My favorite Greek Goddess
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Boudica
I've been reading up on Boudica, a really badass Celtic queen. She rallied Celtic tribes who were being oppressed under Roman rule and left a path of destruction through their settlements. Here is a link to History Net for her history and Missed in History has a good episode on her.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Serglige Con Culainn (The Sick-Bed of Cú Chulainn)
"Cannot the lasses of Ulster find any other but us," he said, "to give them their bird-hunt to-day?"
And he by himself slew thirty-and-three of them. Now, after all these things had passed, Cuchulain slept with the lady.
"Why this shame on my head thou wouldst lay?
And Fand goeth away with Manannan the Son of the Sea, and Manannan shook his cloak between Cuchulain and Fand, so that they might never meet together again throughout eternity.
I did this little series based loosely on a story in Irish mythology: The Sick-Bed of Cú Chulainn. Check out the full translated text at www.manannan.net or for a funnier version try www.bettermyths.com
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birds,
illustration,
Irish,
Love Story,
Mary Curtin,
Myth,
Mythology,
Ocean,
Petrel
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