Todays Warrior women of the Celts Niamh chose a mortal man, QISIN son of FINN chief of the legendary Fenian warriors of Celtic Ireland to be her lover, and took him to Tir-nan-Og, the Celtic “Land of the ever Young” which lies somewhere in the western sea. The Underworld was a timeless, ageless, happy place, a source of all wisdom, peace, harmony and immortality – a world full of magic, enchantment and music, Earthly time has no relevance. If humans visit they remain young while there, but age catches up if they return home. Oisni, despite all he learns and the happiness he enjoys with Niamh, becomes homesick and plans a visit, to the upper world Oisni, traveling on horse-back, finds 300 years has passed. His harness breaks, he falls from his horse, and crumbles to dust. This story, like so many other in mythology, is about the inner journey of the human soul/psyche/spirit – the facing of tests and trials for initiation into the higher or better state of being. Niamh’s father was sometimes known as Mannanan Mac Lar, a name meaning Son of the Sea, or a Barmnthus, the primal God of the Oceans deeps, and as such he is associated with stellar navigation. Mannanan appeared in many guises, and as a monk called ‘Father Barinthus’ he visited St. Brendan and told him to travel west-wards to the ‘Island of Promise of the Saints’. In the 9th century AD St. Brendan of Clonfest in County Galway, Ireland, set out in a skin boat with 14 Monk’s to accompany him to search for this land across the ocean. His voyage of discovery has been claimed as the first visit by a European to America. Mannanan is also referred to in the 12th century ‘Vita Merlini’, when he ferries the wounded King Arthur, accompanied by the prophet Merlin and the Bard Taliesin, to the other world for his cure
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:12:45 +0000
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