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themagicbrew · 2 months

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On a Moonlight Night

#magicbrewwork #poppy #donn #furry #feral #cat #mouse #original character #original art #untold stories #pastel colors

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evicted-oc · 1 year

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Thor: *running around with a hammer* LOOK AT MY HAMMER >:D

Morrigan: *laughing her ass off

Lugh: we're never giving him coffee again

Loki: *yawns* I'm up-

Hœnir: I'm going to the coffee shop.. come if you want?

Óðr: hey~

Donn: loki, stop taking pictures

Loki: hehe 👹 no

Morrigan: makeup~ Thor decided to take a picture of me while I was talking-

Thor: *bouncing off the walls*

Arawn: and I'm going back to the underworld

Lugh: *takes his cigarette away* it's too early for that

Arawn: *takes out another and lights it*

Lugh: no! *huffs and takes it away*

Arawn: *pulls out another* I could keep going

Lugh: I can see you looking *winks and blows a kiss

Balor: *gags*

Lugh: STOP

Balor: I don't know what to say other than I look good

Lugh: *gags*

Balor: 😐

#thor #loki #hœnir #óðr #donn #morrigan #arawn #lugh #balor

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sunydays · 6 months

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Oc thing because I can…. IM NOT DEAD I PROMISE- life Is just hectic as hell rn, LOVE YALL… I did this pic for my birthday which is today, so ENJOY!

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The oc

#rottmnt #rottmnt au #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt art #donnie hamato #nfoe #donnie h #donnie tmnt #rottmnt donnie #rise donnie #donnie x oc #donnatello hamato #rottmnt oc #oc x canon #new friends old enemies au #new friends old enemies #rise of the tmnt #donn

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ceo-draiochta · 3 months

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The Irish House of the Dead

Is in Cork, to the surprise of no one.

(Bull Rock, Co. Cork)

Not much is directly known about pre-Christian belief pertaining to the afterlife, there is however many mythological texts from a post Christian period. These texts may give us an indication of what some of these beliefs may have been. From this we can reconstruct a belief in a location known as Tech Duinn as a location visited by the departed. This being Irish for House of Donn

Who's Donn?

A house tends to have a master, and this ones is Donn. Donn is an ancestorial figure to the people of Ireland and is the first of the Milesians to die in Ireland. In the Metrical Dinnseanchas his dying body was placed on a high rock before docking in Ireland to avoid the spreading of the curse of disease put upon it by the Tuatha Dé (link). In the Lebor Gabála Érenn he drowns at this rock due to a battle of curses with the Tuatha Dé (link page 39 & 65). This rock then becomes known as Tech Duinn. He lives on in some capacity however as much later he fathers Diarmuid Ua Duibhne. (link) (maybe, not actually sure if this is a related Donn)

His House and Its Connection to the Dead

This rock on which he died is known as Tech Duinn and is said to be a place in where soul gather after death.

"‘....his folk shall come to this spot.’ So hence it is called Tech Duinn: and for this cause, according to the heathen, the souls of sinners visit Tech Duinn before they go to hell, and give their blessing, ere they go, to the soul of Donn. But as for the righteous soul of a penitent, it beholds the place from afar, and is not borne astray. Such, at least, is the belief of the heathen" (link). The Metrical Dindshenchas-Tech Duinn

Tech Duinn is mentioned in connection to being a place for the departed in numerous places including the above Metrical Dindshenchas and the following texts:

Men of Donn say that "Though we are alive we are dead" in Togail Bruidne Dá Derga. (link).

In the Acallam na Senórach, the Fianna snatch a woman from this house to marry off, this is not specifically related to death but a seemingly regular woman was living in this sidhe and was then taken. Also important to note, Tech Duinn is explicitly said to be in Munster here. (link).

(Hate to rec wikipedia but their page on Donn is decent enough)

Where is it?

In the Acallam na Senórach, Tech Duinn is explicitly called a Sidhe. A mound which connects this world with the Otherworld, this along with the fact that in the Metrical Dindshenchas, Donn's failing body can be placed upon it, implies that this Tech Duinn is a physical location in this world which leads to a house in the Otherworld. The Acallam na Senórach also specifically states this place to be in Munster. As in the LGE Donn drowns as his people attempt to port in Ireland, it is clearly a place off the coast of the country.

These facts all line up quite nicely with folklore which states that Bull Rock, a small island off the coast of Cork, near Dursey Island, is this Sidhe, Tech Duinn. (link) (link)

Bull Rock is a tiny island with an arch going through it, the only thing of note is the lighthouse placed upon it (link)(link). The island has not had a population bigger than 5 in recorded history and is currently uninhabited. It should be noted however that the adjacent Dursey Island is home to evidence of humanity from the bronze age to well past the Medieval era (link) and even is home to multiple Holy Wells (link). It is not farfetched to me that the nearby rock would gain some sort of significance to the people living in this area, especially once the ethereal nature of the rock is seen.

A video recorded of a boat going through the arch of Bull Rock.

vimeo

(Abandoned Buildings on Bull Rock)

What to Take Away From This

It is likely that pre-Christian belief in an afterlife where the soul of the departed traveled to Tech Duinn to be with an ancestorial figure known as Donn, where they stayed with him possibly before moving elsewhere to Hell in Metrical Dindshenchas or possibly under go a process of metempsychosis. This House of Donn was most likely reached through Bull's Rock in County Cork, a small island that resembles a Sidhe.

#donn #ceantar #na déithe #irish paganism #celtic paganism #gaelic paganism #ireland #mine #gaelpol #witchblr #pagan #celtic #Vimeo #resources

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amylouioc · 6 months

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Tech Duinn, the House of Donn

Many might not know that the Irish have a god of the dead, Donn. His domain is thought to be located around Bull Rock, off the coast of Cork, and every Samhain, he comes to welcome new spirits and guide them westwards to the Otherworld.

This is also my October postcard, so if you’d like to sign up to get one, you can do so here!

#irish mythology #artists on tumblr #irish folklore #illustration #celtic mythology #fantasy illustration #Donn #original illustration #my art

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irelandseyeonmythology · 7 months

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Donn potentially (?) becoming a god after drowning because he pissed off Ériu is objectively funny once you start thinking about it.

Do the Tuatha Dé ever get together and there’s Donn, in the corner, looking very wet and drowned and dead?

Do they ever greet him with: “Dia duit, Invader!”

Does he join the Tethra/Mannanán “Deity associated with the sea who is Done with this business” club? Do they even want him in the club?

Does Bres hate him because he was mean to his mommy? (Jail for the sons of Míl, jail for one thousand years)

Does Lugh hate him because he invaded Ireland (bad) or love him because he fought against the three sons of Cermait (good)?

Does the Dagda enjoy sometimes whacking him with his staff a few times just for the sake of establishing dominance + punishing him for fighting against his grandsons?

Is there a separate little place for the deities of the sons of Míl to hang out, or is he all alone, hanging out at Tech Duinn and being bullied by the TDD?

Do he and the Cailleach Beara hang out? IS there a Cailleach Beara for him to hang out with?

Maybe drowning wasn’t the worst thing to happen to him.

#donn #irish mythology #mythological cycle #donn is one of the few figures who seems likely to have been a deity at some point #and the because of his treatment in LGE it’s incredibly funny

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astronomicalwanderlust · 7 months

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POV: you just posted cringe

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twitchydoodle · 1 year

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Them thinking about their crushes

I finished this a couple of months back-

#The Small Fries #Josefina #Elise #Elise Capulet #Lost Ghost #Nimue Mair #The Demon #Donn #Marahan #Your Stupid Face #OC #characters #character #my art

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kiokesu · 1 year

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Crayon

#archipelago au #yakuza au #separated au #donatello #donn #his name is donn and donnie is his nickname #he drew the yakuza bosses' tattoos and thats how he earned his affection #hes so little #save rottmnt #rottmnt #tmnt

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probablyacreep · 8 months

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Does anyone have any experiences with chthonic deities?

For years I’ve had dreams of a pretty chthonic nature (O:) featuring certain recurring images and characters, it’s also a recurring theme during waking hours. It’s played a massive part in my life but I always maintained my interest in pagan gods/polytheism was totally academic since I wasn’t raised religious and didn’t want to seem crazy. I’m definitely at a point where I’m questioning that, for a while it had faded but after travelling to Greece and visiting the caves at Eleusis it’s come back. The idea of deities associated with death scares me though, I don’t want to tempt misfortune or something.

#donn #irish paganism #upg #paganism #dis pater #lugh deity #chthonic gods #hellenic polytheism #hades

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bl00dstainzz · 7 months

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