#ancient ireland

[ingloriousweasel]

So someone wanted Sheena Na Gig material. I’m hoping Tumblr doesn’t view this as requiring a community warning.

Anyway, if you’re not familiar with Sheila Na Gig motif they are Celtic grotesques carved in stone of a nondescript / uncanny female argued to be signifying birth and death. There are other theories regarding their meaning. These are characterized by a woman displaying her vagina.

#Celtic #Sheela na gig #grotesque #ancient ireland

[the-ethereal-nature]

The Ardagh chalice, approx 700-750 bc

#Ardagh chalice #ireland #8th century #metalwork #history #archaeology #ancient history #ancient art #ancient ireland #historical aesthetic #Celtic #whimsical aesthetic #whimsigoth #whimsigothic

[stairnaheireann]

The Celts of Ancient Ireland

The first historical record of the Celts was by the Greeks about 700 BC, the Celts were a loose grouping of tribes that lived in an area north of the Alps around the Danube river in central Europe. Over the next few hundred years they spread east and west across Europe. The Celts first arrived in Ireland about 500 BC, there is no reliable information on how or when the Celts became the dominant…

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#Ancient Ireland #Cahergal Stone Fort #Cahersiveen #Celts #Christianity #Co. Kerry #Connacht #Druids #Gaelic #Gaels #Gauls #Goidelic #La Téne #Leinster #Meath #Mide #Munster #Roberta Photography #St Feichen #T. F. O&039;Rahilly #Ulster

[naturalwomannaturalman]

Uragh Stone Circle

Ancient spirits still exist.

#nature #ancient stones #stone circle #ancient parh #ancient ireland #ancient history #megalithic #megalite #megaliths #standing stones #landscape photography #ireland 🇮🇪 #eire #irlanda #offgrid #addicted to nature #ritorno alla natura #amanti della natura #amoureux de la nature #back to nature #ireland #mountains #photography #druidry

[hecatesdelights]

#Fomorians #Tuatha Dé Danann #ancient ireland #irish folklore #irish mythology #myths and legends #myths and monsters #monster art #celtic mythology

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

 Torc, 1000BC, Ireland.

#necklace #ancient ireland #antique #jewellery

[nildespirandum]

For some unforgiveable reason Webtoons has stopped sending alerts when @rauko-art puts up an new chapter of At Hel’s Edge, featuring her exceptionally beautiful art and my writing.

The good part about that, however, is you lucky people get TWO chapter to enjoy and ooh and ahh over.   Chapters 12 and 13 are up!  Please subscribe, the more followers we get the more visibility At Hel’s Edge will have on Webtoons.  And please reblog to help us spread the word.

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[alchemisland]

#sounds #samples #music #artists #musicians #experimental #sound #occult #sorcery #ritual sounds #seamus heaney #ancient bog #corn king #ireland #ancient ireland #alchemisland #alchemy #neuralchemy #a true and serious narration #Bandcamp

[ancientstuff]

Horrific. Vikings really were among the most brutal of people.

#ancient Ireland #Dunmore Cave #massacre #Vikings #archaeology

[bardoftara]

Notes from An Bord Pleanála meeting re Slane Bypass decision

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#An Bord Pleanála #Ancient Ireland #corruption #Gombeens #Knowth #motorway #Newgrange #Slane

[gabelish]

From here.

"Human sacrifice was apparently a normal part of the Celtic rituals, especially of kings in hard times. The killings tend to be excessive in that more is done to the bodies than would be required to bring about their deaths. Bog bodies may have their throats cut, been stabbed in the heart and have other cut marks. However, it is absolutely not torture, but a form of ritual sacrifice."

"The king had great power but also great responsibility to ensure the prosperity of his people. Through his marriage on his inauguration to the goddess of the land, he was meant to guarantee her benevolence. He had to ensure the land was productive, so if the weather turned bad, or there was plague, cattle disease or losses in war, he was held personally responsible."

Cutting the nipples was more than torture. The aim was to dethrone the king. "Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland," says Kelly. "Cutting them would have made him incapable of kingship in this world or the next."

"By using a range of methods to kill the victim, the ancient Irish sacrificed to the goddess in all her forms. This manner of death is peculiar to the ritual killing of kings. It means that a king was being decommissioned."

#ancient ireland #yeah this is about some bog bodies #there are several things I would like to tag this as but I won’t #irish history #human sacrifice

[ingloriousweasel]

#poulnabrone dolman #dolmen #tomb #Ancient Ireland #wow #stars #The Burren #county clare #ireland #ancient ways #ancient gods

[seinzofageing]

// ancestors :: dooeys cairn at dunloy ( 4000bc with cremation passage unique to this site ) & the holestone at doagh ( bronze age meeting place of celtic kings, pagan rituals, and from the 1800s a fertility alter )

#ancient ireland #ancestors #megalithic #antrim

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD – In the old Celtic calendar, today is Sheelah’s Day.

In the old Celtic calendar, today is Sheelah’s Day. In ancient Ireland, it was an annual festival to honour the fertility Goddess known as Sheela-na-gig. Naked Sheela-na-gig figures appeared in Irish churches constructed before the 16th century, but most were defaced or destroyed during the prudish Victorian age. According to some sources, the origins of ‘drowning the shamrock’ have also been…

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#Ancient Ireland #Drowning the shamrock #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Sheelah na gig #Sheelah&039;s Day #St Patrick #Victorian Age #Whiskey #William Hone

[naturalwomannaturalman]

Skellig islands Ireland.

#mountains #offgrid #nature #atlantic ocean #Skellig Islands #ancient ireland #Ireland #Ocean #seascape #blue #photoblog #photography #landscape #Atlantis #irlande #Eire #irish

[bushcrank]

Illra is an Aos Sí and not at all amused with your antics. She enjoys long walks in forests and time spent with her best friend Allra.

#irish #ancient ireland #modern take #elves #fairies #cloaked figure #red hair #animeart #anime style #character art #short girl #original character