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Voyage of the Fianna Finn

The High King of the Celts had an incredible Secret Service.

However, they were anything but secret.

In fact, they became Celtic legends.

Like Arthur, Finn MacCool is known to have tamed a group of Celts who were considered unruly and opponents of the High King. With his wisdom and knowing ways, Finn gathered them into a group called the Fianna. They practiced the same codes of chivalry as the Knights of the Round Table reportedly established. And it is even possible that they were the basis for this Round Table Legend.

They respected Nature and Time, Women and Children. All thing's held power to them.

And so they sought to protect all things good and to understand all the forces around them.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit ? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera ? Quid agunt ? quae loca habitant ? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari : ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. - T. Burnet, Archaeol. Phil.


"I can easily believe, that there are more invisible than visible Beings in the universe. But who shall describe for us their families? and their ranks and relationships and distinguishing features and functions? What they do? where they live?

The human mind has always circled around a knowledge of these things, never attaining it. I do not doubt, however, that it is sometimes beneficial to contemplate, in thought, as in a Picture, the image of a greater and better world; lest the intellect, habituated to the trivia of daily life, may contract itself too much, and wholly sink into trifles.

But at the same time we must be vigilant for truth, and maintain proportion, that we may distinguish certain from uncertain, day from night."

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See also The Harbor and boats for more on the connection to Medieval Dunstanburgh.
See also Pre Feudal and the Arthurian Archetypes for more reference, and Avalon for information on how this spirituality translated into myth and legend.
See also Celtic Roots

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