Clachan an Dorchaidais: The Stones of Darkness

By David MacKenzie

The Picts left no written account of their inner life. What they left is stone: hundreds of carved symbol stones distributed across the landscape of northern Scotland, their symbols still carrying the weight of a vanished theology. Clachan an Dorchaidais is a full working grimoire reconstructed from what remains: the archaeological record, the ogham inscriptions of Pictish stones, the Scottish Gaelic oral tradition, and the living folk knowledge that survived conversion. It is written for practice, not for scholarship - a working manual in the oldest tradition of the Caledonian landscape. Inside: three-world cosmology - the Hard Gods of Caledonia - sacred tree and herb knowledge - the full twenty-fid ogham with divination methods - thirty-five complete workings in Scottish Gaelic - spirit-world protocols - rites of passage - the fire festivals - bird augury - the familiar - the bardic voice and working song.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZDDRYDB
• ISBN13: 9798195297015
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"