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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Some folk fear the end of times
\nUs Celts – of it we do not fear
\nSymbols are what we say they are
\nAs we desire them, they appear.<\/p>\n
Life: from one plane to another
\nFrom spirit, to soul, then to death
\nWe join the world on ancestors
\nTo be joined by those unborn yet.<\/p>\n
The knot, infinity is called
\nBy those who its meaning don’t know
\nTime is not a constraint, a fence…
\nBut mere measurement to show<\/p>\n
Who we are, where we’ve been, and then
\nWho we will be cloaked by deaths veil
\nBeliefs clouded by new faiths and none
\nTo vanquish the old try and fail.<\/p>\n
The current scares of the end of the Mayan Long Count Calender, the newly discovered “”rogue planet””, the Noribu and Planet X conspiracies have no parallel in Celtic thinking, and come instead from Millennialist thinking from the Juedo-Christian tradition.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information to the contrary are invited to contact me with details of same.<\/p><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some folk fear the end of times Us Celts – of it we do not fear Symbols are what we say they are As we desire them, they appear. Life: from one plane to another From spirit, to soul, then to death We join the world on ancestors To be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-4g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":224,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/are-both-one-blood\/","url_meta":{"origin":264,"position":0},"title":"Are Both One Blood?","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th August 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Some Arabs say that Celts they were, These Berber folk who in the Maghreb live, I see few similarities to my eye\u2026 To the residents of the sands that don\u2019t forgive, Weakness of man or heart must be restrained, People must be resilient to survive - Where water is scarce,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Irish Legend"","block_context":{"text":"Irish Legend","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/irish-legend\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Berber sands of the Pre Sahara","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1550,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/awaiting-the-eclipse\/","url_meta":{"origin":264,"position":1},"title":"Awaiting the Eclipse","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th March 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I wont be at Tara as planned for the eclipse later on this morning, but in Renmore due to a typical case of Carty bad planning, but nonetheless Im hoping for clear skies and a good view of what I barely remember back in 1999. 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