What comes to your mind when you think of song of the sea? For some people it might be the noise, the tide, the storms of the calm lapping of the waves on to the beach. For other people it might be the mystical calling of the sea, how we can stand for hours on a nice day staring at it and listening.
Before the days of caring for the environment it was fairly common for children in rural area to write letters, put them in a bottle and throw the bottles into the sea, hoping somebody would see it and read it. There are stories of friendships and even marriages which started that way.
For me it reminds me of Catholic devotions to the Virgin Mary (Moire in Gaelic) like the Star of the Sea or the the Song of Bernadette, the Divine Female who brings peace to our unconcious, especially if we see the sea as giving birth to nature and feeding the planet.
A few questions:
What is your song?
How would you describe Òran na Mara – Song of the Sea? What does it mean to you? It is religious or something more mystical and unexplainable?
Try to find 10 Gaelic adjectives that might help define it.
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