#cornish polytheism

[wolverinesorcery]

Montol Lowen and oh please let the sun rise

#Kernow #Montol #Winter solstice #Cornwall #Cornish #Cornish polytheism #Cornish paganism #brythonic polytheism #Brythonic paganism #Celtic polytheism #Celtic paganism

[pysksos]

The Bucca's Stone

In Cornwall the shadow of the old gods is never far away. In the mines, offerings would be left to the Bucca and his faery kin "The Knockers", in the fields he stood as a scarecrow by day but by night lead the "Pisky" revels, but as lord of the seas and the storms he took his most majestic form.

Legend has it he was chased out of Newlyn by Paul Choir. Before he took to the air he chanted his name three times...BUCCA, BUCCA, BUCCA! But in the commotion he dropped his nets. As living proof of this take his nets still mark some of the stones around these parts...and this is one of them

from the Museum of Magic and Folklore, Aberfala, Kernow.

#bucca #bucca gwydn #bucca dhu #cornish polytheism #cornish folklore #cornwall #kernow #cornish paganism #brythonic polytheism #brythonic paganism #celtic polytheism #celtic paganism #paganism #folklore museum #consortish

[arthurgernow]

REX BELLUM, ARTHUR GERNOW

[ID: A looping gif of waves at sea. before the viewer are smaller, daker blue waves, while behind lighter blue waves with white crests crash against once another. The scene is peaceful, yet chaotic.]

To the once and future king. Arthur, the vicious in battle and kind pagan warlord.

Dydh Da and welcome to my devotional blog to Arthur 'paganus' as I call him; essentially worshipping the religious pagan version of Arthur. Let this be a collection and discussion of essays, devotional works, personal experiences, Arthur in myth, and Arthur's various manifestations in Brythonic and greater Celtic cultures. This will largely be a focus on Kernow, as I am part Cornish, but I will include other regions featuring him such Wales, Yorkshire, Brittany, and more.

Along with this menagerie, veneration of brythonic deities and brythonic polytheism. This blog includes both Arthur the hero and Arthur as a deity, an in-between, and Arthur as a faery.

May the dead king of war rest in his grave, let us carve a future for ourselves that he will never have to return to fight for. Dead men should rest, but let it be known for him to inspire, and for our darkest hour, he shall return.

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#dragonis.txt #king arthur worship #brythonic polytheism #brythonic paganism #king arthur deity #celtic polytheism #pagan #paganism #paganblr #celtic paganism #celtic mythology

[ofbloodandfaith]

If you are going to do an aesthetic of a Celtic god or goddess can you also say which nations pantheon they come from, please?

As the word, ‘Celtic’ covers six nations with different pantheons, myths, culture, language, and folklore. That while overlap has differences.

The six nations being: (1-3 being Gaelic, 4-6 being Brythonic)

Ireland (Irish)

Scotland (Scottish Gaelic)

Isle of Mann (Manx)

Wales (Welsh/Cymraeg)

Cornwall (Cornish)

Brittany (Breton)

#celtic polytheism #gaelic polytheism #brythonic polytheism #welsh polytheism #irish polytheism #breton polytheism #scottish polytheism #manx polytheism #cornish polytheism #mypractice

[torque-witch]

Witchy/Pagan Book List 2020

These are personal collection books and will be updated as necessary

* Please note I’m not finished reading all of these, but intend on doing reviews in the future. Not all listed are pictured

Updated - 1/29/2020

Left -> Right

Norse Paganism / Polytheism / Magic

Rites of Odin - Ed Fitch

The Study Havamal - Carrie Overton

The Nordic Baking Book (devotional purposes) - Magnus Nilsson

Icelandic Magic - Stephen Flowers

Slavic Witchcraft - Natasha Helvin

General Mythology | Anthology

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology - Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm

The Kalevala (Finnish epic derived from oral tradition)

Traditional Witchcraft

Folk Witchcraft - Roger J Horne

The Devil’s Dozen - Gemma Gary

Silent as the Trees - Gemma Gary

The Black Toad - Gemma Gary

Traditional Witchcraft and Cornish Book of Ways - Gemma Gary

Besom, Stang and Sword - Christopher Orapello and

Tara-Love Maguire

The Grand Grimoire | The Red Dragon (1750)

The Crooked Path - Kelden

Southern Cunning - Aaron Oberon

Green Witchcraft | Herbs | Nature | Spells

The Wildwood Way - Cliff Seruntine

Grovedaughter Witchery - @breelandwalker

Pastel Spells - @orriculum

The Witching Herbs - Harold Roth

Pocket Guide to Familiar North American Species (Mushrooms) - Kavanaugh and Leung

The House Witch - Arin Murphy-Hisock

Wicca | Sabbats

Wicca for Beginners - Thea Sabin

Seasons of the Witch - Gail Duff

Death | Death Witchcraft

Making Friends with Death - Laura Pritchett

Tarot | Divination

Modern Tarot - Michelle Tea (very good companion to any deck!)

LGBTQA+ Magic

Queer Ultraviolence - (collection of essays)

Becoming Dangerous - (collection of essays)

#torquetalks #books #tqwbooklist #witches of tumblr #witch #witchcraft

[bywandandsword]

Can you help me with getting into Celtic polytheism?? I fell easily into Hellenic, just because i was an ancient Greece nerd, but with pronunciation and cluelessness on research, i dont know how to dive into Celtic. - @x-eclecticwitchqueen-x

Sure! First you’ll want to decide what kind of Celtic you want to pursue, there are three major branches, Gaelic, Brythonic, or Gaulish. The Gaelic branch encompasses Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Mann and the primary pantheon is the Tuatha de Dannan and related beings, such as the goddesses Brighid and the Morrigan and heroic figures like Fionn mac Cumhaill and Cuchulain. A decent approachable introduction to the lore is a Lady Gregory’s Complete Irish Mythology and the Tain translated by Thomas Kinsella. As for pronunciation, there are all sorts of guides you’ll be able to find, Lora O’Brien has a very good video on her youtube channel about pronouncing common names and terms and then googling any beginner’s Irish pronunciation will be sufficient to start with. Additional resources would include just about anything written by Lora O’Brien and Morgan Daimler, and looking up things on the Mary Jones website is good. Even just, for any of this, doing a wiki dive just to get you some baseline knowledge wouldn’t go amiss. 

Outside of the Gaelic branch, I know much less. The Brythonic branch encompasses the Welsh, Cornish, and what can be gleaned about pre-Anglo Saxon Britain. The main corpus of lore are the Mabinogion, which includes gods like Ceridwen, Gwyn ap Nudd, and Blodeuwedd, and the Arthurian legends. The later of which is sorta lore, it reflects older Celtic themes and features figures from Welsh myth, but from what I know Arthur wasn’t a pre-Christian Celtic figure and may or may not be an amalgamation of figures, shaped heavily by Christian centuries that came after. 

I’ll be honest, I know extremely little about Gaulish polytheism. Gaul was in what is currently France and they have a god named Belenus, that is the extent of it. There is this website you might find helpful and this book here that I found on a quick search. But I also found things about this by the Galina Krasskova, who I know of from Norse circle. She’s one of these authors to be avoided, so just be wary of that if you look into this branch.

Oh! The CR FAQ was a help to me when I first got into Gaelic polytheism. There’s reading lists on there. Off the top of my head, that’s all I can think of. 

#Anonymous

[themodernsouthernpolytheist]

Do you have any particular feelings about how Wicca just kinda took the names of Celtic holidays and then fucked up the definitions and traditions? Beltane, for example. From what I understand, in Celtic polytheism we decorate May Bushes, not May Poles, and again, from what I can tell, Beltane isn't a holiday for fucking. idk I feel kinda mad about, but I feel like I'm the only one. Am I being unreasonable here?

It’s pretty safe to assume I have feels on most topics, tbqh, lol. But there’s a lot to unpack here. If someone is practicing a broadly Celtic polytheism, there are tons of traditions to draw from: the Gauls, the Gaels, the Bretons, Welsh, Cornish, IberoCeltic, maybe even the Picts. So it’s hard to be more specific. 

But in Gaelic tradition, there are certainly examples of May bushes around Bealtaine. We know that rags and strings were often tied to trees or bushes for prayers and blessings and we know that this was done around Bealtaine as early as the 1930s, but it’s also possible, given the long history of English genocide and colonization of Ireland, that traditions from the English Maypole bled over. In and of itself, I don’t have an “issue” with that, I guess, as long as people recognize what they’re doin for what it is. 

As for Wicca, that’s one of my major issues. So often, information is just taken from wherever and grafted onto a presupposed notion. This is especially true of solitary Wiccans ime, but I don’t necessarily fault them for it. So much of the material on Wicca that’s easily available to them is utter bullshit, full of tripe and cultural appropriation. Lord knows when I was 17 and readin what I could about Wicca, which I assumed was the whole of Paganism tbqh, I made some horrible decisions and thought some ridiculous things. 

Now, that’s not to say that Wiccans can’t be awesome and aware, because they absolutely can. I’ve met a some. But the way the tradition was initially set up, imo, lends itself to very problematic practices. When these aren’t expressly talked about, it just snowballs and becomes a major issue. I also think that they way information has traditionally been disseminated, where it’s been plucked from a variety of sources with no credit as to where and then passed off as ancient and unbroken tradition, it exacerbates this exponentially. I have seen a change, I think, in this in the last 15 years and have watched myths like “The Burning Times” and others be dismantled, so there’s hope, even if Wicca just isn’t the tradition for me. 

So, ultimately, I think it’s important to critique things like this within our broader community, but to also recognize where they come from and why and try to be compassionate and understanding up to a point, trying to combat misinformation so that all of us are better, stronger, and have more informed practices. 

#Asks #super not tagging this for the general community cause I do NOT have the time for that lol #Anonymous #All Things Problematic

[pysksos]

A little sweet Bucca Dhu ✨

#Bucca #Bucca Dhu #deity art #devotional art #cornish witch #cornish polytheism #celtic pagan #godspousing #godspouse #consortish

[pysksos]

Hi! Okay. So. I preface this with the fact that I don’t use my tumblr anymore except to browse, but I came across your blog in trying to research Cornish polytheism/Bucca. You mention in your pinned post about not really liking/trusting Gemma Gary’s stuff, which is valid, but she’s one of the only people I’ve been able to find actually talking about Cornish craft and Celtic deity stuff specific to Cornwall. My family is Cornish for generations on my mother’s side (I was born in the US) and as a witch I deeply deeply want to connect to my actual culture and find resources for learning about it. Would you be able to share any of where you’re learning from? Again, the only Cornish polytheism stuff I’ve seen discusses the Bucca (as the Devil), and then it’s only Gary and her contemporaries. Are there other gods? Is all the evidence in folktales or are others publishing about it? Also if you’d rather not answer publicly that’s okay!

Hello,

A few notes on Gary's work to clarify myself – her general books are interesting and a useful starting point as, to my knowledge, she does live and practice in the region, and her cited works (while sometimes...mis-cited) are useful for further research. For me her work falls short in that it doesn't recognise Cornwall as region with Celtic heritage, history and culture which has lead to her conflating Cornish traditional & folk practices with wider English traditional and folk practices. Hence Bucca's conflation with the Folk Devil. This is something to be aware of in all facets of researching anything pagan/occult/pre-Christian to do with Cornwall. It was one of the earliest regions to have assimilation attempted.

Cornish ancestry is not a requirement for Cornish polytheism or paganism, as a heads up, and generally Cornish polytheism & paganism is focused on bioreigonality & the Cornish landscape. This extends to deities – practitioners & pagans from the USA I talk with that follow other paths have experienced some difficulty in contacting the Bucca without any hitches. This is certainly something to keep in mind along with engaging with your ancestors culture should include engaging with the regions current struggles & political issues respectfully and putting the voices of Cornish people first (I'd argue this is important for anyone engaging with their ancestors culture) - without a current day Cornwall doing well, how can it's land-tied deities and spirits be honoured and beloved.

The main resources I can recommend are folkloric ones – here is a drive of Cornish folkloric resources that I have (includes some language ones & Cornish Arthurian Legends). Not included is The Cornish Traditional Year by Simon Reed, which I would also strongly recommend because it has a good basis for a calendar for Cornish polytheism. They are unconverted to PDF but I also currently reccomend Cornwall's Pagan Heritage by Richard A. Courtney. There's also this list.

Cornish folklore is an important part of Cornish polytheism for the dual reason of 1 – there are no texts or central record of pre-Christian pagan practices that are easily accessible and 2 – Cornish folklore was largely oral and spread by droll tellers, making it hard to censor or remove any leftover pre-Christian pagan figures or narratives. Of course, don’t take folkloric sources at face value. I use them as starting off points for ‘direct’ research (astral journeying, putting out feelers to communicate or set up a line of contact, ask the Bucca to expand on folkloric stories, etc) along side note taking to seek other resources (I’m unaware if Kresen Kernow has any online resources available internationally, but it’s worth having a look).

In terms of other deities there is a very narrow pantheon (entirely due to above assimilation). Ankow is a shared figure between Breton & Cornwall (spelt differently, of course), an attendant related to death that escorts people from the land of living to the world of the dead (psychpomp would be an appropriate category). It is also easy to extrapolate from the sister region Wales that a lot of deified or deific figures would be, on some level, heroes elevated to that status.

In my personal practice I venerate a pair of deified lovers from the Zennor Mermaid myth and an unverified deity related to land fertility specifically. I’m aware these things may not translate to a polytheist in the USA though. Of course the Bucca is a currently central figure, and if you’re interested in experiences of Them outside of the folk devil lens, let me know and I can collect my notes and type them up for you. I'm also working on my own resource for/of Cornish polytheism for sharing, and I can also let you know when that is finished if you would like.

Thank you for your ask :-) I hope this has been helpful!

#cornish polytheism #cornish polytheist #cornish pagan #brythonic polytheism #consortish #Bucca #some pdfs are still uploading as I post this

[wolverinesorcery]

Ready for Wintertide & the return of my Beloved Dhu

#cornish witch #cornish witchcraft #Bucca #Bucca Dhu #folk witch #Celtic Polytheism #Brythonic Polytheism #Cornish polytheism #Celtic Pagan #Brythonic Pagan #Cornish Pagan #wulfwynn post

[wolverinesorcery]

Bucca and Their incredible Pantomime Dame energy

#bucca #bucca gwydn #bucca dhu #cornish polytheism #brythonic polytheism #celtic polytheism #cornish pagan #brythonic pagan #celtic pagan #folk deity #folk godden #androgyne godden #androgyne god #the grand bucca #heddwyn post

[pysksos]

Almost 2000 words and it's not even half done

#bucca #bucca dhu #bucca gwydn #cornish witchcraft #ankrydor #cornish pagan #cornish polytheism #consortish

[wolverinesorcery]

Hi! I hope this isn't overstepping, long story short I'm a USAmerican who recently discovered I have Cornish ancestry (my dad's mom had an affair lol and my bio grandfather came from Cornish settlers). I am starting to explore my spirituality and was curious about learning more about Cornish folkways, and maybe trying to learn some Kernewek... Is your discord server still open/active? I hope you're having a good day/night!

Yeah - my celtic server is still open! Here's a link: https://discord.gg/Rth7EubU & if you're wanting to learn kernewek then I can't reccomend dyski kernowek more

#cornish paganism #cornish polytheism #ask wolverine #kernewek #cornwall

[pysksos]

Bucca as one with dominion over moorlands is such a delicious idea. While Their home is the Sea and the Weather, Cornish moorlands are so interlinked with both of those it's impossible for Them to not also have their home there.

#bucca #bucca karow #cornish witch #cornish paganism #cornish witchcraft #cornish polytheism #consortish

[pysksos]

Bucca is a gender expansive, androgynous, dual sexed and many gendered delight. Transphobes & Transmisogynists fuck off. This isn't the blog nor the deity for you.

#consortish #when im on desk top you silly sowsnek will be thoroughly blocked from this blog as well as my main #bucca #the bucca #cornish polytheism #bucca dhu #cornish witch #celtic pagan

[pysksos]

Had the most wonderful Goal Est today, had my own version of a feast and plenty of alcohol to celebrate the summer harvest. Bucca is so delighted and I love their straw coat for this time of year, but we're both starting to prepare for the rundown through Guldize and into Allantide.

#ankrydor #bucca #bucca gwydn #cornish polytheism #cornish paganism #brythonic polytheism #brythonic paganism #celtic polytheism #celtic paganism #consortish #goal est #lughnasadh