Myths & Legends - Celtic

The earliest Celtic crosses, dating from nomadic times, were trees designated to be the connection between heaven and earth.
In this handsome package, you get a beautiful pewter pendant, sometimes known as Alesia's Cross, typical of designs found throughout Ireland, Scotland, and parts of Europe around 500 c.e. The equal arms of the pendant signify a number of things: the four directions, a link between heaven and earth, the Christian cross. The pendant hangs from a black silken cord.
The book Symbolism of the Celtic Cross recounts the history of Celtic crosses. Long before common usage of the modern cross, in fact even before the Christian era, Celts were using the world-axis to symbolize the link between heaven and earth. Pillar stones began to replace sacred trees when nomadic peoples settled.
Derek Bryce's fascinating history of the development of the cross is complemented by line illustrations of rare, ornamental Celtic Crosses from such places as Brittany, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cumbria, Ireland, and Cornwall.

Keep a record of your tarot journeys, magical workings or spiritual explorations in these luxurious journals. Your studies, readings, divinations and reflections are meaningful and deserve a proper home. The high quality, blank, creamy paper, intricate designs, rich covers and handy ribbon bookmark make these books sumptuous as well as practical.

The magical Celtic weavings of Welsh artist Jen Delyth come alive in this new journal. Jen is highly praised among lovers of Celtic art and lore and is one of the most popular artists in this genre. CELTIC MANDALA JOURNAL speaks with the undying spirit of the Celtic people.

The ancient rites and lore of the Druids have always utilised a gentle alchemy to convert plant essences into potent compounds for working magical rituals. Through the respectful seduction of a plant's virtue Druid alchemists are able to release and collect the latent energy physical attributes and magical capacities of that plant. The Druid then applies a series of processes to the acquired essence in order to maximise its power prior to its application in magical ritual. In this first-ever working guide to the principles processes and practical application of druidic plant magic Jon G. Hughes shares the combined wisdom of his ancestral lineage. CELTIC PLANT MAGIC includes basic alchemical theory instructions for creating all necessary tools descriptions of magical compounds and their uses and how to prepare oneself for working with plant essences. The healing and magical properties of more than 70 plants and trees are provided. The author then applies this information to a Celtic sex ritual demonstrating how these compounds are used in specific magic and ritual practices. CELTIC PLANT MAGIC is a valuable manual for anyone wishing to harness the magical potential of plant energy. · Provides step-by-step instructions for processing and transforming 70 plant energies and essences into working magical compounds. · Demonstrates the application of these compounds in a sex magic ritual. · Written by a practising Druid with more than 40 years in the tradition.

Each box contains a beautifully crafted metal seal with a bar of quality sealing wax. Instructions on the back of the box explain the use of the seal and includes a ‘ritual’ allowing the full effect of the seal to be realised. Additional rituals are available as a download. Details are on each box.

While historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization. An expert in Celtic studies, Markale regards myth as a branch of history, and explores mythological material to reveal the culture that gave rise to it. The alternative historical vision that emerges is both convincing and exciting.

• One of the most comprehensive treatments of Celtic civilization ever written.

• A cornerstone of Western civilization and the major source of its social, political, and literary values, Celtic civilization occupied the whole of Western Europe for more than a millennium.

• Unlike the Middle Eastern forerunners of the Greco-Roman world, Celtic civilization is still alive today.

A comprehensive and revealing look at the druids and their fundamental role in Celtic society that dispels many of the misconceptions about these important religious figures and their doctrine

• Written by the world's leading authority on Celtic culture

Druidism was one of the greatest and most exalting adventures of the human spirit, attempting to reconcile the unreconcilable, the individual and the collective, creator and created, good and evil, day and night, past and future, and life and death. Because of the oral nature of Celtic civilization our understanding of its spiritual truths and rituals is necessarily incomplete. Yet evidence exists that can provide the modern reader with a better understanding of the doctrine that took druidic apprentices 20 years to learn in the remote forests of the British Isles and Gaul.

Using the descriptions of the druids and their beliefs provided by the historians and chroniclers of classic antiquity--as well as those recorded by the insular Celts themselves when compelled, under Christianity's influence, to utilize writing to preserve their ancestral traditions--Jean Markale painstakingly pieces together all that is known for certain about them. The druids were more than simply the priests of the Celtic people; their influence extended to all aspects of Celtic life. The Druids covers everything concerning the Celtic religious domain, intellectual speculations, cultural or magical practices, various beliefs, and the so-called profane sciences that have come down from the Celtic priesthood.

A thorough, academic look at the past, present, and future of Norse polytheism. Welch highlights many Norse goddesses as well as other divine females of the Norse pantheon - Valkyries, Norns, Giantesses, Disir - and in a straightforward manner, makes a definitive case for the primordial goddess.

· Traces the evolution of the Holy Grail from the sacred vessel of the Celtic goddess to the Cup of Christ and how it represents the longing for the divine feminine
· Provides exercises, meditations, and rituals to connect you with the powers of the Cauldron of Rebirth, the Chalice of Healing, the Sword of Light, and the Holy Grail
· Explains how attaining the Grail brings full consciousness of the soul and Divine influence for the healing of self and others

The primary myth of Western culture, the quest for the Holy Grail persists through the centuries like a recurring dream, embodying the longing for the divine feminine suppressed for more than two thousand years. The Holy Grail emerged not only as a symbol of the feminine but also as a symbol of the soul, for hidden within the sacred Grail legends lies an initiatory path that leads to the highest realms of consciousness and spiritual illumination. By working with the symbols of the Grail tradition we can gaze into our own hidden depths and heal the separation between masculine and feminine, Spirit and Matter, and Heaven and Earth.

Mara Freeman traces the evolution of the Grail from the sacred vessel of the Celtic goddess to the Cup of Christ, revealing a spiritual path rooted in the mysteries of the Goddess, the Grail, and the Sword. She explains how the Sword has dominated over the Goddess and the Grail for far too long, leading to a spiritual wasteland as foretold in the Grail stories. She provides a practical workbook of exercises, visualizations, and magical rituals to restore the power of the divine feminine through spiritually transformative experiences with the Cauldron of Rebirth, the Chalice of Healing, the Sword of Light, and the Holy Grail itself.

Drawing on folk traditions and medieval Arthurian romances as well as alchemy, the Kabbalah, and the wisdom of the mystics of Glastonbury, Freeman reveals the ancient Celtic teachings of the Western Mystery tradition. She shows that attaining the Grail involves achieving full consciousness of the soul. Then, as a Grail-bearer, you can bring the light of the Grail into the world for the healing of self and others.

In a masterful blend of history, geography, and literature, Jean Markale re-creates the true King Arthur, the real-life Celtic warrior-hero who organized the resistance to the Saxon onslaught in fifth-century England. Markale's unsurpassed knowledge of Celtic history has enabled him to reconstruct for us the actual world in which King Arthur lived--its heros, its values, and its vicissitudes--and to define the position that Arthur occupied within it.
• Explains how the Arthurian ideals of knightly virtue and chivalry are at the heart of Western literature and thought
• Shows how the Celtic heritage continues to exert a unique formative power on our personal and moral concepts