The Dark Night and the Birth of the Light

Near the mouth of the river that the Irish have always understood to mirror the Milky Way stands an ancient burial mound whose dark inner chamber is illuminated by a ray of light at dawn on the Winter Solstice. On the eve of the Solstice, we spend time with the tales of two mythic figures conceived in that burial chamber – Óengus Óg and Cú Chullainn – and delve into what their stories tell us about darkness and light, and about this world and the Otherworld.