The Plain of Pillars

From the yellowing mane of a horse and the deep roots of mugwort's silver lace is born a boy who can sing like Sun, who can restore the boundless colors beyond bondage. But to do that, he has to kill the Mountain. And there the journey begins and ends...

An ancient people discover the brutality of peace in this Fantasy Book of the Year (Independent Press) rooted within the Celtic fringes of Ancient Ireland. A subversive retelling of the Cath Mag Tuired, or The Second Battle of Moytura, the Irish battle-saga between the Tuatha Dé Dannan and the Fomorians, The Plain of Pillars has been called "a mastery of mythology" (Independent Review) and "a form of resistance against colonization and cultural extinction" (Kirkus Reviews) that "weaves a vibrant tapestry of hope, resilience, and magik" (Literary Titan).

Griffith's triumphant version of this Irish myth heightens the latent Insular Celtic oral texture in the original manuscript and its tension with colonialism and language, transmitting a story that can be located in the heart of every reader inside theme-veins of kinship with a dying world, hope in the one-eyed face of genocidal hate, and the promise that stories have power enough to shape the clay of man and Earth Mother both.

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"A captivating retelling of Celtic mythology... a form of resistance against colonization and cultural extinction...Griffith keeps this folkloric tale alive and vibrant." - Kirkus Reviews

"The prose itself is a triumph, a stunning reinterpretation of Celtic mythology." - Literary Titan

"Griffith's wonderful work, The Plain of Pillars, transports the reader into ancient Ireland, and proves to me that we are all indeed related." - Taylor Keen, author of Rediscovering Turtle Island.

"If we're going to build new systems, we need old myths told in new ways and Griffith's outstanding book, The Plain of Pillars, offers us a grand, beautiful, enchanting story. A beautiful book in all ways." - Manda Scott, author of Any Human Power.

"Griffith demonstrates a mastery of genre fiction and mythology, employing narrative techniques that are both lyrically impressive and philosophically engaging." - Independent Book Review

Daniel Firth Griffith, or D. Firth Griffith is a markâko and remembering seanchaí, a participant citizen of Earth Mother, and a father, horse-friend, sacred butcher and leather tanner, and award-winning indie author of many books on kincentric ecology, mythology, fantasy, horror, and language. Firth's books have received numerous honors, including Independent Publisher's Fantasy Book of the Year, the Nautilus Best Small Press Books of the Year, and Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award in Nature Writing. When he is not writing or dreaming with the long-ago peoples, he is tanning leathers, leading sacred harvest ceremonies, hand-hewing log cabins, and running unshod with his three wildlings and wonderful wife.