#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Aside from its practical uses however, the gorse had deep spiritual meaning in Ireland – it was one of the nine sacred trees, and its oily wood burned as hot as charcoal, and so was used to light the Bealtaine fires. As with the other quicken trees, although to a lesser extent, the Aiteann was thought to hide entrances to the fairy #Otherworld.`
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/aiteann-the-sharp-gold

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: „In the metrical Dindshenchas one Bresal is credited with the building of the great tumulus of Dowth (Sidh mBresail) and once again the manipulation of time occurs. His sister casts a spell that fixes the sun in the sky so that a day might last indefinitely and allow the task to be completed. Bresal lustfully commits incest with her and the spell is broken and the sun departs. Since the construction work has been darkened (ro dubad), Dubad (darkening) is said to be the name of the mound thereafter.“
Source: Prof. John Waddell „The #Otherworld Hall on the Boyne“

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `There is both archaeological and textual evidence of a fear that the dead could return from their graves to haunt the living (cf. https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/historical-burials-against-vampires), and some funerary rites seem designed to forestall that, including binding the feet of corpses as though to assure they would not wander about. Later customs kept the feet free, apparently to speed the dead on their way to the `#Otherworld and prevent their hanging about to bother the living.`
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `There are many examples of the hare having connections with the #Otherworld in #Irish #mythology and #folklore. Hares are associated with #spring, thus with the Goddess of the season, and represented love, fertility and growth. In Europe, that Goddess was Eostre, after whom Easter is named, but in #Ireland #Brigid is the Goddess of Spring, or #Imbolc.`
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/

#bathroom #otherworld #twisted #decayed #silent-hill

#bathroom #psychological #medication #medicated #otherworld #psychosis

#FairyTaleTuesday: `#Beltane, beginning at sundown on the eve of the Celtic festival, was a day when the door to the #Otherworld opened sufficiently for #fairies and the dead to communicate with the living. Beltane was a festival for the living, when vibrant spirits were said to come forth seeking incarnation in human bodies or intercourse with the human realm.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

👾🔆 #otherworld #columbus #art #museum

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#The position #Lugh assumed when he danced around his warriors before the Second Battle of Moytura is known as glám dícenn (“satire which destroys,” fitting for this poet-warrior) and did more than mimic a crane standing in water. Lifting one foot from the ground was meant to place the dancer between worlds, while only one eye was open to block this world and see into the #Otherworld. Traveling in a sunwise circle Lugh was blessing the fighters.`
Source: https://www.irishdancect.com/news/irish-folklore-and-mythology-volume-vii

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic #EarthDay: Emain Macha, Tara, Dún Ailinne, Uisnech and Rathcroghan feature prominently in Irish myths. `The major royal sites functioned as the communicating portal between the tribal territory and the #Otherworld. Each of these sites represented a sanctuary of sacred space, a potent expression of tribal power and unity. It is likely that a singular focal point within each great ritual sanctuary represented the axis mundi, the symbolic centre of the cosmos around which the tribal world revolved.`
Source: The Late Prehistoric‘Royal Site’of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon - An Enduring Paradigm of Enclosed Sacred Space by Joe Fenwick