Aoife was turned into a crane, whereupon she flew to the lands of #Manannán and lived there for two hundred years. When she died, Manannán was so sad, he used her feathery skin to make the crane-skin bag in which he kept all his magical treasures. These items were powerful sacred and magical objects, perhaps hard won by Manannán, and thus the use of her skin to protect them may have been seen as honourable.#Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: „#Manannan's home was on a wonderful island far out in the western sea, but sailors, passing to and fro in their ships, were unaware that this island existed, for Manannan cast an enchanted mist over it which rendered it invisible.“
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday: According to the Book of Fermoy, #Manannan was changed through euhemerisation to "a pagan, a lawgiver among the Tuatha Dé Danann, and a necromancer possessed of power to envelope himself and others in a mist, so that they could not be seen by their enemies."
Source: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fim/fim04.htm
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Professor Rhys remarks of #Manannan Mac Lir that "In Irish literature he appears mostly as King of the #Fairies in the Land of Promise, a mysterious country in the lochs or the sea. His character seems to have been a most contradictory one - many tricky actions are ascribed to him.“
Source: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fim/fim04.htm
#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
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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
Highland folklore tells of an “Isle of Women,” located somewhere off the coast of #Scotland, on which a green well marked the edge of the world. This mysterious island represents a portal to the #Celtic#Otherworld. Sometimes the island is called Eilean nam Ban Móra, the Island of the Big Women, suggesting that the residents were giants. The name was sometimes applied to an actual island, the Isle of Eigg.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday#FairyTaleFlash: „The various legends all claim Hy-Brasil to be an island paradise, populated either by the Gods, or #druids. In #Irish#mythology, the #Otherworld was divided into two realms, that of the Sidhe in their hollow hills, and the other being the island lands ruled by #Manannán, God of the Sea. Also known as the Blessed Isles, they lay ‘beyond the ninth wave', gentle places of peace, beauty, healing and eternal life.
Manannán’s lands were not seen as the land of the dead, as portrayed by Christian belief, but as the land of the ever living, of the ever young. Mortals were only allowed there if invited by either the King himself, or his daughters.“
Source: https://alibaliwalker.wixsite.com/aliisaacstoryteller/post/hy-brasil-mysterious-lost-island-of-irish-mythology