![]() ![]() Found in County Roscommon, Ireland, 1959. I have attempted to give them stories.ħ50-200 BCE. Forensics can tell us many things about the nature of death for bodies recovered from the bogs, but we don’t really know the stories of these nameless souls. ![]() The Shan Van Vocht is the Gaelic phrase for the land goddess and translates as “poor old woman.” In modern druid terms, it’s similar to Mother Nature. ![]() These poems come from the manuscript Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht. These poems are from a series of prose poems narrated by bog bodies and natural elements that I represent in voice. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified by the pressure and chemical makeup in a peat bog. Note: On a visit to Dublin, I saw the bog body exhibit at the National Museum and was intrigued by the details still intact-such as hair, fingernails, and the lines of their handprints. Meisje van Yde, Drents Museum, from Wikimedia Commons. ![]()
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