#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #EarthDay2024: #Tailtiu gave her life to clearing ‘a great plain’. To Ali Isaac „it seems possible that the great plain referred to signifies the landscape; Tailtiu came from the great plain and spent her life serving it, and returned to it after death. She is a daughter of the landscape. In other words, not a harvest goddess, but an earth goddess. She shaped the land just as the #Cailleach did."
Source: aliisaac+the-cailleach-project@substack.com
#Carman, a powerful figure in #Irish legend, was said to have been one of the earliest rulers of #Ireland, a mighty but destructive sorceress whose three sons were equally distressing: darkness (Dub), wickedness (Dothur), and violence (Dian). Together they maliciously blighted Ireland’s corn until the people of the goddess #Danu, the Tuatha Dé Danann, mustered sufficient magic to drive Carman’s sons from the land.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/McDonaghNikki/status/1255876337623072770?t=HAnELT_FdVNwP_8WctDmiw&s=09
#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
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: #Tailtiu’s task was to clear the land for the Danann, as they were not an agricultural people. They did not grow crops, they farmed cattle. According to the Dindshenchas, Tailtiu spent a year clearing forest to make way for a “plain blossoming with clover”. She shaped the land to create a meadow for grazing Danann cattle. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cXO8_K9IXpU&pp=ygUHdGFpbHRpdQ%3D%3D
Source: aliisaac+the-cailleach-project@substack.com