#restorethebalance

[mitheredbymidir]

Restore the Balance

Midir regularly comes into conversations between Annette and myself. Well he has occupied our minds for quite a while and it is difficult to forget him when you live at the foot of Brí Leith.

Today she was recommending I watch a programme, which I intend to later seeing as it is a miserable wet day and I've no interest in housework.

Apparently "Kiss the Ground" led Annette to the conclusion that basically

"Climate Change started with Midir showing Eochaidh the plough"

Of course I had to revert to my role as Midir's advocate, a role I reluctantly found being thrust upon me when we attended the Bard Summer School on Clare Island in 2018, now stored in the memory collection of "The time before Covid."

" Well he didn't want to show him the plough did he? Eochaidh spied on him. So it's on Eochaidh not Midir, can't be blaming Midir he just wants to have everything balanced." says I.

To which the wise sage Annette replied

" Yeah, just shows humans can't stay in balance!"

Now that I've opened the curtain and let you have a glimpse of the rambling conversations we amuse ourselves with daily this is what we are so fondly reflecting on:

In "The wooing of Etain" Eochaidh gave extremely difficult tasks to Midir as his forfeits for losing at chess:

" A causeway over Móin Lámraige. a wood over Bréifne, without difficulty. a clearing of stones from the hillocks of great Meath and rushes over Tethba. "

These were impossible tasks to a human but Midir being extraordinary was able to do them, his ability didn't stop him complaining though, and he also gave a warning :

" ‘Thou layest too much upon me,’ said Midir. ‘I do not indeed,’ said Eochaid. ‘Then do thou grant me a request and a boon. As far as thou holdest sway let no man or woman be out of doors until sunrise to-morrow.’ ‘It shall be done,’ said Eochaid. No one had ever trodden that bog before. "

And therein rests my case, we humans were warned by a godly figure not to watch how he performed his task of laying the road in the bog so what was to come after is our fault not his and he cannot be blamed for Climate Change. It is on us.

Eochaidh being a curious cat decided that he had to find out how this otherworldly person could do what he did and sent his steward out to watch.

" The steward went into the bog. It seemed to him as though all the men in the world from sunrise to sunset had come to the bog. They all made one mound of their clothes, and Midir went up on that mound. Into the bottom of the causeway they kept putting a forest with its trunks and roots, Midir standing and urging on the host on every side. One would think that below him all the men of the world were raising a tumult. After that, clay and gravel and stones are placed upon the bog."

So that explains where Doire Mór (big oak forest , townland Derrymore) went and also how Ardagh Mountain became a hill 😉. Into the bog at Corlea they went to make a road on the whim of a King.

And here we get to the crux of Annette's first remark:

" Now until that night the men of Ireland used to put the strain on the foreheads of oxen, (but) it was seen that the folk of the elfmounds were putting it on their shoulders. Eochaid did the same, hence he is called Eochaid Airem i.e. ploughman, for he was the first of the men of Ireland to put a yoke upon the necks of oxen."

Our destructive path to Climate Change began the day we ploughed the land which led to all the other destructive paths we took such as industrialisation, using fossil fuels, plastics, nuclear and chemicals etc etc. In other words curiosity killed the cat.

Midir describes the process rather well here:

‘Put in hand, throw in hand, excellent oxen, in the hours after sundown; overhard is the exaction; none knoweth whose is the gain, whose the loss, from the causeway over Móin Lámraige.’

With everything we create we destroy something else, when will we learn this I wonder? Not until the end? I like to think we are learning it rapidly and hopefully not too late. On my own tiny patch of the world just by stopping the mowing of our lawn brought back wildflowers, wild grasses, grasshoppers, crickets, pygmy shrews, frogs and newts just to name a few that I noticed. Imagine if we stopped turning the sod on a grand scale!

Anyway, to continue the story, Midir saw the spy and decided to teach Eochaidh a lesson. He and his left defects in the road that they built which is one of the reasons we consider it to be connected to the road at Corlea which lasted about 10 years and was built around about the time there was a King Eochaidh around these there parts.

Midir wasn't finished with Eochaidh, nor us, and continued to warn us :

" While they were speaking they saw Midir coming towards them, his loins girt and an evil look on him. Eochaid was afraid, but bade him welcome. ‘Tis for that we have come,’ said Midir. ‘It is fierce and unreasonable of thee to lay such hardship and infliction upon me. I would have wrought something else to please thee, but my mind is inflamed against thee.’ ‘Thou shalt not get wrath in return for thy rage, thy mind shall be set at ease,’ said Eochaid. ‘It shall be accepted then,’ said Midir; ‘Shall we play at chess?’ "

And the game continues.

Note: All the quotes, other than Annette's and my conversation, are from part 3 of The Wooing of Etain, https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300012/text003.html

Some good books on not turning the sod include The Last Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, The Garden Awakening by Mary Reynolds, Wilding by Isabella Tree and Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life by George Monbiot. There are probably plenty more but that is a start and if you really want to find the knowledge you can always read up about Midir, his motto isn't "Restore the balance" for no reason. 😉

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[mitheredbymidir]

A good summary of the resilience of our mythology and storytelling through the ages so needed now to restore the balance. #restorethebalance

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