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Once upon a time, the Hill of Tara was a portal entrance into the Otherworld to the sacred dwelling places of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Located in County Meath Ireland, the Hill of Tara had a view of the hills at Loughcrew. The Hill of Tara was used as a sacred temple and astronomical observatory. It was also the ancient seat of power for Irish High Kings. The most renown of them was the third century ACE Irish King Cormac Mac Airt. A ring fort know as Cormac's house was situated within the large hill fort know as the Royal Enclosure. Aligned on the ancient Celtic cross-quarter festivals of Samhain on November 8th and Imbolc on February 4th the Duma na nGiall Passage Chamber was built around 2,500 - 3,000 BCE. Subdivided into three compartments by sill stones, the megalithic passageway was about one metre wide and 4 metres long. "Three" was a holy number for the Celts of Ireland and the Celtic Ancient Culture which had many different meanings beside the most traditional of the representations, that of the three realms of Land, Sea, and Sky.
Triplication or the
power of a group of three was a significant symbolic pattern or design that
recurred in Irish Celtic art, mythology, and spirituality. There were the Three
Kindreds (ancestors, fairies, goddesses and gods). Storytellers told tales of
goddesses and Otherworld Beings appearing at critical life passage moments in
groups of three.
Triple faced; triple headed Celtic deities were venerated in various forms with the most popular being the triplicity of the mother goddess energy. Sometimes the three goddesses depicted were identical; while, at other times their overall potency was heightened by showing three different aspects of the divine feminine role. Observable from the entranceway, there was a stone engraved with solar and other sacred symbols that may have also served as an ancient calendar. The sacred Lia Fáil, Standing Stone of Destiny, was probably positioned at the passageway entrance of the Duma na nGiall Passage Chamber. Sun Wheels were worn as protective amulets and healing talismans by the Irish Celts. They symbolized the sensual solace of bountifully fruitful fecundity and the heartening warmth of productively crucial comfort shedding their illuminating light into the cold disappointing darkness of shadowed chaos and the sorrow provoking cruelty of ominous life passages The brilliance of the Sun dispelled illusory confusions and banished bindings by shining solar radiance into the murky corners of the soul. The sunshine of cheery mindfulness transformed stagnant areas of persistent pain and skulking sorrow into renewed hope and reinvigorated trust.
Small clay goddess
votives, decorated with Sun Wheels, were offered prayerfully at curative
springs, holy shrines, and sacred lakes. The figurines were also buried with the
dead to help them navigate the mysterious journey to the Otherworld... Continue
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