#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: In ancient #Ireland „it was expected that a foster child be reared in accordance with the role they would fulfil in life as an adult. Foster parents were responsible for ensuring the child was taught the knowledge, business, or trade suited to their rank. If the quality of the fostering was found to be inadequate in any way, the foster parents would be subjected to a hefty fine of two thirds of the original foster-fee.
#Lugh was known as the Samildanach, or ‘Master of all Arts’, because Queen #Tailtiu had seen to it that her foster son was taught not just in the battle arts, but many other skills also, such as healing, playing the harp, composing poetry, working metals as a smith, to name but a few.“
Source: Ali Isaac

#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
https://twitter.com/ChristineV8/status/1531362644682227712

The Great Games at Teltown, also called the Tailtian Games in honor of the #Celtic goddess #Tailtiu, took place through medieval times. A smaller-scale festival was held at the same site through the 19th century.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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The early medieval Fair of Tailtiu was revived as the Tailteann Games between 1924-32; meant to be an Irish Olympics

#MythologyMonday: #Tailtiu was a #Celtic goddess diminished into human form. Tailtiu traveled to the center of #Ireland, and began to clear fields for planting, but the effort of felling the dense #Irish forest killed her. As she died, she asked that her funeral go on forever, with horse racing and games and festivities. And so her foster son, the god #Lugh, established the August festival that, strangely, bears his name (Lughnasa) rather than hers.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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In Celtic mythology, the sun god Lugh was raised by his foster mother Tailtiu, a grain #goddess. She later died in the enormous labor of clearing #Ireland's fields. Tailtiu's story is rarely told, so I wrote one.
https://witchlike.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/a-tale-of-lugnasadh/
#MythologyMonday #NationalCreativityDay

#MythologyMonday: The #Celtic earth and fire goddess #Tlachtga is still revered in our time at the #HillofWard in County Meath. The major ceremony held there is the lighting of the winter fires at #Samhain, rivalling the celebrations at #Tailtiu.

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Last night's Samhain gathering on #Tlachtga, the Hill of Ward in Meath, was dedicated to the people of #StandingRock

#Tlachtga is still revered in our time as the goddess of earth and fire. She is associated with the #HillofWard in County Meath, and its celebrations rivaled those at #Tailtiu.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N7UZ2AzX-wU