The river is a living vein that flows through the Gaelic imagination, its currents suffusing through the porous boundary between what is seen and unseen. To stand by her banks is to feel the pull of an tsruthán beo, the living stream, whose waters hold the memory of the salmon and the wisdom of the goddesses. Each carries a name spoken by the land itself, An Bhóinn, An Life, Abhainn na Sionainne, shaped by the cadence of its streaming flow. This short discussion explores the creative process behind this New Moon’s offering.
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