The Twins of Macha…

County Armagh, Friday, 17th June 2022…

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For one of the most important sites in the country

there was not very much to see.

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It was also raining quite heavily

so any shots taken were infested

with rain-drops masquerading as orbs.

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It was nevertheless apparent

that there is something very fine

and rarefied about the place.

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It is just difficult to say, precisely,

what that something is.

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From a more literary stand-point,

even if we accept the current officially held time-line,

there are at least two distinct pre-historical periods

represented in the texts which have been merged.

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In the stone age story Balor’s evil eye

is dispatched with a sling-shot.

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In the bronze age story a spear is used.

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This represents a possible time lapse

of some three, to six thousand years!

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The archaeology is of little if no help, whatsoever,

although some of what stood

within the earthwork enclosure and ditch,

was burned a very long time ago

just like the bones of the once living

at the court-cairns.

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There was though,

a guardian dragon…

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…Which on closer inspection

looked more like a boar…

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…and there was also another

green wyrm-hole,

that no one was brave enough

to venture down for fear of the consequences.

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