Empyrean Heaven

Sacred Soul Forgotten

Storytelling Haiku 

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1. Paradise bounty
her sweet innocence and youth
unaware of fate

2. A purple flower
scents of violets and mead
echo through her soul

3. His mouth an apple
his kiss an ethereal dream
encircled she’s his

4. Eyes appear that see
a crime of forbidden love
rage and fury flames

5. Hearts torn asunder
banishment they both depart
disgraced gates open

6. Under starry sky
the four rivers of her heart
drowns out the sorrow

7. Float on ocean’s waves
her heart now seeks a new home
broken but hope breathes

8. Muted horizon
she finds a land of plenty
but hell becomes home

9. Gazing out to sea
serenading memories
waves against the shore

10. The wings of a bird
soaring high in the heavens
he seeks what she lost

11. Ancient endearment
of the star-crossed love gone by
its light now fading

12. Wildmen in forests
Herne the hunter seeks her
in sacred marriage

13. A new clan inland
the past is fading away
the apple haunts her

14. A woman’s soul crushed
in a land of warring men
fragile yet divine

15. Waterfalls in mist
she falls to her knees and prays
begging for the light

16. Woodwose hunted down
the crown removed from nature
roses overgrown

17. The secret garden
where seeds of truth lies dormant
fenced off from the world

18. Sacred feminine
close your eyes and hear her name
carried on the wind

~  Tracey-anne McCartney

Love and light

Trace

xoxo

Trevelyan...

“So all day long the noise of battle rolled

Among the mountains by the winter sea;

Until King Arthur’s Table, man by man,

Had fallen in Lyonnesse about their lord,

King Arthur.  Then, because his wound was deep,

And bore him to a chapel nigh the field,

A broken chancel with a broken cross,

That stood on a dark strait of barren land:

On one side lay the Ocean, and on one

Lay a great water, and the moon was full.”

~ Albion's Lost Lands: Lyonesse

Lyonesse
The search for the site of Arthur's final battle where he fell mortally wounded at Camlann has defied identification; candidates have been proposed from the length and breadth of the country. Lord Tennyson seems to be in no doubt and in his Arthurian epic “Idylls of the King" places the final battle between Mordred and the King at Lyonesse.

 Alfred Tennyson. Photograph, carbon print.

The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon - Burnes

La Mort d'Arthur (The Death of King Arthur) by James Archer (1860)

Tennyson has Arthur roving the trackless realms of Lyonnesse long before they crowned him King and refers to the 'sad sea-sounding wastes' and 'lonely coast' of Lyonnesse.

We cannot be certain of Tennyson's inspiration in identifying Lyonesse as the scene of Arthur's final battle against Modred but he was clearly aware of the legend of a land off the coast of Cornwall, connecting Penwith with the Scillies; The Land of Lyonesse, stretching some eighteen miles west of Land's End and eight miles north-east of the Isles of Scilly with a watchtower at the most westerly point to guide seafarers.

“A land of matchless grace was Lyonesse,

Glorious with rolling hills, rejoicing streams,

Hoar monuments upreared when Time was young,

Wide plains of forest, slopes of golden corn,

And stately castles crowning granite peaks”

Following Arthurian tradition Tennyson’s Lyonesse was the realm of Tristan, or Tristram as he became known by English writers, one of the main characters of the greatest legends of Cornwall, the story of Tristan and Iseult, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table. Thomas Malory has the Lady of Lionesse play a significant role in his tales of Arthur and mentions Surluse as part of the kingdom of Lyonesse where Sir Galahad was ruler under Arthur. 2

However, although the tales of Tristan are firmly placed in Cornish tradition there were two other places with variations of the name Lyonesse as Leonais: one in Brittany, and the other seemingly from the French name for Lothian in Scotland. Arthurian romancers may have confusingly called this land off the coast of Cornwall 'Lyonesse,' following the Breton tradition, but the Cornish name for this stretch of land between Land's End and the Scillies was 'Lethowstow'.

On the flats between the small Isles of Scilly are the remains of field walls, now under the sea, evidence of division of the land before it was submerged. Further evidence of man's presence before the inundation is found in an Early Iron Age hut found below the high-water mark on St Martins and pottery from the 3rd and 4th centuries and a Roman bronze brooch from a stone grave found below normal high tides on Old Man. Environmental evidence shows that as late as Roman times the area between the Isles of Scilly was dry land and just one island, a single large, wooded isle which could be walked to at low tide. A Roman writer records a heretic who was banished to Sylina Insula, the island of Scilly, in 387 AD.

The confusion of the location of Lyonesse/ Lethowstow, as the antiquarian, William Camden records, seems to exists because Cornish people during the 16th century referred to the Seven Stones reef off Land's End as the City of Lions, the reputed site of the capital of the legendary kingdom, confused with the Breton town Leonais, probably the region around the coastal town of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, and this form is the probable source of Malory’s Lionnesse. The Seven Stone rocks are held to be the remains of the city where local fishermen have dragged up domestic items in their nets, still calling the Seven Sisters the 'The Town.' 3 Today this reef remains a navigational hazard for shipping and has caused as many as 200 shipwrecks.

In later traditions, Lyonesse is said to have sunk beneath the waves some time after the Tristan stories take place. A persistent legend claims that the Isles of Scilly are all that remain of the fabled land of Lyonesse. However, we find no references in medieval Arthurian legend to the sinking of Lyonesse.

he story goes that a devastating storm swept in to the south-west driving the marauding sea over Lyonesse, drowning the luckless inhabitants and submerging the kingdom beneath the waves until all that remained in view were the higher ground to the west, known to us now as the Isles of Scilly. Legend claims that only one man, Trevilian survived, and he rode a white horse up to high ground at Perranuthnoe before the waves could engulf him. It is said that his ancestry lives on in the Cornish Trevelyan family, whose coat of arms bears a horse issuing out of the sea.

Elizabethan antiquaries collected reports current in the 16th  century stating that Lethowstow contained 'fair-sized towns and 140 churches' and was suddenly engulfed by the sea. They also claimed that one could hear the bells of the drowned city ringing out during rough seas. Today the remains of field boundaries show up at low tide along the sands of the Sampson Flats between the isles of Tresco and Sampson in the Scilly Isles.

Stanley Baron, a journalist from the News Chronicle who was residing in Cornwall during the 1930's, was awoken during the night by the muffled ringing of bells and was told by his hosts that he had heard the bells of Lyonesse.  Edith Oliver, the former mayor of Wilton, claimed she had twice seen towers, domes, spires and battlements beneath the waves whilst standing on the cliffs at Land's End.

What Lies Beneath
Perhaps much of this can be dismissed as fantasy?
Yet, there is evidence of a drowned forest on the Cornish coast with tree stumps sticking out into the sea at Mount's Bay suggesting the sea levels were once much lower. Furthermore, the old Cornish name for St Michaels Mount is 'Carrack Looz en Cooz' which translates as 'The grey rock in the wood'. Archaeological evidence indicates that Mount's Bay was the source of a prehistoric axe material. We have clear evidence of a submerged land in the south-west England within historical times.

Inundation legends are found in many other parts of north-western Europe, not least in Celtic lands.

Gerald of Wales claimed there was a drowned city beneath the waters of  Llangorse Lake in the Brecon Beacons, Mid Wales. On the North coast of Wales near Llandudno was Llys Helig, the palace of Prince Helig ap Glanawg; it is said the ruins can still be seen at very low tides. Off the North-West coast of Wales in Caernafon Bay there is a cluster of rocks, a reef known as Caer Aranrhod, named after the mother of Lleu Llaw Gyffes from the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion. Charlotte Guest in her notes to the Mabinogion, states, "There is a tradition that an ancient British town, situated near this place, called Caer Arianrhod, was swallowed up by the sea, the ruins of which, it is said, are still visible during neap tides, and in fine weather."

Tree stumps can be seen leading out into the sea at low tide in Cardigan Bay, Wales, the mythical site of Cantre'r Gwaelod (The Bottom Cantred).

But the nearest legend to Lyonesse is the tale of the mythical Breton city of Kêr-Is which was built on the coast of Brittany in a then-dry location off the current coast of the Bay of Douarnenez. Over time the Breton coast had slowly given way to the sea and it now threatened Kêr-Is. To protect the city from inundation, a dike was built with a gate that was opened for ships during low tide. The one key that opened the gate was held by King Gradlon.

But the gate was left open during a storm and at high tide a massive wave crashed down on Kêr-Is and the city was swallowed by the incoming waters. King Gradlon escaped on Morvarc'h, his magical horse.  Which is all remarkably similar to the tale of Lyonesse and Trevilian who escaped on his horse and perhaps the inspiration behind the Cornish story.

In addition to describing Lyonesse as the site of the final battle between Arthur and Mordred, Tennyson's Idylls of the King also claim the lost land is the final resting place of  King Arthur himself. Perhaps this is why the grave of the King cannot be found – it lies beneath the sea.
The Mullamast Stone, from 500-600 in Ireland. There are 4 blade marks on the left side of the stone and 2 deep ones on top, suggesting that the stone was used as part of a “sword in the stone” kingship ritual.

The Mullamast Stone, from 500-600 in Ireland. There are 4 blade marks on the left side of the stone and 2 deep ones on top, suggesting that the stone was used as part of a “sword in the stone” kingship ritual. Mullaghmast, decorated with a triskele, thought to belong to the very end of the prehistoric period, or perhaps to the early Christian period, is now in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
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Mullaghmast was the royal residence of the Uí Muiredaig kings (later to become the O'Toole family), a sept of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty of the Laigin.

Mullamast Rath

Fairy Rath by Mark Knight-Raths are always associated with fairies. They are round structures, a ring on the landscape, earthen fortifications dating back to ancient Celtic times. According to archeologists, raths were simply enclosures where family clans once lived in ancient times. But if you ask the average Irishman or Irishwoman today, they will give you a knowing wink and a smile and tell you that these are the homes of ‘the little people’. 

The Laigin are claimed as being descended from Labraid Loingsech. Modern historians suggest, on the basis of Irish traditions and related place names, that the Laigin were a group of invaders from Gaul or Britain, who arrived no later than the 6th century BC, and were later incorporated into the medieval genealogical scheme which made all the ruling groups of early Ireland descend from Míl Espáine. Placenames also suggest they once had a presence in north Munster and in Connacht.

Archaic poems found in medieval genealogical texts distinguish three groups making up the Laigin: the Laigin proper, the Gáilióin, and the Fir Domnann. The latter are suggested to be related to the British Dumnonii.
Amongst others, some of the dynasties that claimed to belong to the Laigin include: Uí Failge, Uí Biarrche, Uí Dúnlainge, Uí Ceinnselaig, Uí Garrchon, and the Uí Máil.
In the legendary tales of the Ulster Cycle, the king of the Connachta, Ailill mac Máta, is said to belong to the Laigin. This is thought by Byrne (2001) to be related to a possible early domination of the province of Connacht by peoples related to the Laigin, the Fir Domnann and the Gamanrad.
The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.
The Metrical Dindshenchas, or Lore of Places, a Middle Irish collection of poetry purporting to explain the origins of Irish place names, claims that Mullaghmast is named for Maistiu, wife of Dáire Derg, who was killed by the sorcery of the malicious faery Gris, who was in turned killed by Dáire Derg.

Love and light,

Trace

xoxo

Recommended Avalonian Reading...

Recommended  Avalonian Reading...

Books:

Avalonian

Avalon Within: Inner Sovereignty and Personal Transformation through the Avalonian Mysteries – Jhenah Telyndru

The Isle of Avalon: Sacred Mysteries of Arthur and Glastonbury – Nicholas R. Mann

Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart – Dion Fortune

King Arthur’s Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury – Geoffrey Ashe

Journey to Avalon: The Final Discovery of King Arthur – Chris Barber

The Keys to Avalon – Steve Blake

The Avalonians – S. Roy L. Hawkins

Ladies of the Lake – Caitlin Matthews

Crossing to Avalon: A Woman’s Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine– Jean Shinoda Bolen

In the Nature of Avalon – Kathy Jones

Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess: A Renewed Spiritual Path for the 21st Century: A Journey of Transformation Within the Sacred Landscape of Glastonbury and the Isle of Avalon – Kathy Jones

The Ancient British Goddess: Her Myths, Legends, Sacred Sites and Present Day Revelation – Kathy Jones

Celtic Britain

The Celtic World – Miranda Green

Celtic Wales (University of Wales – Pocket Guide) – Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Pagan Celtic Britain – Anne Ross

Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland & Wales – Alwyn Rees

The Ancient Celts – Barry Cunliffe

Pagan Celtic Britain – Anne Ross

Celtic Britain (Ancient Peoples and Places) – Charles Thomas

The Britons (The Peoples of Europe) – Christopher A. Snyder

Celtic Britain Ancient Peoples and Places – Nora K. Chadwick

The Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland: c. AD400 – 1200 – Lloyd Laing

Artefacts and Archaeology: Aspects of the Celtic and Roman World – (from University of Wales Press)

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400 – 1200 (Publications of the Philological Society) – Patrick Sims-Williams

The Celts: A Very Short Introduction – Barry Cunliffe

Britain and the Celtic Iron Age – Simon James

The World of the Celts – Simon James

Atlas of the Celts (From Firefly Books)

Teach Yourself World Cultures Wales (Teach Yourself) – Julie Brake

Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells – M. Ruth Megaw

Early Celtic Art in Britain and Ireland (Shire Archaeology) – Ruth Megaw

Celtic Identity and the British Image – Murray G. H. Pittock

Celtic Ornament in the British Isles – E. T. Leeds

Celtic Fortifications – Ian Ralston

The Forts of Celtic Britain (Fortress) – Angus Konstam

The Celtic Heroic Age – John Carey

Kingdoms of the Celts: A History and Guide – John King

Aspects of the Iron Age in Central Southern Britain (Monograph (University of Oxford, Committee for Archaeology), No. 2)

The Boudican Revolt Against Rome (Shire Archaeology) – Paul R. Sealey

British Heroic Age – N. Kershaw Chadwick

Celtic and Saxon: The Struggle for Britain, AD 410 – 937 (Celtic Interest) - Peter B. Ellis

The Celtic and Roman Traditions: Conflict and Consensus in the Early Medieval Church – Caitlin Corning

Celtic Myth and Legend From Arthur and the Round Table to the Gaelic Gods and the Giants They Battled – The Celebrated Comprehensive Treasury of Celtic Mythology, Legend, and Poetry - Charles Squire

The Magic Arts In Celtic Britain – Lewis Spence

Celtic Sacred Landscapes – Nigel Pennick

Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend – Miranda J. Green

Celtic Myths, Celtic Legends – R.J. Stewart

Animals in Celtic Life and Myth – Miranda Green

Celtic Religion in Roman Britain – Graham Webster

Ceremonies of Initiation In Britain – George Oliver

Christians & Pagans Roman CL – Watts

Celtic Healing: The Healing Arts of Ancient Britain, Wales and Ireland – C. J. S. Thompson

Celtic Women

Celtic Women: In Legend, Myth and History – Lyn Webster Wilde

Women in Celtic Law and Culture (Women’s Studies) – Jack George Thompson

War, Women, and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts – Philip Freeman

Women of the Celts – Jean Markale

The Condition of Women and Children Among The Celtic, Gothic and Other Nations – John M’Elheran

Women and Goddesses in Early Celtic History, Myth and Legend (Working Papers In Irish studies) – James E. Doan

The Quest for the Nine Maidens – Stuart McHardy

King Arthur’s Enchantress: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition – Carolyne Larrington

Warrior Queen: The Story of Boudica, Celtic Queen – Alan Gold

The Red Haired Girl From the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit – Patricia Monaghan

Celtic Women in Music: A Celebration of Beauty and Sovereignty – Maireid Sullivan

Britannia Rules: Goddess-Worship in Ancient Anglo-Celtic Society –Lochlainn Seabrook

Avalon Within: Inner Sovereignty and Personal Transformation through the Avalonian Mysteries – Jhenah Telyndru

Creating Form From the Mist: The Wisdom of Women in Celtic Myth and Culture – Lynne Sinclair-Wood

Women in Celtic Myth: Tales of Extraordinary Women From Ancient Celtic Tradition – Moyra Caldecott

Celtic Women’s Spirituality: Accessing the Cauldron of Life – Edain McCoy

The Silver Wheel: Women’s Myths and Mysteries in Celtic Tradition– Marguerite Elsbeth

Women in Celtic Mythology – Moyra Caldecott

Confessions of a Pagan Nun – Kate Horsley

Praying With Celtic Holy Women – Bridget Mary Meehan, Regina Madonna Oliver

Power of Raven Wisdom of Serpent: Celtic Women’s Spirituality – Noragh Jones

Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450 – 1150 – Christina Harrington

Celtic Goddesses

Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins and Mothers – Miranda Green

The Celtic Goddess: Great Queen of Demon Witch? – Claire French

Women and Goddesses in Early Celtic History, Myth, and Legend (Working Papers in Irish Studies) – James E. Doan

The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales – Patrick K. Ford

King Arthur and the Goddess of the Land: The Divine Feminine in the Mabinogion – Caitlin Matthews

Magic of the Celtic Gods and Goddesses: A Guide to Their Spiritual Power, Healing Energies, And Mystical Joy – Carl McColman, Kathryn Hinds

Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses – R. J. Stewart

The Quest for the Nine Maidens – Stuart McHardy

Arianrhod: A Welsh Myth Retold – Barbara Donley

Welsh Mythology

The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales – Patrick K. Ford

The Four Branches of the Mabinogi: Celtic Myth and Medieval Reality – Will Parker

Tales From the Mabinogion – by Gwyn Thomas

Mabinogion Tetralogy – Evangeline Walton

Bardic Tales from the Mabinogion – Hugin the Bard

The Four Ancient Books of Wales – W. F. Skene

Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain: Hero Myths in the Mabinogion – Caitlin Matthews

King Arthur and the Goddess of the Land: The Divine Feminine in the Mabinogion – Caitlin Matthews

Welsh Culture and Language

Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales – Alwyn Rees

Celtic Wales (University of Wales – Pocket Guide) – Miranda Aldhouse-Green

A History of Wales – John Davies

Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain (Cymru – Contemporary German Writers) – Rachel Bromwich

The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales (Penguin Classics) – Gerald of Wales

Customs and Traditions of Wales (The University of Wales – Pocket Guide) – Trefor Owen

Teach Yourself World Culture: Wales – Julie Brake

Welsh-English / English-Welsh Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary and Phrasebooks) – Heini Gruffudd

Introduction to Welsh Literature (University of Wales Press – Writers of Wales) – Gwyn Williams

A Guide to Welsh Literature: 1900-1996 (University of Wales Press – Guide to Welsh Literature)

Merlin and Wales: A Magician’s Landscape – Michael Dames

The Complete Welsh-English English-Welsh Dictionary – H. Meuring Evans

Teach Yourself Welsh Complete Course Audiopackage – Julie Brake

Atlas Cymru (Welsh Joint Education Committee)

Glastonbury

Glastonbury: Myth and Archaeology – Philip Rahtz

The Isle of Avalon: Sacred Mysteries of Arthur and Glastonbury – Nicholas R. Mann

Glastonbury Reader: Selections From the Myths, Legends and Stories of Ancient Avalon – Edited by John Matthews

Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart – Dion Fortune

Glastonbury: Maker of Myths – Frances Howard-Gordon

The Glastonbury Tor Maze – Geoffrey Ashe

King Arthur’s Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury – Geoffrey Ashe

Avalonian Quest – Geoffrey Ashe

Avalon and Sedgemoor – Desmond Hawkins

The Legendary Twelve Hides of Glastonbury – Ray Gibbs

Glastonbury (History & Guide Series) – R.W. Dunning

Beckery Chapel, Glastonbury, 1967-8 – Philip A. Rahtz

The British Lake-Village Near Glastonbury: Letters and Papers – Robert Munro

Britain, A Study in Patterns: [Wales, Silbury, Stonehenge, Glastonbury] – Mary Williams

Energy Secrets of Glastonbury Tor – Nicholas Mann

New Light on the Ancient Mystery of Glastonbury – John Michell

Guide to Glastonbury’s Temple of the Stars – Katherine Maltwood

The Glastonbury Zodiac – Mary Caine

Looking for Arthur: A Once and Future Travelogue – Richard Leviton

An Architectural Handbook of Glastonbury Abby with a Historical Chronicle of the Building 1920 – Frederick Bligh Bond

Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous – James P Carley

The Chalice Well Glastonbury – F. Hardcastle

Glastonbury Tor: A Novel – LeAnne Hardy

Glastonbury: The Novel of Christian England –Donna Fletcher Crow

A Glastonbury Romance – John Cowper Powys

Francis Frith’s Glastonbury (Photographic Memories) – Steve Wallis

Traditions of Glastonbury: The Biblical Missing years of Christ – Answered – E. Raymond Capt

Glastonbury, the Mother of Saints: Her Saints – Lionel Smithett Lewis

Glastonbury: A Very English Fair – George McKay

The Goddess in Glastonbury – Kathy Jones

The Glastonbury Tarot: Timeless Wisdom From the Isle of Avalon – Lisa Tenzin Dolma

Arthurian

Arthur’s Britain (Classic History) – Leslie Alcock

Witches, Druids and King Arthur – Ronald Hutton

King Arthur’s Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation – Martin Biddle

The World of King Arthur – Christopher Snyder

World of King Arthur and His Court: The People, Places, Legend and Lore – Kevin Crossley-Holland

Le Morte D’Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) – Sir Thomas Malory

Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) – Chretien de Troyes

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Library Texts – From Broadview Press)

Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics) – Alfred Tennyson

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: Updated Paperback Editions (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 931) –Norris J. Lacy

Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)– Ann F. Howey

King Arthur and the Goddess of the Land: The Divine Feminine in the Mabinogion – Caitlin Matthews

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – Benedict Flynn

King of the Celts: Arthurian Legends and Celtic Traditions – Jean Markale

King Arthur – Norma L. Goodrich

King Arthur: Hero and Legend – Richard Barber

The Way of King Arthur: The True Story of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Adventures in History) – Christopher Hibbert

The Discovery of King Arthur – Geoffrey Ashe

The Legend of King Arthur: A Young Reader’s Edition of the Classic Story by Howard Pyle – David Borgenicht, Howard Pyle

Legends of King Arthur in Art (Arthurian Studies) – Muriel Whitaker

Arthur, King of Britons: From Celtic Hero to Cinema Icon – Daniel Mersey

The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur – Howard Pyle

Quest for King Arthur Hb – David Day

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Puffin Classics) – Roger Lancelyn Green

The Arthurian Quest: Living the Legends of Camelot (Llewellyn Celtic Wisdom Series) – Amber Wolfe

The Arthurian Tarot – Caitlin Matthews

Druidism and Celtic Paganism

The World of the Druids – Miranda J. Green

Witches, Druids and King Arthur – Ronald Hutton

The Druids – Ronald Hutton

The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles – Ronald Hutton

Druids: Preachers of Immortality (Revealing History) – Anne Ross

The Druids – Stuart Piggott

The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature – Jean Markale

War, Women and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts – Philip Freeman

A Brief History of the Druids - Peter Berresford Ellis

The Druids: Priests of the Ancient Celts (Contributions to the Study of Religion) – Paul R. Lonigan

The Druid Source Book: From Earliest Times to Present Day – John Matthews

The Celtic Seers Source Book: Vision and Magic in the Druid Tradition – John Matthews

The Bardic Source Book: Inspirational Legacy and Teachings of the Ancient Celts – John Matthew

Way of the Druid: Renaissance of a Celtic Religion and Its Relevance– Graeme K. Talboys

The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg: A Collection of Original Documents, Illustrative of the Theology Wisdom, and Usages of the Bardo-Druidic Systems of the Isle of Britain - J. Williams Ab Ithel, Iolo Morganwg, John Williams

The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth– John Michael Greer

The Book of Druidry – Ross Nichols

The Solitary Druid: A Practitioner’s Guide – Robert Ellison

Bonewits’s Essential Guide to Druidism – Isaac Bonewits

Druid Magic: The Practice of Celtic Wisdom – Nicholas R. Mann

The Elements of the Druid Tradition – Philip Carr-Gomm

Celtic Bards, Celtic Druids – R.J. Stewart

A Druid’s Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year – Ellen Evert Hopman

Celtic Traditions: Druids, Faeries, and Wiccan Rituals – Sirona Knight

The Druid Way (Earth Quest) – Philip Carr-Gomm

Mythology and Rites of British Druids – Edward Davies

The Sacred Isle: Pre-Christian Religions in Ireland – Daithi O’Hogain

Mysteries of Druidry – Brendan Cathbad

The Lore of the Bard: A Guide to the Celtic and Druid Mysteries – Arthur Rowan

Druid Priestess, New Edition – Emma Restall Orr

The Celtic Druids’ Year: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts - John Robert King

Celtic Druids – Godfrey Higgins

Taliesin or Bards and Druids of Britain – D.W. Nash

Secrets of the Druids (From Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers)

Principles of Druidry: The Only Introduction You’ll Ever Need (Thorsons Principles) – Emma Restall Orr

Druid Shaman Priest: Metaphors of Celtic Paganism – Leslie Ellen Jones

Stonehenge and Druidism – Did a Divine Hand Guide the Building of Stonehenge? – E. Raymond Capt

Druids and Druidism – T.D. Kendrick

An Introduction To The Druid Path – Marah Ellis Ryan

Druids or A Study in Celtic Prehistory – T.D. Kendrick

The Veil of Isis – Druid Mysteries – W. Windood Reade

Spirits of the Sacred Grove: The World of a Druid Priestess – Emma Orr

The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain – Dillwyn Miles

Druid Power: Celtic Faerie Craft and Elemental Magic – Amber Wolfe

Resource: Sisterhood of Avalon

Love and light,

Trace

xoxo