#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: `Prior to the Second Battle of Moytura, #Lugh, God of Lightning, was heartening the men of #Ireland by the magic crane dance curse. He is said that he swore by the sky, the land and the sea, among other things:
„Before the people of the Sídhe, Before Ogma I swear! Before the sky and the land and the sea, I swear! Before the Sun and the Moon and the stars, I swear! Oh warrior band, my host of battle, My troops here, the greatest of hosts like the sea, Mighty waves of golden, powerful, boiling fires, and battle lust Are created in each of you! May you seek out your foe upon the field, Embracing death in a frenzy of battle!“
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: In mythology, Fintan the Ancient White One was said to be the first person to arrive in Ireland after the Great Flood. He planted the Branching Ash Tree of #Uisneach, also known as the Tree of Enchantment. This tree was sacred to #Lugh, and the druids often made their wands from ash, as it was associated with rebirth, divination, protection, wisdom and spiritual knowledge.
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: The #Irish ritual of the one-legged crane dance curse (corrghuineacht) is a form of magic-working, the power of which is intensified when practised standing on one leg, with one arm outstretched, and with one eye closed like a crane (ir. corr). The ritual position itself is known as glám dícenn (meaning ‘satire which destroys’). It was thought that the open eye was able to look directly into the magical #Otherworld, whilst standing on only one leg indicated being present in neither one world or the other.
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Prior to the Second Battle of Moytura, #Lugh, God of Lightning, was heartening the men of #Ireland by the crane dance curse (corrghuineacht). He chanted as he went leftwards round the men of Erin, on one foot and with one eye closed.
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
„In ancient times, #Ireland was renowned for the skill of its physicians, particularly their herbal-lore. #Mythology tells us not just of famous battles, brave warriors and tragic love stories, but tales of miraculous #healing, too.
Of all the #Irish Gods, the most well-known and beloved of them all were those who practised healing, such as #Brigid, #Lugh, Dian-Cecht and his son Miach, and daughter Airmid, who was greatly skilled in herbal lore.“ #Celtic
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/p/march-wise-woman-or-witch
Instead of killing Tuireann's sons for murdering his father, #Lugh demanded payment of the éric, for the #nonviolent settlement of the dispute. However, the sons of Tuireann had to perform impossible feats as punishment for killing #Cian. “Every éric is evil,” stated the Senchas Mór, the great collection of legal documents and commentaries, on the grounds that it almost inevitably led to more bloodshed.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: `The Táin Bó Cúailnge is an epic from #Irish#mythology. It is often called "the Irish Iliad". The Táin tells of a war against Ulster by Queen #Medb of Connacht and her husband King Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge. Due to a curse upon the king and warriors of Ulster, the invaders are opposed only by the young demigod, Cú Chulainn.
The Táin is traditionally set in the 1st century in a pagan heroic age.
Source: Táin Bó Cúailnge - Wikipedia
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: After a particularly arduous combat #CúChulain is visited by another supernatural figure, #Lugh, who reveals himself to be Cú Chulainn's father. Lug puts CúChulainn to sleep for three days while he works his healing arts on him. While CúChulainn sleeps the youth corps of Ulster come to his aid but are all slaughtered. When CúChulainn awakes he undergoes a spectacular ríastrad or "distortion", in which his body twists in its skin and he becomes an unrecognisable monster who knows neither friend nor foe. CúChulainn launches a savage assault on the Connacht camp and avenges the youth corps sixfold.
Source: Táin Bó Cúailnge - Wikipedia
„#Irish mythology is liberally sprinkled with tales of the deeds of female druids: Biróg is a druidess who, in one version of the myth, was involved in saving the baby #Lugh from being drowned by his grandfather, Balor; #Tlachtga was the daughter of Mog Ruith, a powerful blind sorcerer, associated with the Hill of Ward and the November 1st fire festival of Samhain; Bé Chuille was a Danann Druidess who was involved in the defeat of Carman, the #Celtic witch; Queen Medb was warned by the Danann druidess and seer, Fedelma, of the defeat of her army.“
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La mujer celta desempeñaba un papel superior a la de otras sociedades, porque vivía el culto y formaba parte de él como parte primordial y no como parte espectadora.
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: The words of #Niamh of the Golden Hair sparked in Oisin a irresistible craving to live with her in the #Otherworld:
“Delightful is the land beyond all dreams,
Fairer than aught thine eyes have ever seen.
There all the year the fruit is on the tree,
And all the year the bloom is on the flower.
There with wild honey drip the forest trees;
The stores of wine and mead shall never fail.
...“
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World). Only these apples will satisfy me, as they are the best and most beautiful in the world. This is what they are made of: Their colour is that of polished gold, and the head of a one-month-old child is no larger than any one of these apples. When you dine on them, they taste like honey, and bleeding wounds and the most malignant diseases disappear. The apples do not diminish when eaten, even if one eats from them for a long time and constantly. Whoever succeeds in taking one of these apples has accomplished his greatest feat, since he will never lose it again.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux Die #Druiden
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: „#Irish mythology is liberally sprinkled with tales of the deeds of female #druids: Biróg is a #druidess who, in one version of the myth, was involved in saving the baby #Lugh from being drowned by his grandfather, Balor. #Tlachtga was the daughter of Mog Ruith, a powerful blind sorcerer, associated with the Hill of Ward and the November 1st fire festival of Samhain. #Bé Chuille was a Danann druidess who was involved in the defeat of Carman, the Celtic witch. Queen Medb was warned by the Danann druidess and seer, #Fedelma, of the defeat of her army.“
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: According to ‘The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel’ the poet dreamed the future king would arrive in #Tara naked and surrounded by birds. Young #Conaire Mór was out hunting birds, when the leader of the flock suddenly threw off his feathers and revealed himself as the King of Birds, and Conaire’s true father. He advised Conaire of the details of the new prophecy, whereupon the young man immediately removed his clothes and set off for Tara accompanied by the Bird King and his flock. Thus the prophecy was fulfilled.
Source: Ali Isaac „The Aisling | Not so Sweet Dreams in Irish Mythology“
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: #Lugh, is a solar deity, who falls in love with #Deichtine, daughter of Conchobar. Conchobar's lands have been laid to waste by a flock of 180 birds chained by the neck in pairs that lead Conchobar and his company in chase to the Brú na Bóinne at Newgrange. After several adventures with the birds, one of which is Deichtine, Lugh helps Cochobar restore his land and begets #CúChulainn on Dechtine. This sets a pattern for CúChulainn and his associations with the birds later in his life.
Source: Helen Benigni/Barbara Carter/Eadhmonn Ua Cuinn „The Myth of the Year“
#MythologyMonday: While in Judeo-Christian cosmology heaven is usually seen as the abode of the dead and of the divine forces, the #Celts located both in the #Otherworld, which could be found out to sea, under a hill, or in an invisible universe parallel to ours, but never in the sky.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
RT @lorraineelizab6
Irish mythology Otherworld: Tír na nÓg (Land of the Young), Tír na hÓige (Land of Youth), Tír Tairngire (Land of Promise), Tír fo Thuinn (Land under the Wave), Mag Mell (Plain of Delight), Ildathach (Multicoloured place) & Emain Ablach (Isle of Apple Trees)! 🎨? #MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday: Cian found his way to Balor’s domain and discovered the tower in which Eithne was imprisoned. Balor’s daughter bore Cian three sons, all of whom were thrown into the sea by their furious, frightened grandfather when he discovered their existence. Cian was able to save one, who became the god and hero #Lugh.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday: Queen #Tailtiu of the Firbolg was the only mother the God #Lugh had ever known, and when she died, he was so overcome with grief, that he founded the annual Festival of #Lughnasa in honour of his foster mother at Tailten (Teltown in Co Meath, between Navan and Kells), where she had lived and was buried.
Source: Ali Isaac https://twitter.com/ChristineV8/status/1531362644682227712
#FaustianFriday: Black-winged Mórrígan and the scald-crow #Badb both took crow forms, as did the continental Celtic #Cathubodua. All were connected with battle.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: The #Mórrígan is thought to be an #Irish goddess of battle. She is believed to be the daughter of Ernmas, a ‘she-farmer’ of the Tuatha de Danann. Etymology translates her name as ‘the Great/ Phantom Queen’. In the Mythological Cycle, she appears as part of #Lugh’s war council before battle, where she describes her contribution to the conflict as pursuing, hunting and cutting out the enemy. As the Dagda’s lover, the #Mórrígan promises to go secretly into the enemy’s camp in order to ‘deprive [Indech, the enemy’s King] of the blood of his heart and the kidneys of his valour’; how she does this is not made explicit in the text, but as Indech lives on to join battle, clearly her work is intended to weaken and subdue rather than murder. Disturbingly, she returns with two handfuls of Indech’s blood as proof of her task. In battle, she exhorts her warriors to battle-fever and sings battle-hymns to maintain morale. She also makes prophecies of the Danann’s victory. In the earlier First Battle, her role is more of a magical one, as the above quote demonstrates, casting spells with her ‘sisters’ to cause terror in the enemy, to weaken, harass and confuse them.
Source: Ali Isaac https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1553474407770767362
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: #Lugh, is a solar deity, who falls in love with #Deichtine, daughter of Conchobar. Conchobar's lands have been laid to waste by a flock of 180 birds chained by the neck in pairs that lead Conchobar and his company in chase to the Brú na Bóinne at Newgrange. After several adventures with the birds, one of which is Deichtine, Lugh helps Cochobar restore his land and begets #CúChulainn on Dechtine. This sets a pattern for CúChulainn and his associations with the birds later in his life.
Source: Helen Benigni/Barbara Carter/Eadhmonn Ua Cuinn „The Myth of the Year“