Tracing the Cailleach - Myths, megaliths and astronomy - a talk by Anthony Murphy

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  • Опубліковано 16 лис 2024

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  • @stasiusclay7348
    @stasiusclay7348 3 роки тому +7

    I know the Loughcrew area quite well. In all my wandering I always feel Patrick's town is the most intriguing, though there isn't much left it, alot of the ancient walkways and some monuments are still intact (not marked on maps, even old ones generally). It was suppose to be the largest and most significant of the 4 hilltops. Seems to be forgotten as most people aren't even aware it's connected with Loughcrew.
    Great video!

  • @retrogrademotionpictures4985
    @retrogrademotionpictures4985 6 років тому +7

    Wow. Great work what a beautiful presentation. Excellent photography. I'm jealous I'd love to be up there on those freezing mornings. Amazing research and on the ground documentation of these sites. Someday I'll make it to Ireland to see these places and hopefully meet some of these awesome people.

  • @rachelLadyD
    @rachelLadyD 5 років тому +3

    excellent Anthony, best one I have seen yet, thanks for this it is a superb collection of stories and facts and really brings the stories alive for future generations, she was disappearing from our Psyche, our mother creator.

  • @astrogypsy
    @astrogypsy 6 років тому +3

    Thanks again for another wonderful piece Anthony.

  • @eoinmulvany860
    @eoinmulvany860 6 років тому +6

    Another fabulous video and talk Anthony! Inspirational. I'm from Kells and have always loved the view of Sliabh na Cailleach from Lloyd hill. Delighted that you could do this talk. Thanks, and congrats on the discovery in July. Great photos!

  • @brotherkith
    @brotherkith 6 років тому +1

    A great talk Anthony. Both enjoyable and another valuable addition to the archives. Thank you.

  • @hanlieignatiev7179
    @hanlieignatiev7179 4 роки тому +3

    The Myths flow via my great - grandfather O ' Higgins into my veins and binds me with their spells. Bless you all.

  • @lisethyblue2926
    @lisethyblue2926 6 років тому +2

    Wonderful talk and slideshow. Hope you and the group had a good visit to the carn. I was introduced to your work by a friend who grew up near Newgrange, I've followed the discovery of the new henge during the dry spell, and I really hope to attend one of your events when I visit Meath next May.

  • @gregb3443
    @gregb3443 4 роки тому +2

    Can you please do more presentation like this one.

  • @reddustdiecastmodelrail1499
    @reddustdiecastmodelrail1499 6 років тому +2

    Great video ! Thanks for sharing ! m

  • @lynn7561
    @lynn7561 5 років тому +3

    The chair looks like a giants vertebrae

  • @jonsmith9379
    @jonsmith9379 5 років тому +1

    Fascinating talk, but I'm confused. Watched all of it and now wonder whether true Bealtainne is lunar-based or solar-based. You mentioned the 3/4 moon standstill, so is true bealtainne changeable and lunar or always marked by the sunrise?

  • @Dankness-e6i
    @Dankness-e6i 12 днів тому

    The stones being dropped are in native American myth also, it is the witches head nebula dropping from Bernards loop. She is the stone tablets of the ark of the covenant. Lady Stoneheart

  • @artyfreeman7916
    @artyfreeman7916 5 років тому +1

    Great lecture thanks
    But....you're wrong about the high res Google earth of Ireland, have you seen Mayo's connemarra borders with Galway!?!? Impossible to locate hillforts marked on OS maps

  • @serviustullus7204
    @serviustullus7204 4 місяці тому

    Bingo on interpretation

  • @joshualexandercole
    @joshualexandercole 6 років тому +8

    I think "Wise old woman" is a nicer English for the Cailleach than "witch" or "hag", those words have a lot of baggage in English...

    • @Auriflamme
      @Auriflamme 6 років тому +5

      Hag is the correct translation, the term is not an honorific. The Cailleach is not a particularly positive figure. Wise woman is "cailleach feasa", this is not the same thing as the Cailleach.

    • @TheVeek192
      @TheVeek192 4 роки тому +4

      Why do things have to be "nice?" Maybe there was no niceness intended? Baggage is only baggage if people pick it up and walk with it. One need not accept it.

    • @uncannyvalley2350
      @uncannyvalley2350 2 роки тому +1

      It's the 3 form feminine, the virgin, (Mary) the wife (Mary) and the Crone (Mary) also known as the 3 fates.
      "Boil boil, toil and trouble, Witch's brew boil and bubble"
      There's a reason why the Harvest Moon, Celtic Jewish and Egyptian New Year in September, the 7th Moon is also called the Witch's Mass, aka Samhain

    • @sophiabreidfischer6242
      @sophiabreidfischer6242 2 роки тому

      Yes agreed. I suppose hag is the "correct translatuon" but certainly that word had acquired some negative connotations

  • @Stadtpark90
    @Stadtpark90 3 місяці тому

    39:36