Total lunar eclipse no-show at Baltray: video

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Total lunar eclipse no-show at Baltray: video

A total lunar eclipse rising out of the Irish Sea in the same position as Winter Solstice sunrise proved a tempting target for photographers and astronomers on June 15th 2011. However, typical Irish cloudy weather spoiled the show and the event was obscured. This did not deter those present from getting some nice photographs though.

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The Flood and The Fire

The Flood and The Fire examines cosmogony and eschatology from the perspective of Irish myth and prophecy. What can Ireland's legends and mythology tell us of the beginning, or the creation, and indeed the end, the apocalypse, armageddon? While there is no single "creation myth" in the Irish texts, there is much about flooding, and even links to the Noah flood myth.

Ireland, the 'Island of the Setting Sun', is considered Atlantis by some scholars and authors, and there is much to be discovered about antediluvian civilisation in the copious texts and myths. But these texts are rich, too, in prophecy, some of it relating to future events and the end of the world.

The Saints, too, play their part, and a re-examination of the life of Saint Patrick gives us some interesting perspectives on eschatological study. The Irish, it seems, are set for a unique doom at the end of time.

The following quote is from Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly. While not an Irish work, it signifies a worldwide belief that the world will end in fire: "In the same way there is an untaught but universal feeling which makes all mankind regard comets with fear and trembling, and which unites all races of men in a universal belief that some day the world will be destroyed by fire."

Saturday, June 18, 2011