Thank you everyone for watching! I will be assisting with an event in Wales this October. Hope you can join us 🏴 ceremonial-gatherings.mystrikingly.com
The rock pool and stone steps leading onto it are very reminiscent of similar circular pools carved into bedrock elsewhere in the world, notably near and around pyramids.. Places of power indeed ~ there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that the megalithic dolmens, obelisks, pillars and stone circles all around the world point to an earlier Age of Civilization, as there must be a common source and denominator. The Dragon of Wales leads to that source.
Jacob, as a proud Welsh descendant in the USA I appreciate you creating this content in Wales!!! Very interesting and Stella was fantastic. Thank you again bro. Love your videos!!🙏🏴🏴🏴
I haven't watched it yet but I'm so excited! & it's been lovely getting to know you overseas, and for the short time we had together here in Cymru. Since the day we visited Tarren Deusant my journey has evolved profoundly. I've had some wild awakenings in the past two months with the land here bringing upon major insights and relationships with the spirits of place, I hear them clearly right now, calling for harmony upon the lands once more. Blessings Jacob 🐉🌿
Our time together felt like a blur! But so happy we could make this video to hopefully help others in the explorations of the old ways 🙏 thanks for getting in my van 🤣🤣…
In a church on Caurua Hill Ely Cardiff i experienced a vision of Mother Mary who shared with me Her deep love and great passion for Wales. Wales is God's best kept secret.
I am, ancestrally, 50% Welsh. I understand what you are saying about my people. My grandmother, aunt and father taught me importance of our Welsh heritage.
Some of the older carved faces on those rocks remind me of Sheila-na-Gig, so perhaps a sacred place to contemplate rebirth. I grew up in South Wales but now live in the heart of Mid Wales in the beautiful Brecon Beacons which is a radically different area to the industrialised South. There is also a huge difference between North and South Wales, my Nan who went to school in South Wales during the 1950s experienced the Welsh Knot, where teachers were still physically beating any child who spoke Welsh. My generation still carry this very recent trauma and so now my way of healing this is by singing to the land in Proto-Celtic, the ancient mother tongue language that went on to feed into and become Welsh. Hiraeth (pronounced hee-ry-th) is that deep yearning for our lost indigenous roots, it’s connected to the other Welsh word Haraith meaning speech and the Proto-Celtic Yêtĥ meaning speech and language, so the longing of Hiraeth sings of our lost language. Thank you for making such a beautiful and thought provoking video. 🙏
My nana also faced the Welsh Not but it was during the times of the Blue Books in the 1800s that the language stopped being spoken in my family. But it's being brought back! I actually did a post on Instagram all about the blue books and our language recently and people were blown away. Are you learning Proto-Celtic with Carolyn Hillier by any chance? 😊
@@stellamariehere Ahh I'll check out your video thank you, sad to hear that your nana went through that too.😥 Yes Carolyn Hillyer wrote a Proto-Celtic lexicon called 'Her bone bundle' which is amazing, I work very closely with Carolyn and have a small monthly circle with her to discuss these issues. I'm glad there are like minded people like yourself interested in raising awareness and healing these issues, it is so inspiring. 🥰🙏
Cymreag (Welsh) is not a difficult language. Of course, it has its complexities like any other language. However, Welsh is 98% phonetic. It has only 4 irregular verbs and the standard grammar is easily comprehensible. It is only perceived as difficult because you may not know these facts or someone may have a bad teacher. A person will know how to read Welsh well before they become proficient in reading English or indeed Irish or Scottish Gaelic. One very proud Welsh speaker (Cymro Cymraeg) here. 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Dw i'n newydd dechrau dysgu Cymraeg ac dw i'n mwyn siarad cymraeg yn rhugl, ond in this video I had barely began. Unfortunately the language stopped being spoken in my family during the time of the blue books 😢 but yes you're right it's so much easier than I thought it would be. (Unsure whether what I wrote was correct up there, in currently learning about whether to say 'ac' or 'a'.
@@stellamariehere Keep going! Dal ati! You’ll be Rhugl before you know it. Be the one that reignites the line of Welsh speakers in your family! You’ll be amazing! 😄🏴🏴
Yeah, I have studied both Welsh and Irish Gaelic a bit and Gaelic is *far* more difficult. Most of the spelling is actually the same and the grammar is pretty comparable to English and Romance languages. The number of sounds in Welsh that are not already included in the English kit is pretty small, too.
@@anthapersephone7311 You are obviously being either very sarcastic or very ignorant. Welsh words have vowels in them. Welsh has 7 vowels. How is it that you didn’t know this? I will tell you that it is phonetic and I will throw a ton of vowels your way and still tell you that it is. You learn the Welsh sound for each letter not the English sound. That’s what makes it phonetic. THAT’S WHAT MAKES IT WELSH. Hope you understand now 😄
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="535">8:55</a> That's similar to how I would describe, it as a Welsh person living in Gwynedd, close to Eryri National Park. Moving back here after living away for so long in cities, puts me in a very different mindset. The landscape occupies a much greater portion of my mind than it did when when I lived in urban areas, almost as if the entire landscape is one great spirit that is an extra character in your life.
There's a book titled 'A Dictionary of Fairies' by Katherine Briggs which is pretty comprehensive, covering the fairies of all the Celtic nations. The fairies are listed in alphabetical order and have descriptions and sometimes lore / tales. I also believe The Witcher novel series loans from the Welsh and Irish languages for the elven races.
I never see any videos of Welsh culture and the mythos. Thank youuuu! I have some Welsh heritage in my ancestry. I loved the moment the horses approached you two. So rad ❤
Thank you so much for this video ❤ my Father came from south Wales (and i think you showed his hometown in the video 😉) sadly my when my father was in school it was still forbidden to speak or learn Welsh so he and i never learned it but this video gave me another reason to force myself to try again. Even tho I personally never lived in Wales I always felt more connected to Wales and Wales is more of a homeland than Germany (where i grew up) Thank you again for the great video(s) can’t wait for so mich more ❤
Having just found out through a genetic test that my ancestors also came from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; this has been a video that feels like coming home. For the people of these countries, the Fae are very real - and no one is the least bashful about insisting that they truly live in areas, as such, that you just explored.
This was way fun to watch. Im of partial Welsh ancestry and its wild how many of my fellow Americans have a Welsh last name and yet don't even know its Welsh or that theyre ancestors came from Wales, let alone where Wales is, that there's a Welsh language or that Welsh mythology exists. Unfortuantely as well, for those who are aware of their Welsh roots among other ancestries, rarely will someone lead with their Welsh background when asked about their ethnicity. This is why videos like this are great. It helps the Welsh descendants know more about who we are.
I have always been drawn to paganism, Celtic beliefs, and always had a strong connection with nature. I’ve recently had my ancestry done and I am primarily English, Welsh, and Scottish with some Irish. It’s like my ancestors were always influencing me ❤
Horses: "all who wish to pass to the sacred fountain must provide us with an offering of apples" 🤣🤣 awesome place it's so nice that stella shared it with us...and you!
This is the video I have been waiting for!!! I have been on a journey to find out who I am and what I believe in or connect with spiritually ✨️ The dragon on the Wales flag kept coming into my meditations and down the rabbit hole I went. 😂 Luckly your channel crossed my path and I have learned so much from you, Thank you!!! I hope to visit Wales as I have not been to that part of Great Britain YET!
Great video. North and West Wales have such fantastic cultural sites. Being from the heavily anglicised south, seeing our traditions and culture fully preserved is always inspiring. Even still I'd highly recommend South Wales as well, we've clung on to everything we could.
I recall another book I forgot in my previous two comments: 'Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit' by Tom Cowan. It's mostly centred on the Gaelic Celt perspective but is an excellent read. It covers quite a lot and is in a similar vein to Michael Harner's 'The Way of the Shaman'.
Great video! Loved it! Magnificent Landscape, interesting history and deep beliefs. I'm from Northern Italy. We also have a Celtic Heritage. I hope it will become more known by people
My Father, believed in a past life he was a Druid, and shared that we all need a connection to Nature and the outdoors environment. For a connection from where we came from. And the gifts that are given from our ancestors and environment. 🙏
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="915">15:15</a> I got emotionally moved ❤❤ horse love, when you were tuning your energies and talking about the fairies and the spirit of the land and then the horses just came up to you that was so beautiful. I needed that. I just came back from seeing my dad in a memory loss center. He can barely talk and is in a wheelchair and has went completely from being OK to completely worse in the last three months. It’s just really sad and so I needed this positivity.
If you're an American and your last name is Jones, Sayer, Griffiths, Davies, Jenkins, Hughes, Perry, Smith, Williams, Mower, Walsh, Evans, James, Watkins, Hill, White, Baker, Boyd, Philips, Richards, Carey, Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Welch, Lewis, Roberts, Owen, Lloyd, Edwards, Moore, Pryce, Rosser, Kendrick, Trevor, Vaughn, Harris, Taylor, or Brown etc then its likely you have some Celtic Welsh ancestry
Beautiful video! I loved it so much. The horses were so gorgeous and friendly. Lots of interesting information shared by you both. Thank you from Australia ❤
My grandmother is welsh, (Rhys) family, and we have alot of family stories and tradition that shows thru my family here in America, thank you for making this video and giveing me a deeper look at the land of parts of my heritage ❤
Great video! I love Wales and just ordered the Mabinogion and am about to move to Wales which I am so looking forward to. Re England! To me England is more a name as I consider myself a Lancashire lass and a Briton, not English. This is why I think the name England as a whole does not really have a local feel or even kinship to many. I have relatives from Scotland, Wales and Ireland and many Welsh friends and I love the British Isles and Southern Ireland never a problem in any area but the teasing banter with friends from Yorkshire we laugh about the War of the Roses which I feel is the best way forward to value a long local history which has been very much attacked by the modern way of life. Remember it was not long ago many people never left their local village. Being a Northerner I don't particularly like London at all it is one place I will no longer ever step foot in agian, even before the recent invasion it has a bad vibe, evil resides there for a very long time. It may even breed a certain malevolence which if sensitive one can taste. The faye realm is indeed real and I have had many experience, so I am aware indeed how important offerings are. I see it as a way of making friends with beings that have been mistreated by humans and thus a genuine heart felt offering helps bridge the gap. There are the negative entities but I put them more in the realm of demonic which from my understanding many faye are also at war with. We can play a part in this fight against evil and learn to understand more as we go.
Through the millennia, all people came new to the new places that we now think of as ancient. Humans have been gradually moving around the planet since forever. We know this from archaeologic, linguistic, and now genetic research. As an American, I have some Welsh in my genetic background, but to think that says something about my "roots" would be to overlook where those "Welsh" peoples came from, and where the preceding peoples had lived, and so on. So pursuing our roots only takes us to particular places during particular times and who knows what before that. For that reason, I think it's best to connect with the spirits where you are. That's the most human way to go about it, what we've always done. When it comes to "paganism," of course, after a couple thousand years of Christianity there's little or no cultural cohesion to support it. No long held communal practice or structure - and no dependence for the human psyche in the same way ancient hunter-gatherers or ancient farmers had. It becomes a very personal, individual matter in a modern world. There's power and truth in that. It's valid. But we should never confuse it with enacting or reviving an old or original form of paganism. That's just fantasy.
There's a fictional novel series called 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander which is heavily influenced by Wales and Welsh mythology. It's in a similar vein to 'The Chronicles of Narnia' in terms of style (children's stories which can be enjoyed by adults). I think there are 5 books in the main series.
Disney loosely, and I mean it when I say loosely, based one of their movies off a mix of two of those books (The Book of Three, and The Black Cauldron.) The books that I read were much more interesting. ❤
I grew up in South Wales and this helped me connect again with something ancient, it's like I was there.. that place with the spring resembles very much a place I often used to visit as a kid, going camping there in the summer and going there to see the icicles in winter. A magical place, I was going back to it in my memory as a special place, such a similarity! It might have been a cave..(?)
I'm from South Wales too, grew up in the countryside of the Brecon Beacons. Didn't get told any history of Wales in school other than the industrial ravaging of the lands in the 19th century, didn't get taught a world of Welsh. Things are better now, the centuries old struggle to not have our culture eradicated by our overbearing neighbour to the east has gone better of late, they teach Welsh in schools now, the tales of the Mabinogion are better known. Also, best flag in the world....Y Ddraig Goch, it's got a bloody big dragon on it!
Beautiful and informative. I was wondering, this sort of Paganism that is very connected to the land and rather local... do you have suggestions for those of us who live in North America... could I connect with the tylwyth teg here out in nature or should I expect to connect with some North American nature spirit perhaps of Native American lore? One line of my ancestors does trace back to Wales in the area near Ragland Castle and as far as I know, I have no Native American ancestry so I am reluctant to try to practice any Native American ritual or myth. It would be a cultural appropriation of the worst kind.
I would like to add if I may, that Wales is not actually the 'real' name for the land. Its Cymru. Wales means "foreigner" ... Cymru means "compatriot or fellow-man" 🏴 Even our name was inverted. I try not to use Wales asmuch as possible but its so difficult because no one really knows what Cymru means or is. I have Welsh in my title but I really want to be able to change it to Cymraeg one day soon and still have people know what it is 🙏🏴
To add salt to the wound for Capel Celyn, by the time the project was finished, they didn't need that water anymore. Something about moving around Wales, I always feel like I'm travelling around on scars that still hurt the land they're on. There are only a handful of ancient woodlands, and in those places, you can get a little bit of respite from what tends to feel like a crying country.
It’s interesting to try and look at the religion that came even before Celtic paganism in Europe, the oldest system of paganism that we know of, back when the great monument builders ruled Europe, they were probably animists, so a lot closer to more eastern traditional religions and beliefs in spirits and conscious power in everything around you, some parts of this have even fed into polytheistic religions, such as with celts you have fairies, with the Norse you have elves and dwarves, the Suomi have trolls, the idea of these sometimes mischievous forces or spirits that can disguise themselves as every day objects, it very much calls back to that even older prehistoric belief in animism
When I was there, It felt like a distortion in space. As if the whole place was a sort of patchy gateway to Faerie, and it might look like a small quaint dell, in one instance, only to unravel into a vast, and complex landscape once you stepped into it.
Interesting - Loock up Maria Kvilhaug - she is norwegian historian who has desiferd the old Edda kvad ( old mother) - from the prehistoric time. She has written books in English ( Seed of Yggdrasil and The Maiden with the Meed) and she also has a podcast ( Edda podden and Lady of the Labyrint) I would ove that this get connected - the history before the Indoeuropean...
Fascinating look at a place, as you say, is often overlooked by outsiders. I've long been fascinated with the culture and stories of Wales. I've read a few versions of the Mabinogion. I especially like the 4-part series by Evangeline Walton. I suppose that could be considered a modern interpretation but stories have always been traditionally told and retold in various ways.
Did you know the word "welsh" is old English for "foreigner/slave"? In a Cymraeg school, we were taught a lot of our history. The word you're looking for to describe the people is "Cymry" change the last 'Y' to a 'U' and you're speaking of the country/land.
Introduction very apt description, that place is less known yes. But still at the edge of the tourist town stuff. The good stuff is a little more to quote your lady friend... hidden and would blow your socks off. You won't need 'special mushrooms' oh you will think you have taken them 😂 but they are optional
Proud that you done an video on this Jacob, especially once I was notified on this video. Because I am a Canadian who is part Scottish, Welsh along with a little of Slavic descent all added in. It always amazes and makes me mentally hungry in knowledge and learning on the Spirituality/Paganism of an location to learn the energy or ways of the old. I got to say as a Canadian who is part Welsh!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="716">11:56</a> Your first pronunciation is correct (I'm a native speaker of the language). The second pronunciation is what English people do (particualrky those with 'posh' accents), when speaking other languages. They try to bend foreign sounding words to make sense to their anglo ears, and insert vowels where they shouldn't be, or cut some away where they're meant to be! An example is pronouncing the name 'Iolo' as 'Iolooowwwww' instead of 'Iolo'. That 'o' at the end might almost sound Japanese to an English speaker. As the accent in South Wales, particularly the South East has been influenced much more by English, you will find these Anglo habits in the way they pronounce certain things, which they aren't always aware of.
the spiritual journey is a personly one. you can join croups and do some spiritual rituals/theachings, but in the end it is the ego's journey to selfdiscovery of its divinty. : )) Namaste btw " Dimensionals portals in wales and ireland makes those places different and more "mystics", lands of the little pbl. lee Carrol talks about this, on yt as kryon
Conan the Barbarian is also called “the Cimmerian”, another name for Cymbrian, aka Welsh! If I recall correctly, “Wales” is essentially a colonist term for the Cymbri.
I’m a proud Welshman but also a proud Britain and I don’t know any other Welsh people who are interested in independence and as the saying goes “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it “ Britain has been very successful and wales does govern itself so will the ultra nationalists please calm down 👍
I found it very interesting how the “phallic” rock didn’t have any organic growth on it…. All around it yes but not on that specific part…??? Maybe some kind of alchemy to prevent organic growth?? I’m by no means an expert, just observation, if someone who is more clued in these fields could fill me in that’d be awesome…. Peace & love everyone 🙏🏻❤️
Wales is the closest to the surviving people of what used to Populate the whole of Britain.... English are from Northern Europe .. my Mothers welsh, Native speaker ...
Hi :) What do You think, why some people involved in shamanism and witchcraft believe that using absinthe and wormwood as an offering to the spirits and deities of nature can cause damage to our energy?
I certainly learned about the Mabinogi in school and I'm a Cardiff girl.but a lot older than Stella so maybe they stopped teaching it which sadly wouldn't surprise me. l
