Pentre Ifan

by Diana Haronis

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Pentre Ifan

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Diana Haronis

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Photograph - Photography

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Pentre Ifan is an ancient buriel chamber dating back to about 3500 BC. It contains some of the largest and best preserved neolithic domens in Wales. It is on a hilltop in Wales which over looks Fishguard Bay.
There is a passage on Pentre Ifan written in 1911 by W.Y. Evans Wentz, author of The Tibetan book of The Dead. In his book The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries he writes:
"The region, the little valley on whose side stands the Pentre Ifan cromlech, the finest in Britain, is believed to have been a favourite place with the ancient Drulds. And in the oak groves that still exist there, tradition says there was once a flourishing school for neophytes, and that the cromlech instead of being a place for internments or sacrifices was in those days completely enclosed, forming like other cromlechs a darkened chamber in which novices when initiated were placed for a certain number of days....the interior (of Pentre Ifan) being called the womb or court of Ceridwen. "

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