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#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 🙏

"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"

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#BookologyThursday: „Manannán was not of the Tuatha de Danann, yet when they were defeated by the invading Milesians and forced to retreat to their lands beneath the surface, he came to their aid, helping them to establish amongst themselves a High King. He then shrouded their Sidhe-mounds with fog, to keep them safe from prying eyes and unwanted attention.
The #otherworldly realm of the Sidhe was as full of strife as the mortal world, as any of the myths about them show us; their lives were subject to the same passions, love, hate, desire, joy, power, jealousy, battles and death as are our own. “ #Celtic
Source: alibaliwalker.wixsite.com/alii

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#BookologyThursday: „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.“ #Celtic
Source: alibaliwalker.wixsite.com/alii

#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
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#Celtic #BookologyThursday: `The hero #Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his warrior band, the #Fianna, killed #Dryantore’s three sons as well as the husband of his sister #Ailna. This giant then set out to punish the murderers. After snaring them in a #druid`s fog that Ailna created, Dryantore captured Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his harper, the sweet-singing Dáire, and imprisoned them in his #Otherworld palace. The rest of the warriors found and freed them, and Dryantore was killed in the ensuing battle.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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#Celtic #BookologyThursday: `In 387 BC, 3 Roman ambassadors in Clusium tried to negotiate a peaceful solution to the territorial claims of the Celtic immigrants under Brennus, having previously been asked for military help. During the heated debates, one ambassador stabbed a Celtic chief, breaking their own precept of neutrality. The Romans escaped because Brennus restrained his men. He respected their immunity, but demanded that the Roman Senate hand over the murderer to punish him appropriately, which the latter ignored. A grave mistake! After defeating 24,000 Romans at the river Allia, the Celts took Rome, sacked the city and only left after paying an enormous ransom. "Vae victis!" were Brennus' words to the defeated Romans: in addition to the art of war, he apparently not only mastered diplomatic customs, but also Latin.`
Source: The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice episode 1 - video Dailymotion

#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 🙏