#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: Lesure (La Lozère) and Gabalicum (Gévaudan) near Nemausus (modern Nimes) were villages famous in Gaul for their cheese production. This part of Gaul was inhabited by the Volcae Arecomici.
Source: Helmut Birkhan "#Kelten"
#FairyTaleTuesday: The #fairies were more active at Samhain, Imbolc, Beltaine and Lugnásad. On this occasion, the laomachan mentioned in the ‘Carmina Gadelica’ was also produced, a magical cheese that protected against the fairies and was used for divination.
Source: Helmut Birkhan "#Kelten"
#Celtic#FolkloreThursday: #Ogma mac Elathan, son of Delbaeth, is according to #Irish tradition the inventor of the #Ogham script. This Son of Art was not only extremely famous in the art of speech and poetry, but also an athletic trénḟer, a power man. In the battle of #MagTuired he fought on the side of the #TuathaDéDanann against #Bres and his #Fomorians.
Source: Helmut Birkhan Die #Kelten
Der #Torques, der der Fürstin von #Vix
(Bild: Rosemania CC BY).
Ein unfassbar schönes Schmuckstück aus der Zeit der Kelten. Ein Beleg dafür, dass diese #Fürstin angesehen war. Die Bezeichnung Fürstin ist dabei ein Bezug auf ihre fürstliche Grabausstattung. Aber - Das es #Frauen in Machtpositionen bei den #Kelten gab, das scheint ganz so zu sein. Denn es gibt darüber nicht nur Geschichten, sondern immer wieder sehr auffällige Gräber.
Ein Blick auf starke #Keltenfrauen: https://buff.ly/4aW4D6r
#WyrdWednesday#LegendaryWednesday: `At #Beltane there were great bonfires everywhere, the most important being in Uisnech, where an oenach ("reunion") was held, which was one of the most important festivals in #Ireland. There were banquets with potlatch activities, races on foot and with chariots, as well as the assessment of taxes for the following year'.
Source: Helmut Birkhan „#Kelten“
#Beltane was probably also a slaughter festival, and one of the great Celtic feasts. The fire cult practised everywhere was associated with lustration rites, as the cattle were driven between burning fires to avert the danger of epidemics.
Source: Helmut Birkhan „#Kelten“
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: #Hy-Brasil is an island in the #Otherworld west of #Ireland. Hy-Brasil shows up in a seven year cycle and is the seat of #Bresal, High King of the World, his name lives on in #Brazil. #Bresil was a magic realm, neither sea nor land, yet both.
Sources: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten and Michael Dames Ireland: A Sacred Journey
Unknown author, Argentine Ptolemy, Ireland and Brazil, 1513, public domain
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: The renewal of the earth and thus of fertility and wealth is especially expressed by the stag because of the annual renewal of its antlers beginning with #spring.
Source: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday#WyrdWednesday: The renewal of the earth and thus of fertility and wealth is especially expressed by the stag because of the annual renewal of its antlers beginning with spring.
Source: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten
#Celtic#FolkloreThursday: Brandub means black raven. This ancient #Irish board game was according to Helmut Birkhan (#Kelten) possibly comparabel to the medieval chess.
„In many kingship stories, the sovereignty goddess first appears as a hag who transforms into a beautiful young woman following her union with the king. The barren waste-land of the hag/cailleach’s body is renewed and fruitful once tended by the king. This transformation symbolises the fertility of the land under the king’s rule, and thereby the flourishing of the people.“ #Celtic
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
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RT @ElsaMc1878 #MythologyMonday The goddess Cailleach in Celtic legend embodies the image of dark mother, wild goddess & crone. She is the personification of winter & wild storms being born old at Samhain & growing ever younger until she is a beautiful maiden at Beltane.
Img: #CherylRoseHall
Brân Vendigeit 'the Blessed' had taken a cauldron from a pair of #Irish demons, which they had brought from the #Otherworld. If one lit a fire under it and filled it in the evening with the corpses of the slain, they were revived the next morning, only that they lacked the ability to speak. #Celtic
Source: Helmut Birkhan Die #Kelten
#Celtic#TempleThursday: Adventurers could reach the #Celtic#Otherworld by traveling west from Ireland, often blown off course by providential tempests while on an inspired mission. They typically explored many other fantastic islands before reaching their destination and returning home (or sailing on). Among these voyagers are Bran mac Febal (see The Voyage of Bran), Máel Dúin and St. Brendan.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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“The Spoils of Annwn” describes Arthur's descent to Annwn, the Welsh name for the Celtic Otherworld.
#Celtic#TempleThursday: In #Irish Tradition, #Bran ("raven“) mac Febail is primarily a seafarer (later Christianised under the name Brandanus). The son of Febal was invited to Emain Ablach by Manannán mac Lir through a blossoming silver branch and through a beautiful woman, who then turned out to be the queen of the "women's land".
Source: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: In #Irish Tradition, #Bran ("raven“) mac Febail is primarily a seafarer (later Christianised under the name Brandanus). The son of Febal was invited to Emain Ablach by Manannán mac Lir through a blossoming silver branch and through a beautiful woman, who then turned out to be the queen of the "women's land".
Source: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten
#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: The #Gallic god #Lug/#Lugus was known for his "raven sympathy". Ravens are said to have descended from heaven at the foundation of Lugudunum Segusiavorum (today: #Lyon).
Source: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Bavaria: The name of this #Celtic village is derived from the ancient name "Gabreta" for the Bavarian/Bohemian forest mountains. The Celts themselves had been resident in Central and Western Europe since around the 8th century BC.
Source: www.gabreta.de
Photocredits: 1. Neu-Kelte
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the oppidum of Gründberg, Upper Austria: The 43 objects found, some of them made of high-quality steel and weighing a total of over 60 kg, consisted of tools (a hook spanner, hatchets, variously shaped blacksmith's hammers, anvils), kitchen utensils (roasting spit, meat fork, ash shovel, boiler fragments, boiler hook), weapons (two swords, skewers, a trident) and chariot fittings (wheel hubs, two wheel tyres). The two swords are dated as older objects of the find, the other implements are from the Late Latène period. All the finds show signs of use, but are for the most part still serviceable. In terms of craftsmanship, carpenters, joiners, wainwrights and blacksmiths are represented by their tools.
The fragment of a stipple plate for the casting of coin blanks could indicate a coin workshop in the settlement. Images of the iron finds from the Gründberg as well as a stipple plate (from the Titelberg in Luxembourg as an example) can be seen in the illustrated book „#Kelten. Bilder ihrer Kultur“.
Source: Oppidum von Gründberg – Wikipedia
Photocredit: 1. Neu-Kelte
The three god-doctors Diancécht and his two sons Òc-Tríal and Míach, as well as Diancécht's daughter Airmed, had cast their spells over Tobar Sláine (Well of Health), the life spring of the #TuathaDèDanann. Their magic was so powerful that the injured of the Second Battle of #Moytura and even the dead were restored in the spring.
After the spring pot was plugged by stones on the advice of the Fomórian prince Òctríallach, (creating the Heapstown Cairn/The Cairn of Octriallach), the Loch Luibe 'hole of herbs' formed from the spring, so called because of the herbs placed there by Diancécht.
Source: Helmut Birkhan #Kelten
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Meet Airmed, the Irish Goddess of healing (mainly herbal). She belongs to the enclave of healers, within the Thuata the Danaan, along with her brother (Miach, god of surgery),and her father Diancecht (god of medecine and magical healing).
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: On the Isle of Man the #Berrey Dhone (Brown Berry) lived either on top of North Barrule Mountain or inside it. Like other forms of the #Cailleach, this hag or witch was an Amazonian giant, and her rocky heelprint can still be seen on the mountainside.
Source: Ali Isaac #Celtic
Photocredits: 1. Neu-Kelte
#FolkloreThursday: The #Celtic summer began with the #Beltane (‘bright fire’ or ‘lucky fire’) festival on May 1. Beltane celebrates the start of summer, the crop and pasturing season. Although scholars are non-commital, many of us believe #Beltane honors the ancient continental #Celtic sun and healer God #Belenus.
Source: #OBOD, the Order of #Bards, #Ovates and #Druids
#WyrdWednesday#LegendaryWednesday: The meaning 'Bel-Fire' possibly refers to the god Belenus (Helmut Birkhan „#Kelten“).
After Epona, he was the #Celtic deity most frequently mentioned by ancient authors in Gaul, Noricum, Illyria, Britain and Ireland. #Beltane