The Secret Life Of Fairies

a reply to: Kwaaked

You have a wonderful attitude towards them and the mischief they do at times. To "Just roll with it" - I like that turn of phrase.

The missing items I can relate to. The delays they cause cause delays in movements which are often beneficial. I've missed being involved in a car accident by perhaps a minute which was one such delay. Yesterday everything went "wrong" yet everything was in place in the event of another accident. My daughter's car was clipped by a semi trailer on a busy highway. No injuries and slight damage to the car fender and I could drive it home. Someone foresaw that event and minimized what could have been far worse.

Your home is interesting. You could probably fix the graveyard and the battle ground if you wanted.

There is no real fear, even when faced with something you probably should be leery of, just a strange instinct to be utterly devoid of feeling about them. Usually there's not even curiosity.

Aye that's the way it is for me most times. Yet other encounters are the most emotionally sentient events of my life.

The fae are a wonder . . . .

Aye sapien, a similar sentiment arises in my mind once or twice a week, yet what arises is not just for Scotland.

originally posted by: sapien82
hey Nobodyspecial

this is another reason Im wanting to go
for some reason it got me interested

Names too. I've struggled with using "Britain" and "British Isles" - they feel wrong. "Britain" feels like "occupation" as in "invader".

Keep in mind I am stuck in Australia, and don't have the knowledge of the land as folks born in the Isles have.

Albion feels much better for the larger island, and Ireland or Ierne for the other island. My preference is for Albion and Ierne, but no one reading this thread would know what I was referring to.

In my mind, Ireland and Albion are two separate "fairy states". On Albion the highlands and the lowlands are the two important "fairy demarcations". Then there are the smaller fairy clans in the highlands and lowlands.

That is to say; the daoine sìth of the Scottish highlands properly rule over the rest of the island of Albion. So in a way the high court is the Scottish highlands should rule over England. The Welsh highlands I don't know . . .

My Fairy Lady in Green is of Ireland, as is my family linage. So my "authority to work" is limited without Mab's agreement on your isle. Politics between the fairy clans is, shall we say; problematic.

My understanding of the situation is: Of the Isles, the Tuatha Dé Danann have authority over the daoine sídhe and the daoine sìth. Further the daoine sìth of the highlands have authority over the daoine sìth of the lowlands. The lowlands would include England. The numerous smaller isles I am not sure of.

So, one would need an audience with the Tuatha Dé Danann first, then both Mab and my lady in green to settle differences between them.

One would also need to survey the leys to see how the invaders keep their hold. From memory there are nearly forty fairy clans to visit and understand.

The leys and manner of occupation is perhaps the key to understanding the situation.
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There is also the Once and Future King to consider. The Nimue class wood nymphs that visit here have an interest and thoughts of their own on the matter.

The murky water of the church's rewriting of the legends needs to be kept in mind, there is more to that story than meets the eye. So far, there seems to be agreement from the Tuatha Dé Danann, daoine sídhe and the daoine sìth to the import of the Lady of the Lake's favorite; Merlin, and the King.

I'm inclined to think of Albion in terms of the highland folk and the lowland folk.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

well Scotland aka Alba in gaelic
its what I call Scotland

Very interesting , that's a lot of clans one would have to visit, would take a considerable length of time to travel and find them even if they wanted to be found or meet with a human.

that's a lifetimes work that !

ill need to travel more to the highlands and islands , and I've never been to Ireland I'm curious to go there as well
maybe even to visit Pat and his fairy farm.

a reply to: Kwaaked

interesting that the fae of Alba are over there in the US

maybe they followed the Diaspora of Scots and Irish who left for the new world

a reply to: sapien82

well Scotland aka Alba in gaelic
its what I call Scotland

I spose it is a fairy thing. What I need to do is think in daoine sídhe, the concept of national borders is foriegn to fae.

Very interesting , that's a lot of clans one would have to visit, would take a considerable length of time to travel and find them even if they wanted to be found or meet with a human.

that's a lifetimes work that !

Actullay, it is not that difficult. While I don't know the legends of Schiehallion, I do know what is within that mountain rules over the fairies of that isle. "Mab" we're calling her. Mab can bring the other fairies into the know. What matters is they know my energy signature so I don't get beaten up as a tresspasser by the fairy folk. The same with Ireland.

The Tuatha Dé Danann gave permission to mine and Mab. Less than two minutes and it was done.

Just a matter of formalities and details.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

hahah Im tempted to name drop you just to see if they ken who Im talking about, to get my foot in the door so to speak. But I know it probably wouldnt work like that at all as respect is earned of course.

If anything I feel better prepared for any encounter thanks to your understanding of the fae and how to relate to them.
I will need to get out and about soon before the weather turns and it gets miserable.

I love the rain and the weather in Scotland and all the green and as it all changes to autumn , my favourite time of year is October , not just because thats when I was born but because it contains Samhain, and I love the smell of the leaves as they decay on the forest floor , there is something really nice about that

a reply to: sapien82

They know you're comming.

a reply to: sapien82

On dropping the "Britain" and alternative names.

My green fairy used the name "Hyperborea". I qualified with the question "Ireland?". The reply was "The Land of Erinn".

Hyperborea - "That is our home" which seems to be "below ground" with the Land of Erinn above.

If I ask if Mab is Hyperborean, it is afirmed. So "Hyperborea" in this sense seems to refer to the Land of the Fairies globally; the homeland of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

There is quite the degree of disagreeability between Mab and my Lady in Green. The disagreeability feels like this from a few posts ago:

In local tradition, this specific tree was believed to serve as the meeting place for the fairies of Munster whenever they prepared to ride against the fairies of Connacht.

So my insticts say The Land of Erinn is entirely separate from Alba and the lowlands to the south.

So geopolically, if I may use that term in ralation to fairies:

* The isle of Ireland stands in it's own right.
* The larger isle to the east stands in it's own right.

Of the larger isle:

The division is of the highlands and lowlands. The fairies of the highlands rule over the lowlands. I presume the "lowlands" include what is called by humans; "England".

The Scots- and Irish-Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba, derives from the same Celtic root as the name Albion, which properly designates the entire island

Source: The etymology of Scotland Wikipedia

So perhaps I may be forgiven for Albion as the whole isle, and Alba "feels" right for Scotland (but I would feel the highlands as Alba first).

Tis a different non-human way to think of the Isles.

The highlands of Wales have a independent feel about them in this regard. An important distinction perhaps.




Edit to add:

So really, the concept of "nations" is an artificial construct of the human intellect and therefore not real. An illusion created by humans, an illusion that contributes to the the fairy folk disappearing from human experience.

It's an odd thing sapein; working with the fairies. - It never turns out like one would expect. Allways surprising to me.

Looking through the eyes of the fae, the view is the land, the fairies, living things. Also a fog. The people are all blind, all they see are the illusions in the fog.

The illusions of the fog are the lies that lay upon the land.

So we shall lend the (deceased) children who can see through the lies upon the land to the fairies of Ireland, Scotland and England.

There is also a reason why the Kings within the mounds are asleep. It is as if they have all been intentionally put to sleep.

So what we are going to do is work on the fog and what anchors it in the landscapes of the two isles. Tis almost as if the invaders have placed key dead folks burried strategically who are dreaming the fog.

Perhaps the dream of "Great Britain" and "Empire". I suspect so.

Perhaps one might say; living people are caught in the collective dream of "Britania".

Theoretically; if the key dreamers are awakened, it follows that they will stop dreaming and the fog will disappear.

If the principal works out then it would probably hold true in other lands. The concept of the dead controling the living and civilisation through the ages; the dreams of the dead.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

I cant remember which thread but another of my friends here on ATS thinks that the answer to our problems would be the return of the legendary Arthur

so maybe there is something to the sleeping king in a mound

Ill need to think more about the fog , is the fog just a veil that needs lifting

Ive never been an advocate of "britain" and feel it doesnt represent our cultural heritage across the whole isles

how do you wake up a dreamer though ?

a reply to: sapien82

The wood nymphs who are kin to Nimue have an interest in the subject of the Once and Future King.

A number of locations are traditionally associated with the Lady of the Lake's abode. Such places within Great Britain include the lakes Dozmary Pool and The Loe in Cornwall, the lakes Llyn Llydaw and Llyn Ogwen in Snowdonia, River Brue's area of Pomparles Bridge in Somerset, and the lake Loch Arthur in Scotland.

Source: Wikipedia

I haven't noticed their presence for a while now come to think of it. My best guess is they are probably watching quietly and when the time is right they will appear out of nowhere with things that need to be done.

how do you wake up a dreamer though ?

Well, so far and tentatively; there are two different "sleepers" I'm aware of.

Tentatively:

The ancestors of a people were buried in the landscape. They would have the hopes and dreams of the living people. They would connect with the living in shared interactive dreams. The Celts would have done this. Probably the Egyptians and everyone else at one time. The ancestores would be consciously/subconsciously close to the living.

If one knew how this works, and wanted to culturally invade another culture without killing everyone, one would need to break the ancestors connection to the living first.

Then one would replace the collective dreams of the ancestors with the collective dreams of the invaders.

The fairies of the Isles have the connection with the dead. So we can say in older times; the fairies, the dead and the living were all consciously/subconsciously familiar and interactive with each other.

One may say; a "living spiritual trinity" that has the living as one aspect, the fairies as a second aspect, and the deceased ancestors as a third aspect.

Basically the invaders replaced the spirit of the people with their own.

First; work out how it was done; the rest will follow.

the only connection that I know of that we had with our dead ancestors was the festival of Samhain (also my favourite time of year) when the veil was thinnest and we would allow the ancestral spirits into the home by the fire and setting them a place at the table
and offering food and drink to the fae at the burial mounds.

I'm guessing that since the church took over and removed that old tradition and then it morphed into modern day halloween , no on really honors the old ways anymore , maybe this would be a first step by honoring the old traditions
so I think ill do that this year and set a fire outside leave offerings to the fae at the hawthorn tree in the garden as there arent any mounds near me in Glasgow , and then bring the fire from teh bonfire into my home and keep my hearth lit .

I think I definitely need to have a wee conversation with the fae and see what I can do to help.

I sense there is a lot of work to be done, but I am willing.

well it seems there were mounds in Glasgow but have been removed
to make way for modern man

so it seems that which has been lost was of great importance to our pre christian cultures

Earliest Glasgow

a reply to: sapien82

Aye and in Ireland the peat bogs are being mined.

Here's an old symbol;


(Image is public domain)

The Triskele or Triskelion is a symbol that consists of three interlocked spirals. It is one of the oldest Irish Celtic symbols in existence, and is best known to represent the three worlds; the celestial, physical, and spiritual.

Source: Google results.

"The three worlds; the celestial, physical, and spiritual".

Or:

The three worlds; the fairies, living, and ancestors.

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Now let's define the word "spirit" - as in "the spirit of the folk".

Take a musician who plays his instrument alone. Perhaps a pianist.

We shall also bring in a violin and a base.

The trio who plays together has a much greater impact than the musicians playing independantly.

The trio has a spirit when playing together. The spirit of the band.

So the spirit of the folk is the living, plus the ancestors, plus the fairies to give the old symbol of three spirals.

Work to be done, yes, gotta work out who has been put to "sleep" to remove them from the spirit of the folk, also work out who the imposters are. Both need to be awakened.

Remeber back in this thread I wrote of my young drinking partner girl who lapsed into Gaelic when drunk? She had the ancestral memories carried within her as "books". The ancestors are there, so are the memories.

This can all be fixed. Just need to work out how the switch was done.

Some of them will get a rude awakening.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

I have that tattooed on me as well as an ouroboros on my back

ouro left back, knot right back

a reply to: penroc3

You have quite the collection there; tats, fae at the bottom of the garden, and a few lines. No wonder your house is lively.

a reply to: sapien82

That link has quite the collection of old reprints.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

i got it done like the Māori people do their traditional markings.......pain can elicit a song religious experience.

each one is on a shoulder blade, i got the snake with its head down on the left(left hand path) and the knot on the right.

when they were tapping them in to my skin it hurt then felt good then numb and i 'feel asleep' and had the wildest dreams.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

its one of my favourite symbols

my mate has been up schiehallion and he found a stone with a triskele carved into it
its not well known to the public

to prepare myself and also as I am a huge fan of celtic art
I sought some source material and stumbled upon George Bain
a celtic art revivalist

his book celtic art and its methods of construction is an extremely important work on the celtic art style

have a look at his website george bain collection

my friend Joe who lives out in the kingdom of fife just a wee short distance from schiehallion , he said he spent the night up the mountain and had strange experiences and saw lights. He is going to take me there as he stays close by and we can spend the weekend exploring and dowsing to find the paths.

He has found a sacred pool with face carvings and many cup and ring marks and some celtic designs.

That Ludovic Mann , he discovered apparently an ancient burial site in clydebank but as he was not a professional archaeologist so others who were said the site was of no importance.

And now its gone there is no trace of its existence , probably an extremely important site lost

druids temple , knappers farm CLydebank

a reply to: penroc3

hey penroc

not sure if you have instagram
but myself and my mate barry painted a celtic ouroboros at a festival one year

celtic ouroboros

Im planning on getting a celtic knot of some design but only once I feel ive earned it.