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The Sea Cat Sep 7, 2011 12:29:50
Replying to drewbhoy

drewbhoy wrote:
The Sea Cat wrote:
juamei wrote:
The Sea Cat wrote:
Resonox wrote:
tjj wrote:
Not hard to see why clean, clear springs were held in such reverence by our ancestors.
Would our ancestors not perhaps have used streams to wash away their own effluence??? So perhaps they would've been regarded as "sacred" as a cleanser as much as the other uses for water(already mentioned).
I think they would have differentiated between sacred wells/springs etc. and water sources for practical uses.
Unless they were considered sacred since they carried human waste away...
The Celts saw water as the entrance to the Other World. Hence the Danube being named after the Celtic Goddess Danu, for example.
Don't know about down your way but a lot of sacred wells up here are close to cairns. Any connection or are both seemed useful to get to the next work. Thought this yesterday morning, St Colm's Well near Alvah Hill (home to 3 cairns) and St Devenick's near where a cairn once stood at Little Gight in the Ythan Valley.
The Chalice Well at Glastonbury:

http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/

One of my favourite places. You must visit it sometime.

:-)

D drewbhoy
drewbhoy Sep 7, 2011 11:32:54
Replying to The Sea Cat

Cheers that looks a very restful and spiritual place, been to Glastonbury but never there. Another place to visit later this year.

G goffik
goffik Sep 7, 2011 11:36:00
Replying to The Sea Cat

The Sea Cat wrote:
The Chalice Well at Glastonbury:

http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/

One of my favourite places. You must visit it sometime.

:-)

I must say, I think The Chalice Well is totally overblown. There's much nicer (and cheaper!) ones in the area. The gardens are nice though. It's very well (haha) looked after.

G x

R Resonox
Resonox Sep 7, 2011 17:12:40
Replying to The Sea Cat

The Sea Cat wrote:
The Chalice Well at Glastonbury:

http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/

One of my favourite places. You must visit it sometime.

:-)

A place I've visited several times...worth the entrance fee....for this well alone...but the gardens are sooooo peaceful.


Also..I think it was picked up on.....but I was inferring that springs /wells/streams etc were considered sacred because they cleansed(and not just external effluence as I suggested)...but drinking fresh well water, not just chalybeate, can have a purgative effect thus cleansing internally...and be seen as curative and thus sacred.