From the Puck Fair on Ireland’s Iveragh Peninsula to Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival, there are plenty of festivals celebrating Celtic culture. In differing ways, each stirs the imagination, revs up the spirit and loosens pent up winter blues.
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Having just celebrated Independence Day here in the U.S., I have been thinking about the number of Celtic peoples who helped form our early republic.
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The picture above is one of my favorites. I came over the rise of the hill leading up to my favorite stone circle. There-smack dab in the middle of what I consider sacred space- was this little cutie looking right at me. I not only got the perfect picture but we also had quite a nice I-Thou communication going until his mother scurried him away. I liked the picture so much I chose it for the back cover of my new novel Amidst the Stones.
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Let’s imagine today that we are traveling through the green, rolling hills of Oxfordshire, England. There on a far hillside we see a white horse. At least, we see a free-flowing, dynamic outline of a creature in motion that is usually viewed as a horse. Now imagine being of a time long ago when people were not exposed to media as we are today. It must have been an even more awesome and wonderous sight.
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Writing about Beltane is a bit like writing about Christmas; the holiday has so many different traditions and its celebrations has many layers of meaning. Visiting Celtic cultures during May Day festivities also reminds me of U.S. Memorial Day when all take vacation and hold picnics and parades. Some think of the original meaning of the day; others just see a long weekend to unwind.
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When I read that there were 5 Celtic Nations. I easily could list Scotland, Ireland, England (Cornwall) and Wales, but I had to look up the fifth. I had only a vague notion of the Isle of Man, the fifth on the list. Introduced to it on the internet, I decided I just had to visit. Of course, the clincher was the picture of one of its stone circles, a passion of mine.
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Images of dancing green leprechauns surround us in March. Yet, beyond the gaiety of St. Patrick’s Day cards, I think these wee folks have a lot to say to us about how we are living and how we must treat our planet.
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