#MythologyMonday: `There was a serving-girl in the house, and she said: "Rise up, #Oisin, and go out to the white-headed cows, since the cold wind is plucking the trees from the hills."
Oisin went out then, and the serving-man on his shoulders; but it is what the serving-man did, he brought a vessel of water and a birch broom with him, and he was dashing water in Oisin's face, the way he would think it was rain. But when they came to the pen where the cattle were, Oisin found the night was quiet, and after that he asked no more news of the weather from the servants.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116555880951782729

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: One of the servants who had no mind to go outside with #Oisin said: "The trees of the wood are shivering, and the birch is turning black; the snow is killing the birds; that is the story outside." And the third said: "It is to the east they have turned their face, the white snow and the dark rain; it is what is making the plain so cold is the snow that is dripping and getting hard."
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/114341872973934063

#BookologyThursday: `#Niamh had fallen in love with #Oisin, who was overtaken on first sight with desire for this lovely woman from the #Celtic #Otherworld. Without thinking that time passes more slowly in the #Otherworld than in our own or even a look back #Oisin went with the Princess of the Golden Hair on her fine white horse with golden reins over seas and plains and mountains far out to sea on a magical island, Tir Tairngiri (“land of promise”).
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Oisin gave out a great shout against the King of Lochlann's son. "Stop here with me, king's son," he said, "until I fight with you for the Fianna." "I give my word it is short the delay will be," said Forne.
Then he himself and Oisin made an attack on one another, and it seemed for a while that the battle was going against Oisin.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115491924051474680

#MythologyMonday: Time in the #Celtic #Otherworld is progressing much slower than with us. For #Oisín it turned out that three years in Tír na nÓg was equal to three hundred years in our world.

#MythologyMonday: #Oisin, `the little fawn`, was found as a naked boy of about seven by his father, #Fionn Mac Cumhaill, on the old magic mountain #BenBulbin. He became a warrior-poet of the #Fianna, living 300 years in the land of eternal youth #TírNanÓg. #Celtic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nFcXcPldzY

Oisin and Tír na nÓg: Here’s a 2 minute long animation I created this week in about 8 hours for Little Cinema’s Buddy Cop-themed night. … https://www.caricatures-ireland.com/oisin-and-tir-na-nog/ #animation #FenianCycle #Fianna #GardaCar #gardai #GardaiCartoon #GardaiDrawing #GardaiNewUniform #horse #IrishMythology #NiamhChinnÓir #oisin #TheGuards #TirNaNog #mastodaoine #mastoart