Today is...

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

Opinions

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

#SouthAfrican star continues sensational NCU form in -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/markets.html#8

Beyond Reach Premier League to conduct #Delhi -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html#1

#Irish researchers find oldest English-language poem -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Rome

UK, #France extend small boats deal as asylum seekers -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#4

Westmeath see off #Dublin after extra time to win stunning -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ireland.html#RTÉ

View all latest news https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news.html

Markets

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

Countries

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

World Capitals

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

#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/
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The ancestors of the #Irish did not see the face of a man in the moon, as we do today, but the shape of a hare, and hares and rabbits were seen as signs of good fortune and fertility.`
Source: Ali Isaac „Gealach | An Irish Moon“
Ireland

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

World Capitals

The latest news and headlines, featuring real time updates for countries, cities, states, politics, economy, sports, food, culture via Ken's Blogspot

Another thing I didn't have room for in yesterday's issue was to build upon the "Grain Goddesses" angle I proposed for Brighid/Mórrígan/Éiriú in the preceding issue, with respect to Édaín:

https://buttondown.com/godsandcroziers/archive/may-6th-morrigan-queen-summer-inghean-bhuidhe-crobh-dearg/

Taliesin's Map found that the "choosing test" is a conserved part of the "Lunar Cycle", and in most cases it's a choice of the groom, by the heroine. In the Irish it's reversed, and Eochaid Airem (~"Horse-Ploughman") is instead presented with 50 identical women who look like Étaín, and must choose his wife. Instead, he chooses his daughter (which actually sets the stage for a future cycle, the Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel).

Now this is a choice of his wife from a large number of identical copies of her. And Étaín aligns well with Persephone, who is pretty well understood as a "Grain Goddess" as well as the underworld goddess and the Moon.

So, are these the fruit of the grain? The identical copies, from which the ploughman must choose the best example, to be next year's seed, wife, and mother of the harvest? It seems to be a #Gaelic innovation on this mytheme, but it's very congruent with interpreting Étaín-as-Persephone.

#Mythology #Irish #celtic

May 6th: The Mórrígan, Queen of Summer, as Sts. Inghean Bhuidhe & Cróbh Dearg

Exploring The Mórrígan's possible role as Queen of Summer, and Archetypical Lover, and exploring her subtler alter-egos

The Gods and their Croziers