#12th isle

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Waves 008

25-02-2024

Welcome all you idle activists and active idlers to Invisible Waves. Get yourself into a recumbent state of mind… or go for a walk. Trevor here, Jjoin me and the legions of sound seekers on this new, yet ancient, ongoing quest to connect us all through musical adventures. Slightly de tune your mental oscillators. Pull back on your inner chorus. contain yourself and add mindful sustain. Get outraged or inspired, get dirty, get cleaned up. Allow me to massage your aural orifices for a couple of hours. This is INVISIBLE WAVES!!!

Intro 00:00

Frankie Reyes-La Puerta 01:29

Roedelius-Halmharfe 02:25

Ellarald-Riversong 06:06

Chapter 1 10:20

Maps and Diagrams-Temples of Cadence 15:48

Wave Temples, Justice A. Gonzalez-Key of Life 18:49

Pete Bassman-Let's Do It 20:36

Moon Mullins-Drops 25:19

Helado Negro-Sound and Vision 26:35

Mary Yalex-Stellar State One 29:42

Chapter 2 34:05

Uncle Fido-They Are Dreaming 37:26

Kösmonaut-Gelbe Maschine 41:32

Bravo Tounky-Mariroannais 47:59

Helios-Fainted Fog 53:58

Anton Witter-Humdrum 58:47

LFO-Shove Piggy Shove 1:03:10

Chapter 3 1:07:27

Blak Saagan-La Trattativa - La Speranza 1:14:24

Claude Lavender-Straight Down The Middle 1:20:53

GLOK-Pulsing 1:23:51

Louis cole-Don’t Care (feat. Genevieve Artadi) 1:32:31

VSILE-The Camping Song - AN-2 Remix 1:37:43

The British Stereo Collective-Ghosts 1:40:40

Chapter 4 1:42:22

Albin-Eftertext 1:47:10

Charles Uzzell Edwards-Project Pocono 1:50:52

Almanacs-The Dance of the Woodpeckers 1:54:03

Polypores-Until You Observe It, It Isn’t There 1:59:11

International Telecom-Ｃｏｎｔｉｎｕｉｔｙ 2:03:35

Fumerolles-Ptero 2:06:01

Chapter 5 2:09:22

There Is Another System-Tout Comme S'Endormir 2:14:02

#Frankie Reyes #Gifted & Blessed #Stones Throw #Roedelius #Bureau B #Ellarald #Vasily Stepanov #Vlad Dobrovolski #12th Isle #Maps and Diagrams #Handstitched* #Wave Temples #Justice A. Gonzalez #Not Not Fun Records #Pete Bassman #Höga Nord Rekords #Moon Mullins #Ruination Record Co. #Helado Negro #BBE #Mary Yalex #Uncle Fido #Binaural Space #Kösmonaut #Patrick R. Pärk #Black Tempel Pyrämid #Teeth Of Glass #Bravo Tounky #ABrecords #Helios

[inbasements]

"A Small Intricate Box, Which Contains Old Blue Opium Marzipan"

70 minutes here from Berlin based @djopiumqueen - jump in!

#experimental #ambient #exotic #electronic #jungle #dj mix #12th isle #SoundCloud

[losprimeros]

cru servers - eel [ISLE013]

#ISLE013 #cru servers #eel #12th Isle #cover #cover art #artwork #design #graphic design #glasgow #Jamie McNeill #Rickie McNeill

[seanmorroww]

Bruxula - “A_x (Nicola Cruz Remix)”

Dark Farfisa [12th Isle, 2022]

#Bruxula #Dark Farfisa #Nicola Cruz #12th Isle #fourth world #fusion

[zaphmann]

In Memory of John Peel Show 220826 Podcast & Playlist

In Memory of John Peel Show 220826 Podcast & Playlist

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#12th Isle #@co_sign #@fiverosespress #@Monorail_Music #@rvngintl #@TobiasFreundproductions #Akuphone @Aku_Officiel #Bill Callahan @bathyspheral #bloody/bath #Brighde Chaimbeul #Bruxula #Cormac MacDiarmada (Lankum) and Ruth Clinton (Landless) #David Fenech @davidfenech #Dialect @andrewpmhunt #Ergo Phizmiz #Extra Life @charlielooker #Jac Berrocal #john peel #Katharina Nuttall #Kooky>Too #LICE @AesopRockWins Homeboy Sandman #Melodic @MelodicRecords #Music For Nations @musicfornations #new music #Nigel Eaton #Non Standard Productions (NSP) #Novoton @Novoton #Old Fire @JohnMarkLapham #Pete Murphy and Hallidonto @ergophizmizplc @PeteMurphyMusic @Hallidonto #Poor Creature @LankumDublin

[dailydosetoablessedlife]

Sunday June 12th 2022 🔯 Read Esther 10 🔯 The greatness of Mordecai 🔯 Esther 10: 1- And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. 2 - And all the acts of his power and his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 3 - For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. 🔯💜💜💜🙏 . . . . . . . . . . #joelosteen #joelosteenpodcast #tdjakes #tdjakesministries #bible #bibleverse #biblejournaling #biblestudy #gospel #gospelmusic #jesus #church #baptistchurch #lakewoodchurch #morningprayer #dailybible #dailybibleverse  #dailybibleverses #bibleverse  #bibleverses #biblequotes #bibleverseoftheday #christianquotes #bibleversedaily #dailyscripture #dailybible #dailyverse #dailyverses #biblescriptures #biblegram

#Sunday June 12th 2022 🔯 Read Esther 10 🔯 The greatness of Mordecai 🔯 Esther 10: 1- And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land #and upon the isles of the sea. 2 - And all the acts of his power and his might #and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai #whereunto the king advanced him #are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 3 - For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus #and great among the Jews #and accepted of the multitude of his brethren #seeking the wealth of his people #and speaking peace to all his seed. 🔯💜💜💜🙏 . . . . . . . . . . joelosteen joelosteenpodcast tdjakes tdjakesministries bible bibleverse

[unhonestlymirror]

Kamyana Mohyla is believed to contain the first writing in the world.

According to the Ukrainian scientist I. M. Rassokha, most of the inscriptions of Kamyana Mohyla have direct parallels with the ancient Ogamic inscriptions of the British Isles, Germanic "coniferous" runes, ancient Slavic "strokes and cuts", etc., that is, it can be a monument of the most ancient sacred writing of the era of Indo-European unity, namely the Seredniy Stog culture of the 4th millennium BC.

The famous linguist N. Marr proved that the Ukrainian verb "to search" (шукати - shukaty) comes from the Sumerian "shu" - "hand". The Kyivan researcher S. Paukov believes that the Ukrainian words "shana" (honour) and "shanuvaty" (to pay respect) also came from the Sumerian "Shu-Nun" (which is believed to mean "the hand of the queen).

The Sumerologist A.G. Kyfishyn studied the inscriptions of the Kamyana Mohyla (VII-III millennia BC) for a long time and found many parallels with inscriptions on clay tablets of the civilizations of Elam and Mesopotamia (Sumeria): This "writing", as he believes, was invented by the "proto-Sumerians" who lived in "Ukrainian Aratta" as early as the 12th millennium BC, and from there this ancient ethnic group apparently moved to Mesopotamia after the flooding of the Northern Black Sea, which, according to G.A. Kyfishyn, reflected in the biblical message about the World Flood.

Kamyana Mohyla has been occupied by russians since 2022.

#Kamyana Mohyla #linguistics #languages #Ukraine #Ukrainian #culture #archaeology

[whitespiderlilies]

Yo! Hope your day is going well

Wally x a very sleepy reader??? Like they fall asleep literally anywhere anytime, optionally the reader is also a Moth? One of those fluffy Silk Worm Moths

Ignore or decline this request if you wish and have a good day/night!

Actually, that's a pretty cute idea!

And I apologize dearly, for the late response.

I taking a nap and then I woke up to my phone blowing up and then I took another nap to process why my phone was blowing up.

Anyways.

Just A Little Sleepy.

Wally Darling x Reader

-Gender neutral reader

-Reader is a silk moth

-Reader sleeps everywhere, if not, on everyone.

________________

When you first came there, Wally—the person who first wanted to greet your arrival, was horrified at the sight of a limp silk moth surrounded by boxes.

Nevermind, turns out you were sleeping.

Some neighbor could be walking around, and then at most, find you randomly resting on a tree branch like a sack of potatoes or laying face flat onto a bed of flowers.

Wally was that ”some neighbor”. (Poor guy)

You both would be chatting, talking about your interests, and all of the sudden you would just lay on his lap, or rest your head upon his shoulder.

He was a bit shocked, but kinda found it cute.

And the fact that you were very fluffy, especially your chest fur.

You both would just be stuck in that position, sharing naps.

Sometimes on walks, too.

It's quite tiring to walk for 5 minutes, let alone talk about stuff for 10.

So you would end up sleeping on Wally, in which you would just be carried to your house by him.

Though, it wasn't always Wally that you would regularly sleep on.

You found the others would be great to rest upon.

Barnaby's very warm and fuzzy, Julie would also snuggle with you, Howdy has a great set of arms—ready to carry your sleeping figure, Eddie has a good build to keep your weight and Frank usually plays with your hair.

Though, Wally's was your favorite to rest on.

You slept whenever he painted you—you looked so peaceful.

He understood that you get tired quite easily.

Wally would ask you to be his muse, and halfway through—you'd fall asleep.

You stood quite still when you were asleep, which was a good thing.

One time, he drew you sleeping in one of Howdy's apple stands in his store.

And after so, he'd either sleep with you, nuzzling his face into your fur—or carry you to your bed.

Another time, Howdy had to carry you both to your homes cause he found you both sleeping in the apple isle for the 9th time, this week.

Your fur was awfully very soft, which was quite good for a resting pillow.

At most, he'd visit you to share your 12th nap of the day.

Kidding, he never really slept. He liked seeing your peaceful, sleeping face.

And also how you were the perfect body pillow.

He'd just sneak into your arms and just *INHALE*

#welcome home wally #wally darling x reader #welcome home #wally darling

[randomblack-girl]

Capricorn placements love cracking their bones

Venus in the 3rd might be good at drawing, have pretty hands, or pretty handwriting

Capricorn/Saturn rising men might have really nice bodies and work out probably have muscles

Moon in the 8th house might show cleavage or they should because it looks good. They might also be protective of their body/insecure about it probably try to hide it not the type to let just anyone get in their pants

Venus in the 5th house might have pretty hair, love their hair, or love doing hair. Might be very talented at it. For people attracted to women you might really love their hair.

They might also love to buy makeup, Skincare, etc anything that makes them more beautiful

As a venus in the fifth house in pisces person I LOVE anything beauty related I could stay in stores and the beauty isles forever and my jupiter in the first house probably also amplifies my need and want to be beautiful. I also had this fear of seeming vapid because of my interest in beauty (just putting this out here to see it ppl relate 😭)

I have chiron, medusa, and nessus in the 3rd house (medusa in capricorn and the other two in aquarius) and I always hated "jokes" like yk those mean ones then they say they're "joking" especially if it's by groups of ppl because it makes me feel like I'm getting picked on 🙃 and my 8th house moon isn't helping, like I'm sensitive 😭.

No fr though I hate when people do that then they gaslight you by calling you sensitive-

And as a pisces venus, yes I'm delusional...mind your business. I'll like a guy and tell myself he likes me back knowing damn well we never talked and it's all in my head and me wanting him to like me. And yes I'm doing it rn 😍😍 (the tarot cards says he likes me back).

Gemini suns/placements are the definition of quirky. But I noticed there's different types there's the more serious ones (Kanye West) and the more goofy and talkative ones- my bestfriend (she's a gemini rising) and Hailey Elizabeth on YouTube (I love her sm).

I heard that the sign on your 8th and 12th sign are the signs you don't like but that's not the case for me libra was my favorite sign at first and maybe I like geminis because I'm a gemini moon? Idk tell me yall experience

Girl my pisces dominance, sun in the 7th house, and Neptune square sun got me fighting for my life and my sense of identity like how am I supposed to know who I am with everyone's contradicting opinions of me and my unability to trust myself and my own opinion of myself!?!?

This might be obvious but scorpio and aries placements can be very defensive

Pluto in the 2nd house might be greedy especially with food

For people with chiron harshly aspecting their asc how's that self esteem?

Gemini placements have such a fun carefree energy and a lot of it, very energetic

Sorry about the very late post 😭

#astro observations #astrology #neptune #gemini #pisces venus #capricorn

[trevlad-sounds]

The Village Balloon

Released 26.04.2023

Gilroy Mere-The Age of the Train Alex Tyson-AQUACRUSH Pearl & The Oysters-Paraiso The Twelve Hour Foundation-Square One Sara Berts-Mayflies Binaural Space-RTWSF Suite Movement 3 Digitonal-Sphericals Joseph Shabason-Balloon Round The JWA-Dayglo Moonbeams, Pt. 2 Scanner-The Village Movement ybot-smoke Vague Imaginaires-Space Birthday Ajukaja-Sunda School 2 Sababa 5-Keyf Felix Laband-Minka Mary Yalex-Epic Room Two Bob Marley & The Wailers, Chineke! Orchestra- Is This Love David Boulter-Across Sea to Sand - Crab Claws

#Gilroy Mere #Alex Tyson #Pearl & The Oysters #The Twelve Hour Foundation #Sara Berts #Binaural Space #Digitonal #Joseph Shabason #The JWA #Scanner #ybot #Vague Imaginaires #Ajukaja #Sababa 5 #Felix Laband #Mary Yalex #Bob Marley & The Wailers #Chineke! Orchestra #David Boulter #Clay Pipe Music #Exo Tapes Inc. #Data Garden #Stones Throw #Muzan Editions #Castles in Space Subscription Library #Castles in Space #Western Vinyl #FRBH Recordings #12th Isle #Porridge Bullet

[ltwilliammowett]

Royal Navy dress sword, which belonged to Captain Sir Thomas Staines (1776-1830) and Admiral Sir Joseph Nias (1793-1879). The outside of the knuckle-guard is engraved with the words 'Captn. Sir Thos. Staines K.C.B., K.F.M, K.O.C.' and on the underside of the quillon with the words 'George Gunning Esqre. to Captn. Joseph Nias R.N. 1832'. The sword was made by Salter, Sword Cutler & Jeweller to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, 35 Strand London, 1815-20

More infos here:

The first owner of this sword was Captain Sir Thomas Staines who was born in 1776; and entered the Royal Navy in 1790; he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on the 3rd July 1796; to Commander on the 26th July 1802; to Captain on the 22nd January 1806 and he died on the 13th July 1830. Captain Staines was knighted in 1809 and was allowed to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Sicilian Order of St Ferdinand and Merit. In April 1810, several of the principal gentlemen of the Isle of Thanet threw a dinner in honour of him and presented him with a handsome sword. Later Captain Sir Thomas Staines commanded the frigate HMS 'Briton', in the Pacific, when he came unexpectedly upon Pitcairn Island on 17th September 1814, and was the first British man-of-war to discover the descendents of the mutineers of the 'Bounty'. He became a KCB at the reorganisation of the Order in 1815.

Admiral Sir Joseph Nias was born in 1793, he entered the Royal Navy on the 19th November 1807; he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on the 26th December 1820; to Commander on the 11th November 1827; to Captain on the 13th July 1835. He became a CB on the 29th June 1841; a Rear-Admiral on the 14th February 1857; a Vice-Admiral on the 12th September 1863; an Admiral on the 18th October 1867; a KCB in 1867 and he died in 1879. Admiral Sir Joseph Nias, KCB served in three expeditions to the Arctic under Ross and Parry (1818-1823). He also served at the Battle of Navarino in 1827 and the First China War between 1840-1842.

#naval weapons #naval artifacts #dress sword #captain staines #captain nias #early 19th century #age of sail

[scotianostra]

On 12 July 927 King Constantín mac Áeda, King Hywel Dda , Ealdred of Bamburgh, and King Owain ap Dyfnwal gathered at Eamont, near Penrith, to accept Æthelstan as their overlord.

Æthelstan was king of the Anglo Saxons and later England, regarded by many as their first King, Constantín mac Áeda, giving him his old Gaelic name, was King of Alba, mostly covering lands around the Tay down to the Forth, King Hywel Dda, it won't surprise you was ruler of Wales, Ealdred of Bamburgh, King of Northumberland and Owain ap Dyfnwal ruled Strathclyde, which included parts of modern day Cumbria.

After defeating the Norsemen at York Æthelstan started to stamp his authority in the North and according to the ‘Annals of Ulster’ in 927 AD Constantine and Owain had met with Æthelstan, on what was probably the Northumbria/Strathclyde border, where:

“... they surrendered themselves and their kingdoms to the sovereign of England. Out of regard to this treaty, the king himself stood as sponsor for the son of Constantine, who was ordered to be baptized at the sacred font.”

The ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ also records the meeting its list of attendees differed and it's a wee bit more dramatic, so I'll classify it as the tabloid of the day!! “In this year [927] fiery beams of light appeared in the north part of the sky. And Sihtric died; and King Athelstan succeeded to the kingdom of the Northumbrians, and he subjugated all the kings that were in this island: first, Hywel king of the West Welsh, and Constantine king of the Scots, and Owain king of Gwent, and Ealdred son of Eadwulf from Bamburgh:+ and with pledge and with oaths they confirmed peace, in the place called Eamont, on the 4th of the Ides of July [12th July], and renounced every kind of idolatry; and after that departed in peace.”

It led to six years of peace between the Northern Kings and the new King of England, by 934 things had taken a turn as “In this year King Athelstan went into Scotland, with both a land-force and a ship-force, and ravaged a great part of it.”

Other sources tell that Constantine's son was taken to England as a hostage to keep the peace.

There is loads more info on how things developed in the tenth century and beyond here http://www.dot-domesday.me.uk/athelstan.htm

The pic shows how the British Isles looked back then.

#scotland #scottish #history #england #anglo saxon

[dykedalecooper]

i think exodus and nightcrawler have a really weird relationship because exodus is like “ah yes... we are both men of god like we must talk, i have so little in common with the rest of these people on this forsakenly humid isle. i must ask; have you encountered the uncouth comments about ones... proclivities... this island stinks of deviancy and i struggle to bear it". and kurt is like “uhm vell safe sex is important and uhmmmm ah! hope! excellent you have returned” and hope and kurt like do the european cheek kisses thing and she's like “oh my god it's been so long since we've talked how's david i know you had a thing but now ruth is back how is that for you guys" and kurt is like looking back and forth between exodus and hope and hes like. “vell ve are… fine. zhey are together. ve are all fine. meggan has been staying vith us- vith me vhile she is... she and brian are 'on a break' i have been told” and exodus just gasps and hes like “egads! you… (12th century french homophobic slur)". and hope is like “i don’t know what that means but i'm so sorry we’re going to go now it was really nice to see you bye” and she drags exodus away and is like “please stop calling our friends and coworkers homophobic slurs” and he's like pouting and he's like “you said you didn't know what i said” and shes like “it was abundantly clear to literally everyone that it was a slur”

#x-men #here's the one about the 12th century french homophobic slurs. for you steph #this stands on its own but like it involves my deeply correct understanding of both exodus and hope's limpet relationship #which is basically a qpr but i refuse to use that terminology #and also kurt and david's noncomittal mostly platonic gay roommates thing #and also meggan's midlife crisis fling with kurt #i guess it also technically requires knowlege of david and ruth's canonical astral plane relationship. which is very important to me #i guess i have to flesh out all these other things now too #comic book

[irelandseyeonmythology]

Ok so I’m getting into the Fenian cycle and just read the palace/hostel of the quicken/Rowan trees, and I love it but there are a couple things that i’ve been trying to research to better understand it and I’m just not getting results. Who is the King of the World? The Lochlanns are the Fomorians, right? And where is the isle of the torrent?

Thank you for the ask! It's coming at a very opportune time as I've been diving into the world of the Fianna myself. (If you sent this to me a couple of years ago, I'd have been a little stumped even if I'd have done my best.)

So you sent this to me...ages ago, and I was at the Gaeltacht at the time, so I was typing up my response in Irish to be translated and. I. Went out of the window. And it hadn't been saved. And I was so depressed that I didn't want to go back to it until I had sufficiently mourned.

...but you can breathe a sigh of relief since, now that I'm no longer in the Gaeltacht, we are not bound by the custom of "when I'm there, I write only in Irish."

So, first off...let's go with Lochlann: What is Lochlann, who are the men of Lochlann? In Cath Maige Tuired, you're right, they're absolutely associated with the Fomoire, BUT! The reason why they're associated with the Fomoire is because there were real-life invaders from Lochlann, that is to say, Scandinavian or Scandinavian occupied territory (in CMT, the Fomoire are actually in what is today Scotland, Balor being situated on the Hebrides, which means that....yes....it is entirely possible to do a How to Train Your Dragon/CMT crossover if you desired. And yes, I have put too much thought into the logistics of that crossover, including the dangers of giving Bres access to a dragon.) The decision to situate the Fomoire on Lochlann was a political move, as a way of highlighting Ireland's political situation at the time it was composed. ("Lochlann" is still the modern name for Norway.)

In other texts, especially later texts, we see Lochlann often associated with far away, exotic, supernatural, and/or dangerous places, in the same way that Greece is often used to indicate someplace far away or exotic. (It makes sense -- how many Irish people living in, say, the 14th-15th century would have imagined traveling to Norway in the time before Aer Lingus?)

You can see this in, for example, the little known Late Middle/Early Modern Irish-ish (the dating is weird on this one) prosymetric text, "Aithed Emere (le Tuir nGlesta mac Rig Lochlann)", where Emer elopes with...Tuir Glesta, son of the King of "Lochlann". (Translated as "Norway" most of the time in descriptions, but I prefer keeping the term "Lochlann", because it's always the question of...is this the Real World Country, Lochlann, or is this the Cool Folklore Lochlann where Zany Adventures Happen, you know? I don't feel like "Norway" captures all of the different possibilities that the word implies.)

Now, since this, according to Thurneysen at least, didn't go back to before the 12th century, it was created well after CMT, well after the Battle of Clontarf and the final assimilation/ousting of the Vikings from Ireland. The Vikings are...chill by now. They aren't an active threat. So we have to ask ourselves: Why is Emer eloping with Tuir Glesta? It could be the result of an earlier tradition, sure, but I think it's more likely that we're not meant to think of Lochlann as "Fomoire land" or "Viking land", but "exotic, far away place for Cú Chulainn to voyage to in order to get his wife back." In Cath Muighe Tuireadh Cunga, there's a figure called "Aengaba of Lochlann", and there's no sign that he's a Fomoire, rather it seems that we're meant to view him as a sort of foreign champion. (It's interesting that in the Early Modern CMT, meanwhile, the Fomoire don't come from Lochlann, but from Africa. White supremacists have obviously gone ham with this but I've had at least one prominent person in the field suggest to me that it could be a means of drawing a Carthage-Rome dichotomy between the TDD and the Fomoire. And, of course, as I love to point out, if the Fomoire come from Africa = the Fomoire are black, then by that logic, Bres, Lugh, Fionn mac Cumhaill, the Dagda, Ogma, Bríg, Lír, Manannán, Emer, Cú Chulainn, Cairbre, Óengus, Bodb Dearg, etc. etc. etc. are all mixed race, which is a change I for one would be happy with but I suspect they would not be. Not that logic matters all that much to that crowd, especially since the only figures to routinely be presented as brown are Balor, Bres, Cethlenn, and the Fir Bolg, funny how that works.) And of course, when I was talking to a local on Tory Island, he said that the old people "confused the English for the Fomorians" (paraphrased) -- I don't believe the old people were confused at all, though, I believe that it only made sense for the Fomoire to become English, since they're always the people Over There, and Over There can be Lochlann, it can be Africa, and it can be England. Balor goes from being a Viking warlord to an English landlord, because why wouldn't he?

NOW, off of my soap box about the racist clusterfuck that is most adaptations of the Fir Bolg/Tuatha Dé/Fomoire rivalry and back to your question, Bruidhean (an) chaorthainn, "Hostel of the Rowan Trees", is about 15th/16th century in date, so we're looking well after the time the Vikings were a threat, so "Lochlann" here is very much Fun Zany Lochlann, not Actual Country Norway.

And we see this in a lot of Fionn Cycle tales, men from Lochlann opposing the Fianna, Fionn courting women in Lochlann and facing a series of trials, men from Lochlann imprisoning the Fianna in bruidhean tales. It's very much a trope, and it has next to nothing to do with the historical location. It's a place Over There, it's a place that has something our heroes need to get, or it's a place that is threatening what they already have. The people who live there are invariable dangerous, often supernatural, and more than a match for our heroes, even though they are, inevitably, overcome, though sometimes at great cost. The Men of Lochlann in these tales and the Fomoire have a lot in common, you could even argue that the Fomoire of CMT are even the Men of Lochlanns' literary great grandfathers, in the sense that it is, at least partially, a 9th century anxiety over Scandinavia that's been fossilized into the folklore up to the present, but they aren't the same, except for the fact that they both often represent the dark side of the supernatural, which the Tuatha Dé can often represent as well. (And indeed, as John Carey's argued, the difference between the TDD and the Fomoire is often minimal.) The Tuatha Dé and the Fomoire in and of themselves appear little in modern folkloric stories, at least....how they appear in the Mythological Cycle (indeed, Óengus is often relegated to being a wizard instead of a member of the TDD in folkloric variants of Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada and Ghráinne.) Manannán survives better than most, as does Bodb Dearg, but the truth is that there was a certain...anxiety about it that you can detect in the folklore. The term "Fomor" develops three meanings from the Early Modern Irish period -- the guys that we know and love, a generic ogre or giant (which is how it's often used now), and a churl or servant, which further complicates things.

Besides Bruíon Chaorthainn, you can also see examples of Zany Folklore Lochlann showing up in Fenian folklore in Soraidh Fhinn go Tír Lochlainn ("Fionn's Wooing in Lochlann"), Laoi an Airghinn Mhóir ("The Lay of Airgheann the Great") (which, besides being very alive in the folklore, also goes back at least as far as Duanaire Finn, which was compiled in the 15th century), Laoi Chath Gabhra ("The Lay of the Battle of Gabhair") (which is interesting for having the son of the king of Lochlann on the Fianna's side for once), Duan na Cloinne ("The Lay of the Children"), Comhrag Fhinn agus Mhanuis ("The Combat Between Fionn and Magnus") (our boy Magnus, son of the King of Lochlann, also appears in Soraidh Fhinn go Tír Lochlainn), Laoidh Maodh-Chabir agus Chamagich ("The Lay of Maodh-Chabir and Camagich") (for SEXY Zany Folkloric Lochlann), An Cú Glas ("The Grey Dog"), which the Fionn Folklore Database actually did a reel about on their Facebook/Instagram if I'm not mistaken, Bratach Fhinn (Fionn’s Banner), and Duan nan Naonar (The Lay of the Nine). I'm *sure* there are other legends out there, these are just the ones I was able to immediately track down.

So, that's covered. Now, who is the King of the World? And the answer is that, like Magnus, he's a recurring antagonist we sometimes see pop up. In Bruíon Chaorthainn, he's the king of Lochlann who tries to invade Ireland. Meanwhile, in Cath Fionntrá, which has a lay form of it in the Book of the Dean of Lismore (a Scottish compilation, incidentally, from the 16th century, showing how bound up all these traditions are from an early date) and, besides that, has Irish manuscript attestations going back to at least the 15th century, the "King of the World" is a full-fledged antagonist named Dáire Donn, who forms an alliance with kings across Europe to invade Ireland. (Here's the older text here, and the info on it here.) We see a sort of sequel to it in the modern Irish tale “The romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis” where Dáire has a daughter, Mis, who becomes a madwoman in the woods after his death and is sexed back to sanity by Dubh Rois. (It is...surprisingly funny, honestly.) Which is in Celtic Heroic Age. But what you can gather by him being King of Lochlann is also that he's...the Guy Over There (Who Wants To Come Here.) Even beyond personalities, that's it. You can compare him to the King of Greece in Duan Gharbh Mhic Stairn ("The Lay of Garbh son of Stairn"). The difference between a king of Greece and a king of Lochlann isn't that great, what matters is that he's Over There and that he's trying to invade us.

The Isle of the Torrent (Inse Tuile) is another one of those otherworldly, supernatural places where Things Are Weird. You can compare it, for early examples, to the islands you see in the Immrama genre, but you can also compare it to the various weird islands you come across in other stories, like in Nighean Righ fo Thuinn ("The Daughter of the King Under the Waves"), which has "Magh an Iongnaidh" (the Plain of Wonder). And obviously, you could tie this into the world of the Otherworld being located beyond the sea (which is a later idea; the early material seems to indicate, firmly, that the Otherworld was *below*, not *beyond*), but I think it just goes from the idea that you need your heroes to travel on a quest to get something -- you can trace it as far back as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, Jason and the Golden Fleece, etc. People like a good adventure yarn. People like to have their heroes go to exotic lands filled with supernatural danger (where things There don't work the way they do Here), they like to face off against dangerous villains and arrive home just in time to save the day, you know? I will note that Goethe's "Der König in Thule" was translated, into Irish, as "Rí Inse Tuile" -- Thule was a magical island in classical times, it was well known to Irish monks as early as the ninth century; it appears in Beatha Bréandain, the Life of St. Brendan, so it's not inconceivable it could have been worked into the Irish tradition, especially since the variant of it that was translated is a literary composition, not necessarily the story 100% as it appears in oral literature. I'd like to explore that possible connection more down the line, but all I can say right now is that it's an interesting coincidence -- my suspicion for it being literary is further increased by the fact that this is not a name you generally see in the oral literature, but I won't go further than that. "Tuile" in Irish does mean "flood" or "flow", so it could just be a strange coincidence, of course, but...it's odd. It's odd.

Anyway, all that, and where are we?

A lot of Irish folklore and Irish lit are dealing with Us VS Them, the idea of the People Over There VS the People Over Here (which makes sense because of...centuries of People Over There sailing over, first the Vikings, then the Normans, then the Tudors, then Cromwell, etc. etc. etc. etc. Not to reduce an entire complex literary tradition that spans multiple continents to a Just So story, and there are a lot of stories that obviously DON'T feature this theme, but I don't think it hurts.) (And Scottish lit, of course, also gets into it, partially due to transmission, partially because of their own history of Guys Over There coming to take things from Guys Over Here, which also got transmitted to Canada via the diaspora.)

Who are the Lochlannaigh? The Guys Over There.

Who are the Fomoire? Also the Guys Over There, but not always overlapping. (Not all Fomoire at all stages of the literature are Lochlannaigh, not all Lochlannaigh are Fomoire.)

Who is Rí an Domhain? The Ruler Over There Who Wants To Come Over Here.

And where is Inse Tuile? Over There, but the name itself is strange.

I hope this makes sense in some way!

#irish mythology #irish folklore #béaloideas #fionn mac cumhaill #Fenian Cycle

[motheatenscarf]

So, I have a fun family game of D&D with my brother and my sibling-in-law and a couple pals that my brother DMs. I've talked about it before, Almenor D&D. Well, we just started a new campaign this last Wednesday! This one's gonna be tagged #Mistbound D&D, since it takes place not on the mainland of Almenor, but in the Mistbound Isles of the same world, set 100 years after our last campaign.

We've been promised a spooky fun time and I'm already really digging it, but I don't think I'll be keeping as many updates here about it, mainly because as the party notetaker, I'm in charge of the recap, and I've gotten permission this time around to share the recap document!

I go pretty thoroughly into detail trying to chronicle the session beats for posterity's sake, but we've also got a new player who wasn't in our last campaign, so everything's already being written for a fresh set of eyes where no context from the last huge 3 year campaign will be necessary. My SIL is an artist and also did character portraits for us!

Behold!

Kaash'ka: human (??) warlock, blood patron, just a sweet lil bean trying to get rid of his horrible curse (the ferret is named Pancake)

Talia: human (??????) paladin, oath of vengeance, horse girl first, endless font of wrath with hands second

Nudi Ecrudi, yes that is his name: halfling barbarian, berserker, the tiniest, drunkest, OLDEST, angriest little pirate there ever was

Eddy Shortcake: dwarf rogue, thief, the goodest boy with great manners but poor impulse control and a sweet tooth

So if you want to follow the adventures of these idiots and read my terrible writing to approximate what happens and see all the cool art Ash draws and the sick maps Jake makes for his spooky campaign, HERE YA GO!

#Caitlin Plays D&D #Mistbound D&D

[mad-hare]

IM SO SORE! I got my first taste of endurance riding yesterday on this Arabian mare named Kiera, we rode 10.6km in maybe 2 hours (slow pace but longer than I have ever been in a saddle)

She’s done multiple 160km competitions and apparently after 18 hours of riding she’s still got the energy to keep speeding up to the end. It was really fun to be on such a powerful horse but I am beat. In addition to my legs my abs are also exhausted today which is wild because I’ve never felt fatigue in my abs in my life.

I’m gonna get to ride her a few more times (she’s a 2 hour drive away) and on the 12th of august will get to do a 10-30km training ride with her. And hopefully in the near future will have a closer by horse to ride around

Also I think it’s really funny that I sat in an endurance saddle for the first time yesterday and horse isle did it’s first new tack update ever the same day releasing endurance tack it made me play for the first time in months

#horse