Newgrange, Bend of the Boyne
womb tomb of the ancient goddess callieach
this site although quite gentrified is the best of the neolithic/iron age sites on hErin. i spent a lovely day with a woman i met on the bus wandering the site looking at the carvings on the kerbstones. i was suprized that the docent on our tour knew so little about the folklore of the site. he mentioned only aengus to whom the site was renamed, but was unfamiliar with the zeus style theft of the site by dagda, bestowing it and the goddess associated with it on his son aengus. beautiful in the late spring when the flowers are in bloom and the air is full of bees. i wanted to run naked through the grass and swim in the boynne, but my companion was having none of it, it still being a bit chilly for such wickedness.
over 5 years ago
