Apr 1, 2023
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He will get all of us eventually, don’t worry
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The Airship of Clonmacnoise
Something so beautiful I read this year that gave me goosebumps - I want to record it here as we say goodbye to 2024:
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The Celtic scholar Proinsias MacCana quotes an Old Norse text of the middle of the thirteenth century AD entitled Konungs Skuggsjá or 'King's Mirror'. It contains a number of legends or 'wonders', almost certainly based on oral traditions collected in the eastern part of Ireland, and reflecting tales which were first written down in Latin versions in the eighth or ninth century AD.
One such 'wonder' is set in the monastery of Clonmacnois where one day as the congregation was at Mass an anchor and rope were seen to come dropping from the air. The fluke of the anchor caught on the church door and, on looking up, the people saw a ship with men in it floating in the air. A man leapt overboard and dived down towards the anchor, moving his hands and feet as if he were swimming. As he tried to loosen the anchor some of the people on the ground wanted to restrain him, but the bishop, who happened to be present, prevented them, saying that if they did so the man would die just as if kept beneath water. And so the man was released and regained his ship where the crew cut the rope and sailed away.
This legend, as with so many manifestations of Celtic mythology, as MacCana has pointed out, adds a sense of ambiguity, an extra dimension where time and space no longer form the natural boundaries of rational relationships... (source Celtic Art by Ruth and VIncent Megaw)
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More on The Airship of Clonmacnois here. I was also reading Faeries by Alan Lee and Brian Froud and there is a similar mythological story in there where one sees something as the sea, while someone else sees it as sky above land.
A poet, Seamus Heaney, was entranced by the Clonmacnois story too, seeing it as: “a kind of dream instruction, a parable about the necessity of keeping the lines open between the two levels of our being, the level where we proceed with the usual life of the meeting and the decision, and the other level where the visionary and the marvellous present themselves suddenly and bewilderingly. We must, in other words, be ready for both the routine and the revelation. Never be so canny as to ignore the uncanny.”
St. Ciaran’s Church, Clonmacnoise, Ireland by the River Shannon. May, 2012
EST. 545 AD. Over the centuries, local farmers would take teaspoons of blessed soil from around the foundation, hence the slump!
South cross, Clonmacnoise
Round Tower and Graves, Clonmacnoise, Offaly, 2013.
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Today we also celebrate the Venerable Ciaran of Clonmacnoise. Saint Ciaran was a sixth century Abbot of the Clonmacnoise Monastery in Ireland. A contemporary of Saints Brendan the Navigator and Enda of Inishmore, Ciaran not only guided his monastery to the path of salvation, but also the whole of Ireland, as was prophesied by Saint Enda. Struggling in asceticism for many years, the ascetic developed a monastic rule known as the “Rule of Saint Ciaran”. Through his great feats, he was granted the prestigious title of one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He reposed in the Lord at a young age from a grave illness. May he intercede for us always + #saint #ciaran #kieran #clonmacnoise #ireland #irish #celtic #celticorthodoxy #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Clonmacnoise) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiR5izxjddG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
cross of the scriptures, clonmacnoise
Nothing quite compares to the cold beauty of ruins; the lives that have been lived among them centuries ago, the pains and passions set between their walls, all the beginnings and ends that were painted upon their stage.
- Clonmacnoise Abbey, 2016