"The Ancient Celts Saw The Land As A Living Being, A Goddess, From Which All Else Sprang. The Land Was

"The ancient Celts saw the land as a living being, a Goddess, from which all else sprang. The land was a memory, an archive, a consciousness, and a conscience. To heal what is amiss in the present world, we must recapture the reverence of the world of the past and reconnect with our ancestral lands."

-Celtic Shamanism: An Awakening Landscape

Audio Dialogue With Jane Burns and Sandra Ingerman

Art by Robin Isley

Starkey comics: I've made a giant tree of Indo-European languages! 🌳🌸

Actually this was just intended a template with which I plan to make a bunch of images about related words in these languages, so stay tuned for that. And I'll probably put a HD version of this image on my site soon too.

This image shows 64 living Indo-European languages (around the outside), as well as many dead and extinct languages.

Moving into the image from the outside we travel back in time, until we reach the core of the image, wherein lies Proto-Indo-European. PIE was spoken somewhere around the border of Europe and Asia, and diverged into the 10 inner Proto languages shown here 4500+ years ago.

There are about 380 Indo-European languages missing from this image, although I've tried to pick representatives from as many branches as possible. The Indo-Iranian branch is the largest, actually accounting for around 2 thirds of Indo-European languages.

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The Assembling of the Fays, from Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Maud and Miska Petersham (1925)

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Beneath the moon's gentle glow, in the silence of night,

The pentacle gleams with its mystical light.

Five points adorned, each one a sacred part,

Guiding the way with a compassionate heart.

The first points to Earth, where roots intertwine,

Grounding our spirits in the realm divine.

Next, to the sky, where stars twinkle bright,

A reminder of dreams that take flight.

The third points to fire, passion ablaze,

Igniting our souls in a fiery blaze.

Then to the waters, where emotions flow free,

Cleansing and purifying, like waves in the sea.

And finally, to the air, where thoughts take flight,

In the realm of intellect, where knowledge ignites.

Five points of connection, in harmony aligned,

In the pentacle's embrace, true magic we find.

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