Grandmother Spider's SpiritWeb

Howdy folks! I have been Wiccan for the last 8 years and regretfully confess I haven't practiced the belief for approx. 3 of them. Now I come to the table in need of assistence and (gulp) help. My fiance' has a brother who for as long as he can remember has been "haunted" by visions and dreams influenced by a being that (from my understanding) calls itself "Archaos" (Ark-a-o-is).

im mainly pagan and the rest of my family knows it i am just wondering what i mainly need to know before i do anything else.

An interactive map of Stonehenge and its surrounding areas including photos, 360 degree views and video clips.

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Archaeologists already knew that a huge structure was hidden under Ireland's Hill of Tara, about 30 miles northwest of Dublin. In 1999 we covered a first discovery of a henge. But now Irish archaeologists have announced that an enormous temple - that was once surrounded by 300 towering oak posts - lies directly underneath the Hill of Tara.

Article on Archaeology of Folk Magic, by Brian Hoggard:

http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/folk.htm

A damned poor example of an attempt at Cynghanedd Groes style in English. I only started to get into the style of the poetry and absorb the rules and my subject towards the end where I find the lines start to meld together and begin shuffling into the order of a phalanx. I have broken the rules a number of times and enjoyed the tiny hints of freedom, but the rules really make the poem, I think (where I manage to use them properly):

A scholar's primer for medieval Welsh poetry; simply and effectively presented with a basis in the definitions of contemporary Welsh poets. The names of the styles along with both Welsh and potential English examples and uses are included.

Below is a short biography of Dafydd ap Gwilym drawn from the BBC website. I wanted to retain it partly due to respect for the man and to encourage others to read him, but mostly for the last paragraph, which gives a rough definition of the styles he used and the names for them. Dafydd was a cheeky man to say the least with a ribald sense of humour and a real grasp of the satire and the praise-poem. He may have lived long after the Celtic filidh passed away, but his work continues in their line. Sadly, most of his work is out of print. In the first hyperlink I have included (above) you may find a wee taste of his work:)

This is the home page of RJ Stewart, a worker within the (mostly Celtic) oral tradition of Europe and the 'fairy faith'.