Spring began on Imbolc in the Gaelic-speaking Celtic world, and while the Cailleach still leaves icy reminders of winter, in Brigid's honor the world is being cleansed. Briars cleared, homes swept, fields prepared for Beltane as days grow longer and warmer. #FolkyFriday
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In Daoist myth, Xuánwǔ originally was a human god who conquered a rampaging serpent and tortoise in battle, subjugating them and making them his generals. In later iconography, the Tortoise-Snake becomes Xuánwǔ, the Black Tortoise representing the north. #LegendaryWednesday
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Unique to Ireland is the Morrigan, the Phantom Queen, the crow goddess of fate, prophecy, and battle. She is oft depicted as three in one, making three sisters into a single goddess. Her warcry is death; her forms are many, her prophecy fatal. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼️: Mikadze
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Though the insurrection was put down, the Emperor sent Mitsukuni to manor-house of the slain warlord Taira no Masakado, to find stragglers. There he found Princess Takiyashi, a powerful sorceress, who summoned skeletons as revenge. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼: K. Utagawa
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Nerves on edge. The Well of Slane. The battle begun.
The episode before the final battle begins for Lugh! Season 1 on YouTube continues.
https://youtu.be/Z1JU9wZgaBI
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Visible from space, the Nazca lines were constructed two thousand years ago in the deserts of Peru by removing pebbles and replacing them with dirt that differentiated the area from the top layer. Their purpose remains unknown, and more are discovered yearly. #MythologyMonday
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Chinese Hanyu, known across East Asia, began life as a symbol pictographic system that showed what it described: over time, the symbols became more abstract and it became a full-blown writing system used by billions. #MythologyMonday
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Older than the Pyramids at Giza is Newgrange, one of a series of mounds in County Meath in Ireland. This mound is covered in stoned marked with geometric symbols that would become popular across the Celtic world, despite this not being built by the Celts. #MythologyMonday
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In China writing was born of keeping records on bones: the first examples of Chinese writing we have are oracle bones, used for divination for major events in the late Shang Dynasty. Mythically, Wendi was commanded to invent it to dole out punishments and rewards #FolkyFriday
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One of the most commonly called upon ghosts in Greek myth is the transitive Tiresias, the great intersex seer whose insights even Zeus and Hera sought. Called to offer advice and counsel the living, many trips to the Underworld are just to visit them #FolkyFriday
🖼: H. Fuseli
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The volva, the long-dead seer, told Odin many things: of the birth of the world from Ymir's body, of the division of the Nine Worlds, of Odin's sacrifice and of many gods, among them Loki; she told him of Fimbulwinter, and of Ragnarok, the end. #FolkyFriday
🖼: L. Frolich
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At the beginning of all things was Taiji, when everything was absolute and certain and undifferentiated and all at once. From within the egg came Pangu, the giant that was two things at once, who ripped the egg open and split the universe into yin and yang. #FolkloreThursday
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In the beginning was darkness, according to Salish lore, for a terrible shaman had taken the sun, the stars, the moon, and fire itself and hidden them beneath the sea. It was not until Raven released them, one by one, that light came. #FolkloreThursday
🖼️: SackOfWetRabbits
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In the beginning was the great sea, and where it met the great river: where these two met was the first life and love, between Tiamat and Abzu, until the gods came and killed them. From Abzu was fresh water made: from mighty Tiamat, the earth itself. #FolkloreThursday
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Hypnos is Sleep itself, living in a cave where Day and Night meet above the Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness. His twin is Thanatos, death itself, and he has a thousand sons, including Morpheus, Dream itself. #LegendaryWednesday
🖼: J.W. Waterhouse
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Lesser known but perhaps the best of Yggdrasil's inhabitants is the mighty red squirrel, Ratatoskr. The squirrel runs up and down the World Tree between the eagle and Nidhog the serpent at the tree's base, spreading rumors and enraging them. Mind not his words. #WyrdWednesday
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Fylgja are spirit companions that connect immediately with newborns and follow them throughout their lives, most commonly taking the form of animals. Often the animal reflects the person it is attached to, and can appear physically or in dreams. #LegendaryWednesday
🖼️: J. Bauer
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Many cultures have hyperbole to indicate "long, long ago" in mythic times, but Korea's is uniquely strange: "back when tigers used to smoke" is one of many ways tigers appear in Korean folklore and myth. #WyrdWednesday
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It was abomination to slay a cat in ancient Egypt, punishable by death in some eras: these were the harbingers of many gods like Bast, who themselves were servants of gods like Horus and Ra. To slay a cat is an affront to the gods. #FairytaleTuesday
🖼️: M. Stindel
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Be kind to the dogs you see in the American Southwest and in Mexico, for when you begin your trek into the afterlife, the first place you will come is the Land of Dogs—where only those who were kind to dogs may cross. #FairytaleTuesday
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