Kris Hughes

YouTube video by Kris Hughes How to get a solid introduction to Celtic myth

My 12 session class, Intro to Celtic Mythology, starts on Wednesday, 18th February. Whether you're just starting out, or want to fill in some gaps in your knowledge, I think you'll enjoy this class. The link for more info is: www.tickettailor.com/events/krish...

#pagansky #mythologymonday #Celtic

It's easily done. Feeling a bit the same. Life is just one long recalibration.

It just needs a little something, though, doesn't it! A wee peck of a 'p' is an improvement.

House of ice on a warming planet: Italy’s turn for the Olympics winter mirage There will be twists, flips and turns to savour in a Games whose financial and environmental costs nonetheless continue to spiral out of control

Let's not just pretend this is all just fine, and no big deal.

Pictorial embroidery with cat and goat creatures standing upright either side of a small tree with objects such as an apple, flower, tooth suspended above

‘Spring Ritual’ Embroidery by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici #womensart

YouTube video by Kris Hughes Does this triad hold the key to understanding the Old North?

The latest product of my ongoing obsession with Yr Hen Ogledd (no, not the band!).

And here's the link to that Old North class I have coming up, which just happens to be 'pay what you can'.
www.tickettailor.com/events/krish...

youtu.be/6RiWbvmRbe0

Illustration from Bodleian Library MS Douce 151 (fol. 30r) of four hedgehogs beneath a tree. Two to the left of the base of the tree have apples on their backs while the two to the right do not. One hedgehog on the right appears to be trying to shake apples loose from the tree.

"The city will be rebuilt by a hedgehog laden with fragrant apples... The hedgehog will hide his apples there and construct pathways beneath the earth."

The Prophecies of Merlin, ed. & trans. by Reeve & Wright in The History of the Kings of Britain (Boydell Press, 2007), p. 152

YouTube video by Celtic Source Why the Celtic Traditions Matter Creatively

A really insightful discussion of "telling Celtic stories".
youtu.be/mphv7qMPyvg?...

#Celtic #MythologyMonday #CelticPolytheism #Fantasy
#Pagansky

A couple of friendly corrections. The Mabinogi has branches, not the Mabinogion.

The opening of the door happens at the end of the 2nd otherworldly feast, which is said to last for eighty years, not at the seven-year feast.

YouTube video by Culture Vannin Sophia Morrison and Folk Charming in the Isle of Man

Interesting new talk from the Culture Vannin folks.

Frustration buying a book from University of Wales Press. Thought PDF would bypass the eReader hassle. Paid for book, installed app, "you can only read your PDF on a phone/tablet". Nothing on UWP website to indicate this. Paperback from Amazon 2/3 cost or PDF. So much for supporting the publisher.

@bsky.app
That's three separate reminders about sports, generated by your platform, that I have had to get rid of today. Please stop!

It is amusing that, despite how academics *have* been saying for c.40 years that the ancient Britons weren't labelled Celts, most normal people have just carried on assuming they were called Celts so this is only a big reversal for *us*

We're very important and impactful, honest

At first I thought it said 'Bone on the Bayeux'

I'm not following very many people, so sometimes my feed doesn't change very fast. But you do need to make sure you're following, and as others have said, use the "following" feed, not the "discover". It seems to mysteriously change over to discover once in a while, and you might need to flick back.

YouTube video by demonflyingfox Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)

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Covers of Introducing the Medieval Dragon, Ass, Swan, Fox and Animal Names

Looking for a unique gift for an animal lover? Explore our Medieval Animals series for fascinating insights into the relationships our medieval ancestors had to animals (whether mythical or not...)

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/nadolig-chri...

Anns an duan, thathar ag ràdh gun robh Rìgh Èireann agus Rìgh Lochlainn airson crìoch a chur air na Fiantaichean agus gun do chuir iad a' Mhuilidheartach, creutair mòr iargalta, air an tòir.

’S ann mar phàirt den Chruinneachadh Chanaigh a tha an clàradh.

The recording comes from the Canna Collection.
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Anns a’ chlàradh seo bho 1950, tha Peanaidh Mhoireasdan às an Ìochdar ann an Uibhist a Deas a’ gabhail ‘Duan na Muilidheartaich’.

In this recording from 1950, Penny Morrison from Iochdar in South Uist sings ‘Duan na Muilidheartaich’, an Ossianic narrative song about how the King of Ireland and the King of Norway wanted to destroy the Fingalians and sent the Builgheartach, a great ugly sea-hag, to execute their plan.

Here's a fabulous find from Tobar an Dualchais in bits. Click the link for the recording.
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Sea monster and ship detail from Sebastion Munster’s ‘Thier 2’. Taken from the vignettes on Olaus Magnus’ ‘Carta marina’ (c. 1544). In the public domain.
www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/26590?...

"The 'Scotch'" - if we needed proof that Squire is of questionable value ...

Photo of a painting of a leaping hare in a gold frame with triangular top

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), contemporary fine artist living on a re-wilding farm in Wales who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt

Oh - exciting times!

YouTube video by Ryan Goodman Initially-Secret Report: Customs&Border Patrol Agents Got in Way of Vehicles, Then Used Deadly Force

Seems like this should be getting more attention.

Thanks! I was hoping there was some more depth, somewhere.

Painting featuring women working pruning trees with stepladders in a winter orchard wearing coats and headscarfs,

A 1944 Pastoral: Land Girls Pruning at East Malling' by painter Evelyn Dunbar who recorded UK women's work during the Second World War #WomensArt

A page of an old manuscript with handwritten Irish text in dark ink.

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála or the Book of Invasions, an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in many variant versions, in poetry and prose: www.ria.ie/collections/...

This version was compiled for Brian Ruadh Mág Uidhir (Maguire), Baron of Enniskillen.