By Damh the Bard|2018-08-20T12:23:31+00:00August 20th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|1 Comment
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 137 Die Rose - Corvus Corax - https://www.corvuscorax.de Medley Brun (Little Boy's Reel) - Le Vant du Nord - https://leventdunord.com/en/ Interview by Philip Carr-Gomm with Matt Baker - https://www.philipcarr-gomm.com/how-druidry-helped-create-a-successful-art-school-in-phoenix-arizona/ Be Still - Joe Hathaway - https://joeholtaway.com Treasures of the Cauldron - Arthur Hinds
By Damh the Bard|2018-08-09T12:04:48+00:00August 9th, 2018|Categories: paganism, Seasons, Thinking About|Tags: celtic lore, druid, druidism, druidry, holyness, lammas, long man of wilmington, lughnasadh, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality, wheel of the year, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|7 Comments
Lughnasadh (aka Lammas) is one of the 8 festivals that are held within the modern Pagan Wheel of the Year. It marks the first harvest - that being the wheat and barley within the fields that has grown from the green of the Summer Solstice, to the
By Damh the Bard|2018-07-31T11:44:10+00:00July 31st, 2018|Categories: Thinking About|Tags: Cornwall, Hiraeth, Home, pagan, paganism, spirituality, Sussex, Tribalism|10 Comments
In a global world I'm an Earthling, a human being living upon a blue planet spinning through space. One of about 7.6 billion people who inhabit this wondrous place. I also live in Europe along with around 743 million other people. I live in Great Britain -
By Damh the Bard|2018-07-23T12:13:38+00:00July 23rd, 2018|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: Blanche Rowen, celtic lore, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, Kristoffer Hughes, Mabinogion, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, sj tucker, The Second Branch, Y Mabinogi|8 Comments
Apart from the latest episode of DruidCast the blog was quiet last week. That's because I had cordoned off the whole week to concentrate entirely on recording the songs for the Second Branch of the Y Mabinogi tales. First thing on Monday morning I stepped into the
By Damh the Bard|2018-07-20T17:44:47+00:00July 20th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|0 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 136 On The Road To Tattapani - Elfic Circle - https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/elfic-circle-bardik-springs/ Interview with Fearn Lickfield - http://greenmountaindruidorder.org Ride On - Shusham Hashalom - https://www.facebook.com/shushanhashalom/ Storytime - The Dolorous Stroke - Professor Roland Rotherham - https://www.rolandrotherham.co.uk Pramen pod Skalou - Druga DruidCast theme -
By Damh the Bard|2018-07-09T13:50:20+00:00July 9th, 2018|Categories: druidry, paganism|Tags: Bull's Hide Trance, druid, druidism, druidry, history, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality|15 Comments
At the end of April I wrote this post and told of a ritual me and Cerri participated in as part of our holiday. I did say that the ritual itself was worthy of its own article, but then my life was overtaken by the work on
By Damh the Bard|2018-07-06T13:20:04+00:00July 6th, 2018|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: Bran, Branwen, celtic lore, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, Mabinogion, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, The Second Branch, Y Mabinogi|11 Comments
There comes a moment when any creative person feels that a project is honing in, moving forward to a point when they can see or hear the almost finished creation. When a sculptor sits before a lump of clay or a piece of stone, a painter before
By Damh the Bard|2018-07-03T14:00:46+00:00July 3rd, 2018|Categories: paganism, spirituality, Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, holyness, Mabinogion, modern bard, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, Rhiannon, spirituality, Y Mabinogi|12 Comments
Way back in DruidCast history, on DruidCast episode 4 from August 2007 to be precise, there is a talk given by Professor Ronald Hutton on the history of the Pagan Horned God. It's his usual excellent presentation full of depth, entertainment, information, and humour, as is Ronald's
By Damh the Bard|2018-06-29T14:17:25+00:00June 29th, 2018|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: Bran, Branwen, celtic lore, druid, druidism, druidry, Mabinogion, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, The Second Branch, Y Mabinogi|11 Comments
So another quick update on the progress of the next album for you! The news is that I am one song away from finishing writing the songs for the album. All of the spoken word has been recorded and edited, so once the final song is written
By Damh the Bard|2018-06-21T12:45:04+00:00June 21st, 2018|Categories: Thinking About|Tags: druidism, druidry, pagan, paganism, religion, solstice, spirituality, stonehenge, wheel of the year|11 Comments
Firstly, let me wish you a happy and blessed Solstice. It may be that, like me, you are gazing at a clear blue sky here in the northern hemisphere noticing the clarity of the light on the day of the Summer Solstice. Or maybe you are heading
