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scotianostra · 1 month

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Aqua bliss! by Mairi Maclean Via Flickr: All you need is a bit of blue sky and Harris becomes tropical.l never tire of this magical view from Seilebost.

#Seilebost #Harris #tropical #aqua #sea #beach #sand #Outer #Hebrides #Scotland #sky #blue #clouds #white #waves #flickr

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thebeautifulbook · 5 months

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THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND by Thomas W. Knox. (New York: Harper, 1891) Profusely illustrated.

Adventures of two youths in a journey through Ireland, with visits to the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #illustrated book #victorian era #travel #ireland #scotland #england #wales #hebrides #book design

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fabforgottennobility · 1 year

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caledonia

#my uploads #scotland #caledonia #hebrides #landscape #nature

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quiltofstars · 1 year

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The Northern Lights over the island of Rùm in Scotland // rambaut

#astronomy #astrophotography #night sky #northern lights #aurora borealis #landscape #earth #beautiful #scotland #rùm #hebrides

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klemd · 8 months

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Lismore lighthouse, from memory

ID: Simple watercolour painting of a white lighthouse with a lot of texture. The lighthouse stands on a rock jutting out into the grey-blue sea. There are green rolling hills in the background. End ID

#traditional art #watercolour #scotland #lighthouse #hebrides

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ramblebrambleamble · 21 days

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From tides crawled out the empires

Now buried in the sands of time;

History may not repeat itself

But it sure as hell does rhyme.

Here again the foes of fable,

Here again the fire;

The horse kicked its way out of the stable

And raced a game with no umpires.

No umpires, no referees

Save history's long record;

Appalachia to the Hebrides

Was once one mountain sward.

From the tides crawled out the empires,

And to the tides they did return;

The rain washed them down the riverbeds

And now for the sky, they yearn.

#poetry #poem #my writing #writing #spilled words #ramblebrambleamble #poeticstories #mountains #appalachia #hebrides #history #time

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federer7 · 9 months

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Agnes MacDonald, Morag and Ewen MacLellan. Isle of South Uist, Outer Hebrides. Scotland. 1954

Photo: Paul Strand

#paul strand #1954 #Agnes MacDonald #Morag #Ewen MacLellan #ewen #South Uist #hebrides

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sthildaseaadventures-blog · 7 months

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Stunning Scottish Sunsets

Pictures taken during a September 'Isle of Skye and the Small Isles' cruise onboard Seahorse II. Many thanks to guest Barbara for sharing.

#visitscotland #scottishislands #innerhebrides #westcoastscotland #hebrides #st hilda sea adventures #onlyinscotland #lovescotland #smallship #scottishsunset #sunset #solo travel #smallgrouptravel #explorescotland #travelscotland #sunset photography

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princessreasonmusic · 7 months

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Isle of Skye, Hebrides, Scotland

#Isle of Skye #Hebrides #Scotland

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scotianostra · 5 months

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December 11th 2004 saw death at the age of 101 of Margaret Fay Shaw.

Many Americans come to our shores, some looking for their ancestral roots, others just to explore our beautiful lands and take in our culture, few leave a mark like Margaret Fay Shaw did. Even her birthplace near Pittsburgh, Glenshaw, lends itself to the Scottish lands she fell in love with and devoted her life.

Shaw was one of the most notable collectors of authentic Scottish Gaelic song and traditions in the 20th century. The arrival of this young American on the island of South Uist in 1929 was the start of a deep and highly productive love affair with the language and traditions of the Gaels. She was also an outstanding photographer, and both her still pictures and cinematography contributed to an invaluable archive of island life in the 1930s.

She met the folklorist John Lorne Campbell on South Uist in 1934; they married a year later and together helped to rescue vast quantities of oral tradition from oblivion.

Her most important published work was Folksongs And Folklore Of South Uist, which has never been out of print since it was first published in full by Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1955.

As well as the collection of Gaelic works, John Lorne Campbell and Margaret Fay Shaw bought the Hebridean island of Canna, where they spent rest of their lives, after which they bequeathed it to the National Trust of Scotland.

Read more on her and Canna House, now a museum, here https://www.theisleofcanna.com/canna-house-archive

#scotland #scots-american #american #history #writer #character #hebrides

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filmap · 9 months

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Limbo Ben Sharrock. 2021

Road Committee Rd, Isle of North Uist HS6 5DA, UK See in map

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#ben sharrock #limbo #amir el-masry #scotland #malacleit #north huist #hebrides #united kingdom #road #highlands #movie #cinema #film #location #google maps #street view #2021

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bewltched · 2 months

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Isle of Skye, Hebrides, Scotland

#Isle of Skye #Hebrides #Scotland

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jurakan · 7 months

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Fun fact please?

Today You Learned about Shion/Shony.

[Wikipedia’s article is under ‘Seonaidh’, but I read about it under the name ‘Shion’ in Mark Williams’s book.]

So, in the early 1700’s book A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland by Martin Martin (yes, that is his name) describes an annual nighttime ritual on the Isle of Lewis, in the Hebrides, in which the local church community would get together, pick someone to hold a cup of ale, and then wade into the water and dump it in while declaring it an offering to Shion or Shony to have a prosperous harvest. Now Marty-Mart thought that this was a holdover from an old pagan religion. It was popularly believed by scholars that ‘Shion’ must have been some old Celtic deity of the sea, whose cult was long forgotten, but that this one little island off the coast of Scotland remembered, if only for this one little holiday. Wikipedia even calls this ‘likely’, though it doesn’t have a citation for that sentence.

Welp. Probably not, according to Mark Williams.

In his book Ireland’s Immortals, Mark Williams talks about Marty-Mart’s records, and his own research. He also brings up that acclaimed scholar Ronald Hutton (famous debunker of New Age nonsense) independently came to the same conclusion, and that is this: this probably isn’t a pre-Christian ritual that survived. This is probably a pre-Reformation ritual that survived. After all, ‘Seonaidh’ is close to the Scottish Gaelic form of ‘Johnny’, in the same way that ‘Sean’ is the Irish take on ‘John’. Williams suggests that, given there are a ton of weird little festivals for saints all over the world, and the prominence of water, this is probably a ritual feast celebration to Saint John the Baptist, and it somehow survived the Reformation in this remote corner of Scotland.

A bit weird, but I hope it’s a good Fun Fact.

#Fun Fact Friday #Today You Learned #Isle of Lewis #Shion #mythology #Mark Williams #Ronald Hutton #Scotland #Hebrides #Saint John the Baptist #religion #New Age

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thefurtherthanfar · 10 months

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