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This is offered as an additional clarification about the Elves.

I do not believe that any of it ccan be proven, but it is an intersting tale.

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The Elvish Historians or
‘Remembrancers’ speak in a cryptic language. To them, of course, they understand
it all perfectly well. When approached directly about their origins, a seer of
the Elven-Ffayrie Way speaks to me of the following discourse that he ‘learned’
when he met a female Ffayrie ‘loremaster’ and priestess named Rhune while
journeying in the Otherworld.
“We have always been here…for as long as there
has been a ‘here.’
Our origins, as you ask, are of the Stars, as is all life.

We belonged to G’ea long before the coming of Mortal Humans.
Their
emergence did in fact mark the end of the Age of Faerie.
At one point, we
really did exist as people on the surface world
in the ‘Lands Above,’ as it
is said. Being long lived we have not
the need for constant reproduction or
multiplication and we are
careful that it occurs only through a moment when
the couple is
engulfed in the ‘Divine Flame of Eternal Love.’ Preservation
of
our race is always considered but we have always existed and still we
remain.
The ‘Lands Above’ would still be our home had we not encountered the
Sons of Men.
We thought not to fight with their overwhelming numbers so
we
crafted a ‘force-field’ to shield our new world from that of Mortal
Humans
and ended all contact for the most part. There are those of the Drwyd
and
Elven Wizard blood that remained throughout Aeurope.
So we often
appear and counsel those who honor and remember us.
We are unable to
completely abandon our brethren and the Green World of Nature
that we tended
on the surface, which we tend now from the Otherworld.
It should be
understood that we are not at all pleased to be forced into the
Otherworld
permanently or by necessity. This retreat of the Elven-Ffayrie is
not viewed
equally by all our ranks and so our Sacred [Seelie] Court is
unfortunately
split between the Light Folk and the Dark Elves
who forever brood vengeance
on the Human Race.”
All the ‘Creatures of Faerie’ have become creatures of
“myth,” “legend,” and “fantasy,” and we are not just speaking of the ‘fair
skinned occult gardener types,’ but also the Sylphs, Sprytes, Dragons,
Fire-drakes, Dwarves, Gnomes, Merfolk (Undine,) Nixes, Pixies, Leprechauns and
the Unicorn, among others. All of these are ‘Creatures of Faerie,’ misunderstood
beings that exist now only on the brink of Human imagination. Yet, although
there is a great fictional-fantasy tradition of role-playing games and novels,
there is a true (authentic) origin behind this tradition, and a reason for
believing in these kinds of ideas.
The main tenet of the previous treatise on
the ‘Age of Faerie in Ancient Aeurope’ concerned the nature of genetic
intervention whether from a leading group of humanoids on Earth, a Creator God,
or some intermediary in between. Even ‘selective reproduction,’ when used in the
manner of the Elven-Ffayrie is a method of genetic intervention. Genetics can
also be altered through ‘environmental adaptation,’ and adaptation is necessary
for the survival of a species. That means for a species to eventually overcome a
barrier that affects its livelihood, it will have to change. The ‘genetic
intervention’ paradigm, at the very least, helps in answering some of the
unresolved issues of Human ancestry, since it is clear that all the species were
being manipulated and controlled in some form, by some “authority.”
As a
science, Anthropology has been unable to sufficient answer the problems of Human
origins. Originally, the field was going to find an answer that would correlate
with the Judeo-Christian Genesis, but at the time these goals were established,
religion and science were at war with one another. Instead of ‘God-creates-Man
so man comes from a Supreme and beautiful being,’ it somehow developed into ‘Man
is a primitive ape who just got lucky.’ Darwin and the rest of the scientists
also failed to establish how only some Cro-Magnon evolved into Human. How does
only fifty percent of a particular caterpillar have the actual possibility of
becoming a butterfly, putting all other conditions aside? The Cro-Magnons do not
get “bred out.” They go extinct.
There is still the remaining theory
concerning the ‘star origins’ of the Elves. There is certainly enough literary
support for this within a paradigm that allows for aliens, inter-dimensional or
interstellar beings. If a Human was able to put their pride aside for a moment,
great wisdom might come from the acceptance of an advanced civilization or
aspects of prehistoric Man that exist beyond the mortal knowledge of history.
Without accepting the possibility of a particular ‘scientific paradigm’ or
‘framework’ you cannot expect to see it or prove it. Usually the expectations
and rules of what we see and experience are programmed by the social culture to
which we belong or are raised. Without looking beyond an existing boundary,
achievements cannot be made.
The setting for the Tuatha D’Anu’s arrival in
recorded history is mainly confined to Ancient Ireland, called “Eire,” “Erin,”
and “Eriu.” They arrived in Ireland on Beltane (May Day,) concealed in a
magickal fog or mist. While the European mainland was to the East of Ireland,
the Tuatha D’Anu arrived from the North and West of the Island, settling in the
mountains of Western Ireland. This led many to believe they were the ‘People of
the North’ or that they came form the Atlantic Ocean somewhere. Their ships on
the other-hand were said to be of a ‘sky-nature,’ which somehow caused an
uncanny solar eclipse for three days of their arrival. This could be a reference
to a thick fog that cloaked their ships or enveloped them when reaching harbor.
It might also be interpreted as something more akin to an ‘air-craft.’ The
ancient Celtic manuscripts record that the Tuatha D’Anu intentionally destroyed
their ships in flames upon landing.
Ireland was already inhabited by an
Elven-Ffayrie race at that time, being another descendent from the ‘blue folk’
called the “Nemed” or “Fir-Bolg,” translated perhaps too literally as the ‘Men
of Bags.’ The Fir-Bolg were forced to take shelter as a result of the three days
of smoke/fog/mist that affected Ireland. Needless to say they interpreted the
Danubian arrival as an invasion of hostility and a war ensued between the two
Faerie races.
In surveying the Histories until now, we have been able to
supplement the fey-past with literature, tablets or ancient writings. For the
purpose of the Tuatha D’Anu we must, of course, turn to Celtic sources.
Unfortunately, the medieval and modern writers have a habit of confusing members
of the Tuatha D’Anu with the adversaries of theirs, the Fir-Bog. Why unschooled
practitioners would call on warriors of both sides in their magickal work
simultaneously is beyond me. More confusing still is the incorporation of the
pre-Fir-Bolg Cthonic Fomorian mythos. [The cryptic manuscripts we turn to when
analyzing the Celtic Faerie Tradition include: The Book of Invasions, The Book
of Leinster, The Book of Dun Cow, as well as the Oghamist’s Book of Ballymote
(or Scholar’s Primer) and the Fferyllt-Barddas of the Drwyds.]
There are some
scholars and metaphysical writers who are confused by the common spelling of the
tribe, “Tuatha De Dannan,” and mistakenly align the Elven-Ffayrie solely to
‘Dana,’ derived from ‘Diana,’ the Roman forest-huntress. The present author
emphasizes the “D’Anu” spelling which is factually more accurate, as in the
“D’anube River.” To call them the “Dannan” might confuse them with the “Danes,”
who are the Elven-Ffayrie of the Scandinavian/Norse Vikings and the ‘Svei,’ or
“Swedes.”
When Romans encountered a Danubian clan in Scotland, they called
them “Picts” or “Pict-Sidhe,” which is where one of the more famous pop-cultural
titles developed. Why would the Romans refer to a group of Elven-Ffayrie as
“Pixies” which, by the way, does not mean “small?” The roots “Pict-” and “Pix-“
relate to “pictures” and “pixels,” which is to call them the “Painted People”
making a reference to their tribal use of tattooing. Their use of body-art was
considered sacred and was not taken as lightly as it is by Humans.
The Tuatha
D’Anu had a cultural and magickal tradition that far surpassed all that they had
encountered. They even left a tremendous impression on the Celts of the La Tene
culture. With the coming of the Tuatha D’Anu, ritual and ceremonial magick
aligned to the elements of nature or “Elementalism” (as revealed in Chapter
Eight) was possible. The Tuathan tribe of Elven-Ffayrie brought the ‘Gifts of
Faeire,’ four objects or artifacts proving their skill in the arts and crafts of
magick. Both “art” and “magick” are viewed as one and the same to the Elves.
Their ability to craft wondrous objects imbued with mystical energy gave way to
the magickal tradition of crafting ceremonial implements or tools used to direct
ritual energy, as well as the idea of ‘amulets,’ ‘talismans,’ and ‘relics.’ As a
result, Western Aeurope saw the birth of the “Western Magickal
Tradition.”
Western ritual and ‘ceremonial magick’ is based on the Elements
and the directions. The ‘Gifts of Faeire’ allowed a better understanding of the
symbolism of these forces in Nature allowing for the development of ‘Elemental
Magick.’ Even the ‘Ceremonialists’ and modern Wizards of the O.T.O, Golden Dawn
and the like, have been unable to break away from the core and fundamental
Elementalist paradigm in their magickal expressions. Though their ‘higher’
ceremonial and celestial practices are not the same as the naturalist Shaman,
the same correspondence charts of magick are useful to them as to any Elf, Druid
or Elemental Wizard.
The ‘Gifts of Faeire’ were brought to Ireland each from
a different elementally-aligned city, by a ‘surviving’ representative from that
city. These cities have been thought to have existed on Atlantis and that the
Elven-Ffayrie and specifically the Tuatha D’Anu came from Atlantis. Other lore
suggests that their cities were of an Otherworld nature, perhaps even celestial.
Or, by making further assumptions from what we have learned thus far, the
Otherworld Cities, Atlantis and the ‘Gifts of Faeire’ all may have originated
with the Anunaki-mythos.
The ‘Stone of Fal,’ of the Northern city of Falias,
came to us from Morfessa, High Wizard of the North. This stone was set at Tara,
the ‘Seat of the Kings’ (“Dragons,” literally) where it would scream out
whenever a true king set foot on it. Irish Druid history tells us that the only
kings in Ireland during Celtic times were those who were made so on the ‘Stone
of Fal,’ also called the ‘Stone of Scone.’ The true nature of the Element of
Stone is Earth, and to the direction of North, Wizards have attributed
it.
The ‘Spear of Lugh’ emerged from the Eastern city of Gorias carried by
Esras. Known also as the ‘Spear of Destiny,’ this tool had the mystical ability
to never miss its target. It would be more appropriate to call it a powerful
relic whose magickal abilities have been misused. It was the implement used to
pierce Christ’s side at the Crucifixion and was also carried by Hitler’s Nazi
army. The notion that the item never misses its target hints at the relationship
between the Wizard and a tool. It is driven or activated by willpower (the art
of directing energy to a target) and so it becomes the “wand” in the magickal
tradition. Both the wand and the spear are attributed to the power and energies
of Elemental Air, reserved to the direction of East.
From the city of Finias
came the ‘Sword of Nuada’, which was carried from the South by Uscias. Here we
find the birth of the ‘magick sword’ archetype, for this blade carried with it
other great names through history like “Albion,” “Caliburn,” and more famously,
“Excalibur.” It is connected to the Elven-Ffayrie tradition as the ‘Sword of
Greenwood Kings,’ carried by both Arthur Pendragon and Robin Hood. It is imbued
with the ability to deal fatal blows with each strike, representing the surety
of will, and the cutting, flaming, searing edge of willpower being properly
directed. The sword or blade is always a symbol of Fire, dedicated to the
Southern direction.
Finally, the ‘Cauldron of the Dagda,’ or Kerridwen’s
‘Cauldron of Rebrith,’ came to Ireland by Master Semias from the city of Murias
to the West. In one legend, the cauldron acts as a ‘horn o’ plenty’ constantly
refilling itself with an endless supply of food. Other lore suggests the
artifact was used as a part of a healing ritual, reviving and curing the wounded
of the Danubian/Fir-Bolg battles. Some believe the ‘Gundestrup Cauldron,’ found
in the swamps of Denmark and attributed to the Drwyds, is the ‘Cauldron of the
Dagda.’ The symbol of the cauldron itself has become one of the primary icons of
magick and witchcraft. Most modern practitioners use a goblet or chalice,
representing the ‘Holy Grail,’ as their representation of the Water Element.
Ceremonially, the symbolism is almost identical. Some traditions incorporate
both the cauldron and the chalice for different ritual purposes.
When the
Tuatha D’Anu finally overcame the Fir-Bolg, they offered to the remaining
surrendering race (approximately 300 Elven-Ffayrie) their own region of Ireland
in which to live and thrive provided they could share the island in peace. The
Tuatha D’Anu were not as aggressive as the Fir-Bolg and the Fomorians before
them, or even their cousin-fey the Danes, Scandinavian Vikings and Norse
Wizards. The true Elven folk, having the long lifespan, are not quick in their
desire to throw that privilege away, nor are a scar or severe wound considered a
battle trophy to them, as they would have to carry it with them perhaps hundreds
of years.
The pacifist ideal of the Tuatha D’Anu did not keep them from
winning the battle with the Fir-Bolg, who were, again, a distant Elven-Ffayrie
relation. However, the Danubians had never come to Ireland seeking a fight in
the first place. We are led to believe that they were running from something
themselves, had no doubt already seen countless battles and abandoned their
ships on their arrival to Ireland as if to say, “Here is our new home. We’re
sick of running.” But from the point of view of the existing population, this
was a malignant act of invasion and battle was an inevitable necessity. Their
pacifism did, however, keep them from winning or fighting against the Milesians,
the ‘Sons of Mil,’ or Mortal Humans.
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