| . September's Blood Moon was the time when animals were butchered and stored as food for the long winter. The month of the Blood Moon is also the time when Liffey Rivers finds herself back in Ireland, desperately seeking the woman who wears a diamond 'M' on the Mountain of the Moon. Celtic clans would use the cycles of the moon to plan clan gatherings and religious ceremonies. On what is now called Halloween or the ancient SAMHAIN (sow-in) on October 31st, (or the first full moon in Scorpio), the Celts believed that the veil between the living and the dead was at its thinnest. |
This is a huge pile of small rocks marking a grave called a CAIRN
which is located right on the top of the mountain KNOCKNAREA.
The summit of the mountain is pretty much flat so the cairn can be
seen from great distances. The legendary QUEEN MAEVE is said
to be buried under it but THE SECRET OF THE MOUNTAIN OF
THE MOON suggests otherwise....
QUEEN MAEVE
THE SECRET OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MOON
IS THE THIRD BOOK IN THE LIFFEY RIVERS IRISH DANCER MYSTERY SERIES
The Celts believed that people were
affected by the cycles of the moon and
that the moon can be linked to intuition
and has real power over moods and
actions. Their daily prayer to the
pagan moon goddess was: "Leave us
sound and whole."
affected by the cycles of the moon and
that the moon can be linked to intuition
and has real power over moods and
actions. Their daily prayer to the
pagan moon goddess was: "Leave us
sound and whole."
The ancient Celts gave their
moons symbolic names such as
the Wort Moon or the Moon of
Claiming, the Corn Moon & the
BLOOD MOON.
In the third Liffey Rivers book, Liffey
Rivers and the Secret of the Mountain
of the Moon, Liffey experiences the tug
of the Celtic Blood Moon when, after
dancing at her first feis in Ireland, she
observes an extraordinary
phenomenon directly above Queen
Maeve’s cairn on the summit of
Knocknarea, the Mountain of the
Moon, in County Sligo.
Rivers and the Secret of the Mountain
of the Moon, Liffey experiences the tug
of the Celtic Blood Moon when, after
dancing at her first feis in Ireland, she
observes an extraordinary
phenomenon directly above Queen
Maeve’s cairn on the summit of
Knocknarea, the Mountain of the
Moon, in County Sligo.
SAMHAIN
HALLOWEEN