Auraicept na n'eces

Auraicept na n'eces
Author: Auraicept Na N'eces
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1917
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Auraicept Na N-éces

Auraicept Na N-éces
Author: George Calder
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Release: 1917
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The Early Irish Linguist

The Early Irish Linguist
Author: Anders Ahlqvist
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Total Pages: 92
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Scholars' Primer

Scholars' Primer
Author: George Calder
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Total Pages: 440
Release: 1995
Genre: Foreign Language Study
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"Being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow Book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster."

Auraicept Na N-Eces

Auraicept Na N-Eces
Author: George Calder
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Release: 1995-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780404175382

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Linguistic Archaeology

Linguistic Archaeology
Author: Edo Nyland
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1460280814

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Edo Nyland shares with us his research on the evolution of European and other languages and his conclusions offer fresh perspectives to challenge traditional views entertained by the linguistic establishment. Nyland's research was inspired by a CBC presentation by historian Edward Furlong who suggested that Odysseus may not at all have been travelling in the Mediterranean but rather in Scotland and Ireland where the climate and topography fit far better the descriptions in the Odyssey. Nyland set off on an odyssey of his own, visiting the proposed locations and while he found much to support Furlong's thesis he felt more evidence was needed to confirm it. He began by examining place names mentioned in the Odyssey and he began to wonder if they might be telling a story. But from what language were they derived? Greek, Latin and Gaelic dictionaries were no help. He discovered a clue in the work of geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza who had suggested that there might have been early migrations of the peoples living along the Atlantic coast, from Morocco to Scotland and Ireland, even Arctic Norway. Of these only the Basques still spoke their original Neolithic language, and in choosing a Basque dictionary to translate coastal place names Nyland found that they did indeed yield remarkably fitting descriptions. In visiting Bronze Age ruins Nyland came on the Ogam inscriptions carved into standing stones of Ireland. These had not been deciphered but Nyland began to suspect they might encode elements of the Basque language. Cracking the code became his mission and in this volume he describes how he did it. After applying his method successfully to such languages as Spanish or German, Sanskrit or Sumerian, Nyland concludes that Basque isthe core language from which so many more were derived.

History and Terminology in the Auraicept Na N-Éces

History and Terminology in the Auraicept Na N-Éces
Author: James Tindal Acken
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Total Pages: 420
Release: 2006
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ISBN: 9780494219829

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The place of the Auraicept na nEces in early Irish literature, while recognized as playing a key role in the development of medieval ideas regarding grammar in Ireland, has not been questioned with regard to its specific importance for the poetic tradition of the time. As a didactic text drawing on the Christian textual culture of grammar and rhetoric introduced in Ireland during the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, the Auraicept presents an amalgamation of Gaelic poetic culture and Latin grammatical culture. This thesis, after an introduction to the material in chapter one, gives the historical context in which the Auraicept was written and cultivated between the seventh and sixteenth centuries in chapter two. It analyses the central poetic ideas found in its earliest stratum in chapter three and in chapter four it analyses the tropes of explication added in later centuries. Chapter five then turns to the wider context of literary culture in Ireland, examining how the Auraicept interacts with other texts, didactic or not. A final bibliography presents the manuscripts, editions, translations and secondary materials used in this thesis. This broad consideration of the Auraicept's context and essential elements illustrates its primary concern teaching the basic principles of Gaelic prosody and shows that its use must be seen as serving a foundational role in the poetic education of the medieval fili.

The Druidic Art of Divination

The Druidic Art of Divination
Author: Jon G. Hughes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1644110253

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A complete guide to the techniques of the pre-Celtic Druids for understanding the past, present, and future • Offers step-by-step instructions for a wealth of practices passed down across five generations of Welsh Druids • Explains the three forms of divination used by the Druids: interpretive divination, such as reading the Sevens; inductive divination, such as reading the wind or smoke; and intuitive divination, whose tools include cup-stones and scrying mirrors • Provides comprehensive instructions on how to craft and utilize your own magical instruments and tools, including botanical compounds, scrying wands, and slate speculum vitae In this practical guide, Jon G. Hughes shares ancient secret Druidic techniques of divination passed down to him across five generations in an unbroken lineage of influential Welsh Druids. Hughes explains the three forms of divination used by his tradition: interpretive divination, used by readers of the Sevens (small staves with engraved sigils); inductive divination, which includes instructions for reading the wind, reading smoke, and divination using water; and intuitive divination, whose tools includes cup-stones and slate mirrors for scrying. Providing step-by-step instructions for practices in each of the three forms, he offers a wealth of divinatory techniques and explains how to access the altered states of consciousness necessary to read time backward and forward. He also explores the crafting and use of all tools and mixtures the reader will need to perform each type of divination, including botanical compounds, scrying wands, and a slate speculum vitae, the “mirror of life.” He reveals how the prime function of divination in this school of Druidic lore is to gain insight into past, present, and future events through a process of internalizing them, akin to empathy, and then interpreting them. By providing an understanding of pre-Celtic beliefs and clear instructions for Druidic practices, Hughes offers each of us the opportunity to begin our own practical experimentation and journey of discovery into the ancient art of Druidic divination.