Sacchidānanda
Sacred Heart of The Burren
County Clare Boasts Sacred Seven Sheela-Na-Gig in a Song with One Missing To please from Latin placer, give pleasure be approved or sensual enjoyment People visit in throngs still in veneration of Saint Inghean Bhaoith For a happy feeling to delight have joy rapture glee Gratification fulfilment contentment thrill buzz Relish velvet zest solace relish honour Felicity rapture ease delight afterglow. Sending one into a frenzy of In erlebnisse, resfeber, vorfreude, palinoia, Orenda, catharsis, aeonian, clinomania, Ubuntu, aeipathy, lineament, triumph, ecstasy, Rapture elation, euphoria, cloud nine, seventh heaven, Rhapsodies, joyousness, exultation, heaven, paradise Ecstasy, ecstasy, ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy. Figurative carvings of naked women displaying their exaggerated vulvas In Irish Síle na Gcíoch means Julia of the breasts Or Sheela Na Gig a protective caring talisman Or beware of lust Or pagan cult vestige motif. Folk Deity that helped in childbirth Like midwife assisting labour Regarded as actual saints’ images As the Ballyvourney Sheela-Na-Gig Is supposed to represent Saint Gobnait Who is the same person as Saint Brigid The mythological goddess Brigid or Bride. Pilgrims visiting her shrine Saint Gobnait or Brigid Still rub the vulva of this Sheela Invested with great spiritual grace the female genitals A practice thought to have magical fertility & healing powers. County Clare Boasts Sacred Seven Sheela-Na-Gig in a Song with 1 Missing One at Rath Blathmac east of Corofin north of Dysart O’Dea This Sheela-Na-Gig forms part of ornamentation of a window lintel The other Saint Inghean Bhaoithe Sheela is displayed above the entrance door
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