#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
#Celtic#FolkloreThursday: The earliest account of this #SummerSolstice line dates from the 3rd century BC and is from Pseudo-Aristotle: From Italy as fas as the country of the #Celts, #Celtoligurians and Iberians, they say there is a road called the Road of Herakles, and on this road, the traveller, whether native or Greek, is watched by the neighbouring tribes so that he may receive no injury; for those amongst whom the injury has been done must pay a penalty.
Source: Graham Robb The Ancient Paths https://twitter.com/TomClaybourn/status/1395755045099089924?t=Mxn5y69fAXzS46AOGoWOZw&s=09
#FolkloreThursday: In #Irish myth Echtrae are tales of voyages to an #Otherworld. The "Echtrae" are set in a pagan context. It's a mythological story of the hero's journey which set in post-pagan #Ireland. It involves a hero heading out on a sea journey to a #Celtic Otherworld.
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