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Celtic Cats
I have always loved Celtic Knot artwork and this piece caught my eye, since I am also a cat lover. It's called Celtic cats. Perfect!
Another Flash Game
Made by me. :)
I am a HUGE Zelda fan, and I really enjoy making Zelda themed Flash games, many which can be found on my website, www.teamanti.com. Here's one of my faves. It's a Zelda platformer and it's a lot harder than it looks. Anyone who can get Link through all the levels is an awesome Gamer indeed.
Without further ado, I give you Hyrule Adventure. Click the link below. Enjoy!
Gorel's Tale
Prologue
Once upon a time is how stories begin. I pen these words in a quiet glade in Moonglow, far from where it began. It is the story particularly of a man. But it is also the story of a city, and of a town within a city, a town special and isolated, where none venture willingly. Britain is the city, beautiful Britain, bejewelled in gold, mustard, terra cotta, strawberry and pistachio stucco warmth. The town ensconced within this gem of a city had no name. It was a tangled warren of twisted streets and decaying structures, fashoned of mud colored stucco slathered over crumbling brick, two and three story hovels shoehorned into small cramped courtyards. It was called, derisively "Poor Town". In this wretched place everyone lives cramped together and everyone knows each other's name.. It is a hot, tight place, noisy day and night, but where the ragpicker may also be a great scholar, and the drayman a Bard who can sing like an angel, or a lutist who can make your bones shiver. I tell this story because it should be told, because the world should know how uncontrolable circumstances, and ill fate can make or break a man.
Gorel
Our Wedding
On a beautiful August day three years ago, Max and I were married. It was a traditional Celtic Handfasting ceremony, presided over by Pat Battista who, in addition to being a priest in the Celtic Catholic Church, was also a working Blacksmith. Sadly, he passed away two years ago, but we will never forget all that he did to make our special day unique and joy filled. The music was provided by Charlie and Suzanne Terhune. Suzanne also made Max's kilt and my traditional Scottish Arisaid. My Maid of Honor is my dearest friend Julie Adams.
Zelda Bejeweled
Play my Flash game. Click the items to move them and get three of a kind (or more) to line up. To reset the game, just refresh the page. Enjoy!
My Pixels
Cardinal in Flight
Sylvester at the Window
Princess Zelda
Mad Moon
Goodnight my Love
Slumber calls to me with a siren's songbeckoning, stretching out it's pale silver arms,
so like yours in the moonlight.
Powerless to resist I succomb
and melt into my dreams,
caressed by tender lullabyes.
And there, across the star splashed sea
my life stands still,
and I see only you...your eyes,
your smile, your heart of fire.
I float blissfully among the memories.
In sleep, I am most perfectly yours.
The Wench
I wish to be a saucy wenchand sit upon thy knee
beguile and bedevel thee
and shake my hair down free.
I want to dance away from thee
and turn and then dance near
and see the gleam within thine eyes
and thy husky breath to hear.
I wish for thee to utter "Wench!"
to reach and grab my hand
to look at me in only ways
that lovers understand.
I wish to dress in peasant blouse
and skirts designed to hide...
such lusty secrets 'neath their folds
where pleasure doth abide.
So come and be my shining Knight
in dashing pantomime
and pull me closely to thy chest
And crush thy lips to mine!
A saucy wench then I shall be
and my dream shall come true!
a modest maid for all to see,
And wench to only you.
Blessed Be
I lay here waiting for you, under the full moon. Swim with me in the waters of Anwnn.
Come to me and shine under the full moon.
Let my touch cleanse you, when you drink from me let me fill you with Divine Light.
You have called me down to you.
I am the Moon.
You, the child of ancient times.
You the child of heavenly times, sing with me, dance with me.
Won't you swim with me? Blessed Be to you my child times three,
May the Magick swirl around thee, three times three.
I am the Moon Goddess, time for you decide who you will be........
Blessed Be.
The Song of the Moon
I raise my arms in greeting As She slips up through the night,The rounded Moon of Mystery,
A glowing silver disk of light.
My spirit answers to Her call And longs for wings to fly,
That I might seek Her secret place Whose symbol is the sky.
A place of hidden secrets, Of sacred Mysteries old,
A place I knew in other times, In temple wisdom no more told.
I struggle to remember All the things I learned before, The forgotten Myseries of the Moon, The goddess and Her lore.
Although my arms reach skyward, I turn inward toward Her voice.
I tread the inner labyrinth, Trusting in my choice.
"Seek not without, but deep within."
The words are soft and clear.
"Keep faith with Me for thirteen months, The Mother's Sacred Year."
I watch Her through Her cycles, As I did in lives before, And follow down Her moonbeam path To the secret, inner door.
By DJ Conway
Months of Moons
January- Winter Moon- is also known as the Wolf, Cold, or Snow Moon. This is the time of protection and strength, death and desolation. It can be seen as a time of beginning and ending.February- Storm Moon- is also known as the Death or Quickening Moon. This is the time of fertility and strength, storms and dismal days. It’s also the time of cleansing.
March- Chaste Moon- is also known as the Seed or Worm Moon. This is the time of purity and newness. Bless herbs and plants you’re planning to use.
April- Seed Moon- is also known as the Grass, Wind, or Egg Moon. This is the time of fertility, growth, and wisdom. This is the month to plant your garden.
May- Flower Moon- is also known as the Planting Moon. This is the time of healing, love, romance, and wisdom.
June- Love Moon- is also known as the Honey or Rose Moon. This is the time of energy, love, marriage, and success.
July- Blessing Moon- is also known as the Lightening or Thunder Moon. This is the time of enchantment, healing, rebirth, strength, success, and magic.
August- Corn Moon- is also known as the Barley or Red Moon. This is the time of abundance, agriculture, and marriage. Gather your herbs, but leave an offering to the Goddess and God for Their kindness.
September- Hunter’s Moon- is also known as the Barley or Harvest Moon. This is the time of protection, prosperity, nurturing others, healing, and abundance.
October- Blood Moon- is also called the Hunter’s or Falling Leaf Moon. This is the time of new goals, protection, divination, reflection, resolution, and spirituality.
November- Snow Moon- is also known as the Mourning or Tree Moon. This is the time of abundance, prosperity, and strengthening bonds with family and friends.
December- Cold Moon- is also know as the Oak or Long Night Moon. This is the time of hope, rebirth of light, beginnings, and healing.
The Goddess and the Moon
Most people take the Moon for granted, rarely looking up to watch its nightly changes in position and phase. Few notice the so-called "Man" in the Moon. Actually, the "face" is that of a Woman in the Moon because the Moon is a female object. She is sometimes referred to as Cynthia, Diana, Arianrhod, Selene or Luna.Greek mythology has Artemis, one of the Olympians daughter of Zeus and Leto, Virgin Goddess of the Moon, twin sister of Apollo, goddess of wild animals. Her main vocation was to roam mountain forests and uncultivated land with her nymphs in attendance hunting for lions, panthers hinds and stags. Contradictory to the later, she helped in protecting and seeing to their well-being, also their safety and reproduction. To the Greeks Artemis was sometimes known and referred to as Cynthia which comes from the Greek Kynthia and it was given to Artemis because Kynthos was the mountain on Delos on which she and her twin brother Apollo were born.
Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), an unmarried monarch, was often compared to Artemis, who was the goddess of chastity as well as the moon. In many high-flown works of Elizabethan poetry, praises for Cynthia's goodness and purity were understood as oblique references to the virtues of the Virgin Queen.
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Diana a Latin name meaning "Goddess." was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Moon goddess Artemis. She was also the goddess of nature and originally a goddess of fertility and was worshipped mainly by women as the giver of fertility and easy births. Under Greek influence she was equated with Artemis and assumed many of her aspects. Her name is possibly derived from 'diviana' ("the shining one"). She is portrayed as a huntress accompanied by a deer.
Selena was a Moon Goddess and daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios (the Sun) and Eos (the Dawn). She is known for her countless love affairs. The most famous of her loves is the shepard Endymion. Other affairs of Selene's include involvement with Zeus with whom she had three daughters, and Pan who gave her a herd of white oxen. Some sources report that the Nemean lion, which fell to the earth from the moon was the result of an affair of Zeus and Selene. Selene is a favorite of many poets, especially love poets. A moonlit night brings the feeling of romance. It is said that Selene's moon rays fall upon sleeping mortals, and her kisses fell upon her love, Endymion. She was involved in many love affairs, however, not as many as her sister, Eos, the dawn. She is also called Luna. She was usually represented as a woman with the moon (often in crescent form) on her head and driving a two-horse chariot. As Luna, she had temples at Rome on the Aventine and Palatine hills.
Celtic Moon-Mother Goddess, Arianrhod is a character in the medieval story collection 'The Mabinogi'. She is ruler of Caer Sidi, a magical realm in the north. Arianrhod, whose name means 'Silver Wheel' was worshiped as priestess of the moon. The benevolent silver sky-lady came down from her pale white chariot in the heavens to watch more closely over the tides she ruled.
The moon is the archetypal female symbol, representing the Mother Goddess connecting womb, death, rebirth, creation. (Albion, the old name of Britain, meant 'White Moon'). The Celts "know well the way of seas and stars", and counted time not by days, but by nights, and made their calendars (such as the famous Coligny Calender) not by the sun, but by the moon. In Welsh the constellation of Corona Borealis is named 'Caer Arianrhod' - Arianrhod's Castle. Ancient astrologers took their observations from the position of the moon and its progress in relation to the stars - the starry wheel of Arianrhod.
The Moon has become a archetype of creation, of womanhood and the feminine psyche. Through our history both the Sun and the Moon have been worshiped and awed. As countless parallel myths grew up around the world, thought most of these myths predominantly centered upon the Sun, the Moon Goddess came in many different guises that reflect the three main states in her cycle. The new Moon is depicted in the form of a maiden or virgin. As the Moon increased to fullness, so the image becomes on of fertile Mother pregnant with life. In the last phase, as she wanes to darkness she is portrayed as the witch or the wise woman versed in magical arts, powers to heal and transform.
These three faces of the Moon represent Nature's cycles and fuse the universal consciousness. The sacredness of the moon has been connected with the basic rhythms of life and the universe and is viewed in terms of the rhythmic life of the cosmos and its ability to govern all vital change.
The Faces of the Moon
Smiles again, sweet crescent moonFor it is happy shining tonight;
When bandicoots dance, and owls croon
And stars shower forth,
their kindly light.
Frowns tonight, bitter crescent moon
Angry at the deeds that blacken the dark;
When the brave cower, and cowards swoon
And the stars shy down
only a handful spark
Hides away, mischievous moon
Laughing to itself-the night is full of love.
An old hag snorts, the nightingale picks a tune
And the stars glare enviously,
from the skies above.
Shines in pride, glorious full moon,
Illuminating earth, in a festival of light;
The air reminds, of a fragrant June,
And the stars bow low,
for, the moon is the Queen of the Night.
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