#FolkloreThursday: One of the greatest #Celtic visions of the #Otherworld was that of Emain Albach, the Isle of Apples, a beautiful place of everlasting summer whose handsome residents danced the sun-drenched days away. The Otherworld looked like this world, only more beautiful and changeless: trees bore blossom and fruit at the same time there, no one ever aged or grew infirm, death had no dominion in the #Otherworld.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#Fotovorschlag "Jenseits"
#Jenseits des #Nebels
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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `The circle „Holme I“, consisting of an upturned tree-stump surrounded by 55 closely fitted #oak posts, was originally built on the saltmarsh away from the sea and specialists estimate it to have been built of timbers dating from the spring of 2049 BC.
Dr David Nance explains: “Dating of the Seahenge timbers showed they were felled in the spring, and it was considered most probable that these timbers were aligned with sunrise on the summer solstice.
He suggests that its function was to mimic the ‘pen’ described in folklore for an unfledged cuckoo with the intention to keep the bird singing and thereby extend the summer.
“Summer solstice was the date when according to folklore the cuckoo, symbolising fertility, traditionally stopped singing, returned to the Otherworld and the summer went with it,’ Dr Nance added.
“The monument’s form appears to imitate two supposed winter dwellings of the cuckoo remembered in folklore: a hollow tree or ‘the bowers of the #Otherworld’ represented by the upturned oak-stump at its centre.
“This ritual is remembered in the ‘myth of the pent cuckoo’ where an unfledged cuckoo was placed into a thorn bush and the bird was ‘walled-in’ to extend the summer but it always flew away.”
Source: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23205

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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `In #Irish #mythology, the Ail na Míreann or "stone of divisions" on the #HillOfUisneach is described as the navel of #Ireland. It is seen as a kind of omphalos or axis mundi of Ireland, a meeting place between the Earth and the #Otherworld and the source of creation.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Uisneach

#FolkloreThursday: `A late (16th–18th century) version of the goddess of sovereignty through whose right a king could rule in #Ireland, the spéir-bhean (sky woman; https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobindrums/774172081/) was depicted by bards of the time as a beautiful young woman, possibly from the #Otherworld, who wandered the roads searching for the land’s true leader. Her name was sometimes given as Cathleen ni Houlihan, sometimes is Roisin Dubh or Dark Rosaleen. Sometimes she appeared as the Shan Van Vocht (Sean-bhean Bhocht), the “poor old woman,” who recalls the hag who turned young again when kissed by the rightful ruler. The most famous version of the spéir-bhean is found in William Butler Yeats’s play Cathleen ni Houlihan written for the revolutionary leader Maude Gonne.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`