February Feast
Greetings to all at Imbolg and ‘southern’ Lughnasa!
Over the next three months we’re going to be building a new section on
Caer Australis that will be a happy consequence of some university
units we’re sitting – an internet design subject and an ancient
history subject 
– and so in a similar way the Arthur Project
section, we hope you’ll enjoy ‘Conquest’, reviewing the period of
Roman expansion into the Celtic world. Hmmmm, ‘enjoy’ might not be
quite the right verb… It will cover the military and social
conquests of Gaul and Britain and the subsequent expansion of Roman
ideas into Ireland. Our contribution in ‘Conquest’ is to
try to provide inasmuch as it is reasonable a Celtic perspective to
these events. The change from a Celtic civilisation to a Roman one had
great economic benefits like lower interest rates and taxes (huh?) and
excellent market place opportunities to earn greater profits (gaa?),
but at the same time groups such as the Seine River Shipping
Association (the what now?) still felt it honourable to erect an altar
to Celtic gods while dedicating it to the Emporer. The complex and
difficult decisions of this time of change will be explored.
A few bibs and bobs about the site – on the links section are
reasonably expansive divisions to pagan and re-earthing sites in
Australia. This time of environmental concern certainly warrants the
thoughts and philosophies and world-views that can balance human ways of treating the world with the needs of health and wealth. How different things would be if our society held ‘unthinkable’ the abuse of Rivers or that we valued the ‘cost’ of clean air higher than the
convenience of driving down to the shops! Over the past year a project of the Perth Zoo has been to help the sunbears from abuse and decline through a breeding project. We’ve been making some contributions to the Project Sun Bear and have had a link to it from the Fire Feasts section on CA (which has pleasingly been made use of by visitors), and a breeding pair has now come to Perth and now live at a purpose made enclosure for them
CaerOz-l has been made unavailable to view by general visitors, this is only fair for the sake of open
discussion on that Group; naturally, anything that would be wanted to be viewed
for anyone can be placed on the Caer Australis Forum .
John & Rhys
Caer Australis