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Holy Ground and Sacred Site Spaces suffused the "trifold land-sea-sky divinity" that was intrinsic to the Wholeness of the British Isles Natural World Natural World. The divine radiance and empowered grace of Sacred Groves, Healing Springs, Holy Lakes, and Hallowed Hills further sanctified the Druidic Celtic landscape. The Celts preferred to perform their rituals outside in the Natural World underneath the never-ending circle of sky in forest clearings, in open air shrines, and in sacred groves. While the Greeks and Romans built elaborate temples to their gods and goddesses, the Celts preferred the hallowed places and natural sanctuaries of the Earth. All of the animals, forests, lakes, mountains, rivers, and trees were blessed and holy to the Celts and worthy of their utmost reverence. The Natural World inspired their imaginations and enlivened their art. The Hallowed Landscape of the Celts abounded with Fairy Mounds, the Wee Folk, Mineral Spirits, Hollow Hills, Leprechauns, Animal Spirits, Holy Wells, Sacred Lakes, Standing Stones, Tree Spirits, and the Sidhe.
Some of these blessed
countryside settings were further enhanced for ceremonial connectivity purposes
by the addition of Megalithic Standing Stones, Passage Cairns, and Stone
Circles. The ancient Celts were devoted to maintaining their spiritual balance
and sacred connectivity with the natural world by treating all things hallowed
with the respect and reverence they deserved.
The Celtic world was alive with the vibrancy and the glittering glories of hosts of Fairies; of the elemental beings of fire, earth, air, and water; of the holy divinity of the land, the sea, and the sky. The living waters of rivers, springs, and wells were venerated because they were believed to have both magical and curative powers. The ancient Celts had deeply rooted spiritual traditions. For the Celts, the Earth and the Realm of Nature was alive with sacredness and with the elementals of fire, earth, air, and water who were imbued with innate divinity and purposeful beingness. During their rituals, the Celts often revered their ancestors who lived in a paradise that lied somewhere beyond the encircling sea. Celtic spiritual traditions included deeply held beliefs in an afterlife, fairy mounds, immortality, magic, nature spirits, and supernatural and mythical beings and monsters who made their home in the Otherworld.
The boundaries between
this world and the Otherworld were adaptable, fluidic, and malleable. All
mortals had the ability or aptitude to cross over the thresholds between lands
and realms and to travel back and forth between them... Go back
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