Corra, the Crane Bird.
The star constellation that we call Corra, which is the old Irish name for the Crane Bird was called Cygnus by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century BCE (meaning the Swan in Latin) and is also know as the Northern Cross. The names of these stars come to us from Islamic astronomy.
Corra is one of the three Totem creatures of Manannan Nac Lir, the other two being the white horse Aonbharr and the salmon An Bradán.
Cygnus flies towards Aquila, the Eagle but Corra flies away from the Eagle in the Milky Way to the lands where Manannan rules over the Blessed Isles of the Otherworld. This is Tír na mBean (the land of women), Těr fo Thonn (the land beneath the wave), Těr Tairnigir (the land of promise), Tír na nOg (the land of youth), Magh Mell (an afterlife paradise), and Emhain Abhlach. Just after sunset 20:30 in Fomhar (Autumn Equinox) Corra is due south in the night sky so this is the best time of the year to see it rise. In its highest expression look due west at true midnight on the true equinox.
The star constellation that we call Corra, which is the old Irish name for the Crane Bird was called Cygnus by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century BCE (meaning the Swan in Latin) and is also know as the Northern Cross. The names of these stars come to us from Islamic astronomy.
Corra is one of the three Totem creatures of Manannan Nac Lir, the other two being the white horse Aonbharr and the salmon An Bradán.
Cygnus flies towards Aquila, the Eagle but Corra flies away from the Eagle in the Milky Way to the lands where Manannan rules over the Blessed Isles of the Otherworld. This is Tír na mBean (the land of women), Těr fo Thonn (the land beneath the wave), Těr Tairnigir (the land of promise), Tír na nOg (the land of youth), Magh Mell (an afterlife paradise), and Emhain Abhlach. Just after sunset 20:30 in Fomhar (Autumn Equinox) Corra is due south in the night sky so this is the best time of the year to see it rise. In its highest expression look due west at true midnight on the true equinox.
Below you can see Corra overlaid on the stars of the Autum Equinox - discovered by Ard Druí Con
Below you can see the Boheh Stone with quartz rock temporary additions (by Con) outlining the Corra constellation = The Crane Bird, the Carved Boheh Stone and the Corra constellation high in exactly due west at true midnight over the holy mountain, the Reek. Our ancestors left so much evidence of their sophisticated knowledge of timespace that is is hard to believe that it is so ignored today.
Back in 2017, Con turned the Cygnus star group upside down and renamed it after Corra, the Red Crowned Crane Bird.
Names in the common mix of old Irish and English for the 8 festival events of the 8 fold year, followed by the "as Gaeilge" version and now available in OgamNua too ... plus ... the description of the mythological starlore beasts in Irish (star constellations) followed by their beast type description in English... Corra is the goddess for Fomhar
In 2017 - Lorcan O Toole (Director of the Golden Eagle Trust) on the right predicted the return of the Red Cap Crane Bird to Ireland at a lecture he gave in Temple Crom. He said "in less than 4/5 years". Two years later he was proved right. The locally extinct Crane returned to Ireland after 500 years of banishment by church and imperialist two years later - even showing up as a 'vagrant' at a lake just 20 minutes from Temple Crom. Since then - every year and breeding here too. Corra Abú
Equinox is Latin and mean equal night. It really is just their way of saying day is equal to night. But it is not... It is very rare to get 12 hour day and 12 hour night. The nearest to 12 hours is always on the 25th of Sept for where we live in Ireland. The true equinox in Ireland is never on the 21st of September, never. Connect with true time and you connect with your ancestors.
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