P J Richards<p>🐾🖤🐾Thrilled to say my 'Approaching Storm' has been accepted for the Black Shuck Festival art exhibition to be held at The Bell Gallery in Bungay!
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegendaryWednesday</span></a>: The <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Breton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Breton</span></a> mythological site of Gavrinis (Gavr’inis) is linked by its spiral iconography to <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a>’s Brú na Bóinne. Gavrinis, like Newgrange, is oriented towards the winter solstice sunrise.<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`<br><a href="https://todon.eu/@NeuKelte/111608336672891120" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">todon.eu/@NeuKelte/11160833667</span><span class="invisible">2891120</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/HillfortsWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HillfortsWednesday</span></a>: `To the north of Castell Henllys, where the entrance was, there are significant earthworks in the shape of several ditches and banks. Inside these fortifications, archaeologists have found evidence for numerous <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/IronAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IronAge</span></a> roundhouses dating to between 500 and 100BC. Adjacent to the fort they discovered a farmstead settlement, which is believed to have been occupied throughout the Romano- British period.<br>One of the most unusual defensive discoveries at <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/CastellHenllys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CastellHenllys</span></a> was made by archaeologist Harold Mytum. Below one of the outer banks of the hillfort he discovered a ‘cheveaux-de-frise’ (see page 305), what Mick refers to as a ‘sort of prehistoric barbed wire’. It was particularly effective at stopping cavalry and chariots, and that’s why it extends in a band outside the gateway area, so attackers would become entangled at the point where they were in slingshot range. This feature is common in France and Spain, but relatively unknown in Britain.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: <a href="https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Castell-Henllys-Iron-Age-Fort/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazin</span><span class="invisible">e/DestinationsUK/Castell-Henllys-Iron-Age-Fort/</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegendaryWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/HillfortsWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HillfortsWednesday</span></a>: The Glauberg was a centre of power with impressive walls 1.5 km long. The gates were used for representation and defence.<br>The trenches on the Glauberg “point exactly in the direction of the great southern solstice, an event that is only repeated every 18.6 years.” <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <br>Source: zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfinfo-doku/die-druiden-geheimnisvolle-priester-der-kelten-102.html</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegendaryWednesday</span></a>: `Many of the very ancient monuments of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a>, some more than five thousand years old, like the Hill of Tara in Meath, Lough Gur in Limerick and Carrowkeel are associated with the summer solstice.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: Midsummer Bonfire Night | Folk and Fairy Tales from the Emerald Isle</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/HillfortsWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HillfortsWednesday</span></a>: `In <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/IronAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IronAge</span></a> Britain a settlement on <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/HengistburyHead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HengistburyHead</span></a> was established and the headland was cut off from the mainland by the construction of two banks and ditches called the Double Dykes, similar to those found at Maiden Castle. The earthworks consisted of an inner bank three metres high, with a ditch three and a half metres deep. An outer ditch six metres wide and two metres in depth is now obscured due to wind-blown deposits of sand and a gradual silting process. These defences turned Hengistbury Head into a fortified settlement area which seems to have grown over succeeding centuries until it became an important port of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Durotriges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Durotriges</span></a>.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengistbury_Head#Iron_Age" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengistb</span><span class="invisible">ury_Head#Iron_Age</span></a></p>
curious ordinary<p>In <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> there are tales of a particularly gruesome practice known as hitobashira, where a living human is buried alive in the foundations of a building, especially castles or bridges. These sacrifices were a form of magic based on the belief that sacrificing a...
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curious ordinary<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3l52jaeemrl2l" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3l52jaeemrl2l</a></span></p>
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> Love these amazing 18th century whale/sea monster church pulpits
L-R: Saints Peter & Paul Church, Duszniki, Poland; St. Hedwig Church, Dobroszów, Poland; St. James the Greater Church in Kratonohy, Czechia</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a>: `Mindful of a prophecy that he would meet his end between Ériu and Alba (which he understood to mean Ireland and Britain), Lóegaire putatively son of Niall and king of Tara, forswore an oath taken on the elements not to invade Leinster in pursuit of the legendary bóruma (cattle-tribute). Because of his bad faith, he perished between the hills so named. The story relates how, weakened by the heat, he was blown from his horse into a ravine – and so the elements inflicted on him a symbolic ‘threefold death’.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: Lóegaire | Dictionary of Irish Biography (dib.ie)<br><a href="https://x.com/QueenOfJewelz/status/1526349894537170944" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/QueenOfJewelz/status/152</span><span class="invisible">6349894537170944</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>Many Greek gods are linked to birds - Zeus's eagle, Hera's peacock, Athena's owl, Apollo's raven, etc. At one time ravens had white feathers, but when a raven delivered Apollo bad news, the sun god was so enraged that his heat charred the bird's feathers. Now all ravens are black.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Olympians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Olympians</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Bird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bird</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Raven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Raven</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>Uriel ("Flame of God") is a prominent Jewish and Christian angel. Often, he is described as the regent of the sun and has a flaming sword (befitting his name) and is the angel of Sunday. Sometimes he is called the angel of death or poetry. Milton said Uriel has Heaven's sharpest eyes.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Theology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Angel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Angel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JohnMilton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnMilton</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/LegendaryWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegendaryWednesday</span></a>: `No road or comfortable way ran across the Plain of Ill-Luck, and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/C%C3%BAChulainn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CúChulainn</span></a> could not have made his way across, but that the young man with the face like the sun had given him a wheel to roll before him, and told him to follow wherever the wheel led. So he rolled the wheel, and bright shining rays darted out of the wheel and lighted up all the land.<br>The heat that came out of the wheel dried up the clay, so that it became hard and firm to walk upon, and it burned up the grass, so that it made a clear path before CúChulainn all the way. And the noisome evil airs of the plain were sucked up by the heat and sunshine of the wheel, so that CúChulainn went on gladly and cheerfully until he came to the Perilous Glen.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: Eleanor Hull „Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster“</p>
curious ordinary<p>In Japan, the Buddhist goddess Marishiten is believed to be the personification of sunlight.
<a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3ld6popkqws2y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3ld6popkqws2y</a></span></p>
curious ordinary<p>In Japanese mythology the kami (deity) of the Sun is the goddess Amaterasu. I've written more about her in the thread below.
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P J Richards<p>🌿❄️🌿"She trails her fingers through the crystals of frost on the tips of hedgerows, the warmth in her hand melting and setting the ice into fresh patterns; tiny arrows pointing in the direction she travels."
📖Of The Ways.
<a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FairyTaleTuesday" target="_blank">#FairyTaleTuesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>In the novel, Captain Hook is a dark mirror of Peter Pan, as he never really grew up either. He went to Eton as a teenager, and is still obsessed with that school's values. Hook becomes almost suicidally depressed when he believes Eton would say he has "bad form."</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChildrensLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChildrensLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JMBarrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JMBarrie</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PeterPan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterPan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CaptainHook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CaptainHook</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Pirate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pirate</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>Contrary to popular belief, the potion in the original novel did not split Dr. Jekyll into his good and evil halves, but simply created a more evil persona. Initially, Dr. Jekyll really enjoyed Mr. Hyde's depravity because he knew he wouldn't get blamed for it. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RobertLouisStevenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertLouisStevenson</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DrJekyllAndMrHyde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrJekyllAndMrHyde</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movie</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>In "The History of the Kings of Britain," Geoffrey of Monmouth introduced Avalon, the "Isle of Apples," as the place where King Arthur is taken to be healed after his final battle. No farming is needed on this fairy island, as sweet fruit and other crops naturally grow here, and it is eternally summer.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/KingArthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KingArthur</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Arthuriana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arthuriana</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Avalon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Avalon</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WyrdWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WyrdWednesday</span></a>: University of Aberdeen researcher Dr David Nance points to the alignment of Seahenge with sunrise on the summer solstice and suggests that its function was to mimic the ‘pen’ described in folklore for an unfledged cuckoo with the intention to keep the bird singing and thereby extend the summer.<br>“Summer solstice was the date when according to folklore the cuckoo, symbolising fertility, traditionally stopped singing, returned to the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Otherworld</span></a> and the summer went with it,’ Dr Nance added. <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: <a href="https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23205" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">abdn.ac.uk/news/23205</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/114704645337158678" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/11470</span><span class="invisible">4645337158678</span></a></p>
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