#Otherworld

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2026-02-04

#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Derc-Ferna (Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny) is a cave of the #Otherworld in which the cat monster Luchtigern `Mouse Lord` dwelt before being "trampled" by the female warrior Aithbél.`
Source: Helmut Birkhan `#Kelten`
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1. Neu-Kelte đŸŒ»đŸ’™đŸ’›đŸŒ»NeuKelte@hear-me.social
2026-02-02

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: Emain Macha, Tara, DĂșn Ailinne, Uisnech and Rathcroghan feature prominently in Irish myths. `The major royal sites functioned as the communicating portal between the tribal territory and the #Otherworld. Each of these sites represented a sanctuary of sacred space, a potent expression of tribal power and unity.
It is likely that a singular focal point within each great ritual sanctuary represented the axis mundi, the symbolic centre of the cosmos around which the tribal world revolved.`
Source: The Late Prehistoric ‘Royal Site’ of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon - An Enduring Paradigm of Enclosed Sacred Space by Joe Fenwick

DĂșn Ailinne, suggested reconstruction of `Rose` phase structure, photocredit 1. Neu-KelteReconstruction drawing of Rathcroghan Mound & its environs in the Iron Age, by J G O`Donoghue, photocredit 1. Neu-KelteHill of Tara; photocredit 1. Neu-KelteCropped Cover of Emania No7, Focus on DĂșn Ailinne And Ancient Leinster, Bulletin of The Navan Research Group, 1990; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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2026-01-20

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Corr is the Irish word for ‘crane’, a bird which features a great deal in #Irish #mythology. To our ancient ancestors, birds were seen very much as celestial messengers between the #Otherworld and the physical world, with magic powers related to their own particular characteristics.
A similar bird which is native to Ireland is the grey heron, also known in Irish as corr réisc.`
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

Grey heron, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
1. Neu-Kelte đŸŒ»đŸ’™đŸ’›đŸŒ»NeuKelte@hear-me.social
2026-01-07

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Midwives had a special sort of second sight that permitted them to discover when #fairies were stealing human children. A midwife traveling to a late-night birth might encounter such fairies intent on kidnapping. Arriving at the home of the laboring mother, she would discover that the child was dead, stolen by those she had encountered. Legend tells of midwives who traveled to the #Otherworld to steal back such infants.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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2026-01-01

#BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #Celtic: `Cormac mac Art was a special favourite of the gods. Manannån son of Lér was so anxious for his friendship that he decoyed him into the #Otherworld...
Here's the whole story: hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/11554

Manannan mac Lir, House of Manannan; Peel; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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2025-12-25

#BookologyThursday: `#Niamh had fallen in love with #Oisin, who was overtaken on first sight with desire for this lovely woman from the #Celtic #Otherworld. Without thinking that time passes more slowly in the #Otherworld than in our own or even a look back #Oisin went with the Princess of the Golden Hair on her fine white horse with golden reins over seas and plains and mountains far out to sea on a magical island, Tir Tairngiri (“land of promise”).
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

Albert Herter creator QS_P170,Q556534, Frontispiece--Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic 1899, public domain

Tuatha De Danann

This “name” is usually translated as “folk of the goddess Danu.” They are also known by the earlier name: Tuath De (“tribe of the gods” or “divine tribe”). They’re a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to represent deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.

The Tuatha De Danann are often pictured as kings, queens, druids, bards, warriors, heroes, healers, & craftsmen who have supernatural powers. They live in the Otherworld but interact with humans & the human world. They’re associated with sidhe.

Their traditional rivals are the Fomorians (Fomoire), who might represent the destructive powers of nature, & whom the Tuatha De Danann defeated in the Battle of Mag Tuired.

Prominent members include the Dagda (“the great god”), The Morrigan (“the great queen” or “phantom queen”), Lugh, Nuada, Aengus, Brigid, Manannan, Dian Cecht the healer, & Goibniu the smith, 1 of the Tri De Dana (“three gods of craft”).

They’re immune to ageing & sickness, & who have magic powers. The powers most often attributed to them are control over the weather & the elements, & the ability to shape shift themselves & other things.

They’re also said to control the fertility of the land. The tale De Gabail in t-Sida says the 1st Gaels had to establish friendship with the Tuatha De Danann before they could raise crops & herds.

They live in the Otherworld, which is described as either a parallel world or a heavenly land beyond the sea or under the earth’s surface. Many of them are associated with specific places in the landscape, especially the sidh mounds.

These are the ancient burial mounds & passage tombs which are entrances to Otherworld realms. The Tuatha De Danann can hide themselves with a feth fiada (“magic mist”) & appear to humans only when they wish to.

In euhemerized accounts, the Tuatha De Danann were descended from Nemed, leader of a previous wave of inhabitants of Ireland. In non-euhemerized accounts, they’re descended from Danu/Anu, a mother goddess. They came from 4 cities to the north of Ireland (Falias, Gorias, Murias, & Finias), where architecture, the arts, & magic.

According to Lebor Gabala Erenn, they came to Ireland “in dark clouds” & “landed on the mountains of the Conmaicne Rein in Connachta.” Otherwise Sliabh an Iarainn, “and they brought a darkness over the sun for 3 days & 3 nights.”

Sliabh an Iarainn (anglicized Slieve Anierin) is a mountain in County Leitrim, Ireland. It’s part of the Cuilcagh Mountains.

They immediately burnt the ships “so that they should not of retreating to them, & the smoke & the mist that came from the vessels filled the neighbouring land & air. Therefore it was conceived that they had arrived in clouds of mist.”

Led by King Nuada, they fought the First Battle of Magh Tuireadh on the west coast, in which they defeated & displaced the native Fir Bolg, who then inhabited Ireland. In the battle, Nuada lost an arm to their champion, Sreng.

Since Nuada was no longer “unblemished,” he couldn’t continue as king & was replaced by the half-Fomorian Bres, who turned out to be a tyrant.

The doctor Dian Cecht replaced Nuada’s arm with a working silver 1. (Think Bucky from Captain America.) He was reinstated as king. Back in those days, if a king wasn’t physically whole, then he wasn’t fit to be king.

However, Dian Cecht’s son, Miach, was dissatisfied with the replacement. So he recited the spell, “adult fri halt do and feith fri feth” (joint to joint of it & sinew to sinew), which caused flesh to grow over the silver over the course of 9 days & nights.

In a fit of jealous rage, Dian Cecht killed his own son. Because of Nuada’s restoration as king, Bres whined to his family & dad, Elatha, who sent him to look for help from King Balor of the Fomorians.

The Tuatha De Danann fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Fomorians. King Nuada was killed by King Balor’s poisonous eye. But KIng Balor was killed by Lugh (who was the champion of the Tuatha De Danann), who then took over as king.

A 3rd battle was fought against a wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Galicia & Northern Portugal). These were descendants of Mil Espaine (who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts).

The Milesians encountered 3 Tuatha De Danann goddesses, Eriu, Banba, & Fodla, who asked that the island be named after them. Eriu is the origin of the modern name Eire (which is the Irish language name for Ireland), & Banba & Fodla are still sometimes used as poetic names for Ireland.

Their 2 husbands (Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, & Mac Greine) were kings of the Tuatha De Danann and created a magical storm in an attempt to drive them away. The Milesian poet calmed the sea with his verse, then his people landed & defeated the Tuatha De Danann at Tailtiu.

When Amergin was called upon to divide the land between the Tuatha De Danann & his own people, he cleverly allotted the portion above ground to the Milesians & the portion underground to the Tuatha De Danann.

The Tuatha De Danann were led underground into the Sidhe mounds by Manannan mac Lir & Tir na nOg onto a flowery plain/plain of honey attested to in the Voyage of Bran.

The Tuatha De Danann brought 4 magical treasure with them to Ireland, 1 a piece from their 4 cities: Dagda’s Cauldron, The Spear of Lugh, Lia Fail (The Stone of Fal), & Claiomh Solais (The Sword of Light).

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Annwn

This is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd), it’s a world of delights & eternal youth where disease is absent & food is ever-abundant. In both Welsh & Irish mythologies, the Otherworld was believed to be located either on an island or underneath the earth.

In the First Branch of the Mabinogi, it’s implied that Annwn is a land within Dyfed. While the context is a land within Dyfed. While the context of the Arthurian poem Preiddeu Annwfn suggests an island location.

Two other otherworldly feasts that occur in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi are located in Harlech in northwest Wales & on Ynys Gwales in southwest Pembrokeshire.

Locations inside Annwn:

  • Caer Sidi (“Revolving/Spinning Fortress”): A fortress containing the Cauldron of Annwn, the “Chair” of Taliesin, & where Gweir was imprisoned.
  • Caer Wydyr (“Glass Fortress”): A fortress guarded by 6,000 men whose watchman was difficult to converse with.
  • Caer Pedryvan (“Four-Cornered/Peaked Fortress”): A fortress located on the “Isle of the Strong Door”
  • Caer Vedwyd (“Fortress of God’s Peak)
  • Caer Rigor (“Kingly Fortress”/”Fortress of Hardness”)
  • Caer Golud (“Fortress of Riches”)

In the First Branch of the Mabinogi, Prince Pwyll of Dyfed offends Arawn (the ruler of Annwn) by baiting his hunting hounds on a stag that Arawn’s dogs had brought down. In recompense, he changes places with Arawn for 1 year & defeats Arawn’s enemy, Hafgan.

During this year, Pwyll doesn’t sleep with Arawn’s wife. This earned him gratitude & eternal friendship from Arawn. On his return, Pwyll became known by the title Penn Annwn (“Head/Ruler of Annwn”).

In the 4th Branch, Annwn is mentioned but doesn’t show up. It’s revealed that he sent a gift of otherworldly pigs to Pwyll’s son & successor, Pryderi. This leads to war between Dyfed & Gwynedd.

The epic poem, Cad Gaddeu describes a battle between Gwynedd & the forces of Annwn, led again by Annwn. It’s revealed that Amaethon, nephew to Math (King of Gwynedd), stole a female dog, a lapwing (a type of bird), & a male roedeer (or a roebuck) from the Otherworld.

This led to a war between the 2 peoples. The inhabitants of Annwn are shown as bizarre & hellish creatures. These include a “wide-mawed” beast with 100 heads & bearing a host beneath the root of its tongue & another under its neck, a 100-clawed black-groined toad, & a “mottled ridged serpent, with a thousand souls, by their sins, tortured in the hold s of its flesh.”

Gwydion, the Venedotian hero & magician, successfully defeats Arawn’s army, 1st by enchanting the trees to rise up & fight & then by guessing the name of the enemy hero Bran, this winning the battle.

Priddeu Annwfn, an early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin, describes a voyage led by King Arthur to the numerous otherworldly kingdoms within Annwn. Either to rescue the prisoner Gweir or to retrieve the cauldron of the Head of Annwn.

Over time, the role of king of Annwn was transferred to Gwyn ap Nudd, a hunter & psychopomp, who may have the Welsh personification of winter. Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.

The Christian Vita Collen tells of St. Colleen vanquishing Gwyn & his otherworldly court from Glastonbury Tor with the use of holy water.

In Culhwch and Olwen, an early Welsh Arthurian tale, it’s said that God gave Gwyn ap Nudd control over the demons lest “this world be destroyed.” Tradition revolves around Gwyn leading his spectral hunts, the Cwn Annwn (“Hounds of Annwn”), on his hunt for mortal souls.

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(Irish) Milesians

The Milesians represent the Irish people. They’re Gaels who sailed from Iberia (Hispania) after spending hundreds of years travelling the Earth. When they landed in Ireland, they contend with the Tuatha De Danann, who represent the Irish pantheon of gods.

The 2 groups agree to divide Ireland between them: the Milesians took the world above, while the Tuatha De Danann took the world (the Otherworld).

The 9th century Latin work Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons) says that Ireland was settled by 3 groups of people from the Iberian Peninsula. The 1st are the people of Partholon, who all died of plague.

The 2nd are the people of Nemed, who eventually return to Iberia. The last group is led by 3 sons of a warrior or soldier from Hispania (miles Hispaniae), who sail to Ireland with 30 ships, each carrying 30 wives.

They see a glass tower in the middle of the sea with men on top of it. But the men don’t answer their calls. They set out to take the tower, but when they reach it, all but 1 of their ships are sunk by a great wave.

Only 1 ship is saved, & its passengers are the ancestors of all the Irish. In later Irish texts, it’s the people of Nemed who are drowned while trying to capture a tower by the sea.

The Labor Gabala Erenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland), an Irish work which was 1st compiled in the 11th century AD by an anonymous writer, purports to be a history of Ireland & the Irish (the Gaels).

It tells us that all mankind is descended from Adam through the sons of Noah, & that a Scythian king named Fenius Farsaid (descendant of Noah’s son, Japheth) is the forebearer of the Gaels. Fenius, a prince of Scythia, is described as 1 of 72 chieftains who built the Tower of Babel. His son, Nel, Weds Scota (daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh). They have a son named Goidel Glas.

Goidel crafts the Goidelic (Gaelic) language from the original 72 languages that arose after the confusion of tongues. Goidel’s offspring, the Goidels (Gaels), leave Egypt at the same time as the Exodus of the Israelites & settle in Scythia.

After some time, they leave Scythia & spend 440 years wandering the Earth, undergoing a series of trials & tribulations similar to those of the Israelites, who were said to have spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness.

In some versions of the Lebor Gabala, there was a succession dispute between Refloir & Mil (also called Galam) over the kingship of Scythia. Mil kills Refloir, & is exiled for this kin-slaying. Eventually, Mil & his followers reach Iberia/Hispania by sea & conquer it.

There, Goidel’s descendant Breogan founds a city called Brigantia, & builds a tower from the top of which his son, Ith, glimpses Ireland. Brigantia refers to Corunna (then known as Brigantium) in modern-day Galicia in Spain, & Breogan’s tower is likely to have been based on the Tower of Hercules, which was built at Corunna by the Romans.

Ith sails to the island with a group of men. He’s welcomed by its 3 kings: Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, & Mac Greine. These 3 are members of the Tuatha De Danann, which ruled Ireland at the time. With is then killed by unnamed attackers Ith’s brother, Mil (also called Mil Espaine, “of Hispania”), lead an invasion force to avenge his death & take Ireland.

After they land, they fight against the Tuatha De Danann & make for Tara, the royal capital. The hill of Tara is a hill & ancient ceremonial & burial site near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. Tradition identifies the hill as the inauguration place & seat of the High-Kings of Ireland.

On the way, they are met on 3 mountains by Banba, Fodla, & Eriu, the wives of Ireland’s 3 kings. They’re believed to have been a trio of land goddesses. Each woman says that the Gaels will have good fortune if they name the land after her. One of the Gaels, Amergin, promises that it shall be so.

At Tara, they meet the 3 kings, who defend their claim to the joint kingship of the land. They ask that there be a 3-day truce. During which the Gaels must stay a distance of 9 waves from land. The Gaels agree. But once their ships are 9 waves from Ireland, the Tuatha De Danann conjure up a great wind that prevents them sailing back to land.

However, Amergin calms the wind by reciting a verse. The surviving ships return to land & the 2 groups agree to divide Ireland between them. The Gaels take the world above, while the Tuatha De Danann take the world below (the Otherworld) & enter the sidhe, the ancient burial mounds the dot the Irish landscape.

Amergin divides the kingship between Eremon, who rules the northern 1/2 of Ireland, & Eber Finn, who rules the southern 1/2. The Lebor Gabala then traces Ireland’s dynasties back to Milesian Gaels such as Eremon & Eber.

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2025-11-13

#BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #Celtic: `Cormac mac Art was a special favourite of the gods. Manannån son of Lér was so anxious for his friendship that he decoyed him into the #Otherworld, and gave him a magic branch. It was of silver, and bore golden apples, and, when it was shaken, it made such sweet music that the wounded, the sick, and the sorrowful forgot their pains, and were lulled into deep sleep. Cormac kept this treasure all his life; but, at his death, it returned into the hands of the gods.`
Source: Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire
Here’s more of the story: hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/11525

Manannan mac Lir, House of Manannan; Peel; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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2025-11-10

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Lough Erne has two origin stories (here’s the link to the first: hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/11455).
The second story concerns Érne, who was ‘chieftainess of the girls of Cruachan and keeper of [Queen] Medb's combs and caskets’. It seems that a warrior named Olc Ai came from the #Otherworld via the cave of Oweynaghat to seek revenge after Amorgen the Blackhaired slept with the fairy-woman Findchoem.
He didn’t come to do battle with Amorgen, though, oh no. Instead, he took his fury out on the innocent women of Cruachan. It is said that Olc Ai shook his great beard at the girls and gnashed his teeth so fearfully, that Érne and her women were driven insane with terror and fled. They did not slow down upon reaching the lake, but waded in, desperate to escape their tormentor, and so were all drowned.`
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

Snapshots Of The Past, Lower Lough Erne. Co. Fermanagh Ireland; CC BY-SA 2.0
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In dungeon deep, where shadows creep
And midnight's chill doth softly creep,
Upon a shelf of dust and gloom,
A volume waits in silent doom.

From whence it stirs, with creak and groan,
Its pages part, as if alone;
No hand unseen, no mortal breath,
Unleash the maw—teeth sharp as death!

It snarls and gapes, a yawning pit,
Where lamplight fades, and horrors flit;
The chamber swirls in vortex wild,
Down, down it draws the scene beguiled.

Into its throat, the world is reeled,
A faraway of dragons whelled—
Where spooks arise on All Hallows' Eve,
And phantoms dance 'midst autumn's grieve.

Oh, woe betide the curious soul
Who lingers near that cursed scroll!
For once entwined in its dread art,
No light returns to break the heart.

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2025-10-23

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The Mound of Hostages on the Hill of #Tara is aligned with #Samhain. It was constructed over a burial chamber which dates to 3000BC. It stands 15m wide, and 3m high, and the passage extends to 4m long.
It is estimated that between 300-500 burials took place there, most of them cremated and their ashes and grave goods placed beneath the passage floor. Burials were also found within the structure of the mound itself, including the body of a teenage boy who was accompanied by some very high status items including a magnificent bead necklace, a bronze knife, and a bronze awl.
But the most interesting thing about the mound is that it is aligned so that its passage admits the rays of the rising sun at #Imbolc and #Samhain. What could the significance of this be? Perhaps, if Samhain was thought of as a liminal time, when the veil between the mortal world and the #Otherworld was at its thinnest, and the dead walked the Earth to visit their families, the rising sun on the morning of Samhain might awaken them and invite them out. `
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
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Tara, Mound of the Hostages, photo credit 1. Neu-KelteTara, Mound of the Hostages, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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2025-10-21

#FairyTaleTuesday: `All islands—and peninsulas, which, viewed from an opposite coast, probably seemed to the Celts islands— were deemed to be pre-eminently homes of the dark Powers of Hades. Difficult of access, protected by the turbulent and dangerous sea, sometimes rendered quite invisible by fogs and mists and, at other times, looming up ghostlily on the horizon, often held by the remnant of a hostile Iower race, they gained a mystery and a sanctity from the law of the human mind which has always held the unknown to be the terrible. The Cornish Britons, gazing from the shore, saw Gower and Lundy, and deemed them outposts of the over-sea #Otherworld. To the Britons of Wales, Ireland was no human realm, a view reciprocated by the Gaels, who saw Hades in Britain, while the Isle of Man was a little Hades common to them both. Nor even was the sea always necessary to sunder the world of ghosts from that of "shadow-casting men“.`
Source: #Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire

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2025-10-14

Invite your ancestors in for a spell! Our Black & Gold Skull Candle is perfect to burn when attempting to contact your loved ones and spirit guides. It makes a gorgeous addition to your DĂ­a de los Muertos altar (ofrenda).

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An example of the Black & Gold Skull Candle sits on a black lace-covered surface. This small black candle is shaped like a human skull and is covered in embossed gold designs. Presented by Inked Goddess Creations.
Inked Goddess CreationsÂźInkedGoddessCreations
2025-10-10

Celebrate spooky season in style with a pair of our Death Moth Acrylic Earrings. Made of black acrylic with white designs, they evoke the energy of the Death's Head Hawkmoth, famous for it's skull-like markings. Wear these and celebrate your OWN transformation.

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An example pair of the "Death Moth Acrylic Earrings" product is displayed a small iron cauldron. The moths are made of black acrylic with white paint, and the design has an abstract skull along with stripes and dots reminiscent of bones. They hang from matte silver fishhook earwires. Presented by Inked Goddess Creations.

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Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst