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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jul 28, 2024

#FolkloreSunday: `The tale of Tailtiu provides one explanation for the foundation of the festival of #Lughnasa: Lugh's fostermother Tailtiu, wife of Eochu Garb and responsible for the clearing of a wood (for farming and to provide a place of assembly), had died at the time of Lughnasa.` #Celtic
Source: Ronald Hicks & Laura Ward Elder „Festivals, Deaths, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Ireland“

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Aug 12, 2024

#MythologyMonday: #Tailtiu “… told them in her sickness
(Feeble she was but not speechless)
That they should hold funeral games to lament her –
Zealous the deed.
About the Calends of August she died,
On a Monday, on the Lugnasad of Lug;
Round her grave from that Monday forth
Is held the chief Fair of noble Erin.
White-sided Tailtiu uttered in her land a true prophecy,
That so long as every prince should accept her,
Erin should not be without perfect song.” #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-tailteann-games

The Tailteann Games | Irish Folklore and Fairy Tales, the Emerald Isle

The Irish Olympics!

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻

#MythologyMonday: The games in memory of #Tailtiu at the time of #Lughnasadh „became the greatest spectacle of the ancient world, renowned throughout all the lands for their grandeur and energy. For almost three thousand years they were held without pause or break in the tradition, until the coming of the Normans around 1171, when they were suppressed for some time. Fionn MacCumhaill himself was said to have joined them to find warriors for his Fianna, as well as Cú Chulainn and most of the ancient heroes of Ireland.“ #Celtic
https://x.com/ElvaBJohnston/status/865111483385954304
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-tailteann-games

Elva Johnston 🌻 (@ElvaBJohnston) on X

The early medieval Fair of Tailtiu was revived as the Tailteann Games between 1924-32; meant to be an Irish Olympics

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