Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: The old #Gaelic term for the #SummerSolstice was GREINATAROSTAMI `sun standing`, while the #Gaulish name was SONNOTAROSTAMI.
Source: Michel-Gérald Boutet `The Calendar And Almonach of The Ancient Druids`
#Celtic #Knowledge

for all my #gaulish polytheists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKc92JSP2rk
Not reconstructed, but with respect for authenticity and that stuff.

„The most famous blacksmith in #Irish #mythology is Goibniu. His name comes from Gobae, or Gobann, which is Old Irish for ‘smith’, although I would say that it is more likely that the reverse is true, and that the word for ‘smith’ was borrowed from his name. He was one of the Tuatha de Danann, contemporary with Nuada Argetlam and the Dagda.“
Credit @aliisaac_
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RT @Trad_West_Art@twitter.com
In #Irish #mythology Goibniu was the metalsmith of the Tuathe Dé Dannann. He is believed to have been a smithing god and is also associated with hospitality. He is thus related to the #Welsh Gofannon and the #Gaulish Gobannus.

„The names of the #Irish goddess #Medb and the #Gaulish goddesses #Meduna and the #Comedovae may be derived from an Indo-European word *médhu– signifying ‘honey’, ‘intoxication’, and designate the fermented drink extracted from honey, that is ‘mead’. If this etymology is correct – other possibilities have been suggested -, their names may be therefore glossed as ‘Goddess of Intoxication by Mead’ or ‘Mead Goddess’.“

Now thinking about late antiquity, I wonder whether we should be looking more at the 'pressures' imposed on spoken varieties of Latin by bilingual speakers (whether the other language is Gaulish or Aquitanian or Berber).

I don't have an answer yet, but this is a feature of language use in the late Roman West that is piquing my interest....

#LateAntiquity #VulgarLatin #linguistics #language #Gaulish

A bedtime prayer to #Cissonios was conceptualized by @dianmanios working from Delamarre's interpretation of Cissonios as *cit-souno- 'qui apporte des rêves' (He Who brings dreams). Cissonios had a Mercurial cult throughout the Keltiké that De Bernardo Stempel views as economic. She proposes a different analysis of His name, relating it to the root *kistā 'woven basket'—in reference to vessels for goods, perhaps like the cornucopia that adorns one of His altars.

In Old Irish, ces (< *kistā) could also refer to a coracle (boat). This could certainly be fitting for a God of travels and commerce. Dianmanios also reminded me how #Nodens, God of the Sea, had an incubatory cult (beds in His temple for worshippers to rest, for the purpose of dreaming and healing).

Finally, we found prayers in #CarminaGadelica that feature maritime symbolism and imagery for sleep and dreams—this is the source of the terminology I used for this prayer.

All of this together led me to an "inter alia" interpretation of Cissonios that weaves these threads into one: A God of journeying, Who leads our barque to the peaceful Sea of Dreams.

#GaulishPolytheism #Gaulish #Polytheism #PaganPrayer

Look at what just arrived in the post! The latest issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, filled with 262 pages of articles and reviews.

#CelticStudies #Irish #Breton #Cisalpine #Lepontic #Gaulish #medieval @histodons @antiquidons

FYI, Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel has completed the 2nd volume of #FERCAN, a series that exhaustively documents and analyzes the Celtic Gods attested in votives from antiquity.

FERCAN is completely free, and available as a PDF. This 2nd volume covers #Germania Inferior, and is accompanied with an online database that documents every inscription (complete with illustrations and photos).

#Celtic #Gaulish #Belgic #Germanic #Polytheism #OpenAccess

https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/reihe/fontes-epigraphici-religionum-celticarum-antiquarum-corpus-f-e-r-c-an/244

Hello, everyone! Don't mind me, I'm just dipping my toes in this more #Pagan-focused instance now...

I am a #Gaulish #polytheist whose other Mastodon account is over at @donnodubus@mastodon.social. Some of you may also know me from the bird site :birdsite:

#introduction

The old #Gaelic term for the #SummerSolstice was GREINATAROSTAMI `sun standing`, while the #Gaulish name was SONNOTAROSTAMI.
Source: Michel-Gérald Boutet `The Calendar And Almonach of The Ancient Druids`
#Celtic #Knowledge

RT @EuropesHistory@twitter.com

The Coligny Calendar, found in France, which records the Druidic method of lunar months and is written in Gaulish