G, GORT, ivy in the Ogham alphabet. The bird ... - Rodney Mackay

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GAOL, love, fondness, a beloved, a lover, Ir. gaol, kin, family, EIr. gael, a relationship, Germ. geil, wanton. See Gaifhheal, a Gael, an inhabitant of the Scottish highlands. Supposedly based on the name of their ultimate patriarch. GAOTH, shooting pain, a stitch, vanity, flatulence, from gai, also seen as vei, same as ON. ve, the wind. Related are the Gaelic gaibheach, stormy, blustering; gailbhinn, a storm at sea, a storm of snow; gaile, excitement; gaillionn, a windstorm, the Scand. galen, the English gale and ghost. The elemental gods of Scandinavia were sometimes given as Lokki (fire); Vili (water) and Ve (wind). The latter two are represented in Teutonic myth as Hler and Kari. The Gaelic fire-god was Lugh, their sea-god Ler and the windgod Meirneal, who the English called Merlin. Hence gaoistean, an crafty fellow, a “trapper,” and gaoisthean, a fop, a wind-head. The family name Vey is from this root. It has been suggested that under the will of the creator-god they co-operated in the creation of man; the wind-god gifting humans with motion and the six senses. In later Norse mythology Odin is often substituted for Ve as Lord of the Northern Mountains. It has been claimed that the brothers, Vili and Ve, annually usurped the power of Odin, taking his throne and raping his wife Frigga. Each May, Odin was said to return from his winter journeys and leadership of the Asgarderia, or Host of Soul-Catchers. Finding his realm reduced to unhappiness, he always drove off his brothers. Thus, the wind is a male personification of the Cailleach bheurr, similarly driven into exile at the end of winter. The Samhain, or May Day festivities, were partly a celebration of the failure of the winter-spirit. In Scandinavia, until very recent times, the May Ride was celebrated on the first day of this month. In it a flower-bedecked human representative of King Odin was required to drive off a furenveloped figure representing King Uller (Winter) by pelting him with fresh blossomed flowers. In England this day is
celebrated in a similar way, the Woden-figure being termed Jack-In-The-Green, or something of that ilk. Note the following: Wind from the west, fish and bread; Wind from the North, cod and flaying; Wind from the East, snow on the hills; Wind from the South, fruit on trees. The wind was formerly considered animate, and with good reason: "Every high wind, in many Places of the Highlands, is a Whirlwind. The agitated Air, pouring into the narrow and high Spaces between the Mountains, being confined in its Course...I say, the Air, in that violent Motion, is there continually repelled by the opposite Hill, and rebounded from others, till it finds a Passage, insomuch that I have seen in the Western Highlands, some scattering of Oaks, with their Bark twisted almost as if it had been done with a lever." (Letters From The North of Scotland, pp. 79-80). Wind and rain may be knocked from a rag and that the former can be bound in knots. The southern wind was mythologically associated with Loki and the north wind at first with Thor and later with Odin. The latter rode the Wild Hunt southward on this wind in his search for souls. The wind of winter was as much feared in Britain where the Cailleach Bheur and Herla the Huntsman rode against mankind. The Celts were always circumspect with the wind believing that the sidh travelled in whirlwinds, and adressing any passing gust of wind with words such as, "May God speed you, gentlemen." The idea that the wind represented a god-demon was as widespread as the belief that the sun and the moon were gods. Those not content with avoiding the notice of the wind sometimes warred against it and it Eastern Africa it was once said that "no whirlwind ever sweeps across the path without being pursued by a dozen savages with drawn creeses, who stab into the centre of the dusty column in order to drive away the evil spirit that is believed to be hiding on the blast."
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Page 5 and 6: GAFANN, henbane, gaf, a hook, gafal
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Page 55 and 56: GIUTHAS, fir, EIr. gius, root gis,
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Page 59 and 60: y Cian, an apprentice to the smith.
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Page 69 and 70: monster was overcome by Cúchulainn
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to the daughter of Cormac ard-righ,
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petitioned the widow, and she event
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day to the western earth and reborn
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Daoine sidh. GRIBH, obs. Griffin, w
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GRUGACH AN UBHAIL. The “apple mon
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GURAICEACH, a plucked bird, a block
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