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Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Holy Wells and Sacred Waters,” on the spiritual veneration of natural water sources as cure providers and portals to other worlds, with Celeste Ray, professor of anthropology at the University of the South in ...
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the neighbourhood in Brussels where the 15 November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks were planned. There’s “On This Day”, some…
On forgotten walls of country churches or crumbling castles throughout Ireland, the tiny figures squat unseen. Lost in gray brickwork, obscured by ivy or moss, Sheela-na-gig stone carvings can be hard to spot in the wild — but these medieval creations are in no way coy. Typically bald-headed naked females, with hanging breasts and legs spread wide to display exaggerated vulvas, Sheela-na-gigs at first seem peculiarly out of place in the prim surroundings of a Christian church. However, these envoys from an ancient past have a lot to teach us about Irish and northern European history, and ab...
Maureen O'Hare, illustrations by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN • Updated 16th March 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 Pictures (CNN) — On forgotten walls of country churches or crumbling castles throughout Ireland, the tiny figures squat unseen. Lost in gray brickwork, obscured by ivy or moss, Sheela-na-gig stone carvings can be hard to spot in the wild -- but these medieval creations are in no way coy. Typically bald-headed naked females, with hanging breasts and legs spread wide to display exaggerated vulvas, Sheela-na-gigs at first seem peculiarly out of place in the prim surroundings of a ...
BBC News By Alan Haslam image captionSt Cooey's Well, Portaferry - some believe holy well water to have miraculous healing powers "Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells." Seamus Heaney's powerful poem The Cure at Troy, recently read by Joe Biden for Irish broadcaster RTÉ, celebrates the thousands of holy wells found across the island of Ireland. These supposedly sacred water sources are thought by some to have miraculous healing properties. However, they have historically been overlooked in surveys of ancient monuments. As a res...