Celtic Heart - Part 4 - http://branawen.blospot.com: The transition to the Winter is the time in which the mortal and the souls of the dead move freely within this and the Other World (simple transition of the real with the unreal, an area still passable for the living as references to the fantastic rescue songs and legends). Days of easy prediction for the Druids, the last breath of summer. Unlimited time of festivities, dance and celebration. Release time, the dispossession of fears and burdens, like the trees were stripped of leaves. News commented that there was already a belief that the human soul is immortal. Unlike the Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation, the druidism has professed that the individual identity is extended into a new h

Celtic Heart - Part 3 - http://branawen.blogspot.com: The Festival of Fire were powerful and magical days where druids and shamans were predicting the future. This visionary attitude of the druid (council of kings and chiefs of the clan, judge and teacher, philosopher and astronomer, ceremonial and ritual priest) escorted to the versification of the bard have endured in the 'Aisling' musical themes of programatic music that accompanied the extensive bardic poems in a society where the written word did not exist for convenience, only the memory was worthy and allowed the survival of rituals and beliefs testimonied in stories of people like Taliesin, Finn McCumhaill and Amerghin, where the ability of the shamans transmutation allowed them to be

Celtic Heart - Part 2 - http://branawen.blogspot.com: The music has evolved in this particular conception of the environment, turning with each annual cycle of thirteen months and thirteen moons, each month with its own deity and alphabet tree. It should be noted here that it is particularly difficult to find a Celtic melody that has a greater range to thirteen notes.

These older calendar systems, based on the natural rhythms of the stars,have enabled the Celtic people to live in harmony with the pulse of nature. Each seasonal change is celebrated by a Festival of Fire in three days: before, during, and at the start of the season in question. The time is measured not by their nights and their days but dividing the calendar month and a half ...