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Chapter 2 - 8800 BCE  
     
16.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Horse,
2.
 By twenty Great Cycles of the Bright One (8880 bce)
3.
 came the warming.
4.
 the land was freed from slumber.
5.
 By the awakening of AUN, the Shining One.
6.
 He revealed all things with his great power.
7.
 The hills and plains (became) sweeping open meadows.
8.
 Then came the flowers and the seeds.
9.
 Then the birds, the fox and the hare.
10.
 the age of the great Stags.
11.
 The giants of old.
12.
 And ancient hunters did follow.
13.
 To the land of the low clouds.
 
17.
    
1.
 These were the best of times
2.
 Before law of man
3.
 Before trickery of hand
4.
 The two faced word
5.
 The hunter and his spear
6.
 Travel far and fast
7.
 A plentiful peace
8.
 Under the watchful gaze of YAH (the Gleaming One).
 
18.
    
1.
 North from ice
2.
 South from land
3.
 Did they come
4.
 the ages of our land
5.
 Without complication, but sign
6.
 Without moans, but song
7.
 For ancient hunters did sing in joy
8.
 across the great meadows
9.
 a green heaven
10.
 Calling the Stag to their end.
 
19.
    
1.
 In this age
2.
 The Gods did smile
3.
 Upon honest men
4.
 The heavens their roof
5.
 The trees by stream their walls
6.
 The leaves their beds
7.
 Tribes did swell
8.
 To all corners of the Isle
9.
 Until no land was without man
 
20.
    
1.
 The dawn of the Great Age of the Swan (7720 bce)
2.
 (Did) Herald great change and calamity
3.
 The omen of the Gods
4.
 By one cycle of the Bright One,
5.
 Came the Great Flood
6.
 Of the Eastern tribes of man
7.
 The great black lake did swell
8.
 The waterfall did break
9.
 And many of the first of the ancients
10.
 Did drown in the Sea of Black
11.
 Save one tribe,
12.
 The tribe of NOA(H)
13.
 Who foretold of doom
14.
 And by legend
15.
 Were saved by their boats
16.
 Never again, shall we drown
17.
 The tribe of NOA(H) proclaimed
18.
 built then their new home with high walls
19.
 Fearing flood, fearing rain
20.
 A rocky place
21.
 by the River ARI-EN (Jordan)
22.
 So high did they build their walls
23.
 they did fall
24.
 Upon themselves
25.
 At a place called YAH-EA (Jericho)
 
21.
    
1.
 Of the land of ER-E, MU
2.
 The sea God LIR (LUGH) did swallow the bridge of the south
3.
 Of the north, AUN did melt the ice
4.
 Into the sea
5.
 Born then an island
6.
 All birds,
7.
 All stag and boars,
8.
 All wild horse and hare
9.
 All man
10.
 Ringed by the sea god LIR.
 
22.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Swan
2.
 At the first third,
3.
 about ten Great Cycles of CYB-EL the Bright One (6680 bce)
4.
 came the cooling.
5.
 AUN, the Shining One did retreat from view
6.
 So did all the gods of the heavens
7.
 Not even YAH, the Gleaming One did show herself.
8.
 The darkest of times
9.
 Of Man alone.
10.
 Ice and snow did cover the meadows.
11.
 The great Stag could not find food
12.
 Nor the animals of the open field,
13.
 The land did return to sleep
14.
 A cold blanket upon it
15.
 the hunter did draw lean and fearful.
 
23.
    
1.
 The Tribes of men, did rush in haste
2.
 To the South, the snow and ice was deep
3.
 But LIR (LUG(H))had swallowed the path
4.
 To the West and to the East
5.
 No beasts to be found
6.
 North did the hungry tribes come
7.
 North towards Lough Neagh.
8.
 For food
9.
 and to flee
10.
 But LIR the sea god had smashed the ice path
11.
 cold wind tore skin and flesh
12.
 Nothing but tumult
13.
 As raven feast
 
24.
    
1.
 Some made camp beside the waters
2.
 Along the sacred Shannon
3.
 Along the Lough Neagh
4.
 Only to be set upon by hungry tribes
5.
 The exiles of the south and west.
6.
 Spear no longer for beast, but man
7.
 Spear upon spear
8.
 Blood upon blood
9.
 A hundred spear
10.
 A thousand spear
11.
 Only MU (the earth) shall know
 
25.
    
1.
 these dark times
2.
 stirred blackness of heart
3.
 Why the retreat of the gods?
4.
 What terrible curse?
5.
 When old ways,
6.
 of cold and cave long forgotten.
7.
 Men set upon men
8.
 Not for war but offering
9.
 Women upon their children
10.
 Sons upon fathers
11.
 to seek a cure of darkened curse
 
26.
    
1.
 Beastly, barbaric acts befell
2.
 Sacrifice of blood flowed freely
3.
 Men cut at their limbs
4.
 to nourish their lips
5.
 Eating the flesh
6.
 of kin
 
27.
    
1.
 A chief, bathed in blood and human flesh
2.
 Rose from the North
3.
 MOT his name
4.
 No longer a hunter of boar
5.
 But men
6.
 United in death
7.
 His warriors lie (in wait)
8.
 For hungry exiles from the South
9.
 Feasting on their flesh
10.
 MOT claimed himself a god
11.
 the old gods gone are no MOTe
12.
 that the greatest of gods was A-ED,
13.
 of the underworld
14.
 a place underneath the ground
15.
 Fearful, hungry
16.
 MOT united the tribes
17.
 Killing the weak,
18.
 the children
19.
 enslaving them all.
 
28.
    
1.
 tribes of the East
2.
 Did hear of MOT
3.
 And his deeds
4.
 They (East tribes) did hide in the mountains
5.
 Once known as the land of the Holly Men
6.
 The Feara Cuileann
 
29.
    
1.
 By the stream known as Lilley
2.
 Young warriors of a tribe of the East
3.
 Were set upon by beasts of MOT.
4.
 All but one escape.
5.
 His name is Anainmbaiste
6.
 As the first.
7.
 Hungry and fearful
8.
 He leads away from the hiding place of his tribe
9.
 For the men of MOT having become accustomed
10.
 To the hunt of men
11.
 The smell of living flesh for many a mile.
12.
 Into the blackness he climbs
13.
 Higher until his fingers torn
14.
 His body weakened
15.
 Near to give up the ghost.
 
30.
    
1.
 Upon a grove he comes
2.
 Nine Elm Trees
3.
 Upon a bubbling pond
4.
 around it be strange shrubs
5.
 leaves prickly
6.
 fruit red as blood.
7.
 Anainmbaiste weakened from hunger
8.
 Did eat the sacred fruit
9.
 Upon which he fell into deep sleep and sickness
10.
 Awaking he did see
11.
 A Great White Swan upon the pond
12.
 Beside him he did reach for spear
13.
 But before his thrust
14.
 The swan did speak
15.
 Anainmbaiste be still it called
16.
 Anainmbaiste be wise it sighed
17.
 The spear did loosen from his hold
18.
 Upon what magic did he behold?
19.
 The Swan did call him to the see into the pond
20.
 By the shallows were countless rocks of golden brilliance
21.
 And salmon fat and slow,
22.
 too many to count.
23.
 The Swan did say the salmon live
24.
 for the bubbling pond that never freezes
25.
 and the sacred berries as they drop
26.
 Eat one fish called out the swan
27.
 And Anainmbaiste did eat a fish
28.
 Whereupon he gained awareness
29.
 You shall be called A-DA-MU, Meaning first born of earth
30.
 The Swan did speak
31.
 And A-DA-MU did call this place
32.
 CUILI-EALA-EAN or CUILLEAIN
33.
 The sacred healing (knowing) woods of the swan
 
31.
    
1.
 A-DA-MU did return to his tribe
2.
 In the mountains by the stream of the Lilley
3.
 To tell of his find
4.
 The Tribe do not believe
5.
 They cast him out
6.
 With his companion E-AN
7.
 They cursed his name
8.
 to the Cuilleain he returned
9.
 The Salmon and the Swan
10.
 At the Cuilleain with his companion E-AN
11.
 A-DA-MU did learn from the Swan
12.
 And the sacred Salmon
13.
 The name of plants
14.
 The name of animals
15.
 The operation of the Gods
16.
 The wisdom of law and prophecy
 
32.
    
1.
 The men of MOT did come
2.
 And scatter the tribe of A-DA-MU
3.
 Along the Lilley
4.
 Some did escape
5.
 And A-DA-MU did nurse them to life
6.
 At the Cuilleain.
7.
 Soon they will smell us
8.
 Called the survivors
9.
 The men of MOT growing hungry for new flesh
10.
 To eat and sacrifice
11.
 A-DA-MU did eat the berries
12.
 and ask the sacred Swan
13.
 Leave this place
14.
 to the coast
15.
 The Swan did say
16.
 There Build a raft to LIR, the God of the Sea
17.
 Leave this Isle
18.
 and you shall save your race
19.
 The Swan did peck a glistening pebble
20.
 From the shore of the pond
21.
 Take these stones into fire
22.
 fashion a band
23.
 the same for your arms
24.
 These shall ward off all evil
 
33.
    
1.
 A-DA-MU did as the Swan had commanded
2.
 He collected the golden rocks
3.
 He left the Hollywood and travelled to the coast
4.
 To a place called Ath Cliath Cuilleain
5.
 A name meaning the sacred (holly) hurdled ford (of the river Lilley).
6.
 There he put the rocks into a fire
7.
 And they did melt
8.
 He fashioned golden bands
9.
 one for each member of the tribe
10.
 And arm bands
11.
 for each hunter of the tribe.
12.
 There A-DA-MU commanded his tribe to chop down young saplings
13.
 to fashion a raft.
 
34.
    
1.
 The getting of wisdom
2.
 The young are fearful
3.
 The MOT shall come
4.
 We shall be eaten.
5.
 Yet A-DA-MU did not yield
6.
 The first raft is launched
7.
 But LIR (LUG(H)) consumes it
8.
 A-DA-MU commands a second raft to be built
9.
 It is smaller and lighter
10.
 with lashings and beams to hold.
11.
 But no one dare sail
12.
 Until A-BA(A)L the son of A-DA-MU
13.
 the strongest and bravest
14.
 He takes the raft far from shore.
15.
 But LIR,was jealous of the hero for himself
16.
 snatches the raft
17.
 and the son of A-DA-MU and brave men drown.
 
35.
    
1.
 A-DA-MU deep in grief
2.
 returns to Cuilleain
3.
 He calls out to the Swan
4.
 But none appear
5.
 He eats of the berries
6.
 But no wisdom comes
7.
 He curses the Gods for their wisdom
8.
 But not their power
9.
 To change the seasons
10.
 To give life over death
 
36.
    
1.
 A-DA-MU Returned to Ath Cliath Cuilleain
2.
 As he approached he did see the Men of MOT
3.
 The tribe captured
4.
 But fearing the gold around their necks
5.
 And their arms
6.
 They spear not one.
7.
 To the North they are hearded
8.
 To the Land of MOT
9.
 his lair to the East of Lough Neage
10.
 At where the streams of Farset and Lagan meet.
 
37.
    
1.
 MOT himself does inspect the tribe of A-DA-MU
2.
 But upon A-DA-MU he does not
3.
 fearful a god has come to strike him
4.
 He demands by what magic they survive they long winter?
5.
 Why they dress so?
6.
 What meaning the gold?
7.
 A-DA-MU tells him he has been commanded by the gods
8.
 to built a raft And leave the Isle
9.
 MOT proclaims to all who watch himself a God
10.
 That only E-AD
11.
 A-DA-MU laughs
12.
 for his companion is E-AN
13.
 a daughter of the gods
14.
 and no harm may befall his tribe.
15.
 Enraged, MOT prepares for slaughter
16.
 A-DA-MU makes a pledge
17.
 To most powerful MOT
18.
 Build me a raft and release my tribe
19.
 And within one cycle of the Shining One
20.
 shall return with food for all of the tribe of MOT
21.
 for MOTe than a season.
22.
 Crafty MOT agrees to A-DA-MU
23.
 allows only four warriors to accompany the chief
24.
 With a party of men from MOT
25.
 E-AN and the tribe as hostage
26.
 MOT does command the trees to be cut
27.
 and a great raft is made.
28.
 A-DA-MU and his band do depart
 
38.
    
1.
 Upon the sea and the will of LIR (LUG(H)
2.
 Whereupon a great wind takes hold of them
3.
 upon rolling waves
4.
 South and south not upon landfall
5.
 until they see land east
6.
 just before the mouth of the River known as Severn.
7.
 A-DA-MU and his band to travel inland
8.
 to the East in search of animals.
9.
 None they find.
10.
 Darkness greater than MU is this land across the sea.
11.
 In the blackness only shadows
12.
 Follow them.
13.
 On the sixth night of landfall
14.
 the shadows come
15.
 They take A-DA-MU and the band
16.
 They kill the men of MOT
17.
 but on the five and the gold
18.
 Are fearful.
19.
 They take them to a place
20.
 a great bare Earth ring upon a plain called SARU(M)
21.
 Surrounded by mountains of bones
22.
 Too many to count
23.
 Here men are hacked to pieces night and day
24.
 by the shadows
25.
 to call the Gods to return.
26.
 Upon this place A-DA-MU does cry
27.
 Upon this place I curse
28.
 Before this night
29.
 You shall not last
30.
 Before the end of this Age
31.
 And by the Gods
32.
 My (blood) return
33.
 To rid this place of blackness
 
24.
    
1.
 The shadows grunt as cows and dogs
2.
 They know not knowledge
3.
 not even they are human
4.
 wild beasts become.
5.
 A storm approaches
6.
 Heavy rain and thunder
7.
 The shadows run in fear
8.
 A-DA-MU and the five flee.
9.
 to their raft they return and set adrift
10.
 to face uncertain fate
11.
 But the gods direct the wind against them
12.
 not north but south and south east they travel
 
25.
    
1.
 A-DA-MU and the brave come to a land known as Galicia
2.
 Where they find meadows and warmth
3.
 Trees and birds
4.
 Deer and boars
5.
 A-DA-MU and the five
6.
 Come upon a tribe
7.
 Who having seen them land
8.
 witness upon their finery and gold
9.
 Praise them as Gods
10.
 A-DA-MU did stay with the people of the Galicia for a time
11.
 Knowing that before the end of a cycle
12.
 Honor bound to return
13.
 Or lose his companion and tribe
14.
 With the Galicia
15.
 As their God
16.
 A-DA-MU commissions three stronger raft
17.
 Now with thatched sail
18.
 to guide the winds of the Gods
19.
 Now with oar to stear
20.
 to reason with LIR (sea)
21.
 And hasten their return.
22.
 The Galicia bestow the bravest of their warriors
23.
 To return to the land of the Gods,
24.
 the Sea Peoples they were first called.
25.
 And forever
 
26.
    
1.
 A-DA-MU returned triumphant
2.
 inside the cycle
3.
 To the lair of MOT
4.
 At where the streams of Farset and Lagan meet.
5.
 His sails
6.
 red with the blood of slain animals
7.
 Did glow in the sea mist
8.
 Like the belly of a dreadful beast
9.
 A fearful sight for the men of MOT
10.
 His raft boats full of bounty.
11.
 Upon the sight of three boats
12.
 The mighty men of MOT flee
13.
 E-AN seeing the return of her husband
14.
 Thrust a spear into MOT
15.
 A-DA-MU lands triumphant to his word
16.
 First King and High priest of the Gods
 

 
 
 

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