#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The Ultonians had a custom of holding a fair every year, which lasted the three days before #Samhain, the day of Samhain itself, and the three days that followed it. That was the period of time which the Ultonians devoted to the holding of the Fair of Samhain in the Plain of Muirtheimne every year;
Whilst they were engaged with playing chess, listening to poems recited for them and the arrangement of games, a flock of birds alighted on the lake in their presence, and in Erinn there were not birds more beautiful. …
It was not long after until they saw two birds on the lake, linked together by a chain of red gold. They chaunted a low melody which brought sleep upon the assembly. Cuchulain went towards them. … He then threw his heavy spear [croisech], and it passed through the flying wing of one of the birds. They plunged under the water.
Cuchulain went away then in bad spirits, and put his back to a rock, where sleep soon fell upon him. And he saw [through his sleep] two women coming towards him. One woman had a green cloak, the other had a five-folded crimson cloak on. The woman with the green cloak went up to him, and smiled at him, and she gave him a stroke of a horse switch. The other went up to him then and smiled at him, and struck him in the same manner; and they continued for a long tune to do this, that is, each of them in turn striking, until he was nearly dead. They went away from him then.`
Source: https://archive.org/details/a633817001cathuoft/page/377/mode/1up

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Holme II is centred on two #oak logs laid flat. Adjacent to Holme I, the ring is dated to the same year.
For Holme II University of Aberdeen researcher Dr David Nance points to legends of ‘sacred kings’ described in #IronAge Ireland and northern Britain who were sacrificed if misfortune fell on the community, as happened at Holme-next-the-sea, in an attempt to appease the goddess of Venus to restore harmony.
He said: “Evidence suggests that they were ritually-sacrificed every eight years at #Samhain (now Halloween) coincident with the eight-year cycle of Venus.
The fixtures in Holme II that were thought to hold a coffin, are orientated towards sunrise on Samhain in 2049 when Venus was still visible.
Holme I and II are best explained as having different functions and associated rituals, but with a common intent: to end the severely cold weather.`
Source: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23205
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The Misfits / Samhain

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Samhain / Holy Terror / Coagulated Child

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Finn being but a young lad yet, made himself ready and went up at #Samhain time to the gathering of the High King at Teamhair. And it was the law at that gathering, no one to raise a quarrel or bring out any grudge against another through the whole of the time it lasted. And the king and his chief men, and Goll, son of Morna, that was now Head of the Fianna, and Caoilte, son of Ronan, and Conan, son of Morna, of the sharp words, were sitting at a feast in the great house of the Middle Court; and the young lad came in and took his place among them, and none of them knew who he was.
The High King looked at him then, and the horn of meetings was brought to him, and he put it into the boy's hand, and asked him who was he.
"I am Finn, son of Cumhal," he said, "son of the man that used to be head over the Fianna, and king of Ireland; and I am come now to get your friendship, and to give you my service."
"You are son of a friend, boy," said the king, "and son of a man I trusted."
Then Finn rose up and made his agreement of service and of faithfulness to the king; and the king took him by the hand and put him sitting beside his own son, and they gave themselves to drinking and to pleasure for a while.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

Samhain / Just Born / Inside Out

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