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		<title>BOLETÍN DE INSCRIPCIÓN CURSO &#8220;OS SANTUARIOS CELTAS&#8221;</title>
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		<title>Un curso dende a Mansión dos Milesios&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; O vindeiro 18 de febreiro inauguraránse en Compostela as Xornadas de formación “Os santuarios celtas de Galicia”, presentadas pola Secretaria Xeral de Turismo Carmen Pardo e o Presidente da APIT Guillermo Proupín. Durante dous fíns de semana profesionais do sector turístico de Galicia e xentes interesadas no patrimonio celta en xeral mergullaránse nun mundo [...]]]></description>
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<p>O vindeiro 18 de febreiro inauguraránse en Compostela as Xornadas de formación “Os santuarios celtas de Galicia”, presentadas pola Secretaria Xeral de Turismo Carmen Pardo e o Presidente da APIT Guillermo Proupín. Durante dous fíns de semana profesionais do sector turístico de Galicia e xentes interesadas no patrimonio celta en xeral mergullaránse nun mundo apaixoante creador de identidade mais tamén xerador de negocio turístico que nos abre e nos liga, nunha inmensa aperta atlántica, có mercado francés, británico e norteamericano. Irlanda, Escocia, Gales, Man, Bretaña, Cornualles agardan pacientemente. Falamos de Libra Esterlina, da potente marca <em>celta </em>en EEUU. Falamos do tráfico de cruceristas nos portos de Vigo, A Coruña, Vilagarcía e Ferrol.</p>
<p>O futuro do turismo en Galicia pasa polo Mundo celta porque neste eido o patrimonio material e inmaterial o é todo, ao igual que todo é o que resta por facer no futuro.</p>
<p>As institucións deben ser valentes e estar dispostas a apostar por un discurso turístico ambicioso que de pasos para adiante de xeito cualitativo abandonando o discurso turístico localista.</p>
<p>Este curso, apoiado pola Administración turística autonómica e o colectivo profesional de guías turísticos é un primeiro paso, mais un <strong>histórico primeiro paso</strong>, no que se vai apostar por unha liña celtista superando os titubeos de tradicións historiográficas e mesmo mentais tradicionais, negacionistas do feito Celta para Galicia.</p>
<p>No eido do desenrrolo mais avanzado da ciencia e nominalmente da historiografía celtista, seguindo as extraordinarias investigacións realizadas no eido do <em>Instituto Galego de Estudos Celtas (IGEC)</em>, o noso paisaxe natural non só é fonte de inspiración, beleza e atracción, senón tamén un lugar sagrado do mundo Celta, e destino de peregrinación de carácter universal neste mundo atlántico. Dito doutro xeito, <strong>os promontorios atlánticos occidentais de Galicia deben ser visitados unha vez cando menos por todos aquelas xentes de ambos hemisferios que se sintan atraídas pola <em>Celtic Issue</em></strong>. Esta fascinante e atrevida aseveración descansa en dous grandes polos temáticos que serán analizados moi polo miudo neste curso:</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1. Galicia, sagrada no contexto dunha relixión celta atlántica internacional</span></strong>. <a href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/185781_192016590833089_100000742473370_523200_6668087_n2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-644" title="185781_192016590833089_100000742473370_523200_6668087_n" src="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/185781_192016590833089_100000742473370_523200_6668087_n2-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a>Existiu unha relixión, unha liturxia ligada a unha lingua celta denominada por Eulogio Losada <em>Céltico Antígo Común</em>, que seguramente se forxa no Neolítico e acada esplendor no Período Heroico do Bronce onde o Atlántico se homoxeniza nunha mesma comunidade cultural de estelas con armas de bronce e escudos con escotadura en V e petroglifos e insculturas na rocha. Neste período hai xerarquía social moi marcada, hai grandes señores galaicos de vasallos, hai acumulación de metais e riquezas que amosa o Tesouro de Ponte Caldelas, e hai escritura, denominada de momento <em>tartésica.</em></p>
<p><strong>Esta relixión é de caracter solar e trinitaria</strong>. Un só deus solar identificado como <em>Taranis</em> nas Galias, <em>Dagda</em> na Irlanda, asociado a elevadas cumes en Galicia como <strong><em>Larouco</em></strong>, romanizado logo como <em>Xúpiter</em>; e Tres Pasos diferentes. Son os tres pasos do Sol, simbolismo que se agocha tras os <strong>triskeis celtas de Santa Tegra ou San Cibrán de Las.</strong></p>
<p>No Primeiro Paso, é un deus xove, vital, fecundador, branco, brilante, é o <strong><em>Belenos </em></strong>galaico e galo, o encarnado <strong><em>Granus</em></strong>, romanizado en <em>Apolo.</em></p>
<p>No Segundo Paso, esta solar divinidade é solsticial e decadente, mais guía de ánimas ao Mais Alá, ao Alén. É o Camiñante, o Guía <em>Setanta</em> en Irlanda, <em>Oghmios</em> na Galia, <em>Heracles</em> grego ou <em>Hercules </em>romano. É o <strong><em>Bandua </em></strong>ou <strong><em>Coso</em></strong> galaico, xunto cos seus psicopompicos elementos como <strong>guías habilitados hacia o Alén</strong>.</p>
<p>No contexto deste Segundo Paso, <strong>Galicia é Terra Santa</strong>, porque a divinidade solar se deita, morre, ingresa no Alén, situado mais alá do noso mar occidental. Galicia é o Finisterre, a <strong>Costa da Morte do Sol</strong>. As xentes dende tempo que se perde na memoria da Humanidade veñen en peregrinación por un camiño universal que segue o ronsel do Sol. Este é o camiño que han de seguir os mortos hacia o Alén, figurado como unha Alta Fortaleza mais alá do mar. E este é o camiño que teñen que seguir os vivos para ver o Ocaso, a queste do Santo Grial. Aristóteles dí que existía unha <strong>Vía Heraclea</strong> até o confín occidental, chamada así por ser este o camiño seguido por Heracles sobre a nave ou <em>kálix</em> do Sol até a Terra Vermella para dar morte a Xerión e roubarlle o seu gando no contexto do seu Décimo Traballo.</p>
<p>No Terceiro Paso, esta divinidade aparece como no célebre caldeiro celta de Gundestrup, o <em>Cernunus</em> galo ou o <strong><em>Donn</em></strong>  galaico e irlandés, con unha cornamenta como atributos divinos e o cerimonial <strong>torques como o de Burela</strong>. Este é agora un deus serio e Xuíz que decide o paso das ánimas ao Alén ou aos abismos. Este deus cornudo é o centinela, o hospedeiro do paraíso. É esta a explicación ao santuario ao aire libre celta mais importante de Europa, situado fronte ás Illas Cíes, figuración do Paraíso, o <strong>Facho de Donón</strong>, coas suas estelas adicadas ao <strong><em>Deo Lar Berobreo</em></strong>, ao <em>deus guía da Elevada Fortaleza</em>, o Alén, a Illa dos Benaventurados. É esta a explicación do maravilloso <strong><em>Vestio Alonieco de Lourizán</em></strong>, literalmente o <em>Hospederiro do Alén</em>, fronte á Illa de Tambo, outra figuración da Illa do Alén. Ésta é a explicación do santuario milenario de <strong>Teixido</strong>, situado fronte á Illa da Barca. Donn, o Escuro, profetizou como Hospedeiro do Alén que é, que &#8220;á miña Casa teredes que vir despois da morte&#8221;, e isto seguese a cumplir na inmortal tradición de <strong>ir de morto se non se foi en vida</strong>. Ésta é a explicación do misterio da rocha da <strong>Igrexa Vella</strong> da <em>praia do paradiso</em> de <strong>Bares</strong>, chegada da milenaria <strong><em>ruta megalítica dos arrieiros</em></strong>, situada fronte a <strong>Illa da Coelleira</strong>, outra figuración da Elevada Fortaleza.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2. Galicia, berce dos celtas</span></strong>. O extraordinario patrimonio inmaterial que nos ofrece o ciclo lendario irlandés medieval, realizado por monxes no século XII a xeito dun Mester de Clerecía irlandés, indica que o proxenitor dos celtas <strong>Breogán</strong> descubre dende o alto da súa torre unha liña verde que ordea explorar ao seu fillo <strong>Ith</strong>. Éste será morto polos habitantes da illa anteriores aos celtas, a treba ou pobo dos Danans. Como vinganza a tal afrenta, o sobriño de Ith, <strong>Mil</strong>, decidirá conquistar a illa, que colonizará soa súa descendencia, <strong>os Milesios</strong>. A liñaxe celta deriva de Mil Espane, o galaico, que levaría con él a Pedra de Soberanía ou <strong>Pedra do Destino</strong> sobre a cal se coroan os <em>coronos, princeps </em>ou reis celtas, tal e como se amosa no extraordinario cadeirado do Salón de Plenos do <strong>Pazo de María Pita na Coruña</strong>. Esta pedra existe e é a que custodia o Castelo de Edimburgo (Escocia) có compromiso de ser desplazada á Abadía de Westminster en Londres para as cerimonias de coroación dos reis de Inglaterra.</p>
<p>Poi ben, a milenaria memoria que se transmitiu de xeración en xeración, indica que a torre de Breogán, mansión dos Milesios, é a Torre de Brigantia, a <strong>Torre de Hércules</strong> Patrimonio da Humanidade coruñesa. Así se creía na Idade Media na Iberia, pois o rei sabio Afonso X así o recolle na súa General Hestoria, e así se creía na Irlanda na Idade Moderna. A confirmación producese cando comenzan a arribar ao porto da Coruña os líderes irlandeses exiliados da súa terra ocupada polos ingleses a comenzos do XVII. Son os derradeiros celtas históricos falantes de gaélico. É o <em>vó dos condes</em>, o <em>Earl´s flight.</em> <strong>Red High O´Donell e Donald Cam O´Sullivan</strong> emociónanse na súa visita á,  arruinada naquela altura, Torre de Breogán, berce dos seus devanceiros xa que as liñaxes irlandesas remontan a Mil Espane á sua ascendencia. A pesares de que estas visitas á Torre son lendas de carácter oral, esto confírmase có irrefutable aserto que atopamos no testamento do bispo exiliado irlandés <strong>Edmund O´Dempsey</strong>, que falece na <strong><em>&#8220;Mansión dos Milesios&#8221;.</em></strong></p>
<p>Un fascinante mundo material e inmaterial que conecta as nosas mais fondas raíces coas raíces da Europa atlántica. É o noso fogar común, futuro de seguro da historiografía e do gran turismo en Galicia, auténtica terra santa dos celtas.</p>
<p>Na xornada das palestras o catedrático da USC Juan Jose Moralejo falaranos da celticidade de Galicia no eido da lingüística, o arqueólogo decano do IGEC André Pena Graña falaranos da Internacional Celtic Common Law e institucións pancelticas, e Blanca García Fernández-Albalat disertará sobre a relixiosidade e xénese dos santuarios celtas. O etnógrafo Carlos Solla concienciaranos acerca da necesidade da conservación deste patrimonio e eu mesmo terei a grande honra de propor un itinerario turístico de carácter universal en Galicia para o público celta. Fiel á intención proactiva e xeradora de negocio que ten que ter a APIT, fecharemos o acto cun debate con empresarios acerca da rendabilidade empresarial da <em>marca celta</em> para Galicia.</p>
<p>Esta teoría acompañarase con tres saídas ou excursións para interpretar sobre o terreo o tratado na xornada teórica e coñecer o patrimonio material.</p>
<p>A que este mundo é fascinante, tan atractivo como unha insuperable telúrica forza que nos empuxa a cruzar a Portalén da Montaña Máxica do Seixo en Cercdedo e adentrarnos no Mais Alá?</p>
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		<title>CORUNNA. THE TOWER OF BREGON.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galicia is the Bregon or Breoghan´s home. Acording the Irish Legendary Cicle, recording from the Middle Ages of milenary tales, specially the Book of Invasions, Bregon discovered the green line of the Irish coast beyond the sea from the top of his tower in Brigantia (Corunna). Acording the same legend, after the death of Ith, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Galicia is the Bregon or<a href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/torre.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-635" title="torre" src="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/torre-217x300.jpg" alt="" width="217" height="300" /></a> Breoghan´s home. Acording the Irish Legendary Cicle, recording from the Middle Ages of milenary tales, specially the <em>Book of Invasions</em>, Bregon discovered the green line of the Irish coast beyond the sea from the top of his tower in Brigantia (Corunna). Acording the same legend, after the death of Ith, Milled, who has been in the service of Bregon, conqueredIreland with his troops, the Milesians, the firt historical Celtic People of the island. After the conquest, the Romans named the O´Brian´s tower theHercules Tower, settled in Corunna, declared World Heritage by UNESCO. Scholars know that Hercules is the wanderer heroe (like the Irish Setanta, the gaulish Ogmios, the Galician Bandua or the Roman Mercury) who reached the top West using the boat of the Sun (Symbol christianized under the form of a chalice-boat and a host-sun, represented in the coat of arms of Galicia).</p>
<p>The memory of its origines still stands in times of the last Celtic Counts generation. After the defeat of the Battle of Kinsale (1602) and the Tudor conquest of Ireland, several Irish leaders escaped and were exiled in Galicia<a title="" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Usuario/Mis%20documentos/SACRED%20DESTINATION.doc#_ftn1">[1]</a> followed by supporters and catholic bishops, like Red Hugh O´Donell and Donald Cam O´Sullivan. O´Donell visited the abandoned, in that time, O´Brian´s Tower as a homage to his ancestors, and the O&#8217;Sullivan clan claimed a descent from the mythological followers of Mil who were the first Celts to colonize <em>Innis Fáil</em>, their &#8220;island of destiny&#8221;. Other example is Edmund O´Dempsey, Bishop of  Leighlin. The Bishop O´Dempsey was as well a prominent member of the Confederation of Kilkeny and were exempted from pardon by the Cronwellian victors in 1652. His loyalty to the Catholic King James II resulted in the loss of his states. After several months inMadrid he moved to the Celtic mythic End of the World Finisterre where spent the rest of his life. Died in 1658 and buried in  “the Milesians mansion” in his own words.</p>
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<p>Before the arrival of the Milesians, Ireland was colonized by the People <em>Tuatha De Danan </em>or People of Dana (<em>Tuatha </em>or <em>treba</em> in Galician<em>)</em>, which carried the <em>Lia Fail</em> or Stone of Destiny which is still the Coronation Stone of Westminster conserved in the Edimburg Castle. Acording the old tradition, the granitic stone was moved from the Land of Death, which it´s the Land of Life and Light as well, the kingdom of Brigantia (Bergantiños is the name of the vaste county situated in its coast around Corunna). Its fact was represented into the chairs of the Assembly Hall of the Palace of the Town Hall of Corunna.</p>
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		<title>PROGRAMA DO CURSO OS SANTUARIOS CELTAS DE GALICIA. ASOCIACIÓN PROFESIONAL DE GUÍAS.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[APIT Galicia ten a honra de presentar un ambicioso programa didáctico para profesionais do sector turístico nunha liña avalada académica e historiográfica,  partidaria da identidade céltica e atlántica da nosa Comunidade Autónoma que pretende fornecer aos profesionais de competencias no mercado e circuíto celta (Gran Brataña, Irlanda, Francia, EEUU) aproveitando as extraordinarias condicións xeoestratéxicas e [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">APIT Galicia ten a honra de presentar un ambicioso programa didáctico para profesionais do sector turístico nunha liña avalada académica e historiográfica,  partidaria da identidade céltica e atlántica da nosa Comunidade Autónoma que pretende fornecer aos profesionais de competencias no mercado e circuíto celta (Gran Brataña, Irlanda, Francia, EEUU) aproveitando as extraordinarias condicións xeoestratéxicas e o innumerable patrimonio material e inmaterial referente a esta complexa materia. Estamos ante un evidente contexto de oportunidade que debe xerar negocio nun xa presente necesitado de estímulos, e sobre todo, no futuro, toda vez que os tres grandes monumentos Patrimonio da Humanidade de Galicia están intimamente relacionados dalgún xeito, íntimo no caso da Torre de Hércules ou Breogán, coa materia celta e atlántica.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">APIT Galicia presenta, pois, unha actividade de formación sen precedentes , que dada a súa complexa e específica natureza, debe ser configurada nunha xornada teórica de presentacións por académicos ou profesores independentes avalados cientificamente polo Instituto Galego de Estudios Celtas, completado polo necesario debate acerca da viabilidade e rendabilidade en termos de negocio turístico desta internacional <em>Celtic Issue</em>. Neste debate escolleronse personalidades de natureza variada do mundo empresarial con presenza dentro e fora da Comunidade Autónoma e do mundo da cultura. Esta xornada de presentacións debe ser completada coa realización de tres itinerarios físicos ou excursións para a visita de campo e interpretación do mobiliario material e inmaterial tratado no corpus teórico.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify;">Sábado 18 de Febreiro de 2012</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10:00</strong>. Acto de apertura do curso a cargo do Exma. Sra. Directora Xeral de Turismo da Xunta de Galicia, e Guillermo Proupín Castiñeiras, Presidente da APIT-Galicia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10:30</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A celticidade de Galicia.  A Lingüística</span>.  Sr. D. Juan José Moralejo Álvarez. Catedrático da USC, Lingüista e Indoeuropeísta.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>11:30</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Breogán, Hércules e a Torre de Brigantia</span>. Sr. D. Andrés Pena Graña, Decano do Instituto Galego de Estudos Celtas (IGEC) e Arqueólogo do Concello de Narón.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>12:30</strong>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A xénese dos santuarios celtas</span>. Blanca García Fernández-Albalat. Profesora experta en relixiosidade celta, membro do IGEC.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>13:30</strong> Pausa para xantar</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>16:00.</strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> A Montaña Máxica. O Monte do Seixo. O Santuario perdido dos celtas</span>. Sr. D. Carlos Solla, Etnógrafo e Académico do IGEC.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>17:00</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">O itinerario turístico dos santuarios celtas. Galicia na relixiosidade celta internacional</span>. Sr. D. Xesús Martínez López, profesor do IGEC, Voceiro da APIT-Galicia e Guía Turístico Especializado de Galicia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>18:00</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rendabilidade empresarial da marca celta para Galicia</span>. Mesa redonda moderada por Presidente de APIT Galicia.</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>1.     </strong>Membro da Consellería de Cultura.</li>
<li><strong>2.     </strong>Membro deTurgalicia.</li>
<li><strong>3.     </strong>Membro de APIT Galicia.</li>
<li><strong>4.     </strong>Membro do IGEC.</li>
<li><strong>5.     </strong>Empresarios galegos da CA e do exterior.</li>
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<h1 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Do</strong><strong>mingo 19 de Febreiro de 2012. Saída 1. </strong><strong>Norte.</strong><strong></strong></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">09:00 Saída dende Compostela hacia Ferrol</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10:15 Recorrido dunha ruta de senderismo para visitar o Santuario de Santa Comba de Covas (Ferrol) e a trebopala da Pena Molexa (Narón), no contexto do milenario Camiño dos Romeiros a Santo André de Teixido.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">14:00 Tempo para xantar en A Coruña</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">16:00 Interpretación das47 hectáreasdo Parque Celta da Torre de Hércules na Península da Punta Herminia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">18:00 Regreso</p>
<h1>Sábado 25 de Febreiro de 2012. Saída 2. Centro</h1>
<p>09:00 Saída de Compostela.</p>
<p>10:30 Chegada a Guitiriz e  recorrido de senderismo para visitar o entorno de simboloxía psicopompica de Buriz (Guitiriz): Cruceiros da igrexa de San Pedro, Lares Viales, Triada e o petroglifo da Chousa das Calzadas. Interpretación do Tránsito Vertical ao Alén.</p>
<p>12:30. Visita e interpretación do outeiro de pedra, trebopala ou Croio Teutático das Penas de Rodas (Outeiro de Rei) e o a Pana Moura de Donalbai (Begonte).</p>
<p>16:00 Visita do Museo de Lugo: Torques de Burela, estela de Apana Celtica Supertamarica.</p>
<p>18:00 Regreso</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: justify;">Domingo 26 de Febreiro de 2012. Saída 2. Sur.</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">09:00 Saída dende Compostela.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10:15 Visita do Santuario ao ar libre do Facho Donón (Cangas do Morrazo) fronte as Illas Cíes. Interpretación do Tránsito Horizontal ao Alén.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">13:15 Visita da planta de arqueoloxía do Museo de Pontevedra: Tesouro de Caldas de Reis, machados de tope de Samieira, espadas da Idade Heroica do Bronce, torques , petroglifo da Pedra Picuda..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">14:00 Tempo para xantar en Pontevedra.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">16:00 Recorrido de senderismo para visitar a Montaña Máxica do Seixo e a súa Porta ao Alén. (Cerdedo)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">18:00 Regreso.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>TARIFAS </strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Taxas de matrícula:<br />
30 € Asistencia a todas las ponencias más mesa redonda.<br />
15 € Por excursión.<br />
50 € Asistencia a ponencias más excursiones (miembros de APIT-Galicia).<br />
50 € Asistencia a ponencias más excursiones (estudiantes y parados)<br />
70 € Asistencia a ponencias más excursiones no miembros de APIT-Galicia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A partir do 06/02/12 anotarse chamando a APIT GALICIA. Darsena Xoán XXIII. Santiago de Compostela.</p>

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		<title>CELTIC DESTINATIONS: THE MORIA-GATE OF GUITIRIZ (GALICIA).</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two main ways to reach the Alén  or Paradise, Otherworld, after death in the panceltic solar religiosity: THE UNIVERSAL ONE,  following the path of Dagda Oll Atair the international Sun God of the Celts,  followed later by the Mediterraneans through the Heraclean Route and then christianizated in the Universal St. James Way or [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">There are two main ways to reach the <em>Alén</em>  or Paradise, <em>Otherworld,</em> after death in the panceltic solar religiosity:<br />
<strong>THE UNIVERSAL ONE</strong>,  following the path of Dagda Oll Atair the international Sun God of the Celts,  followed later by the Mediterraneans through the <em>Heraclean Route</em> and then christianizated in the Universal St. James Way or <em>Camino de Santiago</em>. In the capes, promontories and beaches (named during the Middle Ages <em>Arenas Paradisi</em> or Sands of the Paradise) of the Western coast of GALicia (Land of GAELs) we found the really <strong>Shuttles of Souls</strong> <strong>to the Paradise</strong>. In Vigo is settled the most important celtic sanctuary of the Celtia devoted to the Paradise Guest or <strong>Berobreo</strong>, <em>the Lord of the High Fortress</em>, the Cernunus of the Gundestrup Calder or Don.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But today we visit the Galician inland countryside looking for an old sacred engraved stone following an old pilgrimage way to the Otherworld.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>THE MORIA-GATE OF GUITIRIZ</strong>. Vertical Entrance to the Alén or Mother Earth like <strong>Oweynagat</strong> in Ireland or Portalén (Galicia), situated very close a small river related with the Otherworld. Many legends indeed recount that the Otherworld could be reached through water. The sea, a lake, a spring or a river was seen as a threshold or gateway to the divine world, water delimiting the boundary between the natural and the supernatural world.</p>
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		<title>Senderismo en Galicia. Itinerarios celtas. Los caminos milenarios al Paraíso. Camiño dos Romeiros desde San Cristovo a Pena Molexa.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los promontorios occidentales atlánticos de Galicia son sagrados para la religiosidad internacional céltica atlántica, pues aquí con serenidad se asiste al mayor espectáculo de los Tiempos: el hundimiento lento pero fatal e inevitable del Dagda irlandés, del Luminoso Lug, del Dios pancéltico venerado desde el confín meridional tartésico hasta el país de los Pictos. Lo [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/Santa-Comba.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-589 alignleft" title="Santa Comba" src="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/Santa-Comba-300x235.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="235" /></a>Los promontorios occidentales atlánticos de Galicia son sagrados para la religiosidad internacional céltica atlántica, pues aquí con serenidad se asiste al mayor espectáculo de los Tiempos: el hundimiento lento pero fatal e inevitable del Dagda irlandés, del Luminoso Lug, del Dios pancéltico venerado desde el confín meridional tartésico hasta el país de los Pictos. Lo hace subido en su nave o kálix, la misma que cedería prestada a Heracles en su Décimo Trabajo. Este divino trayecto hasta el Fín del Mundo deja marcado un ronsel en el cielo estrellado con el camino celestial o Vía Láctea o las Pléyades, y un camino físico en la tierra para que sea seguido por los vivos que quieran vivir esta única experiencia: es el camino de peregrinación más antiguo de Europa, hacia el Occidente, denominado Camino Heracleo por Aristóteles.<br />
También es el camino de los muertos que han de llegar hasta ese mismo lugar más allá del Atlántico donde está la Isla de los Buenaventurados, el Paraíso, el mítico Alén, Avalon, alba fortaleza en medio del mar, a donde se entra sólo de muerto. Sólo San Amaro, que tenía poca paciencia, vió en vida el Alén durante unos segundos en después de cruzar el mar, y lo que vió fueron maravillas indescriptibles.<br />
Las Santas Compañas de ánimas se dirigen con su regular tétrico paso hacia el Alén guiados por lares viales y seres guías procedentes del Otro Mundo, donde les espera el Dios celta severo y juez del Caldero de Gundestrup llamado Cernunus por los galos, que ha de juzgar a cada uno. En Galicia es el Hospedero del Alén o el Señor de la Fortaleza.<br />
Es complicado realizar el trayecto seguido por San Amaro hasta el Alén mismo, pero será un mayusculo placer transitar por estos caminos de fantástico y atlántico paisaje que conducen hasta estas lanzaderas de ánimas, últimos peajes de este mundo.<br />
Recorremos un trayecto de senderismo costero por el territorio celta galaico de Trasancos, a través de los concellos de Ferrol y Narón (A Coruña), siguiendo el Camino dos Arrieros a San Andrés de Teixido. No haremos el camino completo hoy hasta el santuario que guarda un dedo del aposptol San Andrés Patrón de Escocia, sino una primera parte de 15 kms desde las Arenas del Paraíso, arenal donde se concentran las almas de los que fueron vivos que funciona a modo de darsena donde el barquero aguarda para el pasaje al Paraíso. Ese barquero o gran guía es San Cristóbal con su capilla en la boca de la espectacular Ría de Ferrol. Continuamos dejando a nuestra izquierda la espectacular Lagoa de Doniños separada del oceano por una lengua de arena y dunas y alcanzaremos el maravilloso paraje de la isla de Santa Comba y su barca de piedra. Ella y su hijo San Silvestre son los patronos de las meigas, que no son brujas. A continuación, terminaremos nuestro recorrido por hoy en un outeiro o altar pétreo, la Pena Molexa, lugar sagrado de la religión y política de los galaicos trasancos, donde yace petrificada una cofradía entera de guerreros celtas y la Reina Madre, la Cailach, bajo una estimulante leyenda. El trayecto está perfectamente señalizado al ser parte del milenario Camiño dos Romeiros y sobre todo una vez en el concello de Narón, existen paneles y lugares de interpretación de las instituciones celtas con la firma del Instituto Galego de Estudos Celtas. En una deliciosa jornada hemos disfrutado de fantásticos paisajes, hemos hecho 15 km de senderismo y hemos visitado lugares míticos de esta tierra de meigas y mouras.</p>
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		<title>The Mother Goddess, the Moura in Galicia. International Celtic religiosity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Celts lived in large communities or tribes &#8211; called civitates* or nationes by the Roman historians &#8211; led by a chief, for instance Ambiorix, leader of the Eburones,  Ambigatos, king of the Bituriges or Boudicca queen of the Iceni, or Nicer Clutosi Priceps of the Albiones in Gallaecia. There were around sixty different peoples [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG00224-20111002-1308.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-583 alignleft" title="The &quot;Moura&quot; of Coirós (Corunna)" src="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG00224-20111002-1308-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>The Celts lived in large communities or tribes &#8211; called <em>civitates*</em> or <em>nationes</em> by the Roman historians &#8211; led by a chief, for instance Ambiorix, leader of the Eburones,  Ambigatos, king of the Bituriges or Boudicca queen of the Iceni, or Nicer Clutosi <em>Priceps</em> of the Albiones in Gallaecia. There were around sixty different peoples in Gaul, not counting the unrecorded septs* and the tribes of Narbonnensis, around twenty in Ireland and about thirty in Britain and Gallaecia. Those septs* shared cultural and religious ideas and were linked by economic ties, but they did not form a political entity or a homogenous whole. The tribes lived on a territory delimited by frontiers which were generally natural, such as a river, a forest, a mountain, etc. Gaulish, Galician and British epigraphy reveals that names of single goddesses or epithets of Matres, Matronae are ethnonyms*, i.e. names of tribes, which tends to prove that the Celtic peoples venerated goddesses bearing the name of their sept*. The tradition of ‘tribal-goddesses’ was also part of the beliefs of the Germanic peoples, for a significant number of Matres, Matronae, bearing ethnonymic* bynames* are known. For example, the Matronae Hamavehae are the Mother Goddesses of the sept* of the Chamavi the Matres Kannanefates of the Cananefates; the Matronae Vanginehae and the Matres Vagionae of the Vangiones; the Matres Suebae of the Suebi; the Matres Frisavae of the Frisiavi, the Matres/Matronae Cantrusteihae (Andrustehiae) of the Condrusi, and the Matribus Gallaicis<strong>[1], the Mother Goddeses of the Galicians.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Queen Mother (<strong>the Moura</strong>)its represented alone with a huge sexual attributes may be engraved on the Stone Altarpiece of the sept or <strong>treba of Nemitos (Nemeton means shrine)in Galicia close Corunna</strong>; and other times has a form of a triad like in Ireland: Badb, Macha and Mórrígain are the three Mórrígna. This reference obviously indicates that the Mórrígain is the original entity, who could be turned into a triple goddess possessing various facets, names and forms.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>[1]</strong> Matribvs <strong>Gallaicis</strong>, CIL II 2776</p>
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		<title>Galicia, land of the Milesians and Gaelic last sanctuary.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nine Years War in Ireland(1594-1603) was fought between the Elizabethan English forces and the last historical Irish Celtic Gaelic Chieftians descendants from Bregon and Milesius led by Hugh Ó Neill of Tír Eoghain and Hugh Roe Ó Donnell of Tír Chonaill. After the defeat of the battle of Kinsale (1601), the resistants were concentrated [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/irlanda.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-577 alignleft" title="irlanda" src="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/irlanda.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="183" /></a>The Nine Years War in Ireland(1594-1603) was fought between the Elizabethan English forces and the last historical Irish Celtic Gaelic Chieftians descendants from <strong>Bregon</strong> and <strong>Milesius</strong> led by Hugh Ó Neill of Tír Eoghain and Hugh Roe Ó Donnell of Tír Chonaill. After the defeat of the battle of Kinsale (1601), the resistants were concentrated in the last rebel stronghold in Dumboy Castle near the town of Castletownbere on the Beara peninsula. It was the seat of Gaelic clan <strong>Donal Cam O´Sullivan</strong> <strong>Beare</strong> (Chief of Dumboy). In 1607 was forced into exile in Galicia in what became known as the <em>Flight of the earls</em>. O&#8217; Sullivan, rather than make any pact with the English fled to the safety of exile under the Spanish Monarchy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">O&#8217; Sullivan finally reached Galiciain the year 1604 where he was welcomed by the Count of Caracena, Governor of the Kingdomof Galicia. Two years before died and was buried close the Relichs Chapel of Santiago de Compostela  the Most Reverand <strong>Thomas Strong Bishop of Ossory</strong>, forced to leave theIsland of Saints and Scholars in October 1584 and appointed Auxiliary Bishop and Dean of the Chapter of Compostela who spent his remaining years  with the Irish College.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The O&#8217; Sullivan clan claim descent from the mythological followers of Milesius who were the first Celts to colonize Ireland</strong><a title="" href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-admin/post-new.php#_ftn1"><strong><strong>[1]</strong></strong></a>. They had migrated from the sacred Celtic Galicia and conquered the previous residents, the <em>Firbolg</em> and the <em>Tuatha De Danann</em>. The Irish were given awarm welcome on Galicia, with the setting up of the IrishCollege in the Rua Nova of Compostela and the granting of titles and estates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Indeed Donal Cam himself was honoured with the knighthood of the Military Order of Santiago, and his standing as leader of the O&#8217; Sullivan clan and Count of Bearhaven was officially recognised by  the Spanish king Philip III.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The IrishCollegeat Santiago de Compostela was founded in 1605 inRua das Hortas under the supervision of the Irish priest <strong>Eug</strong><strong>ene MacCa</strong><strong>rthy</strong>, one of those who had accompanied O&#8217;Sullivan on his flight from Ireland.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">MacCarthy was elected as the first rector of the College to preserve the Irish language and traditions amongst the first students of the College who were all members or relations of the O&#8217; Sullivan clan. Indeed as Patricia O Connell in <em>The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela 1605-1769</em> says “Given the centuries-old connections between the Celtic realms of Galicia and Ireland, it is not without significance that the dawn of the seventeenth century,when Gaelic civilisation was about to collapse, Galicia and especially Santiago de Compostela would provide sanctuary, shelter and support for numerous Irish refugees and a centre for the preservation and promotion of education and culture for their compatriots – the Irish College at Santiago.” (O Connell, p.28).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The newly ordained clergymen returned to Ireland in disguise and led a secret double life, celebrating underground masses on mass-rocks as the Celtic druids from the Iron Age and the times of the Celtic Monks or wherever they could do so with relative safety.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The brave O´Sullivan was killed in 1618 by English agents, and the Irish presence and activity of theIrishCollegecontinued. We have to remark three more bishops:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Thomas Walsh</strong>, Archbishop of Cashel, born inWaterford 1580, kinsman of Bishop Thomas Strong and Father Luke Wadding the great Franciscan. Ordained priest for the Waterford Diocese at the College of the Irish Nobles atSalamanca in 1603. Appointed to succeed Archbishop David Kearney of Cashel who died in exile near Bordeaux in 1625. Consecrated Arcbishop of Cashel Rome 1626 by Pope Urban VIII.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Returned to Irelandin disguise in 1628. Despite the constant theat of persecution laboured by tirelessly often as a fugitive as Archbishop and Metropolitan of Munster. After the siege of Limerick in 1650 was captured, imprisioned and deported and thence to the Irish College at Santiago where he died on May 5<sup>th</sup> 1654 aged 74 years. Was buried with great ceremony in this cathedral of St. James, by its Chapter next to the Chapel of the Kings and Relics (Museum of the Cathedral).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Nicholas French</strong>, Bishop of Ferns, leader of the <em>Confederate Catholics of Ireland </em>in 1642 wich established their capital at Kilkeny and with the collapse of Royal authority as a result of Civil War became the <em>de facto</em> government of Ireland between 1642 and 1649, when they were crushed by the sonamed <em>English Parliamentarian conquest of Ireland</em> which began in 1649. The Parlamentarians were extremely hostile to Catholic clergy, executing them when they apprehended them, and French deemed it prudent to leaveIreland in 1651. From 1655 was the Auxiliary Bishop ofSantiago after been saved by the Chapter of Santiago wich payed 500 silver reales. Died in 1666.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Edmund O´Dempsey</strong>, Bishop of  Leighlin. The Dempseys were descendants of the O Diomasaich sept. O Diomasaich comes from the Irish word “díomasach” meaning proud. They were a powerful sept located on the borders of Laois and Offali in the territory known as Clanmalier. King James I of England gave the title of Viscount Clanmalier to his father Terence O´Dempsey. The Bishop O´Dempsey was as well a prominent member of the Confederation of Kilkeny and were exempted from pardon by the Cronwellian victors in 1652. His loyalty to the Catholic King James II resulted in the loss of his states. After several months in Madrid <strong>he moved to the Celtic mythic End of the World Finisterre where spent the rest of his life. Died in 1658 and buried in the capital of “the Milesians mansion” in his own words.</strong><strong></strong></p>
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		<title>SEXA VOSTEDE BENVIDA AO ALÉN, SEÑORA ÁNIMA!!!</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/cernunos.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-570 alignleft" title="cernunos do caldeiro de Gundestrup, como o noso Hospedeiro do Museo de Pontevedra." src="http://www.guiasdegalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/cernunos-300x143.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="143" /></a>Quizáis ninguén mellor que o <strong>Vestio Alonieco do Museo de Pontevedra</strong> para expresar o espíritu de benvida e hospedeiro dos habitantes deste confín céltico galaico, habituadas a ver peregrinos dende época inmemorial, seguramente tradición relixiosa tán antíga como a propia presencia humana nestos sagrados lares. KM O, Fín do Camiño, derradeira peaxe neste tránsito horizontal hacia o Alén. Toda a humanidade en ánima terá que vir aos promontorios occidentales de Galicia-lanzadeiras de ánimas fronte ao Tenebrossum Mare en traxecto ao Paraíso.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Todos os camiños de salvación rematan aquí. Este é o elemento universal que a Relixión Celta lle confire á nosa costa. Aquí faise realidade o <strong>Segundo Paso </strong>solsticial do decadente e moribundo deus solar panceltico. Aquí afundese o sol no seu kalix ou navío iniciando a súa singladura fora do tempo polos tártaros para a súa resurrección. Aquí autosacrifícase o AGNI ou Lume- Luz do Mundo chamado ao seu sacrificio para a súa vindeira resurrección en favor da vida. Aquí verificase o <strong>FIN DO ANO SAMAÍN</strong>, e neste afundimento ao abismo, o deus solar ten a ben deixar un ronsel ou autopista de ánimas que ha de ser utilizado por todos, e tamén un corpo un corpo de gardas de tráfico para que non se colapse dita autopista. Este ronsel é o Camiño clásico de Briareo e de Heracles, o camiño das Santas Compañas de mortos, é o Camiño de Santiago, é a Vía Láctea, son as Pleiades,  é o Camiño dos Camiños hacia a salvación. Os gardas de tráficos son os guías, os elementos psicopompos, os cadrifaces, os lares viales, Mercurio, Oghmios, San Pedro, San Roque, San Critovo, San Lourenzo, os galos, os cáns, as figuriñas de miga de pan petrificadas nos “Sanandreses” de Teixido. Pero non todo o mundo pasa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Tras a súa chegada á Briga ou Illa do Alén máis alá do mar, este mesmo e único deus celta pasa de ser cordeiro a serpe-símbolo das profundidades do Outro Mundo e adquire unha cornamenta símbolo positivo e de divinidade. É o galo <strong>CERNUNUS</strong> deus xuíz e Pantocrátor que vemos no marabilloso vaso celta de Gundestrup, e é o máis simpático <strong>HOSPEDEIRO DO</strong> <strong>ALÉN</strong> ou Vestio Alonieco de Lourizán (Pontevedra), derradeira peaxe para pasar ao Alén, figurada na Illa de Tambo. Na súa aperta de benvida e no seu imaxinario sorriso, eu vexo a aperta e o sorriso dos paisanos de Novelúa, Barbadelo, Furelos ou Fisterra aos peregrinos (“Aló vai meu probe romeiro, non se alí chegará”). Seguro seguro que este xuiz que decide quén entra no Alén a disfrutar dese pumar de praceres e quén se queda fora a vagar como ánima en pena na oscuridade dos infernos, que recibe-hospedeiro aos mortos con atributos de cornos, será demonizado posteriormente, nunca mellor dito, polo Cristianismo dando oríxe ao cristiano demo. Neste seu contexto, vemos pois que a serpe e os cornos non son elemento negativo senón atributivo de divinidade. En todo caso, ben sabemos que ao igual que pasa con “<strong>meigas</strong>” e “<strong>brujas</strong>”, non é nin nunca foi o mesmo para nós “<strong>Demonio</strong>” que “<strong>demo</strong>”.</p>
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		<title>THE PARADISE OF THE CELTS. WHY VISITING GALICIA?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Galicia, the unique Celtic Country non Celtic speaker[1], the Mother Land, the <em>Caileach</em> Land[2], the <em>Land of Death</em> of the International Celtic Mithology, was re-discovered by the Atlantic Celtic community in the last years, and the Celtic issue increased into the interests of Administrations and nowadays constitutes a tourist destination.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Until the beginning of Modern Age, Galicia was considered the World´s End, the <em>Finisterrae</em>, last frontier. That´s the reason why James the Son of the Thunder, <em>Boanerges</em>, was buried in its land[3], the most Western coast of the world. We must to take into account that the Christian Church buried the three main apostles[4] in special places around the world: Peter in Rome <em>Caput Mundi</em>; John in Jerusalem <em>Holly Land</em>; and James in Santiago de Compostela, holly land as well, and <em>Finisterre</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The fact of being the Western point of the continent, the mythical End of the World gives Galicia a great relevance into the Celtic World and international Celtic Religion. Today the <em>Land of the Death</em> constitutes the goal of the most important pilgrimage way, <strong>The St.James</strong> <strong>Way</strong>, but we found its oldest origines thousands years before.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>-THE CELTIC RELIGION. LAND OF DEATH, LAND OF LIFE</strong>. Independently the fact of the existence of the various local gods and goddesses, we know today that there were an international common celtic religion, performed by a professional group (druids, abbas) and may be an international liturgical common celtic language. Its religion has a solar nature and it´s monotheist: one God (Sun-<em>Dagda</em>) linked with a female <em>(Brigantia</em>) with three different steps: <em>Imbolc</em>, <em>Beltene</em> and <em>Samain</em>, represented into the celtic triskelion. The solar discus rises into the East and dies (Dying God) into the West, into the Western Coast, into the Coast of Death of the Sun, beyond the <em>Mare Tenebrossum</em>. So, the <em>Avallon</em>, the Celtic Paradise, the Galician <em>Alén</em>, it´s situated behind the Ocean, and its Western cliffs over the Atlantic are like a real shuttles for the souls of the celts in their travel to the Paradise after death. The Voyage of Saint Brendan of Ireland or San Amaro of Galicia towards the Paradise were towards the West beyond the sea. Bares, Teixido[5], Corunna, Finisterre, Donón…are headlands or capes over the Atlantic and goals of  milenary pagan first and then Christian religious pilgrimages. And, the most important, from its promontories its possible to see the amazing Death, the sinking of the Solar Discus each and every evening. So, if we look at the annual calendar, is in its Western coast where is possible to confirm the end of the Second Step or the End of the Celtic Year, the <em>Samain</em>, the day where the borderline between the world of Death and the world of Life is open.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>-THE CELTIC LEGEND</strong>. Galicia is the O´Brian, Bregon, Breogan´s home. Acording the Irish Legendary Cicle, recording from the Middle Ages of milenary tales, specially the <em>Book of Invasions</em>, Bregon discovered the green line of the Irish coast beyond the sea from the top of his tower in Brigantia (Corunna). Acording the same legend, after the death of Ith, Milled, who has been in the service of Bregon, conqueredIreland with his troops, the Milesians, the firt historical Celtic People of the island. After the conquest, the Romans named the O´Brian´s tower theHerculesTower, other mithical heroe who reached the top West using the boat of the Sun (Simbol christianized under the form of a chalice-boat and a host-sun, represented in the coat of arms ofGalicia) settled in Corunna, declared World Heritage by UNESCO.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The memory of its origines still stands in times of the last Celtic Counts generation. After the defeat of the Battle of Kinsale (1602) and the Tudor conquest of Ireland, several Irish leaders escaped and were exiled in Galicia[6] followed by supporters and catholic bishops, like Red Hugh O´Donell and Donald Cam O´Sullivan. O´Donell visited the abandoned, in that time, O´Brian´s Tower as a homage to his ancestors, and the O&#8217;Sullivan clan claimed a descent from the mythological followers of Mil who were the first Celts to colonize <em>Innis Fáil</em>, their &#8220;island of destiny&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Before the arrival of the Milesians, Ireland was colonized by the <strong>People <em>Tuatha De Danan </em></strong>or People of Dana (<em>Tuatha </em>or <em>treba</em> in Galician<em>)</em>, which carried the <strong><em>Lia Fail</em></strong> or Stone of Destiny which is still the Coronation Stone of Westminster conserved in the Edimburg Castle. Acording the old tradition, the granitic stone was moved from the <strong>Land of Death</strong>, which is the Land of Life and Light as well, the kingdom of Brigantia (Bergantiños is the name of the vaste county situated in its coast around Corunna). Its fact was represented into the chairs of the Assembly Hall of the Palace of theTown Hall of Corunna, situated close the burial of the Scotish General John Moore, mortally wounded in the Battle of Corunna in 1809 during the Peninsular War against Napoleon.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>-THE HISTORY</strong>.  Acording the tradition, Ireland was conquered and colonized by three misterious Peoples from beyond the Sea, where dies the Sun: the <strong><em>Firbolgs</em></strong> or Megaliths builders, the <strong>Tuatha De Danan</strong> and finally the historical <strong>Celts or Milesians</strong> sons of Milled. Behind its legend, may be we found information about three consecutive colonization waves from the NW corner of the Iberian Peninsula. Using the data of historians and genetists[7], we can try to do its proposal with a didactic purpose:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. Among 10.000 b.C the European Continent its invaded by the ice and the human groups moved to the Iberian Peninsula until the temperature change which took place in the period named Holocene. We are in the Mesolithic, characterized by the Asturian pick-axe, very abundant in the amazing beaches likePraia das Catedrais (Ribadeo) considered a Natural Monument.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the Atlantic Neolithic (7000-2500 b.C) appears the sedentarization of the Human groups and begins the agriculture, cattle farming and ceramics. Is in its moment when there is the colonization of the Iberian Celtic populations to Ireland, specially during the Megalithism Period (4000-1500 b.C) in the Atlantic Europe and the Pyramides Period in Egipt. It´s the first monumental architecture. The dolmen Forno dos Mouros (Ortegal) is considered one of the oldest European Megalithic monument (4.500 b.C).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Its so long period covers the Neolithic, Metal Age (Copper) from 2500 to 1800 b.C. and part of the Bronze Age from 1800 to 750 b.C.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We must to stand out:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-The cult of Death with megalithic monuments (dolmens, menhirs and stone circules or cromlechs).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-Use of arms, with an evident technological step forward from the iron daggers, axes, halberds and  copper javelins to bronze apa type swords and carp swords used by the Celtic warriors of the Galician and Asturian hill forts (castros) still used in the Iron Age from 750 b.C.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Its migrants are the megaliths builders of the Legendary Cicle who crossed the sea using <em>bornas</em> or leather boats. There are the Firbolgs from the Land of Death.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2. In its last period of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Historical Age or Iron Age (1250-750 b.C) took place the second great wave registered in the Legendary Cicle: the Tuatha De Danan, the People of the goddess Dana. Goddess of Light, fertility, christianizated as Saint Brigit of Kildare in Ireland or Saint Lucia or Saint Marina in Galicia. Its people from the Bronze Age uses other type of a modern armaments with bronze swords and cutout shield as we can see in the arms exchange as a friendship symbol before the beginning of the hostilities in the Moytura Battle between the cooper Firbolgs and the modern bronze Danans, acording the Legend.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3. Finally, in historical times already, in the Petroglyfs[8] and Galician Castros Age (from 700 b.C), there is the last of the invasions, the Bregon´s Sons one, narrated by the <strong>Leabar</strong> <strong>Gabhala</strong> and bards like <strong>Armegin</strong>. There comes a time when even the punic influence are entering in Southern Spain by hand of the Phoenicians.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">So, If you are a Celt, you must visit your origines, the Land of Death, one time in your life, but don´t worry, if you can´t you will do it after death in your final travel to the Paradise following the Sun Dying God.</p>
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<p>[1] The Galician-Portuguese is a latin language, from the Latin like Catalonian, Spanish, French or Italian.</p>
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<p>[2]Galicia comes from Callaicia, Gallaecia, the territory of the Callaici.</p>
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<p>[3] Compostela it´s the capital of Galicia.</p>
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<p>[4] Peter, James and John apeared in the important moments of the public life of Christ, like in the Transfiguration.</p>
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<p>[5] They are still the popular saying “<em>you must to go to Teixido after death, if you didn´t it in your life”</em>. Of course, if you want to reach the Paradise you have first to reach its necessary last toll helped by psychopomp guides. Close Teixido it´s situated Herbeira Mount, the highest continental Atlantic cliff (700 mts. over the ocean).</p>
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<p>[6] We must to stand out the Saint Patrick College of Santiago de Compostela, established in that moment by the archbishop of Cassel, a real “martyres school”.</p>
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<p>[7] Acts of the III International Celtic Culture Congress organized by the IGEC and celebrated in Naron (A Coruña), April 2011. http://www.estudosceltas.org/ , and the research of Byan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics of theUniversity ofOxford.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">[8] Even though the first  written account of the  Wild Hunting matter in the Medieval Europe may be was the Celtic tale of the meeting of Pwill ans Anwn of the Welsh Mabinogui, the oldest representation of its psychopomp <em>Herlintagui</em> or Holly Company appears engraved in the Galician petrglyfs like Laxe das Cabras (Ribeira) or Campo Lameiro (Pontevedra).</p>
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