Lebor Clann Glas

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1	In the Great Age of the Horse (10,830 BCE),
2	By one thousand, nine hundred and fifty 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.

2

1	These were the best of times.
2	Before law of man;
3	Before trickery of mouth and hand;
4	The two faced word.
5	The hunter and his spear,
6	Traveled far and fast.
7	A plentiful peace,
8	Under the watchful gaze of YAH (the Gleaming One).

3

1	North from ice,
2	South from land,
3	Did the ancients 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 (out) the Stag to their end.

4

1	In this age,
2	The Gods did smile,
3	Upon honest men.
4	The heavens be 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.

5

1	The dawn of the Great Age of the Swan (7620 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 tribes of the flatlands of man.
7	The great ice lakes of the north did swell,
8	The bridges did break,
9	And many did drown in the flatlands and valleys,
10	Even unto the shores of the Black Lake;
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	They 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	Upon the rumbling of the earth,
24	They did fall upon themselves,
25	At a place called YAH-EA (Jericho).

6

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,
4	AUN did melt the ice into the sea.
5	Born then an island.
6	All birds,
7	All stag and boars,
8	All wild horse and hare,
9	All men,
10	Ringed by the sea god LIR.

7

1	In the Great Age of the Swan,
2	At the first third,
3	About one thousand three hundred and forty Great Cycles of CYB-EL the Bright One (7720 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.

8

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 were to be found.
6	To the North the tribes did become hungry.
7	Yet North towards Lough Neagh,
8	Men did flee,
9	For food.
10	But LIR the sea god had smashed the ice path.
11	Cold wind tore skin and flesh.
12	Nothing but tumult,
13	As the ravens did feast upon the dead.

9

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.

10

1	In 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.

11

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 of kin,
6	To satisfy a whim.

12

1	A chief, bathed in blood and human flesh,
2	Did rise in the North.
3	MOT be his name.
4	No longer a hunter of boar,
5	But the flesh and bones of 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 more he proclaimed.
12	The greatest of gods was A-ED,
13	Of the underworld he said.
14	A place underneath the ground.
15	Fearful, hungry,
16	MOT united the tribes.
17	Killing and eating the weak.
18	Roasting children in fire like pigs.
19	Enslaving all.

13

1	The 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.

14

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 did 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	Did smell 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.

15

1	Upon a grove he comes.
2	Nine Elms (trees),
3	upon a bubbling pond.
4	Around it be strange shrubs,
5	With prickly leaves,
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 (spirit).

16

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	To the Salmon the sacred golden rocks and Swan.
10	At the Cuilleain with his companion E-AN,
11	A-DA-MU did learn to remember from the Swan,
12	And the sacred Salmon,
13	To remember the name of plants,
14	The name of animals,
15	The operation of the Gods,
16	The wisdom of law and prophecy.
17	Upon attaining awareness,
18	A-DA-MU names his companion E-VA,
19	Meaning first,
20	First amongst women.
21	(The) first priestess.
22	Within one cycle of the shining one,
23	E-VA bore a son named E-(A)L,
24	Meaning a god amongst men.
25	There at the Cuilleain, they lived,
26	For twelve more cycles of the shining one.

17

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 for (a) sign.
13	Leave this place the Swan spoke,
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 golden 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.

18

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.

19

1	The getting of wisdom.
2	The young are fearful,
3	The MOT shall come.
4	We shall be eaten (they say).
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 E-(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.

20

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.

21

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.

22

1	MOT himself does inspect the tribe of A-DA-MU.
2	But upon A-DA-MU he does not look up.
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 is God and all must worship death.
11	A-DA-MU laughs,
12	For his companion is E-VA,
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	(I) shall return with food for all of the tribe of MOT.
21	Crafty MOT agrees to A-DA-MU.
22	But on the condition,
23	That only four of his warriors to accompany the chief.
24	With a party of men from MOT.
25	E-VA 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.

23

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 horses and dogs.
2	They know not knowledge,
3	Not even they are human,
4	Wild beasts become the men of Brit.
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 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	As the gods of the Galatians,
15	The men being their subjects,
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 steer,
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	The Ibiru and gods of sea,
26	And forever more known.

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 Red.
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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