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The Marked Threshold – Talismans, Amulets, and the Architecture of Protection (Part 3)
When the year inclines toward light and doors begin to open more frequently, attention returns to thresholds. In Irish cosmology, spring is not only a season of growth but of re-entry into movement. The interior, held close through darker months, resumes exchange with the wider landscape. Windows are unlatched, gates are lifted, fields are crossed again, the journey into the growing year begins. It is at such moments of renewed permeability that cultures, across time and geog


The Sheela na Gig - An Ancient Fertility Goddess?
Sheela na Gig’s are stone carvings of women exposing their genitals which are found mostly on church buildings associated with the Normans, however they have also been found outside Ireland and many believe they are vestiges of older, Pagan iconography. There has also been some support for two carved figures found on Boa Island, Co. Fermanagh to be considered as part of the Sheela na Gig family and one of these carvings is believed to be pre-Christian. Sheela na Gigs can als
