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Ta r a
A pre-Celtic archaeological site used for public ceremonies during megalithic
times, located 20 miles northwest of Dublin, and the ancient political capital of
Ireland. It was originally named Tea-mhair after Queen Tea, the wife of Eremon,
the “Euaemon” listed by Plato as a king from Atlantis. Together with her sister,
Tephi, Queen Tea made Tara the spiritual hub for the Atlantean Navel of the World
mystery cult, and the sacred center of Ireland itself. A huge oval enclosure called
theRath na Riogh, the “Fortress of Kings,” sits atop the “Mound of the Hostages,”
stressing its identity as an omphalos, the metaphysical cosmic egg of eternal rebirth.
Beside this passage-grave still stands the Lia Fail, the “Stone of Destiny,” a later
addition to Tara brought by the Tuatha da Danann, who arrived from the final
destruction of Atlantis after 1200 B.C. Irish kings were crowned on or beside the
monolith to demonstrate their Atlantean lineage, hence the name of another Tara
earthwork known as Forradh, Gaelic for the “Seat of Kings.” The Atlantean character
of their inauguration was demonstrated by the five druid priests involved in selecting
a royal candidate, and the bull sacrifice they performed. In Plato’s description of
ritual practices undertaken by kings at the Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis, a bull
was sacrificed over a pillar not unlike the Lia Fail, and 5 was their sacred numeral.
TheFeis Teamhra was another ceremony in which the new king was united
with Ireland by symbolically marrying the goddesses of Irish sovereignty, Etain
and Madb, both impersonated by a white mare. In the Kritias, Plato reported that
the first lady of Atlantis was Leukippe, “White Mare.”
Tara’s “Mound of the Hostages” has been dated to circa 2100 B.C., coinciding
with the second Atlantean catastrophe, in 2193 B.C., when refugees from Atlantis
instituted their kingly rituals in Stone Age Ireland.
(See Eremon, Euaemon, Leukippe, Navel of the World, Tuatha da Danann)Tavwots
The Ute Indians tell of Little Rabbit, who very long ago picked a fight with the
Sun by hurling his penis at it. The great disk exploded into thousands of burning
fragments which crashed to Earth, igniting a terrific conflagration. Try as he might
to escape the cataclysm, Tavwots was dismembered by falling solar debris. His
head went rolling around the planet, tears gushing from his swollen eyes in such
great quantities of remorse that they caused a universal flood that extinguished
the flaming holocaust, but almost obliterated all life in the process.
Little Rabbit’s myth is the means by which a preliterate people preserve the
memory of the world-wide Bronze Age catastrophe that destroyed Atlantis.Tawantisuyu
A term by which the Incas referred to their South American empire. It de-
rived from the collective name for their ancestors who migrated to the Andes as