Re: Triad # 65
Searles

Sat Jan 16 14:27:31 1999
I plan to publish a condensed version of all of our views on the Triads at the Druidic Triads pages in The Summerlands Public Library.  Please let me know if you do not wish your words and thoughts to be included in that work.  The form of these pages will be similar to the ones that I have already don at the link given below.  Assuming that permissions granted (without a posted objection), I will add each contributing person's name to a list of contributors for the complete work.  If we ever charge people for copies of the work (paper, disk or CD), then I expect to apply any profits from such a charge to The Summerlands operating costs and a part of it to The Summerlands Land Fund.*p*I see your take on this Triad as being slightly different from my own but in many ways similar.  That is one of the strengths of the Triads as a teaching and learning tool IMO.  They provide us with a framework or a yard stick for evaluating a variety of life's situations.  When the triadic measure is taken of these situations, universal truths are revealed, and often the way to correct or improve is also indicated.*p*My feeling is that the ancient Druids had specific stories in mind when they created such Triads for themselves and their students.  In this way the Triad could have been an index to the tales in much the same way that I consider Ogham were used to index knowledge and memories.  This thought inspires me to consider whether there is an Ogham - Triad link.  Such an idea would fit right in with the existence of the three phrase Oghams.*p* When we consider the Triads in our discussions. let's look at each of them and see if they could contain the structures of: Past, Present, and Future, or Mother, Father, Child, or even Physical, Mental, and Spiritual.   If they have these sorts of things within them, then they might also be ranked upon a diagram in their order of association.  As such we would perhaps seen the cosmology and spiritual belief of the Celts expressed as a knotwork or tapestry, a living road map for where we have been, where we are and where we might expect to go.*p*Searles*p**br*TopazOwl wrote,*br*<snip>*br*:*br*:      Or: Three misfortunes of a farm: contaminated land, a *br*: dung-heap inside the palisade or fence, and a house full of *br*: sparks. :-)*br*:*br*<snip>*br*. When *br*: the land suffers, everyone suffers, and that is the *br*: unfortunate thing. That is what this triad is all about -- *br*: doing things right.*br*:*br*: Leigh*br*
Re: Triad # 65
TopazOwl
310
Sat Jan 16 11:35:06 1999
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