#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Matholwch, the king of #Ireland, came to #Bran, the king of Britain, to ask him for the hand of his sister Branwen. In revenge for not beeing asked, Branwen's half-brother #Efnisien (#Cymric: "the non-peaceful", "the quarrelsome") massacred Matholwch's horses, almost resulting in a fight. 
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efnisien 
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#Omnia - #Bran

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`It was said that the beautiful singing of the Birds of #Rhiannon could be heard at the threshold of the #Otherworld. When #Bran`s men began their years and entertainment with his oracular head, they heard the rare singing of these birds, which was the sign that they had entered the #Otherworld.
Source: Claire Hamilton `The #Celtic Book of Seasonal Meditations`
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‘And there came three birds, and began singing unto them a certain song, and all the songs they had ever heard were unpleasant compared…
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#Celtic #FairyTale: `It was said that the beautiful singing of the Birds of #Rhiannon could be heard at the threshold of the #Otherworld. When #Bran`s men began their years and entertainment with his oracular head, they heard the rare singing of these birds, which was the
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‘And there came three birds, and began singing unto them a certain song, and all the songs they had ever heard were unpleasant compared…
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#Bran mac Febail received a silver apple branch of the tree of Emain from the Queen of the "Woman's Land". She sang 50 stanzas for him. Hence his longing for the #Otherworld was irresistible. Bran's journey lasted several centuries.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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Card of The Day: Bran Mac Febal (The Sun) card of the day, Major Arcana, Rider Waite Smit… http://ift.tt/29xZ18X
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One of the companions of #Bran the Seafarer was seized by longing for home in #Ireland. Despite a warning, #Nechtan, the son of Collbran, jumped from the boat. Upon contact with the earth, he immediately crumbled to ashes. The hundreds of years of absence in the #Otherworld had caught up with him, when he had crossed the 'insurmountable barrier between the eternal-mystical and the human time'.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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One of the eeriest episodes of the Irish legend of the Voyage of Bran concerns an island whose inhabitants do nothing but inexplicably stare a…
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#Efnisien mutilated #Matholwch’s horses without reason. Brân the Blessed „sent #Manawyddan and two others to make atonement. Matholwch should have sound horses for every one that was injured, and in addition a staff of silver as large and as tall as himself, and a plate of gold the size of his face. Matholwch accepted these terms, but not very cheerfully, and Bran now offered another treasure, namely, a magic cauldron which had the property that if a slain man were cast into it he would come forth well and sound, only he would not be able to speak.“
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
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#Matholwch, the king of #Ireland, came to #Bran, the king of Britain, to ask him for the hand of his sister Branwen. Branwen's half-brother #Efnisie…
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The #Irish hero #Bran mac Febail fell asleep after hearing #fairy music and, upon awakening, set out to find its source and the fairy lover who came to him in dreams. He found her in the #Otherworld, an island in the western sea, where they lived happily for years that seemed but moments in fairy time. When Bran returned to this world, his years caught up with him, but he was able to tell the story of his adventures before he turned to dust.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Irish legend tells that a faerie gave a silver branch of white apple blossom to Bran mac Febail & sang to him of the Isles of 'Joy' & 'Women'. …
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#Omnia - #Bran 2022

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#FinnMacCool’s sister, #Uirne, was cursed by a jealous rival and turned into a bitch. After whelping Bran and Sceolan, Uirne was restored to human form, but her twin children (variously described as daughters or sons), remained trapped in canine bodies. Yellow-footed and red-eared, Bran became Fionn’s favorite dog, so fast she could overtake flying birds.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a 1/2 https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1556009114173669378

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#Omnia - #Bran

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#Celtic #FaustianFriday: `It was said that the beautiful singing of the Birds of #Rhiannon could be heard at the threshold of the #Otherworld. When #Bran`s men began their years and entertainment with his oracular head, they heard the rare singing of these birds, which was
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how beautiful: #Welsh mythology birds of the #Otherworld woman Rhiannon sing weary heroes to sleep #FolkloreThursday

#Matholwch, the king of #Ireland, came to #Bran, the king of Britain, to ask him for the hand of his sister Branwen. Branwen's half-brother #Efnisien (#Cymric: "the non-peaceful", "the quarrelsome") is incensed that he was not asked for permission. In revenge, he massacres Matholwch's horses, almost resulting in a fight.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efnisien
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#FolkloreThursday theme today is villains so I thought I should bring up one of those tricky characters that acts as a villain and a hero? Efnisien; violent, emotional and prideful commits disturbing & horrifying atrocities but ultimately sacrifices himself in service to others.

#Matholwch, the king of #Ireland, came to #Bran, the king of Britain, to ask him for the hand of his sister Branwen. Branwen's half-brother #Efnisien (#Cymric: "the non-peaceful", "the quarrelsome") is incensed that he was not asked for permission. In revenge, he massacres Matholwch's horses, almost resulting in a fight. 
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efnisien
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#FolkloreThursday theme today is villains so I thought I should bring up one of those tricky characters that acts as a villain and a hero? Efnisien; violent, emotional and prideful commits disturbing & horrifying atrocities but ultimately sacrifices himself in service to others.

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: In order not to let the enchanted pigs of #AngusOg come back to life, they were to be burned over a fire, otherwise they would have fought the #Fianna again the next day. At first the attempt failed. Eventually Bran, the #Otherworldly hound of #FinnMacCool, fetched three logs (three types of wood that could combat enchantments) and the pigs were burned on the fire from these logs. Then there was a great sorrow on Angus, for the pigs had been his people, one of them his own son.” 
Source: http://socrates.freeshell.org/Animals.html
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a 1/2 https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1556009114173669378

Bran was born a dog because #FinnMacCool’s sister, Uirne, was cursed by a jealous rival and turned into a bitch. After whelping Bran and Sceolan, Uirne was restored to human form, but her twin children (variously described as daughters or sons), remained trapped in canine bodies. Yellow-footed and red-eared, Bran became Fionn’s favorite dog, so fast she could overtake flying birds.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a 1/2 https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1556009114173669378

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: After many happy years in Emain Ablach the #Irish hero #Bran mac Febail grew homesick for earth. When he and a group of other visitors to the land of Niamh reached the shores of #Ireland, one sailor was so moved that he leaped ashore. The eager man could not endure the transition to earthly time. In the #Otherworld, time passes more slowly than does ours, and as all his years caught up with him he died and faded to dust within an instant. 

Bran, saddened by the choice between death and exile, sailed away again. Presumably he still sails between this world and the other. 

Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore` 

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#Bran mac Febail was invited to #Emain Ablach by #Manannán mac Lir through a blooming silver branch and through a beautiful woman. Bran's journey lasted several centuries. The messenger from the #Celtic #Otherworld turned out to be the queen of the 'Woman's Land' and presented #Bran with a silver apple branch from Emain's tree, 'whose branches are of the most beautiful silver and its blossoms are glass eyelashes'.

Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `The #Druids`

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: `It was said that the beautiful singing of the Birds of #Rhiannon could be heard at the threshold of the #Otherworld. When #Bran`s men began their years and entertainment with his oracular head, they heard the rare singing of these birds, which was the sign that they had entered the Otherworld. 
Source: Claire Hamilton `The Celtic Book of Seasonal Meditations` 

Bran was one of the primary hunting hounds of #FinnMacCool. This #Irish mythological beast had one offspring, a black female pup who was fed on milk. The woman who tended her was instructed to feed her all the cow’s daily output, but she secretly held back some for herself. The hungry pup attacked a flock of wild swans and was killed when she could not be stopped.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a groove around the base of the stone with its colossal chain and they say you can still hear its ghostly howls.
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