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Loughcrew was situated about forty kilometers from Newgrange close to the town of Oldcastle in Ireland. There were groups of megalithic Sacred Mound Passage Chambers by Loughcrew on the hills at Slieve na Caillaigh hills or The Storied Hills, especially centered around Cairn T on Carnbane East and Cairn L on Carnbane West. Individually the hills were known as Carnbane East, Carnbane West and Patrickstown. There was a panoramic view from Cairn T of 18 Irish counties. Cairn T dates back as far as 4,000 BCE. The stone at the back of Cairn T at Loughcrew, which was engraved with astronomical solar symbols, was illuminated by a sunbeam at dawn on the Autumnal and Spring Equinox. Surrounded by thirty-seven Kerbstones, Cairn T was thirty-eight yards in diameter and once had a capstone; as well as, a quartz crystal mantle.
There was a large horned Kerbstone measuring ten feet
by six feet by two feet decorated with concentric circle, cup marks and other
Celtic symbols on the north side of the Cairn that has been called Ollamh
Fódla's Seat after the Twentieth High King of Tara and The Hag's Chair.
There was a threshold sill stone leading from the passageway into the corbelled roofed cruciform chamber. Inside there was a center area where sill stones lead from the north, south, and west into three separate small recesses. There were many Natural World engraved symbols resembling flowers on the West Recess Backstone. A six foot high limestone freestanding menhir was situated within the chamber of Cairn L at Carnbane West as an illumination marker for the Samhain (November 8th) and Imbolc (February 4th) Cross-quarter Days. Aligned eight degrees South of East, the latter rays of the equinox sunrise enter the chamber for a maximum six days. An Earth based faith, Druidry melds the love of sea, sky, and land with ritual, story telling, poetry, music, and the visual arts. The spiritual lineage of Celtic Druidry spans thousands of years. For the Celts, the Earth and the Realm of Nature were alive with sacredness and with the elementals of fire, earth, air, and water, who were imbued with innate divinity and purposeful beingness.
To the Druidic Celts
the veils between the realms, worlds, and dimensions were gossamer thin, dancing
about with the winds of cyclical change and the poetic rhythms of divinity...
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