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Celtic Deities - Blog Posts
The Navigator Revisiting Manannán mac Lir in his youth, before the famous self-navigating boat was fully automated + the good old Early Irish practice of putting severed heads to household use
Revisiting Manannán mac Lir in his youth. I suppose if Orbsen mac Allot, aka Manannán mac Lir, was born in our times and in our dimension, he would have collected nerd treasures such as Funko Pops, or vintage comics, or whatnot, like all of us mortals. But when you're a Tuatha Dé Danann prince and a pirate captain (don't take my word on it, check out Sanas Cormaic!), you have to make do with jewelry and elven heads. Sigh.
His majesty King of the Sea is not in the mood for kidding.
Enough graveyards for now, here come the princes of the sidhe!
These are young Bodb and young Orbsen, and they’re absolutely not amused.
pov: Lugh Samildánach offers you a game of fidchell. your bet?
Bodb Derg son of Dagda, High King over the Tuatha Dé Danann.
A commission of Brigid for @bloodtreachery (awww, it was SUCH a pleasure to do it!). I put an emphasis on her aspect as a poet, hence the fire of poetry ablaze! The poem in the flames is a liberal translation of these lines from The Hosting of the Sidhe into Old Irish (courtesy of my wonderful husband):
...if any gaze on our rushing band, We come between him and the deed of his hand, We come between him and the hope of his heart.
Celtiberian Roots
I thought for my first personal post, going back my ancient historical roots would be apropriate, so hereby I present you:
Celtiberian deities
The Celtiberian were one of the many barbarian people and cultures that lived in the Iberian peninsula (aka. Spain and Portugal today) before the Romans conquered them.
As the name may suggest, they were a mix between the Celts that inhabited the North-West and the Iberians, on the Eastern part of the peninsula. They lived in the middle area, and had their own settlements, culture, societies and religion.
Today I did a little bit of research on their known deities, since, being from that area, I thought it would interesting to explore the ancient gods of my land, get to know them and… who knows? Maybe bring them back to memory from the depths of Roman erasure, and give them live again.
Here are the more detailed ones:
• Ariconā - goddess of tribal protection and dogs
• Banda (Bandis) - goddess of the entrance to the Otherworld, water protection
• Besenclā (Besenclae) - a community and house protector
• Cernunnos - horned God or God of fertility, life, animals, wealth and the underworld
• Corvā - war and defense goddess
• Dēvās Nemucelaecās - celestial goddesses
• Epona - godess of horses and passing/ride through the afterlife
• Erbina - a goddess of wild animals, hunting, and domestic security
• Harācos - agricultural and prosperity god
• Icconā - healing and medicine goddess
• Laneana (Laneanis) - a goddess of springs and floods
• Lidā - land and fertility goddess
• Limia - goddess of the Lima river
• Matres Termegiste - a triad of mother goddesses
• Moricilos - a god of winds, sky, and battle
• Nabia (Navia) - versatile goddess
• Neton - a war god
• Nimedos - a military protection god
• Reva (Reua) - personification of water flows
• Senaecos - a primordial god
• Sūliās - goddesses associated with medicine and springs
• Tarbucelis - war god
• Togotis - a god of community protection, war, and oaths
• Turculā - a boar goddess
• Vaelicos - a god of wolves and wild animals
Here I leave some useful links to some websites (some in English, some in Spanish) with the little information that is available about Celts, Celtiberians and their cultures and deities
https://www.timelessmyths.com/celtic/iberian.html
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/la-religin-cltica-en-la-pennsula-ibrica-0/html/001186c0-82b2-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_2.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Celtic_deities
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celta
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt%C3%ADberos
~ Enthrelle 🧙🏻♀️