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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus
· 5d ago
In the Lebor Gabala Erenn, the first generation of settlers of Ireland were wiped out by the Flood of Noah, save one: a single soul eats hazelnuts that transform him into a salmon, allowing him to live for centuries onward sharing knowledge. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: J. McCarthy
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus
· 5d ago
Peter Stumpp had a belt of wolf skin which he said allowed him to transform into a wolf: this is how he justified his murders in the town of Bedburg, where he killed and ate 18 people. The Werewolf of Bedburg is the most famous case of historical lycanthrope. #WyrdWednesday
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus
· 1mo ago
Modern historians have suggested that dragons were proven to premodern populations by none other than unearthed fossilized dinosaur bones. Given how close modern dragons look to these bones it is entirely possible, though dragon truthers would very much disagree. #WyrdWednesday
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus
· 2mo ago
In autumn she is Sharada, the goddess of that season: Saraswati prefers this season, the goddess of learning blessing it in India and beyond. It is a time for music, for speech, for learning and art and create but also to regenerate and grow. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: R.R. Varma
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus
· 3mo ago
Cernunnos is the Celtic horned god, called the great peacemaker and master of the wild places. This figure is largely mysterious, and we only know his name from a single source, a stone pillar in Paris, yet he has captured the modern imagination of Celtophiles. #WyrdWednesday
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @NeuKelte@hear-me.social
· 3mo ago
#WyrdWednesday: While horned helmets among the #Celtic tribes are well documented in artwork and coins from the period, actual archaeological confirmation of the existence of this particular type of helmet has been rare. Indeed, until now it was thought that the only known example from Iron Age Europe was the Waterloo Helmet found in the River Thames in London, which is ceremonial in nature and differs greatly from Celtic horned helmets depicted elsewhere.` Photo: Warrior with horned helmet depicted on a stele from Bormio (Lombardy), Italy, (early 4th c. BC) Source:
THE GIANT’S HELMET – A Balkan Celtic Horned Helmet from Bryastovets, eastern Bulgaria
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THE GIANT’S HELMET – A Balkan Celtic Horned Helmet from Bryastovets, eastern Bulgaria

UD: October 2018 “On their heads they put bronze helmets which have large embossed figures standing out from them and give an appearance of great size to those who wear them; for in some cases horn…

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @NeuKelte@hear-me.social
· 3mo ago
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#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `...the voice of Sualtach from the dissevered head still called aloud, as though he were alive, “Your men are being slain, your cattle driven away; your women fall as captives to the men of Erin. In wild Murthemne’s plain Cuchulain all alone still holds the foemen back. Ulster, Arise, arise!” “Too noisy is that head,” King Conor said, moving again and stirring in his sleep; “put it upon the pillar of the house that it may go to rest.” Then one of the warriors, hearing his King’s voice, bestirred himself, and lifted up the head and set it on a pillar; ... .” Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull Here’s the backstory:
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@hear-me.social)
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@hear-me.social)

Attached: 1 image #MythologyMonday: `Within the inner fort King Conor lay, surrounded by his chiefs, sunk deep in coward slumber each upon his couch; for Macha’s hand lay heavy on them all, and her revenge was come. But in the playing-fields outside, the Boy-corps still kept up their sports, and played at mimic warfare as of yore, though all their chiefs and teachers were asleep; Then up rode Sualtach upon the Grey, and three times over he gave forth his cry. “Your men are being slain,” he cri

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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus
· 3mo ago
“If there is a halo round the sun or moon, then we can all expect rain quite soon.” It's true, the old saying: ice crystals in clouds refract off the light, creating a halo that indicates a front is about to move through the area. #WyrdWednesday
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