North Northeast Wind

Direction
North Northeast Wind Color
breac - (speckled) symbolizing magical power Attributes
The wind of the winged beings
Wind Name
Apeliotes

Tools
Stone
Blue Lace Agate Flute
Penny whistle Flower

Hosts
Musicians
Guide/Master (F)
Semiramis Guide/Master (M)
Fead Scent

Lessons
Finding your melody
Owl
Eastern Screech-owl
Season:

Finger Magic
Left ring finger (venus), hooked by Right little finger (mercury), knuckles touching, palms down Journeys
Journey to Breac 5/22/03 Festivals
The day the birds sing -February 11

Bragi   God of poetry, (adopted?) son of Odin and the giantess Gunlod. He was the chief poet of Odin. He was married to Idun and he had runes cut on his tounge.
Lodur    He gave appearance and speech to the first humans Bird

Bluebird Bird

Blue Jay

Student - children and young adults who are drawn to this wind enter the land as students
Tamhan - Those individuals for whom the calling to become a bard is strong enough as an adult to do the work are officially taken on as apprentices (the old term means poets attendent)
Seanachai (with the right to carry the bronze branch) - This is the level of the coffee house singer, the unpublished author; the unpaid or occasional actor
Fili (copper branch) - The published author, the paid actor and the song writer with a recording contract.
Ollamh (Doctor) and possessor of the golden branch. This is the ultimate level of well earned fame combined with a universally recognized talent.

Depending on your own personal orientation you might find the Sylphs here, the angels or the birds. I will present it as I've found it which is the land of the birds. It is also here that you will find music and the training of the ear

Tenm Laida

Tenm Laida (Illumination by Song) is an altered state that is achieved by chanting or singing a repetitive pattern (usually calling on the gods in some form). This could possibly also have included drumming and dancing as alternative means of achieving the proper altered state. Such activities are now known to synchronize the body and mind to an external rhythm, allowing one to cast off the chains of normal perception. The practioner of this art must first float at peace within the rhythm of the song (dance, beat, mantra,etc.). The state of inner quietness and focus that is to be achieved by such chanting may well be considered to be an "altered state". In such a state, communion with the ancestors and the gods could and did occur more readily, allowing prophecies and insights to be made. Sometimes the space for such an illumination might have been marked off using rods of the appropriate woods (yew/hazel) which might themselves have been marked with Oghamic inscriptions.

Direction North Northeast	Wind Color breac - (speckled) symbolizing magical power	Attributes The wind of the winged beings	Wind Name Apeliotes
Tools	Stone Blue Lace Agate	Flute Penny whistle	Flower
Hosts Musicians	Guide/Master (F) Semiramis	Guide/Master (M) Fead	Scent
Lessons Finding your melody		Owl Eastern Screech-owl	Season:
Finger Magic Left ring finger (venus), hooked by Right little finger (mercury), knuckles touching, palms down		Journeys Journey to Breac 5/22/03	Festivals The day the birds sing -February 11
Bragi God of poetry, (adopted?) son of Odin and the giantess Gunlod. He was the chief poet of Odin. He was married to Idun and he had runes cut on his tounge. Lodur He gave appearance and speech to the first humans		Bird Bluebird	Bird Blue Jay
Student - children and young adults who are drawn to this wind enter the land as students Tamhan - Those individuals for whom the calling to become a bard is strong enough as an adult to do the work are officially taken on as apprentices (the old term means poets attendent) Seanachai (with the right to carry the bronze branch) - This is the level of the coffee house singer, the unpublished author; the unpaid or occasional actor Fili (copper branch) - The published author, the paid actor and the song writer with a recording contract. Ollamh (Doctor) and possessor of the golden branch. This is the ultimate level of well earned fame combined with a universally recognized talent.