Sue Vincent's Blog: Echoes of Life, page 9

Dark Fantasy…

  * First a formless mass of light, then the firmament of stars, then sun and moon, then sea and land, then reptiles, and birds, then beasts, and man, and then, contemplation… * If the ‘candlestick vision’ which opens the … Continue reading →

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* A DARK FANTASY… *

Sheela’s Mystery Solved?

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** Perhaps, like the ‘tomb raiders’ at Dowth, we are looking for treasures of the wrong kind, in the wrong place? *** She’s at the base of the stone on the right! *** … Continue reading →

Of kings and stone…

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** All roads lead to Tara as they say. * Or at least all the roads in Ireland. *** *** But like so much else that we have considered on this trip what … Continue reading →

Dowth…

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** The dowdiest of the three Boyne Monuments but, in some ways, the friendliest. * No time restrictions, no imminent threat of film-show dread, no waiting bus, full of chattering strangers… * Just … Continue reading →

Kells…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** “Three’s are important,” she said. * And they are, so we can take it that ‘ol’ stubby’ from Killinaboy does not count in our tally of round towers. *** *** The brick work whilst, perhaps, not quite polygonal is not all that far off?… Continue reading at … … Continue reading →

Art and Function…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** The eastern entrance stone and the two standing stones in front of it are instrumental in recording the equinox. * No one knows what the ovoid shaped stone to the left is … Continue reading →

Knowth…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** Knowth gives us a relatively accurate picture of what Loughcrew might once have looked like… *** *** …With its large mound dedicated to the equinoxes and a whole host of satellites briefly … Continue reading →

‘Ch… Ch… Changes’…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** The entrance stone of New Grange. *** …It is easy to say, certainly, but less easy to say what is, in fact, happening with such changes in form. *** New Grange Gnomon-Stone. *** … Continue reading →

Bend it like the Boyne…

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** The Whispering Spring *** “What did they say, oh, what did they say?” *** *** They said, “knowing these people, it would not be beyond the bounds of possibility that the ‘Bend in … Continue reading →