#cuchulain

[nocnitsa]

Stephen Reid

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#irish mythology #irish art #stephen reid #cu chulainn #cuchulain #mytholgy #illustration #golden age of illustration #celtic #fairytale

[manwalksintobar]

The Circus Animals' Desertion  // W.B. Yeats

I

I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so. Maybe at last, being but a broken man, I must be satisfied with my heart, although Winter and summer till old age began My circus animals were all on show, Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot, Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.

II

What can I but enumerate old themes, First that sea-rider Oisin led by the nose Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams, Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose, Themes of the embittered heart, or so it seems, That might adorn old songs or courtly shows; But what cared I that set him on to ride, I, starved for the bosom of his faery bride.

And then a counter-truth filled out its play, 'The Countess Cathleen' was the name I gave it; She, pity-crazed, had given her soul away, But masterful Heaven had intervened to save it. I thought my dear must her own soul destroy So did fanaticism and hate enslave it, And this brought forth a dream and soon enough This dream itself had all my thought and love.

And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea; Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me: Character isolated by a deed To engross the present and dominate memory. Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

III

Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

#poetry #W.B. Yeats #William Butler Yeats #Irish poetry #fool #Cuchulain #Oisin #dreams #love #rag & bone #despair

[n41r]

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh--

#Oreca related #Doodles #This will be a lot of character tags to add o<-< #Im strugglin send help- #Dark Armor Knight Culann #Zombiebie #Heated Warrior Ares #Head of Royal Guard Balt #Red Magician #Holy Knight CuChulain #General Balt #Golden Knight Arthur #WHY THE GLAZE TEXTURE SO NOTICEABLE TOO;;; #NANDE;;; #Culann

[merun-art]

#cuchulain tag #freydis tag #niall tag #niamh tag #orlaith tag #there are like ten entire instances of symbolism in this #this is THE most thought I've put into the positioning of things and I don't actually 100% like this piece #them's the breaks

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1865 – Oliver Sheppard, sculptor, is born in Cookstown, Co Tyrone.

Oliver Sheppard was born in Cookstown, Co Tyrone. After his birth the family moved to Dublin, and he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art. He won a scholarship to the South Kensington Art School, where he studied from 1889 to 1891 before spending a year in Paris. He taught in Leicester and Nottingham. When he returned to Dublin in 1902 he was appointed instructor in modelling at the…

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#&039;The Death of Cuchulain&039; #1916 Rising #Co. Tyrone #Cookstown #Dublin #GPO #Oliver Sheppard #Royal Hibernian Academy #Sculptor

[splooosh]

“Introducing”

Kevin West

#Guardians of the Galaxy #Starhawk #Shamrock #Charlie 27 #Nikki #Talon #Major Victory #Yellowjacket #Irish Wolfhound #Kevin West #Cuchulain the Irish Wolfhound

[maligknightsthorns]

𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄  [ … ]   𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄,

bold what applies - italicise sometimes.repost, don’t reblog.

fights honorably / fights dirty (alls fair in love and war after all)

prefers close-quarters / prefers range

chats during / goes silent (be afraid)

low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance

attacks in bursts / attacks steadily

goes for the kill / aims to disarm / fights defensively / strikes first

is provoked easily / provokes their opponent / teases

gets visibly frustrated / shouts while attacking

uses strategy / focuses on the battle / experiences conflicting thoughts during battle

rushes in recklessly / tries to read their opponent before engaging

fights wildly / fights calmly / fights apathetically / fights with anger / fights with excitement

fights because they have to / fights because they want to

fights without regard to wounds / runs away when wounded / hides wounds / takes a blow to protect another

prefers a blade / prefers a gun (modern) / prefers hand-to-hand combat / prefers a bow / prefers a shield / prefers a personalized weapon / prefers magic alchemy or spells

their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional

transforms for battle / fights as they appear

relies on strength / doubts their strength / relies on speed

uses everything they have / proceeds with caution / hides their full potential

exhausts quickly / has high stamina

behaves arrogantly / brags after landing a hit / belittles their abilities

uses psychological tactics / uses brute strength

avoids civilians / strikes down civilians (dont get in her way)

damages surroundings / avoids damaging surroundings

signature fighting style / makes it up as they go

mastered skill set / learning their skill set

fancy footwork / sloppy footwork

messy fighter / elegant fighter

accepts defeat / refuses defeat / begs for mercy

compliments their opponent / insults their opponent

uses unnecessary movements / moves efficiently / barely moves

prefers to dodge / prefers to block

defends their blindside / has no blindside / leaves blindsides vulnerable

uses all available advantages / strictly uses one main method

plays around / holds back / fights ruthlessly / shows mercy

waits for an opponent to be ready / strikes when opponent isn’t ready

fears death / fears pain / fears killing

has ptsd / avoids fighting (dats nohr for ya baybe)

has lost a fight / has won a fight

has killed / refuses to kill

wants to die standing / would succumb slowly

#time to play! #dash memes #ok but that last one? the hero cuchulain tied himself upright when he was fatally wounded so he would die on his feet #Camilla has that vibe #the difference is that cuchulain knew he was going to die in that battle and Camilla doesn't so she'd keep fighting until she couldn't

[moresundamageplease]

a fun thought ive been having:

loki is in an open relationship w Sigyn, with Angrboda and Cu chulain. Angrboda is kinda afk a lot but when she shows up its usually a wild time for Loki specifically. 🤔 i dont necessarily think his partners are into each other, more like close friends who enjoy the same wacky guy lol. they all believe in active, open communication abt horny time and seeing people (angrboda probably has multiple relationships too, tho shes married to Loki)

to add: i dont think sigyn nor Cuchulain would be interested in seeing other people, theyre just chill w Loki being a polyglot and he cant go 30 minutes wo wanting to talk to them bc hes a homosexual

#yes this is also a thing for a different norse story my friend and i been talking about BUT i can now include Cuchulain for smite :-) #hes got like 5 kids and 292947824u8174u373 nieces‚ nephews‚ and godchildren too :-) worlds greatest parent and uncle/aunt/godparent

[wardaehn]

Retrospective Graveyard of Questions

I haven't written to you, I never had the chance because my mind was busy wandering from inexperience of losing someone I truly knew and from being bamboozled over what was happening in your twisting, paralyzed body, Lin..

And I was sincerely hoping that I'd find you again somewhere after losing you to 3 nights of tropical storm, Bel.

You were both like soft candles in a dark dreary world, full of orange and fiery energy but gentle enough to make friends with. That's what you do best. That's what I still struggle to do. Maybe I can ask you to give me more tips if we ever hypothetically cross paths again.

I hope it's better where you are, and if not, then that sucks. You are questions I can't find answers to. You'll haunt my curiosities until I finally meet the same fate at the end of the line. But it's you, so I'll take all that belongs to what we had together, even these unanswereable questions.

#free write #cuchulain the impure #lingirl #come to think of it that was all i called you #belias the gigas #belgerl #crotch baby (she loves to sniff and bite all jfc) #long girl #dumb #both were the dumbest #the top two dum dum

[allmythologies]

a-z myths: fand; irish mythology

fand, a faery queen, was once married to the sea god manann. after he left her, she was preyed upon by three formorian warriors in the battle for control of the irish sea. her only hope in winning this battle was to send for the hero cuchulain who would only agree to come if she would marry him. she reluctantly acquiesced to his wishes, though when she met him, she fell as deeply in love with him as he was with her.

#irish mythology #fand #faery queen #irish myth #mythedit #*mine*

[lieutenantbiscute]

Recently heard a rumor that there’ll be a GOW Ragnarok DLC and I’m not getting any of my hopes up but if it’s true I NEED AN ATREUS POST RAGNAROK DLC

Please or something to do with Faye pre-GOW 2018. If it’s Atreus I want the DLC to end with him having a set path and heading out to his first big quest as the god of Mischief. Maybe to the Isles- the land of Arthur and the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian tales. Gawain and the Green Knight- Loki as Merlin maybe or maybe the myth of Cuchulain in Irish myth!

#god of war #god of war ragnarok #gow ragnarok #gow atreus #atreus #in the wise words of Kratos- keep your expectations low and you will never be disappointed #Biscute crumbs

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.

#book: frank's mccourt #author: angela's ashes #genre: classics #genre: irish literature #genre: non fiction #genre: memoir #year: 1990s

[doc-avalon]

The Morrigán

Name: The Morrigan (Great Queen, Phantom Queen,) Mor Rioghain, Morgain, Mórrígu, mór rígain, Morgan La Fay, The Bean-Nighe or The Washer At The Ford, The Wife of the Green Man, the Wyrd Sisters.

Symbols: Raven or Crow, spear.

Goddess of: Battle, prophecy, fertility, and sovereignty

Usual Image: A shapeshifter, she appears in many forms, a beautiful maiden, a mature woman, an ancient hag, a crow, a bear, and others.

Relatives: Ernmas (mother) Cailitin, a Druid or Delbaeth or Dagda (father) Anu, Badb, Macha or Badb the Crow, Nemain the Venomous, Fea the Hateful. (Sisters or other aspects of her or goddesses she presided over.) Eriu, Fotla, and Banba (other sisters and goddesses of the land, not other aspects of her) Mechi (Son, father unknown) had three hearts, which were three serpents. The serpents, it was foretold, would destroy Ireland, so MacCecht killed him and burnt the hearts, throwing the ash into the river Berba; even then, the ash of his hearts boiled the waters of the river away and killed all the fish in the river.

Holy Books: Book of Leinster, Book of Fermoy

Synodeities: Kali (Hinduism,) Cathbodva (Gaul.)

(The Watcher of the Ford, illustration from Cuchulain, The Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull 1904)

Details: Once you look into the myths about the Irish goddess Morrigan you begin to understand why the Celts developed the Celtic knot!

At her most basic, Morrigan was a goddess of battle, who did not take part in the battle itself, but instead stirred up strife, then flew over the battle in the form of a crow who picked who would die by casting confusion on them, afterward feasting on their remains.

Not your warm and affectionate sort of goddess, yet she was also a goddess of fertility and sovereignty, without whom the king would be powerless.

Going deeper into Morrigan (or The Morrigan as this may have at some time been a title) we find that she is also a triple goddess, who, along with either her sisters Badb and Macha or, in some accounts, Nemain the Venomous and Fea the Hateful, play a shifting role in scores of myths and legends.

What brings this goddess back in so many forms and guises, and age after age, returns in another form, even if this means mixing aspects that are both grand and horrific?

An answer might be found in the theory put forth by Ralph Abraham, mathematician, historian & Chaos theorist, in the book Chaos, Gaia, & Eros (1994, Harper Collins.)

To oversimplify it for this page, his theory is that three main forces have driven human consciousness through the ages, which he calls.

Gaia: The physical existence and living spirit of the created world.

Eros: The spiritual medium connecting Chaos & Gaia, the creative impulse and

Chaos: The creative void, the source of all forms.

From the Paleolithic to the present, these three forces moved us forward, with at times one or more of them being suppressed only to resurface again and again.

Whoever the original goddess was who returned as the Morrigan, she was most likely first worshipped in a very different form sometime between 10,000 & 4,000 B.C.E. During what he called the Gaia span (agriculture/partnership.)

With the coming of the Eros span, 4,000 B.C.E. to +/- 1962 A.D. (the wheel, patriarchy & science), she was re-imagined by a new way of thinking that often feared Chaos and almost always had, as part of its dominant mythos, the conquest of Chaos by a hero or god representing Order.

In this way, Morrigan changed from life-giver to carrion eater, and yet the three forces she is a part of continue to bring her back in multi-triad forms.

So that as the Eros span grew, she was not undone or put away but continued to shapeshift.

Changing from setting as a raven on the shoulder of dead Cú Chulainn to reappearing as Morgain La Fey in the tales of King Author, or as the wife of the Green Man and tempting Sir Gawain, to stirring the cauldron for Macbeth as the Wyrd sisters, and later as part of the Celtic Fairy faith, becoming the Bean-Nighe who is seen washing the bloody clothing of those who are about to die.

The thing is, in this theory, the Eros span has now begun to be overtaken by the now-developing Chaos span (Neo-Pagan, Post Modern, Chaos Theory, and meta-modern), which offers the hope of the end of the suppression of these three forces so they can be understood with positive effect.

No doubt the form that Morrigan takes in this era, if his theory is correct, will be most interesting indeed!

#the morrigan #morrigan #triple goddess #celtic goddess #raven

[n41r]

I just wanted to draw some Tanta, and it end up like this-

#Oreca Battle #It was supposed to be just quick sketches- #why I end up coloring this- #artists on tumblr #N41R Drawings #Warrior Tanta #Dark Warrior Tanta #Black Knight GeBulg #White Knight CuChulain #Hero Tanta #TANTA

[merun-art]

WIP

This frazzled my brain HARD for some reason

#niall tag #cuchulain tag #niamh tag #orlaith tag #freydis tag

[bioluminescent-fungus]

my brain is just. gnawing on cuchulain/ferdiad and their fight. constantly all the time.

ferdiad's dying accusation of cuchulain! unfairly I'm slain! thy guilt clings to me; my blood falls on thee! and then cuchulain's lament for him! ah, Ferdiad, betrayed to death. our last meeting, oh, how sad! thou to die I to remain

like how am I not meant to be feral about this

it's about being his widow screaming your rage and grief at his murder to the otherworld,

and also very much being, inextricably being, the brother-in-arms who killed him.

#i could give an entire lecture on laments and gender and justice #just. please someone make gifsets with the saturation up just a bit that say 'thou to die / i to remain' with your angsty blorbos thank you