Lughnasadh, First Harvest
Aug 1st, 2008 by celticshaman
This podcast begins with Tira Brandon-Evans’ invocation of Brighid of the Mantles based on traditional invocations contained in the Carmina Gadelica at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cg1/index.htm
This is followed by Terry Griffiths For My Grandfathers, from the CD of same name found at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/terrygriffith
A Dream of Angus Oge, read by Tira, is excerpted from Imaginations and Reveries. You may find Imaginations and Reveries, with a biography of AE, in the Lughnasadh issue of Earthsongs at http://www.faeryshaman.org/es12.3/es12.3art1.htm. Find the entire work at: http://www.wordaramanights.com/books/703/Imaginations-and-Reveries in PDF, or at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/imgrv10.txtt as text.
Fire in the Head is from the CD Bending Tradition by Emerald Rose. Visit Emerald Rose at: http://www.emeraldrose.com/mainpage.htm.
Dillon Carlyon conducts this podcast and also narrates the tale of Clever Tom and the Leprechaun, which you may read at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm133.htm. This tale is one of many in The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, published 1870. Find the entire work at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/index.htm.
We end our podcast with I Vo Bene, from Mistral: Winds of Song in France Italy and Brittany. The Shira Kammen homepage is http://www.shirakammen.com.
Thank you for listening and being present in our Celtic traditions at the First Harvest, Lughnasadh.
If you enjoyed this podcast, do visit us at the Society of Celtic Shamans (http://www.faeryshaman.org) or discover our ‘zine, Earthsongs (http://www.faeryshaman.org/erthsong.htm).












