Celtic Tree Alphabets

Author: Nigel Pennick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1644117495
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
• Provides a full explanation for each character of the Celtic tree alphabets and their historic variants, including each symbol’s corresponding trees, colors, birds, cryptic codes, and esoteric inner meanings • Explores the use of Celtic tree alphabets in spiritual invocation, divination, and symbolic art as well as the practice of Ogham cryptography • Explains how, like Norse Runes, each Ogham character is a meditative symbol in its own right and offers the possibility of deep psychic transformation Emanating from the spiritual traditions of Celtic antiquity, Ogham is best known as a “tree alphabet.” It is a symbolic system that encapsulates the archaic skills and wisdom of ancient Ireland and Britain and is important in contemporary Druidry. Studying the Oghams enables us to engage with ancient ways of thinking and gain access to the elemental powers that speak to the inner nature of our being, the wildwood in our hearts. Presenting a wide-ranging exploration of the Ogham tree alphabet, Nigel Pennick explores the traditional lore of the Celtic trees and their relationship to ancient, mythic beings from whom their understanding was legendarily derived. Each Ogham character is a meditative symbol in its own right, embodying a creative power available to all. Pennick provides a full explanation for each of the Ogham letters along with correspondences from historic Irish sources and considers their use in ciphers, spiritual invocation, divination, and symbolic art. He also discusses ceremonies that assist in reconnecting us with nature and the wilderness, including “Maying” and greenwood marriages and the use of colors and magical binding-knots in the Celtic tradition. Also included is a chapter on the little-known Coelbren y Beirdd, a cryptic system devised for the use of Bards and Druids. This handbook for learning Ogham and Coelbren offers a comprehensive understanding of the ancient Celtic worldview, allowing you to apply their wisdom in modern life.

Irish Nouns

Author: Andrew Carnie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199213755
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive source of reference on noun declensions in Modern Irish. It contains over 10,000 nouns as well as a generalized description of declension classes, case marking, and number marking in standard Irish, and a discussion of the nominal morphology that affects declension class and case form.

Ériu

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Canon

Author: Kenneth Keating
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319511122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices which decisively complicate and illuminate its pronounced concerns with inheritance, history, and the Irish poetic canon.’ — Steven Matthews, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, UK, and author of Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation and Yeats As Precursor This book is about the way that contemporary Irish poetry is dominated and shaped by criticism. It argues that critical practices tend to construct reductive, singular and static understandings of poetic texts, identities, careers, and maps of the development of modern Irish poetry. This study challenges the attempt present within such criticism to arrest, stabilize, and diffuse the threat multiple alternative histories and understandings of texts would pose to the formation of any singular pyramidal canon. Offered here are detailed close readings of the recent work of some of the most established and high-profile Irish poets, such as Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian, along with emerging poets, to foreground an alternative critical methodology which undermines the traditional canonical pursuit of singular meaning and definition through embracing the troubling indeterminacy and multiplicity to be found within contemporary Irish poetry.

The Book of Primal Signs

Author: Nigel Pennick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620553163
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
An in-depth study of the sacred meanings behind ancient and enduring symbols • Explains the multiple forms and uses of symbols from ancient times to the present day, reflecting their roots in folk magic and the Western Mystery tradition • Examines more than 40 glyphs, such as the cross, fleur de lis, and pentagram, as well as several families of symbols, such as craftsmen’s marks and runes • Includes more than 300 unique woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and photographs--many never before reproduced From ancient rock and cave art to the contemporary brand logos of politics and business, human beings have always created symbols to denote specific ideas, groups, or important objects as well as to convey deeper information than can be communicated in words. Many glyphs have retained their meanings over millennia whereas some have modern meanings vastly different from the original connotation. In this study of symbols, Nigel Pennick explores glyphs as agents of higher consciousness and ports of access to the collective unconscious, acknowledging the continuity of tradition, both deliberate and not, as well as how interpretations of some symbols, such as the swastika, have changed dramatically. With more than 300 unique woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and photographs--many never before reproduced--Pennick examines ancient and enduring glyphs in detail, such as the circle, cross, eye, pentagram, fleur de lis, tree of life, and horseshoe, as well as several families of symbols, such as craftsmen’s marks, runes, symbolic beasts, human heads and skulls, and the sigils of Mammon. The author explains the multiple forms and uses of each from ancient times to the present day, reflecting their roots in the Western Mystery tradition. He explores the symbols of high magic such as the glyph of John Dee’s monad, those of folk magic such as the traditional cock on the weather vane, and the creation of modern glyphs such as the peace sign and the anarchy symbol. Contrasting the hi-jacked use of power symbols in modern advertising with the vital role of symbols in traditional arts and crafts, Pennick reveals how symbols link the cosmic with the terrestrial and allow us to infuse the mundane with the numinous.

2000+ Bulgarian - Irish Irish - Bulgarian Vocabulary

Author: Gilad Soffer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
2000+ Bulgarian - Irish Irish - Bulgarian Vocabulary - is a list of more than 2000 words translated from Bulgarian to Irish, as well as translated from Irish to Bulgarian. Easy to use- great for tourists and Bulgarian speakers interested in learning Irish. As well as Irish speakers interested in learning Bulgarian.

2000+ Turkish - Irish Irish - Turkish Vocabulary

Author: Gilad Soffer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
2000+ Turkish - Irish Irish - Turkish Vocabulary - is a list of more than 2000 words translated from Turkish to Irish, as well as translated from Irish to Turkish. Easy to use- great for tourists and Turkish speakers interested in learning Irish. As well as Irish speakers interested in learning Turkish.

1000+ Japanese - Irish Irish - Japanese Vocabulary

Author: Gilad Soffer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
1000+ Japanese - Irish Irish - Japanese Vocabulary - is a list of more than 1000 words translated from Japanese to Irish, as well as translated from Irish to Japanese. Easy to use- great for tourists and Japanese speakers interested in learning Irish. As well as Irish speakers interested in learning Japanese.

2000+ Swedish - Irish Irish - Swedish Vocabulary

Author: Gilad Soffer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 77

Book Description
2000+ Swedish - Irish Irish - Swedish Vocabulary - is a list of more than 2000 words translated from Swedish to Irish, as well as translated from Irish to Swedish. Easy to use- great for tourists and Swedish speakers interested in learning Irish. As well as Irish speakers interested in learning Swedish.

1000+ Filipino - Irish Irish - Filipino Vocabulary

Author: Gilad Soffer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
1000+ Filipino - Irish Irish - Filipino Vocabulary - is a list of more than 1000 words translated from Filipino to Irish, as well as translated from Irish to Filipino. Easy to use- great for tourists and Filipino speakers interested in learning Irish. As well as Irish speakers interested in learning Filipino.