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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `The Marble Arch Caves are formed from three rivers draining off the northern slopes of Cuilcagh mountain, which combine underground to form the Cladagh. 1/3

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `Pollnagollum Cave is hidden away behind a waterfall. It was here that the Brotherhood Without Banners hid from the forces of Lannister.` #GoT Source: www.theirishroadtrip... 1/2

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: 'Pollnagollum Cave's entrance sits at the bottom of a collapsed doline or sinkhole, a common surface feature in limestone landscapes. 1/4

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `Historically, Lough Erne was also called Loch Saimer (Samhaoir). In folklore Partholón killed his wife's favourite hound, Saimer, in a fit of jealous rage, and the lake was named after it.` Source: en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `Lough Erne is the setting of a folk tale known as "The Story of Conn-eda" or "The Golden Apples of Lough Erne" (www.sacred-texts.com...), which appears in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888). 1/3

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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `When Becfhola attempted an assignation to the hero Crimthann, the queen of Tara instead met Flann ua Fedach and spent an enchanted night with him on an island in Lough Erne. 1/3

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `Lough Erne has two origin stories (here’s the link to the first: hear-me.social/@NeuK...). The second story concerns Érne, who was ‘chieftainess of the girls of Cruachan and keeper of [Queen] Medb's combs and caskets’. 1/5

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: `The lake-burst supposedly had its own genre of tales known in Medieval Ireland as tomhaidhm, and describe how water violently erupts in areas where previously there was none. This may be a reference to the great flood myth of biblical times. 1/3

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Emer herself called Laeg to prepare #CúChulainn‘s chariot and harness his horses, and to set his fighting-gear in order, that not by phantasies or magic wild imaginings, but as a chariot-chief and champion facing his foes he might go forth to die; and she brought out 1/2

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Lugh had a helmet on his head with two beautiful precious stones set in the front of it and one at the back (irishmyths.com/2022/...).` 1/2

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `King #Cormac went into the palace, and he found there waiting for him a man and a woman, very tall, and having clothes of many colours. She was the loveliest of all the women of the world, and she having yellow hair and a golden helmet.` 1/2

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `From the corners of #Cúchulainn`s battle helmet resounded the voice of a hundred men, as at his attack the #Bánánaig, the #Boccánaig and the Geniti Glinne roared.` Source: Rudolf Thurneysen `Die #irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebenzehnten Jahrhundert`

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `In no wise could the sons of Turenn direct their magic boat to the Isle of Finchory, and a quarter of a year they traversed the seaways and never could get tidings of that island. 1/2

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `At the head of fair Loch Etive they passed the spring and summer months, Usna’s sons of the white steeds and the brown deer-hounds, whose breasts were broader than the wooden leaves of the door.` Source: Cuchulain, The Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: Patrick of Ifold was bred by Mr Ralph Montagu Scott at the lfold Kennels in West Sussex. He was born on St Patrick's Day, 17 March 1923 and died on 8 May 1931. Patrick was a very famous champion wolfhound during his lifetime. He won his first championship when 14 months old

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Fionn’s two hounds, Bran and Sceolán, were conceived as human children, but their mother, Tuirrean, who was actually #Fionn’s aunt, was turned into a wolf hound while they were still in utero, so they were born as puppies. 1/2

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Goll took a little hound that #Finn thought a great deal of, Conbeg its name was, and he drowned it in the sea; and its body was brought up to shore by a wave afterwards, and it was buried under a little green hill by the Fianna. 1/2

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `While Partholón was away on a campaign, his wife Delgnat took Topa as lover and they drank from her husband’s cup through his golden straw. 1/3

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#Lughnasadh #Celtic: `After the death of Nás, identified as one of the wives of Lugh, his other wife, her sister Bói, died of grief at her sister's loss, resulting in Lugh founding the festival of #Lughnasa to lament their passing. 1/2

#Lughnasadh: `Part of the problem of Laa Luanys for the authorities was that it was a pre-Christian tradition, relating to the #Celtic god, #Lug. 1/2

#Lughnasadh: It’s nearing that time of year again. The wheat, rye and barley are almost ripe and the Raspberries and Bilberries are coming out in force. Poppies dot red the yellowing seas of grain. It’s nearing Lunastal and folks are readying to take in the harvest from the fields. 1/4

#Lughnasadh #Celtic: `The sun god himself is said to have instituted the August festival called Lugnassad (#Lugh’s commemoration) in Ireland, Lla Lluanys in Man, and Gwyl Awst (August Feast) in Wales; and it was once of hardly less importance than Beltaine or Samhain. 1/7

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#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Reconstruction of the burial mound/memorial site and its development between the Late Bronze Age and the early Roman period. Phase 1: 10th–9th centuries BCE. Phase 2: 2nd century BCE. Phase 3: mid-1st century BC. Phase 4: c. 30 BCE.` 1/2

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#FindsFriday #Celtic: `During an excavation in Lausanne-Vidy in 2019–2020, a circular monument came to light which is understood to be a memorial site. 1/3