Cailleach in the snow
She is also called the 'Sleeping Beauty', and she is associated with the creation of the landscape and with the weather, especially storms and winter. Once every 18.6 years, a phenomenon takes place at this range of hills. The moon is 'given birth' by the cailleach, and straddles just the top of the hills and descends behind her head. Then reappears from the glen next to the Clisham before setting. There are standing stone arrangements throughout the Isle of Lewis aligned wit