# ukiyoe spring celtic mythology

Hopeless Maine archaeology can be more responsive than is normal other places.

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2022-02-17

Norse female shamans did exist! The Völva was long considered a mythological figure, but a mysterious grave discovered in Denmark contained ancient artifacts belonging to a Völva. More: https://t.co/zkdmVRkzXX

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2022-02-16

In Scotland archaeologists have unearthed flipper bones and a seal tooth pendant. Some think a seal teeth was buried for luck. And some argue that these discoveries might have something to do with selkies and their importance in Scottish folklore.

🎨Kate Leiper

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2022-02-16

Even ancient writers recognized that cracks in the rock at the Oracle of Delphi's chamber likely influenced the Oracle's ecstatic visions: Plutarch, a former priest at Delphi, thought the sweet-smelling vapors helped the Oracle obtain visions and divine connection.

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2022-02-09

The Devil's Fingers, off the coast of Hopeless. Reputedly all that remains of the devil after he got into a fight with a local entity.

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2022-02-09

Brigid, celtic Goddess of Fire, the Home, poetry and the end of winter. Her festival, Imbolc, is on 1st or 2nd of February which marks "the return of the light".

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2022-02-03

Dawn leads to spring, at least in Japan: Amaterasu's absence left the world in deathly winter, so the dawn goddess Ame-no-Uzume danced with reckless abandon to bring back the sun. So spring was born, from Ame-no-Uzume's dance, and cherry blossoms too

🖼: AnticiaJK

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2022-02-02

We love those misty spring evenings.

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2022-02-02

Antheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεία) was one of the Charites, or Graces, of Greek mythology. She was the goddess of vegetation, gardens, blossoms, especially worshipped in spring and near lowlands and marshlands

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2022-02-02

When Persephone emerges from the Underworld so too does life as Demeter finds joy and Persephone blossoms. Yet there is sorrow: Demeter knows because her daughter ate seeds of the Underworld, she belongs for part of the year. So are seasons born.

🖼: W. Crane

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2022-02-02

Cherry blossoms, known in Japan as sakura, represent springtime and symbolise fleeting beauty and the shortness of life. Festivals to celebrate these flowers occur in spring and are known as hanami. Sakura were a favourite subject for Edo era prints.

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2022-02-02


In Celtic myth the goddess Cailleach personifies winter reigning from Samhain until Beltane. It is said that if Imbolc is warm and sunny, Cailleach will collect more firewood, and prolong winter. An overcast day signals she has overslept and spring is on its way.

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2022-02-02


Some weather lore for Candlemas/Groundhog Day

If Candlemas is fair and clear
There'll be 2 winters in the year.

If a groundhog does not see his shadow today, spring will come early; if he sees his shadow, winter will endure.

Happy Groundhog Day
🎨VernonThomas

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2022-02-02

Feb 2nd Serbs celebrated 'Sretenje' as winter meets summer on this day. Its believed that the bear comes out of its den and if he sees his shadow, he will return in the den, but if there is bad weather, no shadow, he'll remain out as a sign that winter is over.

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2022-02-02

The goddess Cailleach is said to decide the coming of If she makes a bright, sunny day on Feb. 2, there will be six more weeks of winter. If she makes the day gray and sunless, there will be an early spring.

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2022-02-02

The Celtic Tree of Life served as a portal to invisible worlds and a source of sacred knowledge, guarded by the most enlightened ones.
Celts believed that wise people, such as Druids, could see and communicate with the other world. More: https://t.co/HYgzRdNCOw

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2022-01-27

'...ten miles from Dublin, there is a fairies path, whereon a great colony of other-world creatures travel nightly from the hill to the sea and home again.'
-William Butler Yeats

🎨John Anster Fitzgerald

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2022-01-27

A map of Narnia with its flaming disc of a sun, talking animals, sentient stars, fire-flowers and many worlds for 🦁 (Map by Pauline Baynes, 1972)

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2022-01-26

Tir Na No'g or the Land of Eternal Youth is the Otherworld where all the magical creatures lived.

Ossian and Niamh arriving to Tir Na No'g by François Pascal Simon Gérard

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2022-01-26