THE ATLANTIC FINISTERRES
THE FINISTERRES, THE CAPES WHERE, LONG BEFORE CHRISTIANITY AND THE FOUNDATION OF COMPOSTELA, THE ANCESTRAL WAY OF THE STARS FINISHED, ARE SCORPIONIC BACKGROUNDS FOR MEDITATION, DEATH AND REGENERATION, NATURAL SANCTUARIES, NÉMETONS
I AM THE VERY TRANSFORMATION. MY MIND MUST BE TRANSFORMED, IN ORDER TO REMAIN CLEAN AND ALIVE, CONNECTED AND CREATIVE.
ANTECEDENTS:
The whole Galicia is a "meiga" or magic land, but the place where its landscapes become the most magic and suggestive is amidst the peninsulas, capes and islands that frame its Low and High Rias or Estuaries. In remote ages, the Iberian Peninsula raised in the East and submerged in the West. Such terrible event may have originated legends such as the Atlantis sinking.
The ocean flooded the rivers fairways and the valleys that reached it and that had their origin in the Galician Mountains. They formed these beautiful bays denominated "Rias", where the rough Atlantic Ocean becomes sweet.
Also from remote times, but not so much, the searchers for wisdom from all of the European tribes converted the Sun into their god and inspiring model, and therefore, the daily solar path from the east to the west was considered the most excellent Initiation Path, the same one that, at night, was called the Way of the Stars.
Legends told that by the end of the way, the world finished at the spot where the setting sun was swallowed by the sea, and that the souls of the blessed and enlightened braves that managed to get to that point ascended to an upper level of conscience through portals which opened up for them in front of the Gods' Islands.
The Gods' Islands were superimposed on the common physical landscapes, and they were visible only on the final horizon, in all their splendour, to those who had broadened their levels of sensitiveness and perception during their journey, either of heroes or of heroins, to the end of the world.
A shell collected upon those remote beaches, used to be hanging in front of the brave aventurer's home that had returned to his homeland. It showed to everybody that a person lived there, that had had the spirit to reach the end of all of the ways and that had achieved to return wise in order to relate it.
Many centuries thereafter, the nomadic peoples of Indo-European languages that used to graze their herds by the north of the Caucasus, between the Black and the Caspian Seas, began to produce weapons and resistant wheels for their carts with iron, the metallurgy of which was developed in Anatolia.
Then, around 1200 B.C, the initiciatic journey of a few exceptional individualities could be converted into an opportunity for crowds.
In big migrations, the Caucasus clans and tribes went on crossing the whole Europe to the west, both through the south and through the north, trying to establish themselves as close as possible to the Ocean of the End of the World, and of the Islands of the Blessed or Fortunate, their dreamed Paradise. They carried with them the languages and myths that we call Celtic nowadays, as far as the green atlantic finisterres.
In big migrations, the Caucasus clans and tribes went on crossing the whole Europe to the west, both through the south and through the north, trying to establish themselves as close as possible to the Ocean of the End of the World, and of the Islands of the Blessed or Fortunate, their dreamed Paradise. They carried with them the languages and myths that we call Celtic nowadays, as far as the green atlantic finisterres.
Un One of those finisterres, the first to be discerned by those that came from Portugal, was the one that we call now the Morrazo Peninsula, that devides the Pontevedra and the Vigo Rias.
At the end of it lies Cabo do Home, pointing south to the Cies islands, and pointing north to the Ons Islands.
At the start of the cape and dominating the landscape, rise the 186 meters high of Facho of Donón hill. Facho means, in the Gallician language, a torch, since the hill has once been topped by a surveillance cabin that would light a bonfire to give notice to the inland that shipping plunders had been sighted.
The hill summit is an archaeologic site, one of the most important of the Iberian Peninsula, although only the superficial layers of the ground have been excavated.
Surely, that mound of the End of the World, from which one can catch the sight of the Gods' Islands, was once one of the main ancestral sanctuaries, places of power or németons, that signalled the end of the Way of the Stars to the pre-christian pilgrims
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We don't know under which devotion was erected the sanctuary that is called of Donón today, in the remote Stone, Copper and Bronze Ages, However,in the Middle Ages they collected and preserved the Irish Legends of the Iron Age that speak of Éber Donn, Érimon and the magician Amergin, as leaders of the Mil's Sons, the Miftryhft or the Goidelic Celts, that,coming from Galicia, carried out the last of the invasions of Ireland, snatching it from its previous conquerors, the powerful Tuatha De Danann.
DONÓN OR DONN
According to the Irish mythology, Donn, a Fianna warrior,generated a son in the beautiful Crocnuit, Diarmuid, who was the archetype of the love and harmony that emerge after the resolution of the conflict. Donn Is regarded as the father of the Irish; a similar position to the Dis Pater's, lord of the Underworld among the Gauls, as stated by Julius Caesar in his writings.
During the conquest of Ireland, Donn offended Ériu, or Erinn,( one of the goddesses that have given a name to that land), and drowned off its southwest coast.
In a rocky islet off the coast, called Bull Rock or Tech Duinn ( Home of Donn), they say that there lay Donn's abode, now trascended by the pardon and the help of the goddess, as the Lord of the Dead, or the Dark, or the Black Shadow, the same archetype of the Egyptian Osiris, that also concedes the interdimentional regeneration to the initiates that have deserved it. The house of Osiris, the same as the House of Donn, was the place for gathering of the glorious dead , just before initiating their triumphal journey to the Underworld, the paradise for the heroes and the blessed ones.
Data on Donn:
https://cangas.gal/turismo/info.php/es/6 https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/26/22/35koch.pdfDuring the conquest of Ireland, Donn offended Ériu, or Erinn,( one of the goddesses that have given a name to that land), and drowned off its southwest coast.
In a rocky islet off the coast, called Bull Rock or Tech Duinn ( Home of Donn), they say that there lay Donn's abode, now trascended by the pardon and the help of the goddess, as the Lord of the Dead, or the Dark, or the Black Shadow, the same archetype of the Egyptian Osiris, that also concedes the interdimentional regeneration to the initiates that have deserved it. The house of Osiris, the same as the House of Donn, was the place for gathering of the glorious dead , just before initiating their triumphal journey to the Underworld, the paradise for the heroes and the blessed ones.
Data on Donn:
Historically, it is accepted as certain that the comercial nautical traffic between the peninsula and the British islands existed already in the Atlantic Bronze Age. There is also evidence, from the linguistic point of view, that the Gaelic Irish language belonged to the same family of the pre-roman languages of Northern Spain, being distinguished from those of Wales and Cornwall, which belonged to the Breton branch of the Celtic language. The centuries IV and III B. C. marked the peak of the celtic power among the different parts of Europe.
Although all these legends (collected a lot of centuries afterwards, in the XI century, in the Book of the Invasions of Ireland or Lebor Gabála Érenn), are very vague, mythological, remote and debatable, some Oxford University studies came to confirm, in 2006, after realizing a DNA proof to 10.000 British people, that most of the inhabitants of these islands have identical genes to the ones of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
https://Itis.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gabála_Érenn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8XirXeRitc
The excavations, still superficial, that have been carried out until now at the Facho of Donón of the Peninsula of Morrazo, admit speculation that, sure enough, the hill was already a very well known place of power in the Bronze Age.
But, what we can surely confirm based on documentary evidence is that in a much later time, in the Roman Era, it was still so, under the devotion to the Lar deity Bero Breo, as it features in most of the inscriptions, of whom neither other sanctuaries nor references are known.
It seems that the Lares were the protective spirits who were the closest to the humans, some of them taking care of the home, others of the travellers or of the sailors. They were Mercury and Lara's sons- Lara was a náyade or water nymph. Innumerable pilgrims came as far as the Beróbriga castro at Donón. They either coarsely built or then purchased some more refined altars made of the stone of the cape, all of them column shaped. They went up to the summit of the hill, set the altars or aras on the ground while regarding the Holy Islands and upon them they offered wine or fragrant olive oil , asking for health and regeneration to the Lord of Life and Death, called Bero Breo in the Roman times.
The archaeologists say that the summit of the hill got to be so bristling with votive aras that it had to be broadened so that they fit more, although the most ancient and damaged by the bad weather went on being replaced by the new ones. Above, you can see a fanciful recreation by Manuel Castelin, using Photoshop.
With the arrival of Christianity, the cult of Bero Breo was replaced by that of Saint Andrés, a saint in whom they syncretized the pagan figure of Hermes, the guide of the souls to the other world, whose devotees continued their pilgrimages to the Santo André's hermitages that the Church raised upon the diverse atlantic finisterres . Many of the votive aras were used as the foundation of the Christian settlement.
BECAUSE OF ALL OF THESE REFERENCES AND, ESPECIALLY, BECAUSE THE QUESTION IS THAT IT REALLY CONSISTS OF THE MOST MAGIC PLACE, THE MOST EVOCATIVE OF THE INFINITE AND THE MOST FAVOURABLE TO MEDITATION, OF THE WHOLE FINAL TRACK OF THE WAY, that is why the author of these Guide -Cards does not conform to the fact that the Path of the Stars, which is intended to the expansion and regeneration of the mentality of the pilgrims of the self-awareness remains restricted only either to the routes and the traditions of the Christian Era, or to the contemporary tourist conveniences. Therefore, he suggests the intuitive exploration of the Morrazo Peninsula (not only the contemplation of the cape from its extremity, but also the meditation at the mámoas or dólmenes of its summit). This Variant is intended to the searchers who are freer and more sensitive, as a real Timeless Alternative, in this work that is guided , especially, by feeling the moment, by being consciously integrated with the vibration of each place.
The same goes, no doubt, for the rest of the beaches, peninsulas and hills of the other Low and High Rias, natural evocative sanctuaries (németons for the celts), interdimensional portals , labyrinthine goals of the Pre-Christian Way.The Cape of Hermes, the most western cape of the Death Coast.
The imagined labyrinth of Monte Pión at the end of the Mar de Fóra Beach, Background-goal of Manuel Castelin's novel " ORPHEUS' JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD"
This is the place where Orpheus' Initiation to the Labyrinth takes place, in order to prepare him to descend into the World of the Dead and return, for which it is necessary to entirely understand and harmonize the circumstances of the Present Experiential Cycle.
WE WILL CONTINUE FROM HERE, AFTER THE PILGRIM HAS ARRIVED IN GALICIA.
(We also give here a PAGE FOR THE ONE WHO LIKES LEGENDS)
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