Gaol Naofa is committed and dedicated to...
- Producing and providing resources and informational materials regarding Gaelic polytheism, culture, history and customs.
- Establishing and fostering communities grounded in Gaelic culture and polytheist consciousness, and promoting a community
spirituality.
- Preserving our native culture and heritage, including language and pagan customs.
- Restoring our ancestral polytheist faith and culture through a reconstructionist and traditionalist discipline.
- Promoting the practice of our religious traditions, and fostering a fulfilling individual and family spirituality.
Basic Beliefs (not instituted as dogma or canon):
- We honor and revere the Gods and Goddesses that were traditionally worshiped by the pre-Christian Gaels.
- We honor and revere our ancestors, both recent and distant, whether of Gaelic descent or not.
- We honor and revere the spirits that populate the natural world in order to create a peaceful co-existence and a deeper connection
with our land.
- One does not need to be of Gaelic blood to be called to the Gods of the Gaels nor to join and participate in Gaol Naofa.
- We observe and celebrate the cycles and seasons of the earth, and celebrate the seasonal festivals of Oíche Shamhna, Lá
Fhéile Bríde, Lá Bealtaine, and Lá Lúnasa.
- We use myths and folklore to help us to better understand our Gods and their nature; they also reveal to us spiritual truths and
clues to the old faith. We do not believe them to be literal interpretations of history nor are they deemed canonical.
- Ecologically-sound living and an attunement with the land as duty and practice to living in accordance with nature.
- The use of science and technology for the positive advancement of mankind.
- The creation of a modern and practical tradition of Gaelic polytheism through a reconstructionist and traditionalist discipline using
folklore, folk traditions, current archaeological and historical research, language, and the respective use of personal gnosis as
foundations.
- Living a life that is honorable and healthy, and in accordance with nature.
- The preservation of living Gaelic cultures as well as the culture spawned in the Gaelic diaspora.
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