#introduction: I've been tooting as @NeuKelte@todon.eu since #Imbolc 2022 before I moved here.
I'm interested in all things #Celtic, but particularly the #IronAge and the myths of the Gaels and the Welsh.
I regularly post about my Nua-#CelticSoulJourneys to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and the Isle of Man.
You'll find my toots under the following hashtags: #MythologyMonday, #FairyTaleTuesday, #LegendaryWednesday, #WyrdWednesday, #BookologyThursday, #FindsFriday, #FolkloreSunday

We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries

Taira no Kiyomori was a powerful Japanese samurai leader and the head of the Taira clan. He is the central character in Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike), an epic account that chronicles the rise and fall of the Taira clan in 12th century Kyoto. He is portrayed as... #BookologyThursday 1/4

The Fairy Godmother, relatively rare in folklore but popular from stories like Perrault's version of Cinderella, serves as a magical mentor providing supernatural aid to heroes, often princes or princesses, overcome the odds. #BookologyThursday #FolkloreThursday

CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.

STRANGER: Indeed?

CASSILDA: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.

STRANGER: I wear no mask.

CAMILLA (terrified, aside to Cassilda): No mask? No mask!

- Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow"
Vicente Valentine

In Robert W. Chambers' horror stories, "The King In Yellow" is a play that drives insane anyone who reads it or watches it performed:

"Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa."

- "The King in Yellow" (Act 1, Scene 2)

Captain Hook "had been at a famous public school. Its traditions still clung to him.... Above all, he retained the passion for good form. Good form! However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters."
- J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"
Trina Schart Hyman

"I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy... an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked.... The thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

In the middle of the multiverse is Sigil, City of Doors: only gods are not welcomed in this place, run by the silent Lady of Pain, presiding over a city of angels, demons, madmen, and philosophers making sense of a senseless set of worlds. #BookologyThursday #DnD

: T Jacobson

#BookologyThursday: `Seven months High King #Cormac had gone out from Tara to search for his wife and children. He followed their path into a misty, unfamiliar land. This was the #Otherworld, a place of beautiful meadows, woods filled with singing birds, and flowers he’d never seen before. He encountered #Manannan and Fand in a grand Dún, where he was invited to stay for the night.
In the Dún, Cormac was presented with the magical cup of Manannan. This cup would break when a lie was spoken and would only get whole again when a truth was told.
Cormac was reunited with his family. The joy of their reunion was immense, and they returned to their people, bringing with them Manannan‘s treasures: the bell-branch and the magical cup and the cloth of gold that had covered the table where they sat in the palace of Manannan.`
Source: The Vanishing of Cormac | Emerald Isle Irish and #Celtic myths, fairy tales and legends
https://x.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/1195320581287231491

"From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."-J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring #BookologyThursday

"Alas, the vices of man, as horrifying as they are presumed to be, contain proof (if only in their infinite expansiveness!) of his bent for the infinite."-Charles Baudelair, "Le poème du haschisch" #BookologyThursday

#Celtic #BookologyThursday: `After unknowingly slaying his own son Connla in a duel, „great trouble and anguish came on #CúChulainn …
‘I am the father that killed his son, the fine green branch; there is no hand or shelter to help me.
‘I am a raven that has no home; I am a boat going from wave to wave; I am a ship that has lost its rudder; I am the apple left on the tree; it is little I thought of falling from it; grief and sorrow will be with me from this time`.
Then he fought with the waves three days and three nights, till he fell from hunger and weakness.`
Source: Cuchulain fights the ocean waves – GranneBlog (granneman.com)

#introduction: I'm new here but have been tooting as @NeuKelte@todon.eu for the last 30 months.
I'm interested in all things #Celtic, but particularly the #IronAge and the myths of the Gaels and the Welsh.
I regularly post about my Nua-#CelticSoulJourneys to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and the Isle of Man.
You'll find my toots under the following hashtags: #MythologyMonday, #FairyTaleTuesday, #LegendaryWednesday, #WyrdWednesday, #FolkloreThursday, #BookologyThursday, #FolkyFriday, #FolkloreSunday

We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries