#MythologyMonday: In preparation for the second battle of Mag Tuired, #Lugh had called together the Druids, and smiths, and physicians, and law-makers, and chariot-drivers of Ireland, and others. Amongst them the na trí dée Dána, the three craft gods of the Tuatha Dé, were asked as well what they could contribute to the victory.
"I will do this," said Goibniu. "If the men of Ireland stop in the battle to the end of seven years, for every sword that is broken and for every spear that is lost from its shaft, I will put a new one in its place. And no spear-point that will be made by my hand," he said, "will ever miss its mark; and no man it touches will ever taste life again. And that is more than Dolb, the smith of the Fomor, can do," he said.
"And you, Credne," Lugh said then to his worker in brass, "what help can you give to our men in the battle?" "It is not hard to tell that," said Credne, "rivets for their spears and hilts for their swords and bosses and rims for their shields, I will supply them all."
"And you, Luchta," he said then to his carpenter, "what will you do?" "I will give them all they want of shields and of spear shafts," said Luchta. #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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#NationalStorytellingWeek #FolkloreThursday: `Despite Balor’s dread sorcerous might, one of his seers prophecised his doom – his lovely daughter Ethniu would have a son, and that son would some day slay him!
Eager as he was to avert that fate, he chained up his daughter on the highest point of the island, a place called Túr Mór in Old Irish, meaning The High Tower, which was made of crystal. After she got married and became pregnant he left strict orders that the child was to be cast from the top into the jagged rocks and hungry waters of the icy Atlantic far below the instant it was born.
But instead of one, there were three born, so he bound them up in a cloth and pinned it closed with a thorn, throwing them into the sea. Loch Deilg, Lake Thorn, on the east end of Tory island is named after this infamous act. But one survived, saved by Birog the Druidess, and his name was #Lugh of fable and legend.` #Celtic
Source: emeraldisle.ie
#MythologyMonday: After the mortal combat with Ferdia weariness and great weakness fell upon #CúChulainn. All his body was riddled with wounds, and his strength was utterly gone from him. While #Lugh kept watch and did battle with the host of Ulster, the Hound of Ulster took his rest in deep peace, `and for three days and nights he stirred not once, but slept a dreamless, torpid sleep. And fairy-folk brought magic herbs to put into his wounds, to soothe and heal him while he slept, and all the while #Lugh sat at his right hand, guarding his rest, save when some feat of slaughter was to do upon the men of Erin.` #Celtic
Source: Cuchulain, The Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull
#MythologyMonday: `According to the myths, the bride/Goddess offered the king a drink. Its quite likely that he then consummated his marriage with his Queen, the Goddess, and the land, thus indicating that the ceremony was, in part, a fertility rite.
In the Baile in Scail, also called ‘the Phantom’s Ecstatic Vision’, Conn of the Hundred Battles and his companions wander into a blanket of fog and find themselves in the #Otherworld, where they are greeted by #Lugh. They are taken to his hall, where a beautiful woman named Flaith, meaning (‘Sovereignty’) serves Conn with a drink in a golden cup. He is thus made high king of Ireland.` #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
https://twitter.com/druidtombraider/status/1412357409457180672?t=LnRndW4WUgrXl7gu8BaGbg&s=09
I have written about using a ferro rod to start fires in the past. But I never really explained a few things. As a prepper, sure I could buy a lifetime’s worth of Bics and always be able to light a fire. But years ago I learned how to use a ferro rod and steel to light a fire and here is why. About 10 years ago I made a pledge, as an offering to Lugh, to use only a ferro rod and steel (my bush knife) to start the bonfires for a whole year.
At first I was clumsy and it took a while to get that flame going. As time went on, I learned what the best tinder was (fine dry swamp grass and curls of fatwood kept in a pouch), the best technique (hold the rod to the surface and make a slow solid shower of sparks down onto the tinder) and got so that I could get that fire lit with one swipe on the rod (have the whole little fire pyramid ready with tiny kindling and a space to stuff the lit tinder under). It was the learning, conquering a challenge, and making a life saving thing without the disposable use of fossil fuel. From a practical point of view, it makes sense to always have alternatives as well.
Bic lighters are absolutely shitty when they get wet. It takes a lot of energy to dry them out and get them to light (running the wheel on your jeans for 5 or 10 minutes) which might be perilous if you were in a situation where getting that fire going was important. Bics can be lost, run out of fuel, etc. so having an extra method of making fire is common sense.
But that is the least of it. Learning how to do something that is outside your current skill set is the whole point. Doing the preparation ahead of time by creating a fire pouch with everything you need in it and keeping it with you and dry at all times. You are training your brain to think ahead, use methodical procedures and develop small motor skills.
After I started using the knife and ferro rod, I realized I wanted a sheath to keep them together so early in my learning to do leather work, I made this sheath that keeps them together. The cotton pouch can hang on my belt under my coat to keep tinder in as well, but I usually just keep it in the camp kit. The best way to prepare for future difficulty is to learn to use your gear now.
#MythologyMonday: `When #Lugh had heard that the Sons of Turenn were on their way to Ben Edar, he put on his cloak of invisibility and withdrew privily to Tara. Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba had to wait for him, because they were not able to pay the full compensation for the murder of his father #Cian MacCáinte, yet.` #Celtic
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/sonsoftuirenn.htm
#FolkloreSunday: `The #Celtic god #Lugh is credited with triumphing over the personification of blight, which can be traced back to the myth of him killing his demonic grandfather Balor. Said to possess a single giant, havoc-wreaking eye, Balor is believed to represent the scorching summer sun as well as drought and blight, being defeated in battle by Lugh who blinds him with a slingshot.`
Source: https://ideas-on-paper.tumblr.com/post/724471705160105984/celtic-seasonal-festivals-part-3-lughnasadh
`#Tailtiu was a #Celtic goddess diminished into human form. Tailtiu traveled to the center of #Ireland, and began to clear fields for planting, but the effort of felling the dense #Irish forest killed her. As she died, she asked that her funeral go on forever, with horse racing and games and festivities. And so her foster son, the god #Lugh, established the #Lughnasa festival that, strangely, bears his name rather than hers.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
#FolkloreSunday: `After the death of Nás, identified as one of the wives of #Lugh, his other wife, her sister Bói, died of grief at her sister's loss, resulting in Lugh founding the festival of #Lughnasa to lament their passing. The passage tumulus of #Knowth (originally Cnogba) is associated with Bói. A second version of this tale connects another Nás with Oenach Tailtiu.` #Celtic
Source: Ronald Hicks & Laura Ward Elder „Festivals, Deaths, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Ireland“
#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `#Dechtire, the half sister of King Conchobar mac Nessa, was married to an Ulster chieftain named Sualtam.
One night, a mayfly landed in her cup of wine, and she swallowed it without realising. She fell into a deep sleep during which #Lugh Lamfhada, God of Lightning, visited her, and claimed that he was that mayfly and had impregnated her.`
Source: https://substack.com/@aliisaac
The Wheel of the Year is a symbol of the eight Sabbats (religious festivals) of Neo-Paganism and the Wicca movement which includes four solar festivals (Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox) and four seasonal festivals (celebrating or marking a significant seasonal change). https://www.worldhistory.org/Wheel_of_the_Year/ #History #Celt #Easter #Lugh
The Wheel of the Year is a symbol of the eight Sabbats (religious festivals) of Neo-Paganism and the Wicca movement which includes four solar festivals (Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox) and four seasonal festivals (celebrating or marking a significant seasonal change). https://www.worldhistory.org/Wheel_of_the_Year/ #History #Celt #Easter #Lugh
The Wheel of the Year is a symbol of the eight Sabbats (religious festivals) of Neo-Paganism and the Wicca movement which includes four solar festivals (Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox) and four seasonal festivals (celebrating or marking a significant seasonal change). https://www.worldhistory.org/Wheel_of_the_Year/ #History #Celt #Easter #Lugh
#followfriday So this is happening again! I'm a #Buddhist #Celtic #pagan #witch who honours the #Morrigan #Cernunnos #Lugh an #Cailleach inside a syncretic polytheism that also includes #Aphrodite and #Bastet amongst others. I practice #meditation , #lunarmagic #tarot and #astrology and also love #writing and #poetry I use #Midjourney #aiart to honour my gods and also as a hobby. Also a fan of #terencemckenna #psychadelics and #cannabis
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