Mar 20, 2009
Celebrating the Spring, we bring you a very moving story by Willie Meikle, a wonderful piece from Horns of Power and four great pieces of music. In addition there is a very powerful Irish poem and we take another visit to The Dragon's Head deep in the Highlands to visit Duncan, the old Scottish Shannachie.
Full show notes, details and Contributor pages over at our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/spring2009
Running Order:
We hope you enjoy it!
Gary & Ruthie x x
Released: 21st March 2009, 1hr 8m
We love to hear from you! Please email garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com, or call us using Speakpipe
Gary apologises for losing emails
- again! Come on Gary - stop fiddling with your computer and it
might last five minutes :)
We also announce the beginning of the Fansite section of the
website for all those of you who may have been inspired by the
stories. You might have written a story, a poem or maybe
drawn/painted a picture or made some music. We welcome your
submissions so that other in the Podshow clan can see your
work.
Please remember that all submissions would be subject to our
Creative Commons licence. If you require a different licence,
please let us know and we will make it clear on your page. We also
wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick's Day for the 17th
March.
The Spring Equinox
We chat about the meaning of the Spring Equinox and the coming of Spring. We talk about the Green Man and Mother Earth. Did the Celts celebrate the Equinox and Easter (Ostara) together.
by Claymore
High-energy and committed!!!
England born Chris, as well as Jim and Derrek like to enjoy
ourselves, and like to get everybody around us to have a fun time,
but we also are very dedicated musicians. Although it may seem like
Claymore is just about jumping around and not
appearing serious, all of us are committed to being the best at
what each of us do. We have our regular drummer Don (Otto) Wilson
out with us on most occasions also. We are truly passionate about
the music. We are also very grateful for our family and friends,
who come out or support us in many different ways.
You can find out more details about
Claymore on their website or on
their Contributor Page on our website.
Cernunnos & the Gundestrup Cauldron
The Gundestrup cauldron is a richly decorated silver vessel, thought to date from between 200 BC and 300 AD, or more narrowly between 150 BC and 1 BC. This places it within the late La Tène period or early Roman Iron Age. The cauldron is the largest known example of European Iron Age silver work.
For more information, consult the Wiki page for the Cauldron.
by Sorita D'Este
This anthology is the first of
its kind to be focused on the horned gods of our ancestors and
includes both scholarly essays, bardic retellings of stories such
as that of Herne the Hunter and a number of experiential essays.
Invocations and meditation journeys are also included.
The piece we bring you from this wonderful book is about the Celtic
God Cernunnos and was written by the book's editor, the talented
Sorita D'Este.
Bibliographic References for this article
Banier, Antoine; The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, 1739; A Millar, London
Brown, Norman O.; Hermes the Thief, 1990; Lindisfarne Press; Massachusettes
Daniélou, Alain; Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, 1992; Inner Traditions International, Vermont
Davidson, Hilda Ellis; The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe; 1999; Barnes & Noble, New York
Gimbutas, Marija; Anza ca 6500-5000 BC: A Cultural Yardstick for the Study of Neolithic Southeast Europe; in Journal of Field Archaeology Vol. 1.1; 1974; Boston University
Henig, Martin; A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites (2 vols); 1974; BAR; Oxford
Olmsted, G.S.; The Gundestrup Cauldron; 1979; in Collection Latomus 162; Brussels
Rankine, David & d'Este, Sorita; The Isles of the Many Gods; 2007; Avalonia; London
Ross, Anne; Pagan Celtic Britain; 1967; Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd; London
You can find out more details about Avalonia Books on their Contributor page on this website or visit the Avalonia website to buy the book or view their other fascinating titles.
by The Bards of
Mystic
William Widmaier is the
“Captain” of the Bards of Mystic, William is the founder and the
driving force behind the Bards. He is also the writer of all the
stories, and that's his voice you hear narrating.
Find out more about the
Bards of Mystic on Myspace.
More details will also be found on our Contributor Page.
by Pádraic Mac Piarais (Patrick
Pearse)
Pádraic Mac
Piarais (1879–1916) was a teacher, barrister, poet,
writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the
leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Pearse wrote stories and
poems in both Irish and English, his best-known English poem being
"The Wayfarer". He also penned several allegorical plays in the
Irish language, including The King, The Master, and The Singer. His
short stories in Irish include Eoghainín na nÉan ("Eoineen of the
Birds"), Íosagán, Na Bóithre ("The Roads"), and An Bhean Chaointe
("The Keening Woman"). These are translated into English by Joseph
Campbell (in the Collected Works of 1917). [Wiki]
Mise Éire:
Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
Mór mo ghlóir:
Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga.
Mór mo náir:
Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair.
Mór mo phian:
Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh.
Mór mo bhrón:
D'éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas.
Mise Éire:
Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra.
I am
Ireland:
I am older than the old woman of Beare.
Great my glory:
I who bore Cuchulainn, the brave.
Great my shame:
My own children who sold their mother.
Great my pain:
My irreconcilable enemy who harrasses me continually...
Great my sorrow
That crowd, in whom I placed my trust, died.
I am Ireland:
I am lonelier than the old woman of Beare.
by Willie Meikle
Willie Meikle is
a Scottish Author who writes Fantasy and Horror Fiction and has
eight books published. Many of his stories and books are set in
Scotland and are weaved with Mythology and folklore. Willie has had
130 stories published in the genre press, both in paper and on-line
magazines and his work has appeared in the UK, Ireland, the USA,
India, Greece, Romania and Canada. He has graciously allowed us to
present an amazingly powerful short story called One Spring
Eve.
You can find out more about Willie and his work at his website or you
can read more details about this fantastic author in our Contributor pages.
The Children of Lir
by Sora
Sora (aka Andrea Hunt) is an independent musician with a different philosophy on how she wants to share her music with the world. Perhaps it was all of the touring she did as a teenager with the Calgary Youth Orchestra and the Calgary Fiddlers that made her appreciate the subtleties of having a solid home base. It may have been the influence of playing with elite musicians and performing to sell out crowds that seeded her desire to mold a new musical lifestyle.
Her natural flair for Celtic
vocal styling leaps out in her 2003 debut CD “Winds Of
Change”. On this self produced project all 13 tracks
were recorded live off the floor. “What you hear is what we did”
Sora says. “Everyone was in the same small room at
the same time”. The arrangements for each song were chosen
specifically because they were so different from anything she had
ever heard – which gave her the chance to put her heart and sound
into each track.
You can find her music on Myspace or
Corvid
Media. You can find out more details about Sora on her Contributor Page on our website.
Children of Lir
When on feathered wings take flight
'Oer the hills beating the time
To the swans final song
Sung so sweet, so for so long
As they leave rocky shore
Flying west with the sun
And I watch from the land I love
My past come undoneOh Children of Lir where have you gone?
The hills they are bare but echo your song
Echo your song
The stones silently fall
And where do I belong?On the hollow faerie mound
The silence calls mocking the time
When the swans haunting song
Carried far, resounding strong
And their stories they drift
Upon stormy seas
Lost in the waves of time
The island, it is meOh Children of Lir where have you gone?
The hills they are bare but echo your song
Echo your song
The stones silently fall
And where do I belong?When the bells so loudly toll
An anthem rung drowing the sound
To the swans final song
Silver notes, fading, withdrawn
Change swiftly comes
On the wings of the dove
The voices once heard are gone
Where are they love?Oh Children of Lir where have you gone?
The hills they are bare but echo your song
Echo your song
Oh Children of Lir where have you gone?
The hills they are bare but echo your song
Echo your song
The stones silently fall
And where do I belong?
Do I belong?
by Andy Guthrie
We are incredibly privileged to have Andy as a Contributor to the show. He tells stories that are alive in his family today and that have come down through the ages.
He says:
The old Legends are a passion and a Joy, and the writings of Fiona Macleod are inspiration, in all I do. I have been a Head gardener of 31 years for large house, and sill working, I see the years come and go from spring to winner, and love it all. I retell the old stories.
You can read more about Andy on his Myspace page or on our Contributor Page.
by Catherine Duc
Visions and Dreams
Catherine Duc produces
instrumentals blending Ambient, Celtic, Classical, Electronica and
World music. Catherine is a
classically trained pianist and has studied recording and
production techniques at the Concert Hall in Melbourne. She also
has a Diploma in Film Music Composition from The London School of
Creative Studies.
She was presented with the
'Instrumental Artist of The Year' award at the 16th Annual Los
Angeles Music Awards. She has also won first prize in the
Electronica category of a national song competition organised by
Philips Australia. You can
find out more details about Catherine on Myspace
or on her Contributor Page on our website.
Listener Feedback
Kent, Jodie
We read an email from Kent, who raises an interesting question about cross-cultural influences between the Vikings and the Celts. We also play our first voicemail (from Jodie) using the new voicemail feature on the website - yay!
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Promo - Searching for my
Wives
William Bostock
Searching For My Wives
by William
Bostock
Imagine how it all began, this
marvelous, long journey of Humanity. Some souls work for peace and
happiness. Others, though, despoil, degrade, and kill. This is a
novel of past lives, reincarnation, and our occult history. Not
many protohumans were alive, one and one-half million years ago,
but all of us had souls, and souls persist, and there are souls
which lived in hominids in Chesowanja, eastern Africa who have
lived among us almost to the present day.
Shimmer loves his wives, Sita and
Ahalya, and tries to share sweet lives with them, but the trickster
Murk, intent on dragging Mankind down, drives black souls to attack
the ones who love.
Come along as Shimmer leads
migrations. Relive the waning of the Great Ice Age and the
planetwide disaster. And remember how Old Kingdom Egypt travelled
through a pleat in time to stabilize and rule the river plains of
northern India. Re-experience Murk's dark campaign to undermine
that peaceful land, and once again respond to Shimmer and Old
Shiver's call to arms and meet the enemy between two rivers at
fabled Kurukshetra.
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For incidental music:
Julien Boulier, Opale Voile from Remanence. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Shane D Rymer, Complaint v2 from Celestial Mechanics. See the Contributor Page for more details.
BertycoX, Toy Piano from Film'O Graf. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Evan, Ouverture and Perdue from Alice. Rever... Peut-etre... Part 1 from Rever... Peut-etre...See the Contributor Page for more details.
Miguel Herrero, Sadness from Soundtrack EP. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Sydney Poma, Elle obsede from Compositions Audiovisu'Elle.. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Bezed'h, Tout le monde debout from Ton jour viendra. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Kahlan, Nemesis from Nemesis. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Diane Arkenstone The Secret Garden. See the Contributor Page for details.
Kim Robertson, Angels in Disguise. See the Contributor Page for more details.
Jigger, Time Ticks Away. See the Contributor Page for more details.
The Skylark and Haghole, the brilliant Culann's Hounds. See their Contributor page for details.
And, of course, the Awen - inspiration and imagination!
(in Alphabetic order)
Anne Roos Extra
Special thanks go for permission to use any of her masterful music
to Anne
Roos. You can find out more about Anne on her website or on her Contributor
page.
Caera Extra
Special thanks go for permission to any of her evocative harping
and Gaelic singing to Caera. You can find out more about Caera on
her website or on her
Contributor
Page.
Celia Extra
Special Thanks go for permission to use any of her wonderful music
to Celia Farran. You can find out more about Celia on her website or on her Contributor
Page.
Damh the Bard Extra Special thanks go to Damh the Bard for his permission to use any of his music on the Show. You can find out more about Damh (Dave) on his website or on his Contributor page.
The Dolmen Extra
Special thanks also go to
The Dolmen, for their permission to use any of their fantastic
Celtic Folk/Rock music on the Show. You can find out more about The
Dolmen on their website or on
our Contributor
page.
Keltoria Extra
Special thanks go for permission to use any of their inspired music
to Keltoria. You can find out more about Keltoria on their website or on their Contributor
page.
Kevin Skinner
Extra Special thanks go for permission to use any of his superb
music to Kevin Skinner. You can find out more about Kevin on his
website or on his Contributor
page.
Phil Thornton Extra Special Thanks go for permission to use any of his astounding ambient music to the Sonic Sorcerer himself, Phil Thornton. You can find out more about Phil on his website or on his Contributor Page.
S.J. Tucker
Extra Special thanks go to Sooj for her permission to use any of
her superb music. You can find out more about Sooj on her website or on her Contributor
page.
Spiral Dance Extra Special thanks go for permission to use Adrienne and the band to use any of their music in the show. You can find out more about Spiral Dance on their website or on their Contributor page.