The Gaelic Language of Scotland
There are times in our lives where we reach a certain point and try to look deep within ourselves to figure out who we are. However, when that happens we are programmed to examine our lives through the lens of today's society. A society far removed from the civilizations who make up who we are.
Over the course of the years as we fall into the programmed norms of what is and isn't acceptable in this greedy, self first society; we have lost those principals of our Ancestors that makes us who we are. This in turn causes us to be lost and hopeless in an uncaring, ruthless matrix.
I believe in order to figure out who we are, we need to discover our ancestry and bring about Ancestral Healing. One issue in discovering our ancestors is the disappearing language and dialog that society is allowing to disappear from the Universe. One of those for me is the Gaelic language of Scotland.
Scottish Gaelic is classified as an indigenous language. Most of modern Scotland at one time was Gaelic speaking. But now only about 1% of the Scottish population can speak Gaelic.
Gaelic was brought to Scotland by Irish settlers around the 4th century, and reached its peak around 1018.
However, during King Malcolm's reign from 1058 to 1093, Gaelic started its decline. The King's wife was Anglo-Saxon and did not speak the Gaelic language. She gave her children Anglo-Saxon names, and brought many priests and monasteries to Scotland.
The Scottish highlands remained the strongest Gaelic speaking area in the country.
One of the biggest blows to what remained of the Gaelic language came at the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion. With the rebellion stopped, The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge wanted to bring reform and "civilization" to the Highlands. They set out to achieve this by teaching the English language and establishing the Protestant religion.
That brings us to the modern Era. In 2011 the population of Scotland was 5.3 million people. 57,602 people of that population could speak Gaelic. Only 1% of the population is able to speak the tongue of their ancestors.
What details of life have been lost by losing the Indigenous language of your ancestors?
The Gaelic language influences and shapes Scottish literature, music, art, film, festivals. It was an important part of Scottish life. But how does one truly understand the underlying meanings of any of the before mentioned Gaelic inspired categories if they don't understand how to speak Gaelic.
What key elements to living in our Universe are lost in translation as 99 % of the society trusts the English interpretation of the meaning of the different communication techniques?
That is what this matrix of this Society does. It spreads its interpretation of life through language change and religion to program you to conform to their way of thinking, thus eliminating your access to your ancestors and who you truly are. They want you to be who they want you to be, not who you are supposed to be.
How did they want the Scottish Ancestors to be more like the English? Eliminate their culture. How? Eliminate the language and give them religion.
I hope my small dive into the Gaelic Language of Scotland has helped to open your eyes just a little to the elimination of languages and cultures going on around the globe. I hope you can start to awaken to see how you have been changed, been programmed to conform to a culture that was created, not a culture you came from.
The Gaelic Language of Scotland is just one of many ancient indigenous cultures that is being eradicated by the matrix. We need to awaken and put a stop to the programming.
We need to go back to speaking the languages of our Ancestors. We need to go back to the customs of our Ancestors. We need to go back to living like our Ancestors. We need to learn who we truly are.
Journey with me to discover our Ancestry.
Journey with me to rediscover something only 1% of the Scottish population knows. If you have Scottish ancestry, journey with me to learn the Gaelic language of Scotland.
Blessings
By Michael Walters
The Ancestor's Fire
Writing the voices of the unheard
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