#FolkloreSunday: When the Men of Dea call to their houses in the #Otherworld and to their country Under-Wave they promise #Celts all that they have upon earth, only in greater abundance. The god Midhir sings to Queen Etain in one of the most beautiful of the stories: "The young never grow old; the fields and the flowers are as pleasant to be looking at as the blackbird's eggs; …“ #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#FindsFriday: Clay dog figurine, Offenbach-Rumpenheim, around 190-150 B.C., World of the #Celts in Glauberg
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#WyrdWednesday: #Epona is a continental #Celtic and British goddess. Among the #Celts, „whose vision of divinity was so polytheistic that the same name of a god or goddess is rarely found more than once, Epona is an exception, for statues and altars to her have been excavated across continental Europe, the center of her worship, and in Britain—more than for any other god or goddess of the #Celts.“
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

You meet a lurg in the dark woods, wdyd?!
#Kromlech #swordandsorcery #swordsandsorcery #UE5 #unrealengine #unrealengine5 #gamedev #celts

The Chieftain gave us a chance for a nod towards a Sword and Sorcery classic. :)
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Owain ap Urien was a 6th-century Brythonic Celtic king who became mythologized as one of King Arthur's champions. In French Arthurian legends, Owain is the son of Morgan le Fey. However, in Welsh legends, he is the son of Modron ("Mother," a fairy mother goddess).
Howard Pyle

In Welsh myths, the giant British king Bran the Blessed was killed in Ireland, and his huge head was carried home. Back in Britain, the head was buried where the Tower of London now stands. As long as the head is there, Britain can't be invaded, but some say King Arthur dug it up.
Peter Diamond

Archaeoethnologica: Nementons & Sacred Places / Nemetons e Recintos Sagrados

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Archaeoethnologica: Nementons & Sacred Places / Nemetons e Recintos Sagrados

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Archaeoethnologica: Nementons & Sacred Places / Nemetons e Recintos Sagrados

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Oh hey, the first teaser trailer for our game is out!
#Kromlech #SwordAndSorcery #SwordsAndSorcery #Celts #unrealengine
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4qrpItltA

#FolkloreThursday: `While in Judeo-Christian cosmology heaven is usually seen as the abode of the dead and of the divine forces, the #Celts located both in the #Otherworld, which could be found out to sea, under a hill, or in an invisible universe parallel to ours, but never in the sky.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

The most potent magic of the great Welsh magician Gwydion was turning plants into people. He worked with his uncle Math to transform a bunch of flowers into a wife for his ward Lleu Llaw Gyffes, and later turned a grove of trees into an army to fight an invading fairy host.
Dreoilin

I am currently weaving a reconstruction of the Hallstatt 126520 band (in different colours though), which was found in 2019 during excavations in the Hallstatt salt mine and probably dates back to the Early Iron Age/Celtic period. The band shows several seemingly random sequences of patterns, which makes it unique for this period, as the other known woven bands show a regular repeat of the same pattern.

#FindsFriday: `The helmet from Canosa di Puglia comes from the far south of Italy and shows just how far the #Celts got.` #Celtic
Source: Information screens at Navan Fort

#MythologyMonday: `The cauldron was both a domestic object, used in the home for brewing and stewing, and a sacred one, the secret place where new life was brewed and stewed. As such, it was a symbol of great power to the #Celts. ...
The cauldron’s basic meaning was fullness and abundance; Ireland’s “good god,” called the #Dagda, had a cauldron forever filled with good things, while the Welsh goddess #Ceridwen used hers for cooking up a broth that endowed drinkers with unfathomable wisdom. Yet even abundance and plenty could be mismanaged. In the Welsh Mabinogion, we find a cauldron of rebirth—Irish in origin—wherein soldiers’ bodies were thrown so that they might come back, alive yet soulless, to fight again.` #Celtic
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Ancient genomes reveal women-centered community in Celtic Britain

A genetic study has, for the first time, unraveled a matrilocal social system in Iron Age Britain, where land and connectedness with the community were passed down through a female lineage. This is a first for European prehistory and underlines the importance of women in social and political spheres...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/women-centric-community-in-celtic-britain/

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The Welsh hero Pryderi was the son of Pwyll, king of Dyfed, and the fairy princess Rhiannon. He was stolen away from his parents as a baby by a mysterious clawed monster, and raised by another family. Due to his fairy heritage, Pryderi grew to adulthood at superhuman speed.