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caraecethrae · 4 months

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I need to buckle down and figure out what my personal understanding of Ceirt/Cert is.

it's fascinating how it seems to have these two diametrically opposing possible meanings (not unlike nGétal), one being tied to coir and right judgment and kingship, which actually fits apple extremely well folklorically, and one connected to madness, misfortune, sacrifice, and illness, which fit both potential etymologies of either Rag or Bush.

it seemed clear to me in the past that the secondary meaning had to be original, especially given my/the bias against the crannogham, but it's still very frustratingly simple that the current Modern Irish meaning is Rightness.

perhaps the meaning of the word shifted to match the evolving understanding of the fid, given the medieval love for the arboreal and more recentness of the Immrama? of course that's a reach but ...

#idk the esoteric implications work #but which is a primary meaning and which is occult #i need to just meditate with it more but it is so ellusive #some fid are right there - on the tip of my tongue and immediately come into focus #Ceirt and Muin and Ailm and Edad remain very difficult to access and understand #id like to understand them better as i pull all of those quite often #in my UPG i believe it *is* important what Irish christians have practiced for the last thousand years #i believe traditions become powerful with tine #its an ancestral link #and i think its digging a need path through the fabric of magic and ritual #i wouldnt ever prescribe anything #but i do think what the collective decides to maintain or evolve or even devolve IS important to ongoing practice #whether you choose to incorporate it or not #im just going to read my book on wells i got and do some more meditstion with Ceirt #bc i think ive exhausted the research #the ONE possible tenative thread ive only half figured out that ties the two concepts together #comes from Immram Bran and how he was offered the apple branch #it was both a symbol of kingship (cormac's cup) and sovereignty in some respects #but also a token of rite of passage to the Otherworld #i feel this connects to the rags being left as a symbol of both the self and the illness #but i havent bridged the gap completely

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