(Nikon D2H, old Vivitar Series 1 35-85/2.8. ISO 400. 1/180 @ 2.8)
On the morning of March 17th every year well before we awake at our house, the Sidhe turn our milk green. They do this to remind us that while a Christian Bishop named Patrick may have led the people of Ireland away from a rich heritage of Pagan Gaeldom, (as the Christian Abbot of Iona Columba later did in Scotland) we the decendants of the converted Celts are again safe and free to revisit that long forgotten heritage.
We don't drink ourselves into a stupor in order to 'celebrate' that Patrick began an overwhelming theocratic assimilation of yet another indiginous people who were one with the Land. Instead, we celebrate as a family the fact that some small vestiges and the spirit of those old Celtic Pagan traditions are being rediscovered, and much of what is left of it can be applied to a full spiritual life in the 21st Century. Through this application we hope that we are honouring our anscestors (Pagan and Christian) and that their spirits may live on forever in the generations of new Celts to come.
"If we are without knowledge of our past, then we are without knowledge of ourselves." - Annon Celtic proverb.
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