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DEDICATED TO REPRODUCING TRADITIONAL TEXTS IN AUTHENTIC GUISE |
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The House that Fish Built: Tales from the Mythological and Ulster Cycles.
Father Fish and Little Nipper, Champions of the Crafty Folk, use all their native wit and ingenuity to regain the championship of Erin from the invading Slug-Men, in two tales from old Ireland... |
ISBN 1904040004 £ 2.99 |
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ISBN 1904040012 £ 2.99 |
Need Fire: Sacred Song and Texts of India
A selection of song and texts from the Vedas and Upanisads celebrating the origin, and seasonal sojourn, of the sun-god, and the harnessing of his fire for ritual purposes... |
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A Drop the sun Lets Fall Aisling Gwythyr-the-Bright. The fourth part of Gwern-Sun-Hair’s hero tale, in which Amorgen Tuin is fostered on the forest dwelling hermit Greidyawl-the-Wise, he is re-named Gwythyr-the-Bright, and has a vision of a lovely crane-girl whom he helps to release from the curse of bird form…
On being summoned to the court of his new stepfather, Pebyn Gronw, and offered his step-sister to wedd, an offer he refuses, he is destined by Pebyn to marry only Creiddylad, the shadowy daughter of the notorious necromancer Big Chief Hawthorn, and he sets out to find her… |
ISBN 1904040071 £2.99 |
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ISBN 1904040098 £2.99 |
A Spear That Roars For Blood: Echtra Gwythyr-the-Bright. The fifth part of Gwern-Sun-Hair’s hero tale, sees Gwythyr-the-Bright in the land under lake, where, after helping a giant shepherd, Glewlwyd Longstride, and his wife, Goleuddyd, over their marital difficulties, he is given the opportunity to meet Creiddylad whilst she bathes in a pool.
Whilst deputising for the giant’s dog, Gwythyr is taken to a mighty smithy and there acquires the art of smithcraft and forges himself a sword, and a spear. He is versed in the other crafty arts by Glewlwyd and Goleuddyd before setting out for Culhwch Dun, the house of Big Chief Hawthorn. |
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Curse Of the Hay Collar
Compert Gwern-Sun-Hair The first part of Gwern-Sun-Hair’s Hero Tale, in which Tyrnonos,the Lord of Dyved, determines to catch a horse rustler, but finds himself a mistress, the beautiful Rhiannon-of-the-Birds from under the fairy hills… The story goes on to relate the consequences of their union, the conception and birth of Little Gwern Sun-Hair, and his abduction by the Otherworldly Lord, Pryderi, Rhiannon’s rejected lover, humiliated by Tyrnonos at his wedd-fest… |
ISBN 1904040047 £2.99 |
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ISBN 1904040055 £2.99 |
Spoils of the Abyss: Aided Tyrnonos Thunder-of-Water The second part of Gwern-Sun-Hair’s Hero Tale, in which Tyrnonos sets out, with his armies, to retrieve his abducted son, from Pwll, the father of Pryderi in the shadowy realms Annwn, and exonorate his now shamed mistress. This nightmarish journey to the phantom court includes a grotesque parody of the discovery of the life giving vessel and its myth, and a burlesque of the coronation ritual. It ends with the failure of the expedition, and the death of Tyrnonos… |
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Ceridwen`s Brew: Macgnimartha Amorgen Tuin. The third part of Gwern-Sun-Hair’s hero Tale, in which, having been put to work in the kitchens of Pwll, the Head of Annwn, Little Gwern inadvertently aquires the gift of poetic inspiration from the Cauldron of Ceridwen… He eventually escapes to the lands of Gwynedd, and having befriended the Lord of Gwynedd’s son, Helig, who names him, Amorgen Tuin, is reconciled with his mother, Rhiannon, when attempting to free Helig, from the dungeons of Pendaran, the Mighty, new Lord of Dyved… |
ISBN 1904040063 £2.99 |
