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Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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What is a clear sea to the good boat Bran is in, is a happy plain with many flowers to me in my two-wheeled chariot.
It is what Bran sees, many waves beating across the clear sea; it is what I myself see, red flowers without any fault.“
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Daisies at the spring equinox, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Manannan spoke to Bran in a song, and it is what he said`:
"It is what Bran thinks, he is going in his curragh over the wonderful, beautiful clear sea; but to me, from far off in my chariot, it is a flowery plain he is riding on.
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Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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The young never grow old there; the fields and the flowers are as pleasant to be looking at as the blackbird's eggs; warm, sweet streams of mead and of wine flow through that country; there is no care and no sorrow on any person; we see others, but we ourselves are not seen.“
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It is pleasant to be looking at the people there, beautiful people without any blemish; their hair is of the colour of the flag-flower, their fair body is as white as snow, the colour of the foxglove is on every cheek.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh artist QS-P170,Q220703, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - In Fairyland 1897, public domain

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: "O beautiful woman, will you come with me to the wonderful country that is mine?
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#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits
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We strive for a resource-saving coexistence with the smallest possible ecological and social footprint. In concrete terms, this means, for example, living a simple lifestyle, rejecting luxury and avoiding travel that is not of humanitarian, ecological or equivalent benefit to society as a whole, or making it as environmentally friendly as possible. Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@hear-me.social) Attached: 1 image #FairyTaleTuesday: In the #Celtic #Fairytale „The Sea-Maiden“ a fisherman's son helped a large black dog, a hawk and an otter divide a carcass among the three. For settling their dispute, all three promised him their help in need. To save the king's daughter, the son of a fisherman, who was meanwhile the king's shepherd, had to defeat a great beast with three heads that was dwelling in a loch. And again the great black dog helped him after having saved his life when he had to fight a #giant.

But to his misfortune, the Sea-Maiden now grabbed his wife. #Celtic
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Author K. Langloh Parker Illustrator Mr. Batten, Australian legendary tales - The Sea Maiden, public domain

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: A year later, the Sea-Maiden snatched up the young man, who by then was married to the princess. The beauty lured the monster out of the loch with music. Then the prince summoned the falcon he had helped, which brought him to safety.
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@hear-me.social) Attached: 1 image #FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Finn had no sooner said that word than the woman made a great water-worm of herself, and made an attack on #Finn, and she would have killed him then and there but for Bran being with him. Bran took a grip of the worm and shook it, and then it wound itself round Bran's body, and would have crushed the life out of her, but Finn thrust his sharp sword into its throat. "Keep back your hand," said the worm then, "and you will not have the curse of a lonely woman upon you." "It is what I think," said Finn, "that you would not leave me my life if you could take it from me; but go out of my sight now," he said, "and that I may never see you again." Then she made herself into a Red Woman again, and went away into the wood.` Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116205444728318586

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Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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And then the Red Woman rose up, and she said: "King of the Hill, if it is your will, Finn and his men have a mind to see the wonderful beast, for they spent a long time following after it, and that is what brought them here."
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The king rose up and gave a welcome to Finn and to his men, and he bade them to sit down at the table; and they ate and drank their fill, and that was wanting to them after the hunt they had made.
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She took a Druid rod then, and she struck a blow on the side of the hill, and on the moment a great door opened, and they heard sweet music coming from within. "Come in now," said the Red Woman, "till you see the wonderful beast." …
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When they came to the foot of the hill the Red Woman was standing there before them. "You did not take the beast," she said. "We did not take it, but we know where it is," said Finn.
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But that did not hinder them, and they followed him on till they saw him going in at the foot of Cnoc-na-righ at the breaking of day.
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They followed it on always; and about midnight they were pressing on it, and it began to scatter blood after it, and it was not long till Finn and his men were red from head to foot.
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It was late in the evening when he came up with a share of them, and they still on the track of the beast. The darkness of the night was coming on, but the two moons in the sides of the beast gave a bright light, and they never lost it from sight.
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Boar's head, Archaeological Museum Kehlheim, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `All the Fianna were gone on the track of the beast while #Finn was talking and fighting with the Red Woman; and he did not know in what place they were, but he went following after them, himself and Bran.
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@hear-me.social) Attached: 1 image #FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `When they were on the edge of a little wood, they saw a strange beast coming towards them with the quickness of the wind, and a Red Woman on its track. Narrow feet the beast had, and a head like the head of a boar, and long horns on it; but the rest of it was like a deer, and there was a shining moon on each of its sides. #Finn stopped, and he said: "Fianna of Ireland," he said, "did you ever see a beast like that one until now?" "We never did indeed," said they; "and it would be right for us to let out the hounds after it." "Wait a while," said Finn, "till I speak with the Red Woman; but do not let the beast go past you," he said. They thought to keep back the beast then, going before it; but they were hardly able to hinder it at all, and it went away through them. And when the Red Woman was come up to them, Finn asked her what was the name of the beast she was following. "I do not know that," she said, "though I am on its track since I left the borders of Loch Dearg a month ago, and I never lost sight of it since then; and the two moons that are on its two sides shine through the country all around in the night time. And I must follow it till it falls," she said, "or I will lose my own life and the lives of my three sons that are the best fighting men in the whole world." "We will take the beast for you if you have a mind," said Finn. "Do not try to do that," she said, "for I myself am swifter than you are, and I cannot come up with it." "We will not let it go till we know what sort of a beast is it," said Finn. "If you yourself or your share of men go after it, I will bind you hand and foot," said she. "It is too stiff your talk is," said Finn. "And do you not know," he said, "I am Finn, son of Cumhal; and there are fourscore fighting men along with me that were never beaten yet." "It is little heed I give to yourself or your share of men," said the Red Woman; "and if my three sons were here, they would stand up against you." "Indeed it will be a bad day," said Finn, "when the threat of a woman will put fear on myself or on the Fianna of Ireland." With that he sounded his horn, and he said: "Let us all follow now, men and dogs, after that beast that we saw".` Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: hear-me.social/@NeuK...
The Red Woman; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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what I think," said Finn, "that you would not leave me my life if you could take it from me; but go out of my sight now," he said, "and that I may never see you again."
Then she made herself into a Red Woman again, and went away into the wood.`
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Bran took a grip of the worm and shook it, and then it wound itself round Bran's body, and would have crushed the life out of her, but Finn thrust his sharp sword into its throat. "Keep back your hand," said the worm then, "and you will not have the curse of a lonely woman upon you." "It is
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Finn had no sooner said that word than the woman made a great water-worm of herself, and made an attack on #Finn, and she would have killed him then and there but for Bran being with him.
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of a woman will put fear on myself or on the Fianna of Ireland." With that he sounded his horn, and he said: "Let us all follow now, men and dogs, after that beast that we saw".`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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Cumhal; and there are fourscore fighting men along with me that were never beaten yet." "It is little heed I give to yourself or your share of men," said the Red Woman; "and if my three sons were here, they would stand up against you." "Indeed it will be a bad day," said Finn, "when the threat
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and I cannot come up with it." "We will not let it go till we know what sort of a beast is it," said Finn. "If you yourself or your share of men go after it, I will bind you hand and foot," said she. "It is too stiff your talk is," said Finn. "And do you not know," he said, "I am Finn, son of
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And I must follow it till it falls," she said, "or I will lose my own life and the lives of my three sons that are the best fighting men in the whole world." "We will take the beast for you if you have a mind," said Finn. "Do not try to do that," she said, "for I myself am swifter than you are,
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two sides shine through the country all around in the night time.
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And when the Red Woman was come up to them, Finn asked her what was the name of the beast she was following. "I do not know that," she said, "though I am on its track since I left the borders of Loch Dearg a month ago, and I never lost sight of it since then; and the two moons that are on its
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