#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: #Lugh brought with him from the #Otherworld the horse of #Manannán, '#Aonbharr of the Splendid Mane'. This wonderful mare was swifter than the spring wind and could travel equally well on either land or sea.
Source: http://socrates.freeshell.org/Animals.html

#Celtic #FaustianFriday: #Manannán mac Lir sometimes appears in literature as a human figure, a sailor who never was lost at sea because of his uncanny celestial navigational skills. He is thus described in the works of the Irish scribe Cormac.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @P_J_Richards@twitter.com
🌊🌫️🌊In Irish myth Manannán mac Lir was a king of the Otherworld and a God of the sea - said to be the first ruler of the Isle of Man, which he would protect by cloaking it in mist. His magical ship 'Sguaba Tuinne' (Wave Sweeper) steered and navigated itself.
#MythologyMonday
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/P_J_Richards/status/1439975680184360962

#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 #FaustianFriday: In one story Sionnan, grand daughter of #Manannán mac Lir, angered the #SalmonOfKnowledge by throwing stones at it. In revenge the fish summoned and asked an #Oilliphéist to attack the girl which it did and ultimately ended up in killing her.
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#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: One of #Manannán`s treasures was the sword Moralltach `The Great Fury`, which never misses its target and which no armor can resist.
Source: Murray Hope `Magie und Mythologie der #Kelten`
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#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: The Crane Bag made by #Manannán is a thing of great power and enchantment. It holds the secret things of the #TuathaDéDanann: the bones of the sacred boar, the smith`s hook and the magical knife, shield and shirt. Whoever has these weapons is safe from all enemies.
http://www.manannan.net/library/godofthecelts.html

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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Manannán `was married to the fairy woman Fand, whose incredible beauty was known throughout the world. The mighty #Irish warrior #Cuchulainn took Fand for his own but #Manannan retrieved her by placing his cloak of invisibility`
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#Celtic #Mythology: #Lugh came from the `Land of Life` and brought with him many magical gifts from the #Otherworld. Among them was the ship of #Manannán, the son of the sea-god Lir. The self-navigating currach (coracle boat) called Sguaba Tuinne (Wave-Sweeper) could `read a
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#Celtic #triad: What is white and cannot be counted?

1) The snowflakes on Benbulbin.
2) The hailstones in Meath.
3) The horses of Manannán mac Lir
In #CelticMythology `white-crested waves frothing with foam were said to be the white horses of #Manannán mac Lir`. Sylvia Botheroyd `#Ireland`

#celticwisdom #ancientwisdom #celtic #celticknowledge

#Manannán `was married to the fairy woman Fand, whose incredible beauty was known throughout the world and who had started life as a sea-bird. The mighty Irish warrior #Cuchulainn took Fand for his own but #Manannan retrieved her by placing his cloak of invisibility between Fand and Cuchulainn, thus magically erasing their memory of each other.` https://www.ireland-information.com/irish-mythology/manannan-irish-legend.html

#Manannán Mac Lir possessed the incredible 'Féth Fíada', the cloak of invisibility that he would use to protect the #IsleofMan from being seen in times of danger.
The 'Féth Fíada', cloak of invisibility, was `capable of changing to every kind of colour, and when #Manannan was angry would make a thunderous sound when the cloak flapped`. https://www.isleofman.com/welcome/history/mythology-and-folklore/manannan-mac-lir/