PARADISE LOST

As previously touched on in previous articles, forests and trees have a lot of folklore and mythology surrounding them. Folk medicine is...

Some of the world's dominating religions have evolved from polytheism to monotheism. The various gods of the Vedas finally become the...

The Bible is full of hidden meanings and contradictions. For example, Genesis opens with the creation of the earth, which is described...

For a broader understanding, see my second last blog post entitled "THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE." A little context... During and after the...

As far as we know, the first historical material on the Templars is given to us by Guillaume de Tyre, a Frankish historian who was...

In a nutshell In 1209, an army of 30,000 Northern European knights and soldiers fell upon the Languedoc, the hilly north-eastern slopes...

More notable sacred trees not included in the ogham. THE CEDAR While the Cedar was not part of the Celtic ogham writing, it was sacred in...

THIS POST PICKS UP FROM MY PREVIOUS POST: INTRODUCTION TO THE OGHAM PART I. THE HAWTHORN Unlike the majority of the trees in the ogham...

There are fifteen different tree species that appear in European folklore and form part of the Celtic tree-alphabet known as "ogham" or...

If you had to go online and look up Oak symbolism the first thing that will pop up is: “Since the earliest ties between humans and oaks,...