NeuKelte

NeuKelte, 2 days ago to ireland German

You can see Eddie Lennihan, an Irishman famous for his tales of #Ireland’s folklore and #mythology, in action here and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQe9bDPF2-E
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack #Celtic

NeuKelte, 5 days ago to random German

James Macgrigor encountered a Kelpie disguised as a stallion. Recognizing it, he stroke its nose with his claymore, severing its magical bridle bit. The Kelpie pleaded for its return, revealing its transformational powers and ability to reveal hidden beings: “If you look through the holes in the bit, you will see all manners of fairies and witches and devils.”
Macgrigor lifted the bit to his eyes and peered through, and sure enough, the world he saw was bright with colour and full of beings invisible to the human eye. He was so enamoured by the contraption that he wanted to study it in more detail. He was also not deaf to the Kelpie’s claim that without the bit, he would die, and Macgrigor saw an opportunity to free the people of the surrounding area from the Kelpie’s reign of terror.
Macgrigor, captivated by the bit’s power, decided to study it further, leaving the Kelpie in a vulnerable state. Despite the Kelpie’s pleas and threats, Macgrigor cleverly kept the bit, learning about the #Otherworld. #Celtic
„Rarely is a Kelpie the victim of a trick, but after that day, no one went missing on the banks of Loch Ness ever again, all thanks to the cunning of James Macgrigor.“
Source: The Kelpie of Loch Ness - Folklore Scotland
https://twitter.com/gonzalokenny/status/1790707801330688016?s=19

NeuKelte, 5 days ago to random German

#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: One night, a group of merfolk shed their seal skins to play on the shore. A Shetlander found a skin and a beautiful mermaid lamenting its loss. He refused to return it, offering marriage instead. They lived together for years and had children. One day, a child found the hidden skin. The mermaid bid her children goodbye, returned to the sea, and left the human world forever. She confessed to her second husband, who stood miserably on the shore: “I always loved my first husband best.”
Source: The Mermaid Wife - Folklore Scotland

NeuKelte, 6 days ago to random German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: „The Giant Finn McCool scales the frontage of the country's
former National Wax Museum in Dublin (the building was later demolished in 2006 to be replaced by a 'Comfort Inn' hotel). Once inside, visitors could see the giant's head looking down on them from the staircase ceiling!“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill

NeuKelte, 6 days ago to animals German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Mythical creatures and #animals with body parts potruding from their mouths stand for the eternal cycle of death and reincarnation.
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna

Mythical creatures and animals, Natural History Museum Vienna, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

NeuKelte, 6 days ago to random German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday for #MuseumDay: The Three Gods of Art (‘Trí de Dána’) settled in an area called Magh Rein, on the borders of Co Cavan and Co Leitrim. From there, it’s not a long trek to Corleck Hill, where a carved stone head with three faces was found, now on display at the Museum of Archeology in Dublin.
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/

NeuKelte, 7 days ago to ireland German

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: Crannogs were in use in #Ireland from the middle Bronze Age into the seventeenth century. A crannog is an artificial island constructed from brush, timber, clay, peat and stone, often supported by timber piles. Large stones were added to their edges, probably to protect them from the force of the water. The surface would have been topped with a fine layer of earth and sand. The old Irish word is crannóc, from crann, meaning ‘tree’ and óg, meaning ‘young’. It is not known if this term refers to the island itself, or the structures built upon it.
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

NeuKelte, 9 days ago to random German

#Culann, the smith, who was also a Divine and Prophet, is said to have lived for a time on the Isle of Man, where he manufactured sword, spear, and shield of such transcendent excellence for Conchobar, that he was invited by him to dwell in his realm.
Source: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fim/fim04.htm #Celtic

NeuKelte, 9 days ago to FF German

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NeuKelte, 10 days ago to 13thFloor German

Each Fenian warrior was equipped by the smiths working in the caves of Keshcorran with a sword and spear of superlative quality. „Each sword had a different name, details of which were related in the tale. Fionn’s sword was called Mac an Luin. The happy warriors were also provided with accommodation and when they awoke next morning,
they found themselves back on Slieve Luachra still bearing their new weapons.“
Source: Antiquarian Research in Co. Sligo as a Background to the #Mythology and Archaeology of Moytura by Eamonn P. Kelly #Celtic

NeuKelte, 11 days ago to ireland German

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday: In ancient #Ireland „the role of a physician was a hereditary one. He passed down his skills and knowledge to his offspring, and often to apprentices living with the family. In later years, this wealth of information was written down in manuscripts and books. The most famous of these is the Book of the O’Lees.“
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/p/march-wise-woman-or-witch

NeuKelte, 13 days ago to random German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: „The names of the #Irish goddess #Medb and the #Gaulish goddesses #Meduna and the #Comedovae may be derived from an Indo-European word *médhu– signifying ‘honey’, ‘intoxication’, and designate the fermented drink extracted from honey, that is ‘mead’. If this etymology is correct – other possibilities have been suggested -, their names may be therefore glossed as ‘Goddess of Intoxication by Mead’ or ‘Mead Goddess’.“

NeuKelte, 13 days ago to random German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: Dandelion flowers can be used in beer-making, added to cordials, and used to flavour vodka. In medieval times a brew was made with mead and fermented dandelion and burdock roots.
Source: Ali Isaac from H A G <aliisaac@substack.com>

NeuKelte, 13 days ago to 13thFloor German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: Afagddu (“utter darkness”) was a boy so ugly that his mother, the hag-goddess #Ceridwen, feared he would never attract a mate. Thinking that poetry might draw maidens even to an uncomely man, Ceridwen mixed herbs of inspiration for her son in her magical cauldron— but the young servant boy Gwion sipped the brew prematurely, thus draining its magic and becoming the great poet Taliesin as a result.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore

NeuKelte, 13 days ago to random German

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: Both the warrior-queen #Aoife and #Scathach had raised an army & were about to fight each other. Scathach didn't mention this to #CúChulainn, for the handsome youth had become dear to her, so she gave him a sleeping draught to make him slumber through the battle, as she believed Aoife too much for any man to defeat. Although the potion would have conquered the senses of anyone else, CúChulainn lay asleep for but an hour before stirring.
Source:https://emeraldisle.ie/the-trials-of-cuchulainn

NeuKelte, 13 days ago to 13thFloor German

#MythologyMonday: The #TuathaDéDanann refined the art of brewing until the ale of their smith and brewer #Goibniu was strong enough to endow the drinker with immortality. #Irish epics connect ale with the festival of #Samhain, when the boundaries between this world and the #Otherworld were blurred.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore

NeuKelte, 16 days ago to random German

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay

NeuKelte, 17 days ago to random German

The #druid from the #Glauberg (@Keltenwelt_News) probably wears leather armour and the shield and dagger of a warrior. His gold jewellery shows that he must have been very rich. He wears a leather cap called a "mistletoe crown". #Celtic
Source: zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfinfo-doku/die-druiden-geheimnisvolle-priester-der-kelten-102.html
Druid from the Glauberg, World of the Celts in Glauberg, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

Funeral ceremony for the druid from the Glauberg, Zeichnung von G. Karnath, World of the Celts in Glauberg, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

NeuKelte, 17 days ago to random German

Ritual insignia such as crowns differentiated #druids from the secular community. This iron crown from Roseldorf – the only #Celtic ceremonial headwear from mainland Europe – dates to 330-150 BC. It was destroyed on purpose before sacrifice.
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna

NeuKelte, 18 days ago to random German

#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday for #MothersDay: As a child, Lugh was fostered by Queen Tailtiu of the Fir Bolg, a race defeated by the Tuatha de Danann. It is said that Lugh held his foster mother in great esteem, and that when she died, he set up the festival of Lughnasadh on August 1st in her honour. This took place every year in what is now known as Teltown in Co Meath, and involved horse races, Irish martial arts contests, feats of sportsmanship, and all manner of feasting, trading and entertainment. As a result, Lúnasa become the Irish name for the month of August.
Source: Ali Isaac

NeuKelte, 20 days ago to random German

#MoonDay: Nature was seen by our #Celtic ancestors „to move in cycles, and it was thought that the rebirth of the new moon signalled the beginning of these little seasons. On the night of the new moon, if one were to borrow a piece of silver it would turn to two by the end of the month, and if a person was to turn the coins in their pockets on that same night, they would prosper greatly.“
“Whatever you have in your hand when you see the new moon first, you will have plenty of that before the next new moon comes.”
Source: emeraldisle.ie
Photo: Tomruen, Lunar libration with phase2, public domain

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NeuKelte, 21 days ago to random German

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: „Near the village of Tressé, a cow owned by the fairies was said to have caused some damage in the meadow of a farmer whose anger was swiftly assuages by one of the fairies who gave him a piece of bread in compensation, telling him that it would neither shrink nor harden as long as he kept it a secret.“
https://bonjourfrombrittany.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-fairies-of-the-swells/

NeuKelte, 21 days ago to random German

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: A story from #Brittany „relates that, after a long absence, a lord returned to his castle with a beautiful young woman whom he had married in a distant land. She always wore dresses so long that no one, not even her husband, had seen her feet. Indeed, it was only after having sworn never to look at them that he was able to become her husband. They lived happily until one day he scattered some ash on the floor of their bed chamber. The instant she entered the room, her husband saw the imprint of crow’s feet on the ash. Carried away by anger and pain, the lady, a most powerful fairy, cursed the lord and his lands; the castle sank into the earth with all its inhabitants and was covered by water. The site it once occupied now forms a lake whose depth no one has yet been able to fathom.“
https://bonjourfrombrittany.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-fairies-of-the-swells/

NeuKelte, 25 days ago to ireland German

#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“

NeuKelte, 26 days ago to cymru German

#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: The thorny nature of furze, also known as gorse or whin, means that it is often viewed as having protective powers. In #Wales it was said to guard against witches.
Source: https://druidry.org/resources/furze