Ragnarok is prophesized, but more mysterious is what comes after: Voluspa speaks of the time after Ragnarok, when mankind will flourish under the guidance of returned Baldr, but will face the coming of Niddhog: but we have lost the prophecy's end! #WyrdWednesday

🖼️: L. Frolich

‘The Magician’ (1926), dir. Rex Ingram, is based on a novel by Somerset Maugham. It features an occultist named Oliver Haddo (based upon Aleister Crowley) who seduces a young woman. She experiences a terrifying vision of Pan, played by dancer Hubert Stowitts. #WyrdWednesday

Sudano-Sahelian architecture, sometimes called "earthen architecture," is a style which uses mud bricks and adobe plaster over wooden beams to build airy desert-friendly dwellings with distinct appearances. Famous examples include the Great Mosque of Djene, Sakore Mosque at the University of Timbuktu, and Larabanga Mosque, all rebuilt with the same style over hundreds of years. #WyrdWednesday

During the Siege of Inabayama Castle, the enemies of Hideyoshi noted that the man appeared to have built a castle overnight; in reality, he used pre-constructed sections to make it appear as if he had. This "one-night castle" was later turned into Sunomata Castle. #WyrdWednesday

The Land of the Dead, Yomi, can be found in a tunnel, now blocked by a boulder: for Izanagi holds the boulder in place, preventing the dead from overcoming the living in modern Shimane Prefecture in Japan. #WyrdWednesday

Cenote had two uses to the Maya: a source of fresh water storage, and a place of sacrifice to the gods, be in gold and jade or human sacrifice to bring rain, directed at the rain god Chaac. These hollow holes often had tunnels, where the sacrifices are found. #WyrdWednesday

The Doors of Hell is a Soviet-era crater that caught fire and burns to this day in modern Turkmenistan. Stories conflict on when the hole was lit on fire, ranging from the 1960s to 1980s, with the reason consistently being to burn off poisonous gas. #WyrdWednesday

In 2015, a haunting bronze mask of Pan was discovered at the Cave of Pan at Banias, north of the Golan Heights. Who knows what strange rites were celebrated there in Pan’s name? #WyrdWednesday

To escape from King Minos and give his son a better life, Daedalus crafted for his son and himself wings with wax: but gleeful Icarus, got too close to the Sun at the end of their journey, and melted his wings; the sea he crashed into Helios named Icarian. #WyrdWednesday

Few myths equal Odin's great escape with the Mead of Poetry from Suttungr's fortress: the Mead of Poetry was made from the blood of Kvasir, god of knowledge, by cruel dwarfs; seeing the brilliance and cunning it gave the dwarfs, the jotun lord Suttungr took it as his revenge price for their slaying of his parents. He came a brilliant lord, a discovery Odin made only after discovering the death of Kvasir. So, Odin cunningly snuck into the fortress of Suttungr deep in a mountain, and there seduced his beautiful daughter Gunnlod, who had been left to protect the Mead of Poetry. In tricking her and breaking her heart, Odin won access to the Mead and drank it all in one gulp then turned into an eagle, flying away; yet he was not alone. Suttungr, inspired by the Mead, knew he had come and began chasing Odin as an even larger eagle, all the way from Jotunheim to Asgard. Odin vomited the Mead into several cauldrons for the gods, but in fear shit in Suttungr's mouth as he tried to bring Odin down. Thus Odin got away, and won the inspiring Mead of Poetry for gods and humanity; yet the shit that Suttungr ingested is the origin of bad poetry. #WyrdWednesday

In the ancient Near East from the time of Assyria and Babylon onward, gods were associated with protective magic and spellcraft, associated with the goddess of healing Ninisina. Dog is man, and god's, best friend, it seems. #WyrdWednesday

Supernatural or spectral black dogs are a common motif in folklore. In Northern England, the Barghest is a monstrous, sometimes ghostly, dog with fierce claws & teeth & fiery eyes. It is considered an omen of death.

Dogs & wolves are associated with death in various traditions. In Norse myth, Garmr is a blood-stained wolf who guards the gate of Hel (goddess of death). Garmr is sometimes considered another name for Fenrir, the great wolf who is a child of Loki & sibling to Hel.

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#Celtic #WyrdWednesday: `Lugh earned the title #Samildanach which meant ‘equally skilled in all arts’, as he could turn his hand to anything and make a success of it. The god was revered for being multi-skilled and talented; he was a fine and brave warrior, was good to his (foster) mother; a just and noble king; he played the harp, was a healer, a druid, a poet and a sorcerer; he was skilled in the forge, was a good builder and carpenter, and a great horseman. He loved to have fun, and is said to have invented many ball games, and the #Irish board game known as #Fidchell.
The fact that he was born noble but was not afraid to work alongside the simple tradesman would have made him beloved of the ordinary folk. He tried his hand at everything, which suggests he was not afraid to fail, yet was confident in his capabilities.`
Source: Ali Isaac

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

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday: `When the goddess #Boann went to the Tobar Segais, also known as the Well of Wisdom, her lapdog #Dabilla was trotting faithfully at her heels. As the waters rose to form the river Boyne, little Dabilla was tossed from wave to wave, like a sliotar between hurlers.`
Source: Ali Isaac

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday@UisneachFire: Generally, the #druid #Mide is associated with lighting the great fire on the #HillOfUisneach, Co. #Westmeath. Another legend credits the igniting of the #Uisneach fire to the #druid #Delbáeth, from whose blaze 5 great
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RT @UisneachFire
Some ariels of Bealtaine 🔥
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#bealtaine #fire #uisneach #heritagerocks #ancient #ireland
https://twitter.com/UisneachFire/status/1528377984125751296

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #HillfortsWednesday: Behind the doors of the guesthouse in #Temair Luachra, the royal castle of the Érainn, a fiery surprise awaited the warriors of #Ulster. #CúChulainn chose the largest guest house. He did not know that this one
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RT @HeritageHubIRE
In 2000-03 the Heritage Council funded aerial photographic surveys of Irish coastal promontory forts by the late Markus Casey. Over t…
https://twitter.com/HeritageHubIRE/status/1253605214130667520

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Dyrnwyn ("White-Hilt") is said to be a powerful sword belonging to Rhydderch Hael, one of the Three Generous Men of Britain. When drawn by a worthy or well-born man, the entire blade would blaze with fire. Rhydderch was never
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RT @oliveratlantis
"Dyrnwyn the sword of Rhydderch Hael; if any man drew it except himself, it burst into a flame from the cross to the point." - Thirteen Tre…
https://twitter.com/oliveratlantis/status/989347641279606790

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: „All the ancient #Irish festivals were celebrated with fire. The sun was considered to bring great healing energy. Walking three times ‘sun wise’, or cor deiseil, around a fire represented the circling of the sun, and was a potent
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RT @Selena_Fox
Ways to celebrate #Samhain & #Celtic #NewYear - Big Blazing #Bonfire #Witchy #Druid #Wicca #NatureSpirituality #SamhainRitual. Pictured: #Pag…
https://twitter.com/Selena_Fox/status/1180295919012634624