#Celtic#MythologyMonday: In #Irish#mythology, the term ‘Trí de Dána’ refers to the Three Gods of Art; Goibniu the smith, Luchtaine the carpenter, and Credne the goldsmith. Could the stone head from Corleck Hill with its three faces represent this trio of skilled craftsmen/deities, after which the hill of its resting place was named?`
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
23 Mar 1606: d. St. Toribio de Mogrevejo, Arcbishop of #Lima#Peru on Holy Thursday, not only did he baptise St Rose of Lima & St Martin de Porres but he walked 10,000kms of his vast diocese.
His cause was much promoted by Luke Wadding of #Waterford & the #Irish friars
“A poet, who had been trained as a seer, gorged on the flesh of a just-killed bull, then slept wrapped in its bloody hide in an attempt to divine through dreams the identity of the next king. Should the poet fail, the punishment was death.” This #Irish and #Scottish ritual was called bull-sleep (bull feast, tarbhfleis) and was one of the great divination rituals of the ancient #Celts. Sometimes the poet’s vision was cryptic, as when the king CONAIRE appeared as a naked man surrounded by BIRDS, approaching Tara. At that moment Conaire, whose mother was a bird, dreamed that he should approach Tara naked, thus fulfilling the prophecy.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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RT @Modquokka
To forsee a future King, Celtic tribes would see a Bard gorge their fill on flesh of fresh killed bull, then sleep; its bloody hide wrapped about them to be blessed with bull-sleep and its dreams of divination. #FolkloreThursday
Noel Ignatiev's book "How the Irish Became White" has everything to do with why #Irish people support the #Palestinians and Americans of Irish descent support #Israel.
18 Mar 1640: Thomas Wentworth, now Earl of Strafford, returns to #Dublin#otd to preside over the #Irish parliament which had opened on the 16th.
(Nationa Trust images)
18 Mar 1626: Francis Lavalin Nugent of #Westmeath, founder of the Irish Province, becomes the guardian of the #Irish#Capuchin house at Charleville #France#otd
17 Mar: A hymn to St. Patrick in Flemish. Possibly late17th/18thC From the archives of St Anthony’s #Irish#Franciscan College #Leuven now housed in @ucdarchives
"McGowan says the documents show Mohawks, Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations, Chippewa, Delaware, Wyandotte, and Mississauga peoples had donated £115, an amount equivalent to $12,426 today.
"With further donations from the Saugeen, Ojibwa of Lake Huron, and Moravian Ojibwa, the total Indigenous gift to the relief fund was £165, or $17,978 in today's Canadian currency. Some of these contributions came from Indigenous communities in Quebec."
“You have betrayed your Irish ancestors as you have betrayed humanity.”
#Irish#activist Deirdre Linder shared a message for #USPresident Joe #Biden for #StPatricksDay to remind him of his Irish ancestors and the suffering they experienced, and express her disapproval of the president’s pro #Israel policies as they continue to kill and displace #Palestinians.