#StandingStoneSunday #Celtic: `True, or more likely, Christian propaganda? `The ancient texts of the Metrical Dindshenchas claim that the people of Ireland worshipped the God Crom Cruach at Samhain, by offering up their firstborn child in return for a […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#standingstonesunday #Celtic: `Beneath the Ail na Míreann is one of the three main gateways to the #otherwordly #Fairyland in #Ireland.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #celtic#otherwordly#fairyland#ireland#mythology and #folklore`

#StandingStoneSunday: `In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #Fionn Mac Cumhaill (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#StandingStoneSunday #Celtic: `The #EgloneStone is a huge limestone pillar, 5.5 metres high, and up to 3 metres wide, thought to be a glacial deposit known as an erratic, rather than a standing stone. Mythology has it that whilst waiting for the battle to […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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U.S. Company Releasing Unauthorized Emissions From Peru LNG Terminal We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Change Everything No 57: Slow Down or Die We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#findsfriday #ferrousfriday #celtic: Hammer, tongs, file and spring scissors from a blacksmith’s grave Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria

#findsfriday #ferrousfriday: Remains of a mail shirt or hauberk from Roseldorf, Lower Austria; #celtic Source: NHM Vienna

#findsfriday: Golden bracelet and finger ring from a lavish tomb, 5th cent. BCE, found in Rodenbach, Germany; #celtic Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria

#findsfriday #celtic: Bronze belt chain from Raggendorf, Lower Austria, 3rd century BC Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron. Despite the iron material of this Roseldorf specimen, it should by […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#BookologyThursday: `#Niamh had fallen in love with #Oisin, who was overtaken on first sight with desire for this lovely woman from the #Celtic #Otherworld. Without thinking that time passes more slowly in the #Otherworld than in our own or even a look back […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

##BookologyThursday #Celtic: `As #Midir kissed #Étain, memory flooded back to her, and she remembered her earlier life as Midir’s beloved. Together, they flew away through the skylight at Tara in the form of swans, joined by a golden chain.` Source: P […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#bookologythursday #celtic: `Fand was a woman of the Sídh who loved #CùCulainn desperately. Her husband Manannan shook his cloak between Fand and Cú so that the memory of their mad love faded from their hearts.` Source: Eithne Massey `Legendary Ireland` https://todon.eu/@NeuKelte/111886112002776330

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: Through the length of a month from that magical moment when Connla met the fairy maiden for the first time, `he used no other food nor drink but the apple he had got from her, for he thought no other food or drink worth the using […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `It is likely it was Manannan sent his messenger for Connla of the Red Hair the time he went away out of Ireland, for it is to his country Connla was brought; and this is the way he got the call. It chanced one day he was with his […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#legendarywednesday #celtic: `Perhaps the key event in the traditional Manx song year was the Oie'll Verree on Christmas Eve. This would be when everyone would get to hear and perform carvals (https://youtu.be/xtoAdsmQiF8?autoplay=1), the traditional Manx songs for Christmastime.` Source […]

#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `A curious custom was included in the Christmas festivities in many parts of Wales. On Christmas Eve a bowl of hot beer, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with spices, was prepared by the master of the household, while the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#legendarywednesday #celtic: `On the Isle of Man Christmas-eve, in Manx Oie'l Verrey (https://youtu.be/xtoAdsmQiF8?autoplay=1), a corruption of Oie feaill Voirrey, "Eve of Mary's Feast." It was the custom for the people to go in crowds to the Parish Churches on this evening to attend a service […]

#legendarywednesday #celtic: `The film „The Kissing Bush“ explores this unusual Manx decoration which was used before Christmas trees became established in our homes. James Franklin, Online & Educational Resources Officer at Culture Vannin, says: “Traditions like the Kissing Bush are fascinating […]

#fairytaletuesday #celtic: `The mummers, or as they are called in Man, "The White Boys," perform the time-honoured legend of "St. George and the Dragon," which has, however, became considerably modified. Both in England, Scotland, and Ireland, it has been from an early day amongst the most […]

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#fairytaletuesday #celtic: `It was considered particularly unlucky for anybody to bring mistletoe into the house before Christmas.` Source: Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales by Mary Trevelyan

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `It was formerly the custom for fiddlers to go round in this way before Christmas. They stopped and played at the houses where they thought they were likely to receive a fee, wished the inmates individually "good morning," called the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `On the Isle of Man there is a weather saying with reference to this time of the year, that "if the frost will bear a goose before Christmas, it will not bear a duck after Christmas." Ny nee yn rio gymmyrkey guiy roish yn Ollick cha […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `On the Isle of Man December 21 was formerly called Laa'l Fingan, "Fingan's feast-day." St. Fingan, or Finnian, was the first of the great Irish scholars, being especially devoted to the study and exposition of Scripture. The […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Holly was regarded with superstition. If brought into the house before Christmas Eve strife, family quarrels, and disputes would ensue. Here it may be mentioned that the old people said, if you pluck a sprig of holly in flower […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: „There is another thing you can do for us," they said, "for there are three ravens come to us every year out of the north, and the time the young lads of the hill are playing their hurling, each one of the ravens carries off a boy of […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `There came three flocks of beautiful red birds from Slieve Fuad in the north, and began eating the green grass before the hill of the Sidhe. "What birds are those?" said Caoilte. "Three flocks they are that come and destroy the green […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Finn and Donn gave a great welcome to Luibra, the physician, and they showed him their two comrades that were lying in their wounds. "Those men are brothers to me," said Donn, "and tell me how can they be cured?" Luibra looked then […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `There were so many wounds on the Fianna that the clothing was held off from their bodies with bent hazel sticks, and they lying in their beds, and two of them were like to die. And Finn and Caoilte and Lugaidh's Son went out on the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: "Who will answer the King of Ireland's son for me?" said the King of the World. "I will go against him," said Sligech, King of the Men of Cepda; and he went on shore, and his three red battalions with him. And the High King's son went […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The Dagda was a High King of the Denann. He was associated with Newgrange and the Winter Sun Standing, which is a reference to the position of the sun at the winter solstice. He could control the seasons with his magical oak harp […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: „On the morning of the winter solstice, as the sun rises, a beam of light enters the mound of Newgrange via a ‘roof-box’ above the main entrance. Over the course of 17 minutes, this sun ray moves along the passage into the central […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `For our ancestors winter was harsh and bleak, a time of hardship, and a struggle for survival. The return of summer’s warmth and plenty was not, for them, guaranteed. But then something remarkable happened beneath that cruel, cold […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Known in Irish as Brú na Bóinne, meaning ‘the bend in the (River) Boyne‘, and arguably one of Ireland’s best loved and iconic tourist attractions, Newgrange is a large burial mound which is aligned with sunrise on the winter solstice […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: George Mackay Brown about Maeshowe and the #wintersolstice: “Surely there could be no darker place in the be-wintered world than the interior of Maeshowe. One of the light rays is caught in this stone web of death. Through the long […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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Their flights fill our lungs! We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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Higher CO2 levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritious We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate […] [Original post on hear-me.social]