THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY

The central tale of the Ulster Cycle is the Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge), which tells of the heroic single-handed defense of Uls...

THE DEBILITY OF THE ULSTERMEN

Macha, daughter of Sainrith mac Imbaith, was the wife of Cruinniuc, an Ulster farmer. After Cruinniuc's first wife died, she appeared...

PRIMAL HARMONY

There are still a few places in the world where one can sense what Earth was like before the advent of humans. In the aisles of a tropical r...

INTO THE HAUNTED FOREST

The Travelers Stop Inn stands just off the main trade route on the fringe of the Arthfell Forest. While it does not lie within any particula...

LOUGH GUR

Irish mythological site. This small LAKE in Co. Limerick, inhabited for almost 6,000 years, is surrounded by low hills, each of them co...

BOMARZO: THE ART OF MELANCHOLY

Bomarzo, the most instantly recognizable of Italian gardens, is also the most untypical – indeed it is unique and impossible to categorize....

Occult Symbols

Symbols are employed as tools to communicate the spiritual attributes of the New Age movement and the occult. And while most of ...

TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF PART OF THE NECROPOLIS OF MEMPHIS

(PYRAMIDS OF GIZA) The temple lying next to the Sphinx had recently been cleared by Mariette, and Prisse had assumed it was a tomb. Actually...

THE NIBELUNGENLIED

This painting shows an episode from the German poem the Nibelungenlied: King Etzel enters the city of Vienna on horseback. The Nibelun...

Cian (Kian, Cian mac Cainte) Irish hero.

Balor When BALOR, king of the FOMORIANS, was told that he would be killed by his grandson, he thought he could outwit the pro...