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Stone of Destiny , Lia Fáil , Tara/Teamhair, Ireland.
Hill of Tara, archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland .The pre-christian or a 'pagan' symbol has been returned? to this, now nearby church, site. It is not likely the original standing stone - located on the King's Seat or Forrad since 1824, it has been moved from its original position.
According to legend, it served as the coronation stone for the high kings.
Made of granite is the Lia Fáil, which is Irish, for Stone of Destiny.
An "extremely important" monument the stone was associated with the inauguration rites for the Kings of Tara and featured extensively in ancient texts.The stone was moved to its present location in Tara, Co Meath, in the early 19th century.
Located about 50km northwest of Dublin, Tara was the focus of political and religious life in pagan Ireland but the site was largely abandoned by the sixth century AD.
Mythology gives Tara (from the Gaelic "Teamhair", or lofty place) an exalted status as the top royal site in Ireland and there are many national monuments in the area.
The Irish, like their Celtic neighbours, venerated their lithic temples. They not only anointed them, as may be still seen done to the sacred cone in India, but, down to a late period, they poured water on their sacred surface that the draught might cure their diseases. Molly Grime, a rude stone figure, kept in Glentham church, was annually washed with water from Newell well; so was the wooden image of St. Fumac washed in water from a holy well near Keith. Babies were sprinkled at cairns in Western or South Scotland down to the seventeenth century. Some stones were kissed by the faithful, like the Druid's Stone in front of Chartres Cathedral, once carefully kept in the crypt.
This magic phallic stone .....( they are common in ancient neolithic to celtic Ireland )
another example :
www.flickr.com/photos/kplawver/3956016/
www.flickr.com/photos/67165210@N00/1179998637/
...is a monument stone that legend says 'called out' to choose the new High King ( Ri in old Ireland, its stands approximately four feet high the English word 'rich' may derive from this) ; Goth. reiks, believed to represent an early Teutonic adoption of Celtic rix = L. rex king.
The Lia Fáil (Irish Gaelic for Stone of Destiny) is a standing stone on the Hill of Tara (Teamhair na Rí - Tara of the Kings ) which served as the coronation stone for the High Kings of Ireland. In the centre of the Royal Seat stands a pillar stone which is believed to be the Lia Fail (stone of Destiny) or Coronation Stone. The , a prehistoric solar or phallic? symbol, originally stood in the Northern part of the enclosure near the 4,000 year old neolithic passage tomb known as the Mound of the Hostages. According to legend, this stone was brought to Ireland by the Tuatha De Danaan (before the last invasion of Milesian Celts* ).
In legend, all of the kings of Ireland were crowned on the stone up to Muirchertach mac Ercae AD 500. This is the famous Stone of Destiny , brought to Ireland? It's said to have emitted a roar when the rightful heir to the throne touched it.
Perhaps a piece of the "Stone of Destiny" was later the Coronation Stone of the Kings of Scotland and, before that, the Kings of Dalriada. It was brought from Ireland as a portable altar. In AD 574, the Scots 'Stone of Scone' was used as a coronation chair for Aedan, King of Dalriada - stretching from Ulster in Ireland across to Argyll in Scotland the word 'Scot' was initially associated with the royal or deity name 'Scota' * then transposed to Ireland-
Scotia/Hibernia (Latin). The Scottish Scone alter- stone used for all Scotland after the union with the Picts / Pictland, however, it ('Stane o Scuin' in Scots Gaelic) was eventually taken back to Scotland from where it had been removed by the English Edward I in 1296 as a spoil of war.(Two copies?)
Two main stories of the origin of the Scone stone or Coronation stone taken by the English from Scotia minor /Scotland : (i) One story concerns Fergus, son of Erc, the first King of the Scots in Scotland, whose transport of the Stone from Ireland to Argyll, where he was crowned in it, was recorded. (ii) Some versions identify the stone brought by Fergus with the Lia Fáil used at Tara for the High King of Ireland. Other traditions contend the Lia Fáil remains at Tara. (Inis Fáil, The Island of Destiny, is one of the traditional names of Ireland.)
www.libraryireland.com/Wonders/Lia-Fail-1.php
The 'Scoti' were Irish, Niall of the Nine Hostages was the first to call Alba, Scotia minor, now modern Scotland that received its own Gaelic language from the Irish Gaels. From Scotia major or Ireland the Gaels or 'Scoti' arrived in Argyle and set up the Dál Riata.Scotland takes its name from 'Scotus' which in Latin translates into Irishman.
Dunadd, in Argyle, is linked to the crowning of the Scots kings of Dál Riata.*( NB note its slightly later and different !)
www.flickr.com/photos/megalithicmatt/177265223/
In Ireland the Fianna were a mercenary army at the service of the Ard-Ri, or High King, circa 400 BC. They were Scoti, as were all of Erin , until the (term) 'Irish' was invented in medieval times. The Romans called the Hibernians 'Scoti' though it could have had associations with piracy or plunder then of their colonized Britain as the ones who abducted St Patrick in to slavery or servitude, like later Vikings.
An Old Irish 'Life of Columcille' reports that every funeral procession "halted at a mound called Eala, whereupon the corpse was laid, and the mourners marched thrice solemnly round the spot."
www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/phallic2.htm
Stone of Destiny , Lia Fáil , Tara/Teamhair, Ireland.
Hill of Tara, archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland .The pre-christian or a 'pagan' symbol has been returned? to this, now nearby church, site. It is not likely the original standing stone - located on the King's Seat or Forrad since 1824, it has been moved from its original position.
According to legend, it served as the coronation stone for the high kings.
Made of granite is the Lia Fáil, which is Irish, for Stone of Destiny.
An "extremely important" monument the stone was associated with the inauguration rites for the Kings of Tara and featured extensively in ancient texts.The stone was moved to its present location in Tara, Co Meath, in the early 19th century.
Located about 50km northwest of Dublin, Tara was the focus of political and religious life in pagan Ireland but the site was largely abandoned by the sixth century AD.
Mythology gives Tara (from the Gaelic "Teamhair", or lofty place) an exalted status as the top royal site in Ireland and there are many national monuments in the area.
The Irish, like their Celtic neighbours, venerated their lithic temples. They not only anointed them, as may be still seen done to the sacred cone in India, but, down to a late period, they poured water on their sacred surface that the draught might cure their diseases. Molly Grime, a rude stone figure, kept in Glentham church, was annually washed with water from Newell well; so was the wooden image of St. Fumac washed in water from a holy well near Keith. Babies were sprinkled at cairns in Western or South Scotland down to the seventeenth century. Some stones were kissed by the faithful, like the Druid's Stone in front of Chartres Cathedral, once carefully kept in the crypt.
This magic phallic stone .....( they are common in ancient neolithic to celtic Ireland )
another example :
www.flickr.com/photos/kplawver/3956016/
www.flickr.com/photos/67165210@N00/1179998637/
...is a monument stone that legend says 'called out' to choose the new High King ( Ri in old Ireland, its stands approximately four feet high the English word 'rich' may derive from this) ; Goth. reiks, believed to represent an early Teutonic adoption of Celtic rix = L. rex king.
The Lia Fáil (Irish Gaelic for Stone of Destiny) is a standing stone on the Hill of Tara (Teamhair na Rí - Tara of the Kings ) which served as the coronation stone for the High Kings of Ireland. In the centre of the Royal Seat stands a pillar stone which is believed to be the Lia Fail (stone of Destiny) or Coronation Stone. The , a prehistoric solar or phallic? symbol, originally stood in the Northern part of the enclosure near the 4,000 year old neolithic passage tomb known as the Mound of the Hostages. According to legend, this stone was brought to Ireland by the Tuatha De Danaan (before the last invasion of Milesian Celts* ).
In legend, all of the kings of Ireland were crowned on the stone up to Muirchertach mac Ercae AD 500. This is the famous Stone of Destiny , brought to Ireland? It's said to have emitted a roar when the rightful heir to the throne touched it.
Perhaps a piece of the "Stone of Destiny" was later the Coronation Stone of the Kings of Scotland and, before that, the Kings of Dalriada. It was brought from Ireland as a portable altar. In AD 574, the Scots 'Stone of Scone' was used as a coronation chair for Aedan, King of Dalriada - stretching from Ulster in Ireland across to Argyll in Scotland the word 'Scot' was initially associated with the royal or deity name 'Scota' * then transposed to Ireland-
Scotia/Hibernia (Latin). The Scottish Scone alter- stone used for all Scotland after the union with the Picts / Pictland, however, it ('Stane o Scuin' in Scots Gaelic) was eventually taken back to Scotland from where it had been removed by the English Edward I in 1296 as a spoil of war.(Two copies?)
Two main stories of the origin of the Scone stone or Coronation stone taken by the English from Scotia minor /Scotland : (i) One story concerns Fergus, son of Erc, the first King of the Scots in Scotland, whose transport of the Stone from Ireland to Argyll, where he was crowned in it, was recorded. (ii) Some versions identify the stone brought by Fergus with the Lia Fáil used at Tara for the High King of Ireland. Other traditions contend the Lia Fáil remains at Tara. (Inis Fáil, The Island of Destiny, is one of the traditional names of Ireland.)
www.libraryireland.com/Wonders/Lia-Fail-1.php
The 'Scoti' were Irish, Niall of the Nine Hostages was the first to call Alba, Scotia minor, now modern Scotland that received its own Gaelic language from the Irish Gaels. From Scotia major or Ireland the Gaels or 'Scoti' arrived in Argyle and set up the Dál Riata.Scotland takes its name from 'Scotus' which in Latin translates into Irishman.
Dunadd, in Argyle, is linked to the crowning of the Scots kings of Dál Riata.*( NB note its slightly later and different !)
www.flickr.com/photos/megalithicmatt/177265223/
In Ireland the Fianna were a mercenary army at the service of the Ard-Ri, or High King, circa 400 BC. They were Scoti, as were all of Erin , until the (term) 'Irish' was invented in medieval times. The Romans called the Hibernians 'Scoti' though it could have had associations with piracy or plunder then of their colonized Britain as the ones who abducted St Patrick in to slavery or servitude, like later Vikings.
An Old Irish 'Life of Columcille' reports that every funeral procession "halted at a mound called Eala, whereupon the corpse was laid, and the mourners marched thrice solemnly round the spot."
www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/phallic2.htm