#preChristian

@theaddersden.bsky.social

1 month ago

Midmar Kirk Recumbent Stone Circle - 3D model by AOC Archaeology Group (@aocarchaeology) Model published for AOC’s In-situ website. Please visit https://insitu.org.uk/. - Midmar Kirk Recumbent Stone Circle - 3D model by AOC Archaeology Group (@aocarchaeology)

🪨♥️ Well worth a look at the article, images & 3D models 👀⬇️

Article: insitu.org.uk/2025/10/30/a...

Example 3D model: skfb.ly/pFTpY

#scotland #aberdeenshire #archaeology #history #stonecircle #religion #christianity #prechristian #pagan #3Dmodel 🏺🗃️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Anna Cza

@globalpoetics.bsky.social

1 month ago

The Irish goddess Brigid surrounded by children of all ages and other goddesses in a 1917 illustration by John Duncan. They are in a garden most presumably.

We each spoke a spell of stone
and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems.

Ask her, Bríd, what will be
come of us?

Listen. Liquid, the syllables;
the echo, luminous.

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa

#imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem

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Brew Crime

@brewcrime.bsky.social

2 months ago

Ghost Bites is back with the latest Haunted Holiday episode about Percheta!

Slitting open some bellies for Christmas.

Tune in now
linktr.ee/ghostbites

#percheta #prechristian #ghostbites

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The Ghost Monk

@theghostmonk.bsky.social

4 months ago

To start the week, a smiley Green Man (or rather yellow) I found at Abbey Dore in #Herefordshire. The abbey dates back to the 12th Century but was expanded a century later. The Green Man perhaps therefore dates from the 13th Century.
#GreenMan #pagan #PreChristian #church #medieval #medievalsky

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The Adder’s Den

@theaddersden.bsky.social

9 months ago

A mysterious Iron Age figure from Ballachulish | NMS Fertility figure or Iron Age goddess of the straits? This carved sculpture of a female dates from around 600 BC, but her meaning remains unknown. In Novemb

💧Love this fascinating figure ⬇️

www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

#scotland #history #archaeology #prechristian 🗃️🏺

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The Adder’s Den

@theaddersden.bsky.social

10 months ago

Text at top of meme: “Irish Missionaries asking Columba why he keeps hanging out with pagans in Scotland” Photo of Mark Scout character from Severance with subtitles saying: “The work is mysterious and important”

😂

Credit: Pictish Memes on FB (hopefully they’ll join us here at some point): www.facebook.com/share/p/18zT...?

#scotland #picts #history #archaeology #religion #stcolumba #prechristian #pagan #humour 🏺 🗃️