#Celtic #FindsFriday: Interestingly, there are links between the #Celts and the Pre-Celtic dwellers of #Ireland in such megalithic monuments as the Brú Na Bóinne and Loughcrew complexes.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore`
Photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `Honoring the hearth fire was a belief shared by the #Celts with their Indo-European kin. Like in the cult of the Roman Vesta a similar college appears to have served the #Irish goddess #Brigit.` In her honour an ashless, ever-burning fire was tended by one maiden each night for 19 nights, the 20th being left for #Brigit herself. 
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore` 
Brigid’s Fire Temple, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte.jpg

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `Honoring the hearth fire was a belief shared by the #Celts with their Indo-European kin. Like in the cult of the Roman Vesta a similar college appears to have served the #Irish goddess #Brigit.` In her honour an ashless, ever-burning fire was tended by one maiden each night for 19 nights, the 20th being left for #Brigit herself. 

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

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Brigid’s Fire Temple, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte.jpg 

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `Honoring the hearth fire was a belief shared by the #Celts with their Indo-European kin. Like in the cult of the Roman Vesta a similar college appears to have served the #Irish goddess #Brigit.` In her honour an ashless, ever-burning fire was tended by one maiden each night for 19 nights, the 20th being left for #Brigit herself. 

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

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Brigid’s Fire Temple, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte.jpg 

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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in „Argentum“: Location of the settlement of the #Ambidravi (red square), today called "Argentum", in the regnum noricum. The #Celts began settling in today’s village of Mühldorf at around 800 BC, and the settlement might have continued to exist until 50 BC.
Source: https://museum-argentum.at/

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in „Argentum“: Location of the settlement of the #Ambidravi (red square), today called "Argentum", in the regnum noricum. The #Celts began settling in today’s village of Mühldorf at around 800 BC, and the settlement might have continued to exist until 50 BC.

Source: https://museum-argentum.at/

“By Teutates!” Gods, charms and the rules of worship: http://argentum-kaernten.at/en/themenweg-2/en-goetterwelten-und-unsterblichkeit/

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Cplakidas, Ufernoricum & Binnenoricum - AD 400, CC0 1.0

Location of the settlement of the Ambidravi, today called "Argentum", in Mühldorf in the Mölltal in Upper Carinthia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

`The #Celts generally did not imagine heaven and earth as opposed to each other, nor did they describe them as a complementary pair. There is, for example, no myth of the marriage of heaven and earth, nor of their forced separation, as occurs in some other cultures. Instead, fragmentary myths suggest that the #Celtic worldview was similar to that found in shamanic cultures.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/1520836348437057541?t=vd1AuV9Gbow8TuKui_P49g&s=09

`The #Celts generally did not imagine heaven and earth as opposed to each other, nor did they describe them as a complementary pair. There is, for example, no myth of the marriage of heaven and earth, nor of their forced separation, as occurs in some other cultures. Instead, fragmentary myths suggest that the #Celtic worldview was similar to that found in shamanic cultures.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/1520836348437057541?t=vd1AuV9Gbow8TuKui_P49g&s=09

#Ogma mac Elathan, son of Delbaeth, is according to #Irish tradition the inventor of the #Ogham script. In fact, #Ogham wasn't developed until the early Middle Ages.
Source: Helmut Birkhan `Die #Kelten`
“The #Druids were the intellectual elite of the #Celts, they could read and write (Greek and Latin), but did not leave a single written word. They only passed on their secret knowledge orally.” Source: www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfinfo-doku/die-druiden-geheimnisvolle-priester-der-kelten-102.html In fact, #Ogham wasn't developed until the early Middle Ages.

The earliest account of a #SummerSolstice line dates from the 3rd century BC and is from `Pseudo-Aristotle`: `From Italy as fas as the country of the #Celts, #Celtoligurians and Iberians, they say there is a road called the `Road of Herakles`, and on this road, the traveller, whether native or Greek, is watched by the neighbouring tribes so that he may receive no injury; for those amongst whom the injury has been done must pay a penalty.` Source: Graham Robb `The Ancient Paths` #Celtic
https://twitter.com/TomClaybourn/status/1395755045099089924?t=Mxn5y69fAXzS46AOGoWOZw&s=09

#Celtic #FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-
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`As the #Celts usually worshiped outdoors rather than in temples, the sacrifice would be deposited in a natural site. Thus a piece of jewelry might be smashed or a torc twisted out of shape before being thrown into a lake or buried in a bog. An animal might be killed. Sometimes the entire animal was burned, so that no part of it was used for human food, but there are also evidences of portions (sometimes the best meat) being sacrificed, while other portions became part of a feast.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1631651918094434304

„Sacrifice— the offering up of one thing in order to gain another—was practiced by the #Celts, as by virtually all other peoples. Goods of various sorts were offered to gods and goddesses at regular intervals and, most significantly, in times of danger. Typically an object was damaged in some way before being sacrificed.“
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1639281193836265478

`The #Celts did not mark the two equinoxes, when daylight and darkness are of equal length, nor the solstices in winter and summer, as most other peoples of the world do. Rather, they marked the points in between, in their great festivals of #Samhain (winter), #Imbolc (spring), #Beltane (summer), and Lughnasa (autumn). That the Celts marked the season’s midpoint rather than the point of change may relate to the insistence upon the sacredness of the center, which is both a geographical and a spiritual concept.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore`
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#Beltane is a time of celebration and renewal, when the energy of life is palpable. This holiday is traditionally celebrated on Ma…
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `The #Celts did not mark the two equinoxes, when daylight and darkness are of equal length, nor the solstices in winter and summer, as most other peoples of the world do. Rather, they marked the points in between, in their great festivals of #Samhain
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#Celtic #FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-
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#Celtic #FindsFriday #FerrousFriday
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#Celtic #FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-
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#Celtic #FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-
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`Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-ranking warriors also possessed metal helmets and chain mail.`
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna
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#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic chariots were drawn by two horses. As with the chariots, only parts of the bridle were sacrificed. The length…
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#Celtic #FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-
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#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic chariots were drawn by two horses. As with the chariots, only parts of the bridle were sacrificed. The length…
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