Dál Riata - Honour the Dead

Who now can trace a continuous line of their ancestors back further than a few centuries? Who sings their praises? Who knows their histories and tells their tales? Indigenous peoples the world over hold tradition as the basic tenet of society. It is the glue that binds them together. It is one of the points of focus that creates a group identity; the greater part of this is our relationship with our ancestors.

People leave their mark upon the landscape, and this is often the link to our connection to them. This is not just true of monuments like Stonehenge or New Grange, but of the entire landscape around us. The city that sprang up from the group of huts by a stream, the rolling green hills of the farm, the old wall by the road-side. Our ancestors live on.

Their actions have brought you to where you are today, allowing you to be who you are. If for no reason other than that we should honour them. And in the very act of acknowledging our ancestors it helps us to find our place in the world, a sense of belonging within the tribe. Our past and our future.

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