The Story of Jumping Mouse

Written by Hyemeyohsts Storm in Seven Arrows (1972 Harper & Row, New York)

Once there was a little mouse.  He was a busy mouse, searching everywhere, touching his whiskers to the grass, and looking about.

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The Irish Language

'Celtic' is a linguistic term (pronounced with a hard 'c') which describes a group of languages nowadays represented by Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx, which belong to the 'q' Celtic group, and Welsh, Breton and Cornish, which make up the 'p' Celtic group.

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Fintan the Seer

Fintan the Seer was brought from his home at Uisneach before the king and nobles at Tara and they asked of him how the land should be governed and divided, for he was the oldest and wisest man in Ireland. They asked him first who he was, what his lineage was and how long he had lived.

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The Cities of the Soul

As I was wandering in this temporal world, Allah led me to a straight path. Walking on it in a state between sleep and awakening, as if in a dream, I reached a city which was enveloped in darkness.

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When a Culture is Lost or Destroyed

According to Ananda Coomeraswami, writing during the 1940s, so-called education and culture usually destroy an oral tradition, sometimes with amazing rapidity. He was referring of course to modern times. In ancient Ireland, things were different.

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