#celtic land

[grandboute]

Bretagne magique

#bretagne #breizh #bzh #brittany #seascape #sea #paysage maritime #celtic land #keltia #finis terrae #bout du monde #terre celte #mer #ocean #blue #horizon #bleu #chapelle #penn ar bed

[hochgouez-nerzhus]

The Golden Tree - Broceliande - Forest of Paimpont - Brittany - France

#Golden tree #broceliande #forest #paimpont #brittany #france #nature #magical places #celtic mythology #celtic land #druidic #druidry #magical forest

[theemeraldforestgazette]

Witches in Britain fall on either side of the divide and the divide runs along the border of Wales and the Highland line of Scotland. So on one side the Scottish Highlands and islands and Wales, and the other side is lowland Scotland and England. And they are actually two different cultures when it comes to witch hunting - they are two different cultures in other ways as well. What they have in common, although with great variations between them, is that they are Celtic societies. In Celtic speaking societies there doesn't seem to be a disposition to hunt witches, instead, misfortune tends to be blamed on land spirits - faeries.

Professor Ronald Hutton puts forward his theory for why, historically, there was a lack of witch hunts in the Celtic speaking societies of Britain, in comparison to the non-Celtic parts i.e England. Transcription from the podcast series 'Witch' - Episode 2 - Natural Magic. Full series can be found here

#witches #pagan #celtic #wales #cymru #scotland #highlands #witch trials #witchy #land spirits #faeries #celt #professor ronald hutton #ronald hutton #witch hunt #celtic nations #history #culture #emeraldgazette

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 26: Ancient History XIII and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

#Time Travel #Ancient History #Proto-Uralic People #Linguistics #Bering Straights Land Bridge #Dené–Yeniseian #Shingi Waō #Himiko #Japanese History #Yayoi Period #Cagots #Pre-Celtic Britain #Damascus Steel

[kissmyaft]

Prepare for Yautja memes. working on the second Pred meme compilation right now.

#Celtics massive thighs #Yautja boobie land #yautja #predator #yautja memes #kissmyaft is at it again

[yoga-onion]

Death of the king of the waning half-year - The end of the beginning, the beginning of the end …

Legends and myths about trees

Celtic beliefs in trees (7)

I for Idho (Yew) - December 21st Winter Solstice

Colour: dark green, Star: Saturn, Gemstone: olivine, Gender: female, Metal: lead, Element: earth, Patron: Banba, Hecate

Symbols: resurrection, death + rebirth, eternity, path to meet ancestors + land of the soul

Today is the winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, the day in the northern hemisphere when the sun is at its lowest altitude in the south and day is shortest and night longest during the year (reversed in the southern hemisphere).

Yew is an evergreen tree with dark green leaves and red berries. The yew is a robust tree with a thick girth and an extremely long life. It is probably the longest lived of all trees.

As soon as the downward reaching branches reach the ground, the tree begins to grow strongly, as if it has been reborn as a new tree. The eldest living yew tree is in Europe is said to be the Fortingall Yew, in Perthshire, Scotland, and it has been estimated between 3000 to 9000 years old.

In addition, the yew's hollowed-out heartwood, especially when wet, looks like a flayed animal, and when cut it appears to bleed, so the yew is increasingly said to be a sacred tree. Yew sticks were believed to be able to divine the future, and yew sticks were used as 'writing pillars' to engrave the Ogham script, as they could be preserved almost forever.

As the druids believed the natural law of reincarnation, where the soul becomes reborn as another person, the yew was seen as a protector of the soul during the journey to the Otherworld. Some believe that the road to the Otherworld is shaded by rows of yew trees. Furthermore, the yew is said to stop any obstacles caused by evil spirits from the Otherworld.

As a sacred 'tree of immortality', believed to protect and purify the dead, yews are often planted in cemeteries, many of which are as old as the church or much older.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

ケルト人の樹木の信仰 (7)

IはIdho (ｲﾁｲ) - 12月21日 冬至

“衰えゆく半年の王の死 〜 始まりの終わり、終わりの始まり…”

色: 深緑、星: 土星、宝石: オリビン、性: 女性、金属: 鉛、要素: 土、守護神: バンバ、ヘカテ

シンボル: 復活、死＋再生、永遠、先祖に出会える道＋魂の国

今日は冬至、北半球では太陽の南中高度が最も低く、一年の間で昼が最も短く夜が最も長くなる日(南半球では逆転する)。

イチイは濃い緑色の葉を持ち、赤い果実を実らせる常緑樹。イチイはたくましい樹木で胴回りが太くなり、ものすごく長生きをする。おそらくすべての木の中で最も長生きする木といえるだろう。下方に伸びた枝が地面に着くと、新しい木に生まれ変わったかのように、力強く生育を始める。ヨーロッパで最も古いイチイの木は、スコットランドのパースシャーにある『フォーティンゴールのイチイ』と言われており、樹齢は3000年から9000年と推定されている。

また、幹の中が空洞になったイチイの心材は、とくに湿っていると、一見皮を剥がれた動物のようで、切れば血を流すようにも見えるため、ますますイチイは聖なる木だといわれるようになった。

イチイの杖は未来を占うことができるとされ、またイチイの棒はほぼ永遠に保存できるため、オガム文字を刻印する「文字棒」として使用された。ドルイドは、魂が別の人間に生まれ変わるという輪廻転生の自然法則を信じていたので、イチイはあの世への旅の間、魂を守ってくれるものと考えられていた。冥界に至る道はイチイ並木の木陰になっているという説もある。さらに、イチイは異界の悪霊が起こすいかなる障害をも食い止めるという。

神聖なる「不死の木」として、死者を守り浄化すると信じられたイチイは墓地によく植えられ、その多くは樹齢が教会と同じか、またはそれよりずっと古い。

#yew #sacred tree #durids #celtic belief #tree legend #tree myths #celts #celtic mythology #winter solstice #fortingall yew #death #resurrection #rebirth #eternity #the land of soul #philosophy #nature #art

[erwan-soyer]

Le marin

#collage #paper art #artists on tumblr #land art #ocean #sea #fisherman #tropical #britain #celtic sea #Morbihan #Lorient #compagnie des indes

[bizarre-and-eccentric]

#olde throne #isobel #in the land of ghosts #music #black metal #blackened folk metal #celtic metal #folk metal #metal #atmospheric black metal #new zealand

[rig-a-rendal]

at least we have the low road

#there's an old celtic belief that when someone dies in a foreign land their soul returns to scotland via the “low road” of death #hence loch lomond's “you'll take the high road and I'll take the low” #noura's extra personal tag

[adamparrishdyke]

i dont have any fandomy hyperfixations at the moment so i just watch documentaries and like. learn. getting lamer and having fun

#mutuals send me doc recs smile #i been watching docs on palestine / the ira #and like docs about the tribes whose land i'm on as well as like queer / anarchist history / punk/ hardcore docs #and workers history and shit #and celtics games #or im watching doctor who or atlanta. in my vibes #.r

[grandboute]

Usher's Island

au festival interceltique de Lorient 08/08/23

#FIL #festival interceltique #lorient #celt #celtic music #festival #bretagne #breizh #bzh #musique traditionnelle #celtic #musique #usher's island #music band #folk music #traditionnal music #britanny #celtic land #celtes

[spocktheestallion]

iamericans be like “you actually can’t call me a colonizer!! my great grandpappy was irish and the irish were colonized once”

how did your great grandpappy get to america? quickly.

#first off just bc the celtic nations got colonized doesn’t mean we weren’t complicit in inflicting colonization on others #and you do realize that even if your great grandpappy was just an immigrant seeking a better life he still did it on stolen land #and at the expense of native people.

[hochgouez-nerzhus]

Land Lord by Steve Hutton

#land lord #kernunnos #cernunnos #celtic gods #the horned god #horned one #paganism #druidic #druidry #wicca #pagan wicca #celtic wicca #hedge druid #art

[arctic-hands]

I'm really glad Hades is getting a sequel but for the last year and a half I've been jotting down scenes for a fan comic I wanted to draw featuring Thanatos's and Zagreus's daughter, the Goddess of Sorrow, that I'll prolly never finish now 😭

#i hit a snag and got writer's block when Than leaves for the Celtic lands so i haven't written anything down for a while but still #it's about dealing with your child having depression #really considering making an ao3 account just to post the unfinished comic script but idk #Hades #ThanZag

[doll-collecting-aerialist]

Kathleen: Girls of Many Lands

#american girl doll #dolls #ag #ag dolls #dollblr #doll collector #pleasant company #doll posting #Kathleen girls of many lands #Kathleen goml #Kathleen and the Celtic knot #goml #girls of many lands #agblr

[debleb]

americans try not to immediately turn anything irish into magical mystical uwu pagan faeries challenge (100% IMPOSSIBLE)

#i s2g if i see one more comment on a gaeilge song saying some shit like #this is what i would listen to if i was dancing in the forest with the fae #you guys do realise you can show your appreciation for a country/culture #without associating the entire country with the tumblrised version of its mythology that you only know about #from 3 skimmed twitter posts and an interperative YA romance novel #it could be worse i guess #but i'm just really sick of literally anything vaguely celtic just getting watered down into tinkerbell bullshit #that isn't ~ethereal magical ancient elf music~ that's an actual people's music and was probably written at the very most 200 years ago #i'm glad people are enjoying it but you can stop boiling down our whole country into some ideal cottagecore fairy land already #it's just as disrespectful as doing that to any other culture. at least to me #im thinking mostly of music here because that's where i see this shit happening a LOT #like any ~medieval tavern vibes~ playlist you click on is pretty much guaranteed to be like minimum 30% modern as gaeilge music #but it happens with pictures and stuff too #despite popular opinion all those beautiful hashtag aesthetic pictures of glens and woodlands don't make up the entire country. #like were not all living in the 1600s here #anyway rant over tldr you can stop calling irish music magic gibberish fairy spells now especially if you barely know the first thing of #what youre talking about when it comes to irish folklore #ok i know it's probably not just americans doing this also but i mean. i don't want to be rude or anything but americans tend to be #bad for this stuff