#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: `Queen #Tailtiu of the Firbolg was the only mother the God #Lugh had ever known, and when she died, he was so overcome with grief, that he founded the annual Festival of #Lughnasa in honour of his foster mother at Tailten (Teltown in Co Meath, between Navan and Kells), where she had lived and was buried.`
Source: Ali Isaac
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: Ashes from the #Lughnasa bonfires were used to bless cattle, fields and people.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#Celtic #Pagan Fire Fest Blessings! Happy #Lughnasadh & #Imbolc to all celebrating in Northern/Southern Hemispheres!
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On #Lughnasa each year at Teltown, on the River Blackwater in Co. #Meath, a great óenach or assembly of the tribes was held, devoted to trading, match making, and celebration as well as to ritual athletic contests appropriate to the season. Horseracing may have been part of the festivities and there are legends that teams swam across the nearby river as dawn broke.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#FolkloreThursday
Tailtiu the stepmother of #Lugh died of exhaustion after clearing land for cultivation, so Lugh's memorial to her was feasting, dancing & games culminating in her funeral pyre on a hilltop
#TailteannGames #Lughnasadh #Ireland
#BrianFriel (#DancingstLughnasa)

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: On #Lughnasa each year at Teltown, on the River Blackwater in Co. #Meath, a great óenach or assembly of the tribes was held, devoted to trading, match making, and celebration as well as to ritual athletic contests appropriate to the season.
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: 'Lughnasa, on August 1, was celebrated when summer died into fall.
The blackthorn was one of the trees most beloved of the #Irish #fairy folk. The #Lunantishee was especially active on #Lughnasa.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore` #FolkloreSunday
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Lunantishee are fairies who guard #blackthorn bushes
#treelore for #FolkloreThusday
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#FolkloreSunday: After #Lughnasa, the bilberries were said to lose their flavor. The start of bilberry season was also the start of harvest, and many omens were sought from the berry bushes at this time, for crops were expected to be good when berries were plentiful, but
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#FolkloreSunday: The bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), also called the whortleberry or mul- berry, was a significant calendar marker in #Ireland up to the present. Festivals celebrating the #Celtic summer feast of #Lughnasa included climbing hills to gather bilberries, which
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at #LochNess, a portal to the #Otherworld
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Brigid's fire temple, used for thousands of years for meditation.
#MythologyMonday
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Go raibh mhaith agat to Eimear Burke, chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and #Druids #OBOD, and the other members of http://www.kilkennydruidry.com in Three Castles (#Kilkenny)
@Druidry@twitter.com for letting us celebrate #Lughnasa with them!
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Go raibh mhaith agat to Eimear Burke, chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and #Druids #OBOD, and the other members of http://www.kilkennydruidry.com in Three Castles (#Kilkenny)
@Druidry@twitter.com for letting us celebrate #Lughnasa with them!
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Using fire for transformation while celebrating #Lughnasa with Eimear Burke, chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and #Druids #OBOD, and the other members of http://www.kilkennydruidry.com in Three Castles (#Kilkenny)
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Preparing for celebrating #Lughnasa with Eimear Burke, chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and #Druids #OBOD, and the other members of http://www.kilkennydruidry.com in Three Castles (#Kilkenny)
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#Emer Foltchain (fairhair), daughter of Forgall Manach, was courted by #CuChulainn. She would only marry him if he first slew a hundred at the fords between the Delvin and the Boyne. Among them must be her magical aunt, who in various forms was trying to kill her. CuChulainn had to jump over all three walls of her fortress, Luglochta Logo, and behead eight men in a one fell swoop, before he could marry Emer. But Ulster's greatest hero was not allowed to harm her brothers.
CuChulainn had to rob Emer and her foster sisters from the castle and weigh her with gold and silver. He had to be able to go from #Samhain to #Imbolc and from #Beltene to #Lughnasa without sleep, otherwise Emer would not have married him.
Forgall Manach, Emer's father, tried to prevent their marriage but was unable to do anything due to CuChulainn's exploits. Source: Sylvia Botheroyd "Irland"