#celtic culture

[arwendeluhtiene]

Happy Ostara/Easter/belated Spring Equinox 😊🌸🌿 🐰🥚🍫! . ✨Valar and Valier series (late 2000s)✨ - 🌳🌿Yavanna Kementári🌿🌳 Initial practice sketch, the final painting and a couple of details. . I now prefer to headcanon Yavanna as dark-skinned, but I quite like how this watercolour turned out - especially the gradation of the different greens in the dress and mantle, and the trees in the background. I also love Alan Lee's original drawing on which this painting is based 🌿💚 (swipe for the comparison! Original is black and white, coloured by me as a guide for the painting). . Some years ago I started a 'Valar and Valier' project in which I took an existing painting/drawing as reference/inspiration to draw/paint one of the Valar. So far, I've done Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Mandos and Aulë, and I also have some sketches of Nessa, Vána and Estë. Hope to get back to this project sometime! . . 🎨Media: Graphite, watercolours, inks, ink wash . 🌱References: Alan Lee's drawing of the Celtic fae Ladies of the Land of the Young, for the book Faeries.

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[overwatchfanskinarchive]

St. Patrick's Moira by Izzy Wallace/Samuel Wallace (QuilSato)

#moira #overwatch #fan skin #fanskin #Izzy Wallace #Samuel Wallace #QuilSato #Celtic culture #north european culture

[makairodonx]

Gaelic huntresses springing with their Wolves

#celtic #ireland #st patricks day #wolves #wolf #fantasy #fantasy art #fantasy artwork #gaelic culture #gaelic #wolf art #celtic culture #irish mythology

[interact-if]

Hello, do you have a list of IF about Celtic culture or mythology? I don't have a strong preference as to which country (can be Irish, Welsh, Scottish, etc), and it can be fantasy or historical, whatever you have. Thanks!

Hi Anon,

We have not found many Celtic inspired titles aside from:

Myrk Mire by @catt-nuevenor

Sacred Fire (VN) by Iceberg Interactive

The Good People (Na Daoine Maithe) (VN) by @moiraimyths

#if: rec list #celtic #interact if asks #celtic culture

[ultra-phthalo]

- Cinnabar Moth - 'Frequent in open grassy habitats including waste ground, railway banks, gardens and woodland rides but perhaps most frequent on well drained rabbit-grazed grassland, mature sand-dunes and heathland.' A moth with bright colours that act as warning signs displaying their toxicity. They are seldom eaten by predators. And can afford to live life as a day-flying moth, living life in the sunshine, because of this.

In symbology - 'This creature is seen as a symbol of hope during difficult times. The cinnabar moth has the power to help us let go of our old ways and embrace the new.'

#oc talk #oc cinnabar #cinn #cinnabar #cinnabar moth #symbols #Celtic culture #symbology #creative writing #tf #tfp #tw insects #oc #transformers #moth #transformation #nature #insects

[zsorosebudphoto]

Santa Tegra, Galiza, 03-09-23

#Santa Tegra #Galiza #03-09-23 #photography #photo #photographers on tumblr #aesthetic #aesthetics #nature #water #minho #miño #minho river #castros #castro #castrexos #celtic culture #celts #celtic #ancient celts #atlantic #prehistory #prehistoric

[stairnaheireann]

Boa Island, Co Fermanagh

Two of the most enigmatic pieces of Irish sculpture can be found in a small cemetery on Boa Island in Co Fermanagh. The larger sculpture is a two-sided ‘Janus’ figure, with depictions of a bearded figure on both sides. Both of the depictions show an oval-faced man with large almond-shaped bulging eyes, and a straight nose. In Celtic culture, heads were very important because they were thought to…

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#Armagh #‘Lustymore Man’ #Boa Island #Captive Landscapes by Stephen Emerson #Celtic Culture #Christians #Co. Fermanagh #History of Ireland #Ireland #Janus Figure #Pagans #St. Patrick&039;s Cathedral

[nickysfacts]

Poor Bugul Noz, they live forever alone in sadness just to keep us safe.🌲🌳🌲

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#history #bugul noz #mimikyu #mythology #celtic #pokemon #breton #ancient history #fairy #celtic mythology #ugly #french history #brittany #gaul #mythical creatures #celtic culture #fairycore #france #myth #alola #game freak #nintendo #celtic history #ancient #nickys facts

[poppythroat]

hey! irish tumblrians. i need help, i’m trying to research irish historical culture, particularly in tandem to clans and how they work, but the pre-christian stuff in general! If anyone has any resources please help me find them! I want to make a story based off of this as i’ve always been drawn towards my irish family, but never had a chance to reconnect.

(I’m not fully irish myself and will never consider myself irish but i do want to have a relationship with all sides of my heritage because my family on both sides has lost any cultural connection & that bothers me)

My current ideas are inspired by cats, as i (creatively) work easiest with nonhumans, and i am debating making a show out of whatever i come up with one day.

definitely going to incorporate mythology inspiration, but i know more about irish paganism (not much in broad terms) than i know about the rest of pre-christian irish culture.

Any form of response is okay! I honestly just think exploring this creatively would be a fun way to learn it.

#xenomoggy #xenofiction #irish history #irish culture #resource search #irish resources #celtic culture #celtic history

[e3rt]

Celtic na’vi

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[arwendeluhtiene]

🎨♀Herstory+Celtic throwback♀🎨 -  Graphite lineart and watercolour painting of the Scottish warrior-trainer Scáthach from Celtic myth for the 2014 FWW Stock Challenge on DeviantArt. I quite like how this painting turned out 😃 ! . . 🎨Media: Watercolours over graphite drawing . 🍀Other references: DeviantArt stock pic for the main pose, photographs of stones and Celtic swords and designs, self-picture for the skirt movement.

I wanted to draw a Celtic warrior-woman from Irish myth, so here is how I imagine Scáthach of Alba, a formidable warrior-woman with druidic skills who trained warriors in her renowned academy in the island of Skye in Alba (Scotland). She trained a lot of famous heroes, Cúchulainn among them. Her sister, Aoife, was also a great warrior-woman, even greater than herself. . .  "If Cúchulainn would go to Scathach, the woman-warrior that lived in the east of Alban, his skill would be more wonderful still, for he could not have perfect knowledge of the feats of a warrior without that." (Lady Gregory's Cúchulainn of Muirthemne).

I wrote Scáthach's name and the names of some other famous warrior-women in Irish myth in the stones using the Celtic tree Ogham alphabet: The left stone includes the names of Nessa, Conchubar's mother, and queen Medb. The stone on the right has "Scáthach banlaoch" (Warrior-woman Scáthach), plus Ogarmach, the invader daughter of the King of Greece, and Macha. . I depicted Scáthach with woad skin-paint, flowing loose hair and a checked sleeveless, ankle-length dress. Although the Celts in Gaul, seemed to favour trousers when fighting, there is evidence that the Insular Celts often preferred dresses and short/long tunics to pants. The warrior-women of this time (c. 1st Century BC) are often described in the mythology as wearing long dresses and cloaks, loose hair, a great number of ornaments, and little to no armour. The same goes for the men (with short/long tunics instead of dresses), as Celts didn't seem to be great fans of wearing armour, preferring to go to battle fully decked in all their (often encumbering) finery and/or with bare chest or directly fully naked xD

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[raffaellopalandri]

Let's celebrate Imbolc

Happy Imbolc! Imbolc, also known as Oimelc or Brigid’s Day, is a Gaelic holiday traditionally observed on February 1st, marking the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It is a time of hope and renewal, as the earth begins to awaken from its winter slumber, and the first signs of spring emerge. Image taken on Internet Origins and Symbolism The name Imbolc comes from…

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#Brigid #Celtic culture #divination #Imbolc #Paganism #Raffaello Palandri #Spring #Spring Equinox #Wheel of the Year #Winter #Winter Solstice

[overwatchfanskinarchive]

Iron Maiden Echo, Occultist Moira, Baron Samedi Baptiste, Kraken Admiral Doomfist, and Mari Lwyd Orisa by remixpheonix (2)

#echo #Moira #Baptiste #doomfist #Overwatch #Fan Skin #fanskin #remixpheonix #Halloween #winter holiday #orisa #fantasy #pirate #myth/legend #caribbean culture #Celtic culture #north european culture #Aquatic

[wuh2k]

Annual lesson on the origins of Halloween.

Practiced by the Celts (Keltoi) in Ireland as long as 2,000-2,500yrs ago Samhain /sow-wawn/was a pagan festival to mark the official beginning of Winter on the Celtic calendar.

The Celts believed that the barriers between the lands of the living and dead would come down on this night, allowing the spirits of the dead to roam the lands of the living again.

The Celts (like many pagan cultures) didn’t have the bestest opinion of the afterlife though. They believed the spirits were lonely there and so, on Samhain, would look to take the living back with them for company. Almost all modern Halloween traditions come from their methods of avoiding this supernatural abduction.

1. Bonfires

A tradition still practiced in Ireland for Halloween. Pretty self-explanatory…big fire scare off ghosts

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2. Trick or Treat

Another idea that was pretty common in pagan societies.

Don’t want lonely spirits of the dead coming in your home for some kidnapping? Put your best food and drink out front so they’re satisfied and leave you alone.

How this developed into the modern practice of children going door-to-door is hotly debated.

3. Costumes

How do you keep yourself from being whisked away by lonely ghosts?

CAMOUFLAGE!!!

What self-respecting spirit of the dead wants to bring another spirit of the dead back to the afterlife with them? That place is already full of them.

4. Jack O’Lanterns

This is the one we didn’t get from the Celts. It comes from an Irish folk-tale which tells the story of Jack, who makes a deal with the devil, then tricks the devil to escape being taken to hell.

Devil doesn’t like this and curses Jack to wander the dark roads and back ways, far from civilisation for eternity, with only an ember of hellfire to light his way. Jack placed the ember in a carved out turnip (see pic above) which was a common poor man’s lantern in Ireland in the past and so he became Jack O’Lantern.

When the Irish emigrated to the US they brought these traditions with them, but there were no turnips so they used pumpkins instead.

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[leo-fie]

I need you guys to know that the celts of the Hallstatt culture (1200 - 450 BCE) wore conical hats made of birch bark. At least this one guy from around 550 BCE did.

These pictures are from two books about the archeological find of a celtic burial mount in Hochdorf/Enz, Southern Germany. It's near where I live. The find is amazing and very well preserved, but the most important thing is clearly that hat.

#archeology #celts #celtic culture #hallstatt culture

[katiajewelbox]

#celtic music #saint patricks day #music #world music #adrian von ziegler #epic music #Celtic culture #fantasy