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Nature Spirits Fairies
Ancient Cultures Celtic
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 ancient Celts had deeply
rooted spiritual traditions that included: Bards, Druids, Healing
Rivers, Holy Wells, Mounds, Otherworld, Ovates, Sacred Groves, Stone Circles and Tree Spirits.
The Animal Spirits, Ancestral Sidhe, Hollowed Hills, Leprechauns, Holy Wells and Sacred
Lakes enlivened the Celtic world with the vibrancy of the elemental beings of fire, earth, air and water; of the
glittering glories of hosts of fairies; of the holy divinity of the land, the
sea and the sky.
For the Celts, the Earth and the
Realm of Nature were alive with sacredness and with the elementals of
air, earth, fire and water who were imbued with innate divinity and purposeful
beingness. Three was a Celtic holy
number which had many different meanings besides the most traditional of the
representations that of the three realms of land, sea and sky.
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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 living waters of rivers, springs and wells were venerated
because they were believed to have both magical and curative powers.
During their rituals, the Celts
often revered their ancestral Sidhe Tuatha Dé Danann who lived in a paradise that lied somewhere beyond
the encircling sea. Their deep respect and abiding reverence for the Natural
World Landscape was a hallmark of the Celts.
Like the intricate, intertwining,
interlacing, eternally connected knotwork of their art, the spiritual continuity
of the Celtic traditions shone throughout their cultural
mythos.
For instance, the Celtic
goddess Brighid (who was associated with the cow) was featured in many heroic
myths of sacred kingship and underworld quests. The fire festival of Imbolc
honored Brighid as it ushered in the Spring.
The Druids, who travelled widely among the Celtic tribes, were the keepers of
the Celtic Calendar which corresponded the months of the year with the Celtic Tree Alphabet and the vowels of the Ogham.
For each of the months, there was a corresponding tree from which an overall Tree Calendar emerged.
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