to be said for tree hugging, even metaphorically.

This article reminded me of the practise in Iceland too.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/icelanders-protest-road-would-disturb-fairies-180949359/

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For sure, Iceland has the tradition which they respect. But then 40 to 50% of Icelanders have Irish DNA. :joy:

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The deeper esoteric lore is that it’s all old Atlantean DNA. well the part that is not Celtic, the ‘native’ DNA.

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I like to follow a number of podcasters who are trying to preserve or recapture the old traditions, before hypermaterialism set in - Jo Hickey-Hall of Modern Fairy Sightings/Scarlett of the Fae (in the UK but partly Irish), recently discovered Vanese McNeill (Aus but in US? I think?) of Magical Egypt (she admires Dr Farrell & CAF among others), Darragh Mason of Spirit Box in Ireland and his interview of Scott of Cailleach Herbarium in Scotland etc.

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Will check those out, and in return offer Eddie Lenihan Storyteller and Folklore specialist https://www.youtube.com/@tellmeastorypodcastwithedd7774

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Do appreciate the link to Chris Mathieu (I always think he’s Cajun, since French & Louisiana, but don’t know) - I don’t listen to all his shows but will to this one!

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Thanks for the recommendations :slight_smile:
I have always instinctively tried to commune and give back to Nature when I can, since I was a kid.
It culminated in my grandparents flying in for my Confirmation but I told them I was not going. It did not feel right. Bye Catholic Church
lol

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The weirdest thing is - I know of people who are starting to accept the Folk part of Catholicism (i e. veneration of saints, observing feast days) - they just don’t get into the churchy stuff! :joy: One woman said southern Italians don’t much go for churchiness, but they do love their saints.
And yes, I was lucky too - because my parents grew up on a farm & the countryside in southern Illinois when it was old school farming villages, my brother & I (our sister was more social & people attention) were allowed to ramble & explore in the woods around our home in Indiana - him w his pals fishing and me with friends down in the creek or in the woods. Loved it! Now I admire people more involved with nature than I can be…

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Nature is everywhere :slight_smile: In the cracks in the sidewalk and under the parking lot.
We are learning the tree names in our suburb now :slight_smile: Peace to you :slight_smile:
The elementals are everywhere.

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