Síd
'We see everyone on every side,
but no-one sees us.
It is the darkness of Adam's sin
that prevents our being counted.'
-- Mider, in Tochmarc Étaíne
but no-one sees us.
It is the darkness of Adam's sin
that prevents our being counted.'
-- Mider, in Tochmarc Étaíne
'Often it seems as if we are separated from the Otherworld by no barrier save concealment... [It] is nearby, perhaps indeed immediately present, but hidden and alien as well. The whole of the Otherworld may lie beneath a single well or hill; or a single Otherworld palace may be linked to points far distant from each other in the geography of mortals.
The Otherworld is not, properly speaking, assigned different locations [in literature] by the Irish: rather, is exists in no definable spatial relationship with the mortal realm."
-- John Cary, Proceedings... 1987, Harvard
posted by scribe at 9:55 pm
2 Comments:
The otherworld always makes me think of simultaneous layers of existence, well, parallel worlds, if you will. Something that it's not too hard to move between.
Oh, it's raining now.
Yes, that's a view I think I subscribe to - trying to site the Otherworld in a geographical location just seems to limit/change the point or scope of an Otherworld. Hmm, well, I know what I mean!
Rain, eh? One of the signs the Síd are coming! ;)
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