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Welcome to Tairis! There are two new articles up this month (so far...), with one on Midsummer and one on Là Fhèill Mìcheil finally completing the Festivals section. For now. As a result, I've also updated the first article in the section, The Year in Scotland, just a little.
A little background
So what's Tairis all about, then? I'm a Gaelic Polytheist/Scottish Reconstructionist who is lucky enough to live in Scotland, and this website is all about the many different things I've been researching and looking into over the years. As I write, I learn, and it helps me to focus and think about things. Hopefully this site will give a good idea of how I interpret GaelicPolytheism/Scottish Reconstructionism, and in a wider context, Celtic Reconstructionism too. You can also find me at my blog, which hosts all my CR-oriented blether. Reconstructionism is a path that requires a lot of legwork and for the most part I stick to what I know best - Scottish and, to a lesser extent, Irish beliefs and customs. I take a fairly conservative approach to my practises and generally stick to the Scottish side of things, but I do find that comparative work and research with Irish practice is very helpful since Scotland's Gaelic heritage owes so much to Ireland and many of the avenues of my research lead back there. Over the years I've developed a few rituals and ideas for how to practise and express my beliefs and some of those rituals and ideas can be found here and elsewhere. What I do is constantly evolving and hopefully I'll be able to reflect that by keeping the site up to date. Seeing as I've been kicking about on the internet for a good few years now, it seems a little rude to not give an address to contact me at - finally. So feel free to
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with your thoughts, questions, ideas. Be nice though, eh? I'm only human. And why 'Tairis'? To be perfectly honest, I stumbled across the word in Macbain's dictionary. Its meaning was given as, "the dairymaid's cry to calm a cow" and really, it just made me laugh. It sums up a lot of the things I love about Scotland - that there's a word for such an act, so integral to the culture, so succinct. And I like cows, so it seemed apt. More seriously though, other meanings are given: In Scots Gaelic, it means loving or kind; going back to early Irish, it meant loyal, true. All this speaks to the core of what I do and how I feel about the culture I live in and am now a part of. I love what I do, and at the heart of it, I see and seek truth in it. Beannachd leibh,
Seren
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