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#WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `They put Cian under the earth again, and after that there was keening made over his grave, and a stone was raised on it, and his name was written in Ogham`, and #Lugh said: "This hill will take its name from Cian, although he himself is stripped and broken“.
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jan 8

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: The three apples #Lugh asked of the sons of Tuirenn as part of the compensation for the murder of his father „are the three apples from the Garden in the East of the World, and no other apples will do but these, for they are the most beautiful and have most virtue in them of the apples of the whole world. And it is what they are like, they are of the colour of burned gold, and they are the size of the head of a child a month old, and there is the taste of honey on them, and they do not leave the pain of wounds or the vexation of sickness on any one that eats them, and they do not lessen by being eaten for ever.“
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/114749586135573323

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jan 7

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `#Deichtine disappeared from #EmainMacha, until the nobles of #Ulster were led by a flock of magical birds to a house, where they were welcomed by the god #Lugh.
He told them his wife was due to give birth soon, and when she did the Ulstermen discovered she was Deichtine.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Súaltam

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Dec 30

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Celtic: `In #Irish #mythology, the #HillOfUisneach is described as the sacred centre of #Ireland, the burial place of Irish gods such as #Lugh and the Dagda, the site of a sacred tree (the Bile Uisnig), and a place of assembly (the mórdáil Uisnig) associated with the #druids, which, according to later tradition, was held during the festival of Beltaine.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Uisneach
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Dec 7

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: #Lugh is associated with the sun. `At #Samhain he bade farewell to power, and fell again for half a year under the sway of the evil forces of winter and darkness.`
Source: #Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Nov 24

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `When #Lugh’s spear was drawn out, it roared and struggled against its thongs; fire flashed from it; and, once slipped from the leash, it tore through and through the ranks of the enemy, never tired of slaying.`
Source: Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire

Spirituality & Religious Studies Nov 22

Tuatha De Danann

This “name” is usually translated as “folk of the goddess Danu.” They are also known by the earlier name: Tuath De (“tribe of the gods” or “divine tribe”). They’re a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to represent deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.

The Tuatha De Danann are often pictured as kings, queens, druids, bards, warriors, heroes, healers, & craftsmen who have supernatural powers. They live in the Otherworld but interact with humans & the human world. They’re associated with sidhe.

Their traditional rivals are the Fomorians (Fomoire), who might represent the destructive powers of nature, & whom the Tuatha De Danann defeated in the Battle of Mag Tuired.

Prominent members include the Dagda (“the great god”), The Morrigan (“the great queen” or “phantom queen”), Lugh, Nuada, Aengus, Brigid, Manannan, Dian Cecht the healer, & Goibniu the smith, 1 of the Tri De Dana (“three gods of craft”).

They’re immune to ageing & sickness, & who have magic powers. The powers most often attributed to them are control over the weather & the elements, & the ability to shape shift themselves & other things.

They’re also said to control the fertility of the land. The tale De Gabail in t-Sida says the 1st Gaels had to establish friendship with the Tuatha De Danann before they could raise crops & herds.

They live in the Otherworld, which is described as either a parallel world or a heavenly land beyond the sea or under the earth’s surface. Many of them are associated with specific places in the landscape, especially the sidh mounds.

These are the ancient burial mounds & passage tombs which are entrances to Otherworld realms. The Tuatha De Danann can hide themselves with a feth fiada (“magic mist”) & appear to humans only when they wish to.

In euhemerized accounts, the Tuatha De Danann were descended from Nemed, leader of a previous wave of inhabitants of Ireland. In non-euhemerized accounts, they’re descended from Danu/Anu, a mother goddess. They came from 4 cities to the north of Ireland (Falias, Gorias, Murias, & Finias), where architecture, the arts, & magic.

According to Lebor Gabala Erenn, they came to Ireland “in dark clouds” & “landed on the mountains of the Conmaicne Rein in Connachta.” Otherwise Sliabh an Iarainn, “and they brought a darkness over the sun for 3 days & 3 nights.”

Sliabh an Iarainn (anglicized Slieve Anierin) is a mountain in County Leitrim, Ireland. It’s part of the Cuilcagh Mountains.

They immediately burnt the ships “so that they should not of retreating to them, & the smoke & the mist that came from the vessels filled the neighbouring land & air. Therefore it was conceived that they had arrived in clouds of mist.”

Led by King Nuada, they fought the First Battle of Magh Tuireadh on the west coast, in which they defeated & displaced the native Fir Bolg, who then inhabited Ireland. In the battle, Nuada lost an arm to their champion, Sreng.

Since Nuada was no longer “unblemished,” he couldn’t continue as king & was replaced by the half-Fomorian Bres, who turned out to be a tyrant.

The doctor Dian Cecht replaced Nuada’s arm with a working silver 1. (Think Bucky from Captain America.) He was reinstated as king. Back in those days, if a king wasn’t physically whole, then he wasn’t fit to be king.

However, Dian Cecht’s son, Miach, was dissatisfied with the replacement. So he recited the spell, “adult fri halt do and feith fri feth” (joint to joint of it & sinew to sinew), which caused flesh to grow over the silver over the course of 9 days & nights.

In a fit of jealous rage, Dian Cecht killed his own son. Because of Nuada’s restoration as king, Bres whined to his family & dad, Elatha, who sent him to look for help from King Balor of the Fomorians.

The Tuatha De Danann fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Fomorians. King Nuada was killed by King Balor’s poisonous eye. But KIng Balor was killed by Lugh (who was the champion of the Tuatha De Danann), who then took over as king.

A 3rd battle was fought against a wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Galicia & Northern Portugal). These were descendants of Mil Espaine (who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts).

The Milesians encountered 3 Tuatha De Danann goddesses, Eriu, Banba, & Fodla, who asked that the island be named after them. Eriu is the origin of the modern name Eire (which is the Irish language name for Ireland), & Banba & Fodla are still sometimes used as poetic names for Ireland.

Their 2 husbands (Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, & Mac Greine) were kings of the Tuatha De Danann and created a magical storm in an attempt to drive them away. The Milesian poet calmed the sea with his verse, then his people landed & defeated the Tuatha De Danann at Tailtiu.

When Amergin was called upon to divide the land between the Tuatha De Danann & his own people, he cleverly allotted the portion above ground to the Milesians & the portion underground to the Tuatha De Danann.

The Tuatha De Danann were led underground into the Sidhe mounds by Manannan mac Lir & Tir na nOg onto a flowery plain/plain of honey attested to in the Voyage of Bran.

The Tuatha De Danann brought 4 magical treasure with them to Ireland, 1 a piece from their 4 cities: Dagda’s Cauldron, The Spear of Lugh, Lia Fail (The Stone of Fal), & Claiomh Solais (The Sword of Light).

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Nov 20

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: #Lugh had finally managed to be admitted to the feast at Tara.
`Then the great flag-stone, to move which required the effort of four-score yoke of oxen, Ogma hurled through the house, so that it lay on the outside of Tara. This was a challenge to Lug. But Lug cast it back, so that it lay in the center of the palace; and he put the piece which it had carried away into the side of the palace and made it whole.
“Let a harp be played for us,” said the company. So the warrior played a sleep-strain for the hosts and for the king the first night. He cast them into sleep from that hour to the same time on the following day. He played a wail-strain, so that they were crying and lamenting. He played a laugh-strain, so that they were in merriment and joyance.
Now Nuada, when he beheld the warrior’s many powers, considered whether Samildanach could put away from them the bondage which they suffered from the Fomorians. So they held a council concerning the warrior. The decision to which Nuada came was to change seats with the warrior. So Samildanach went to the king’s seat, and the king rose up before him till thirteen days had ended.`
Source: Ancient Irish Tales, ed. by Tom P. Cross & Clark H. Slover
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115582897517221913

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Nov 20

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: #Lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper had denied him entry and questioned him. Thereupon `the doorkeeper went into the palace and declared all to the king. “A warrior has come before the enclosure,” said he. “His name is Samildanach (many-gifted), and all the arts which thy household practise he himself possesses, so that he is the man of each and every art.”
The king said then that the chess-boards of Tara should be taken to Samildanach, and he won all the stakes, so that then he made the Cro of Lug.
Then that was related to Nuada. “Let him into the enclosure,” says he; “for never before has man like him entered this fortress.” Then the doorkeeper let Lug pass him, and he entered the fortress and sat down in the sage’s seat, for he was a sage in every art.`
Source: Ancient Irish Tales, ed. by Tom P. Cross & Clark H. Slover
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115582513801987801