One of my favorite museums in the world is the Villa Giulia in Rome. It houses the National Etruscan Museum. It falls outside most quick tour routes, and it is a lovely, peaceful, elegant museum with a very rich collection.
See the pretty vases below, with various mythological scenes :) Recongize them?
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: „The Giant Finn McCool scales the frontage of the country's
former National Wax Museum in Dublin (the building was later demolished in 2006 to be replaced by a 'Comfort Inn' hotel). Once inside, visitors could see the giant's head looking down on them from the staircase ceiling!“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: #Mythical creatures and #animals with body parts potruding from their mouths stand for the eternal cycle of death and reincarnation.
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #MuseumDay: The Three Gods of Art (‘Trí de Dána’) settled in an area called Magh Rein, on the borders of Co Cavan and Co Leitrim. From there, it’s not a long trek to Corleck Hill, where a carved stone head with three faces was found, now on display at the Museum of Archeology in Dublin.
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One of my favorite museums is The Ringling Museum of Art in Florida. This photo shows one of the fountains in the museum's central courtyard, which displays recreations of notable statues from the Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods. #MythologyMonday
Featuring majestic views of Modum, Tyrifjord Lake and Ringerike, the Kittelsen Museum is located on Skuterud Ridge (350 masl) at the Cobalt Mines. Here you can experience one of Norway’s largest collections of original works by the famous fairytale artist Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914). #MythologyMonday
Hello, Myth Lovers! To celebrate International #MuseumDay, we'd love to see your posts about #museums! Which museums have great mythological art? Which are your favourite artifacts? Do you have a favourite #museum? Where have you seen an amazing work of art related to mythology? Use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: „The names of the #Irish goddess #Medb and the #Gaulish goddesses #Meduna and the #Comedovae may be derived from an Indo-European word *médhu– signifying ‘honey’, ‘intoxication’, and designate the fermented drink extracted from honey, that is ‘mead’. If this etymology is correct – other possibilities have been suggested -, their names may be therefore glossed as ‘Goddess of Intoxication by Mead’ or ‘Mead Goddess’.“
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Dandelion flowers can be used in beer-making, added to cordials, and used to flavour vodka. In medieval times a brew was made with mead and fermented dandelion and burdock roots.
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For this week’s #MythologyMonday theme, Brews and Potions, an excerpt from Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women:
“Homer send her to the man lodging to rob a spoonful of gunpowder. Then Homer send Gorgon up to the hill with no tree and she come back with a cup of dirt from Massa Patrick Wilson grave. Homer mix the two in a glass and fill the glass with rum...
Homer prick Lilith thumb and she wince. Homer stick Lilith thumb in the glass until the potion start to turn red.”
Love potions are said to help attract love or strengthen existing relationships, love potions are typically made from ingredients with aphrodisiac properties, such as rose petals, vanilla, and cinnamon.
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Both the warrior-queen #Aoife and #Scathach had raised an army & were about to fight each other. Scathach didn't mention this to #CúChulainn, for the handsome youth had become dear to her, so she gave him a sleeping draught to make him slumber through the battle, as she believed Aoife too much for any man to defeat. Although the potion would have conquered the senses of anyone else, CúChulainn lay asleep for but an hour before stirring.
Source:https://emeraldisle.ie/the-trials-of-cuchulainn
How was the Mead of Poetry brewed? Cruel dwarfs slit the throat of the god of wisdom Kvasir, and used it to make honeyed mead that made their words into gold, a skill coveted by the giants and gods, and eventually gifted to humanity too. #MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday: The #TuathaDéDanannrefined the art of brewing until the ale of their smith and brewer #Goibniu was strong enough to endow the drinker with immortality. #Irish epics connect ale with the festival of #Samhain, when the boundaries between this world and the #Otherworld were blurred.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Brews and Potions. Write out a story that talks about brewing beverages or potion making of special liquids and use the tag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
#mythologymonday It's less of a folklore and more pure alchemy, but I was always taken with the variation between practical and philosophical alchemy, and I think the former was brilliantly epitomised by Thomas Norton's Ordinalle of Alchimy, where he tries without thermometers to define effects like "the temperature at which duck fat melts"
I heard a fascinating talk about Santa Muerte a few months ago. I only a know a little bit, if anyone knows more, please share.
Santa Muerte seems to be a syncretic creature. Indigenous death beings presided over various aspects of life; they were often pregnant and gave advice. These combined with the grim reaper introduced alongside (enforced) Spanish Catholicism. By the 18th century, Santa Muerte was her own entity, presented as a skeletal figure.
Women pray to Santa Muerte, and she is often associated with the poor and marginalised groups. She doesn't judge, and anyone can follower her; she has no ordained priesthood.
She was first worshipped in northern Mexico, but now also found in southern Mexican celebrations of Dia de los Muertos. This revival might be connected to an increase in poverty, e.g., following NAFTA.
#MythologyMonday: Geali Dianvir was the eldest son of the king of the Fir Bolg, #Irish invaders who may be mythological memories of early #Celtic arrivals; his people were defeated by Balor, king of the evil Fomorians, who similarly may reflect historical indigenous peoples. After the battle, the defeated Fir Bolg sailed away from #Ireland, returning to the mysterious land of Gallowna, where they attempted to recoup their strength.
From Gallowna, Geali Dianvir was sent back to repair the damage to his people’s reputation that Balor had dealt. When he arrived in Bantry, in western Co. Cork in the southwestern province of Munster, Geali Dianvir found the Formorian queen surrounded by Balor’s men, who every night applied venom to their swords so that they were unbeatable in battle. The venom was obtained from a well into which the warriors plunged their weapons; the Fir Bolg hero decided to eliminate their advantage by turning it from poison to clear water. To do this, he poured 20 measures of the milk of the magical cow of abundance, the glas ghaibhleann, into the well. The Fir Bolg hero was then able to gain the advantage over Balor’s men and drive them to the outer reaches of the land.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://x.com/dublinmacker/status/1271541748863508480?t=VlZCYYhpw-KLu22YntMnsw&s=09
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #MuseumDay: „In #Irish#mythology, the #TuathaDéDanann were said to have played hurling with their enemies, the Fir Bolg, before the Battle of Moytura commenced.
According to Lady Gregory in her book, Of Gods and Fighting Men, this is what happened:
“It was on a Midsummer day they began the battle. Three times nine hurlers of the Tuatha de Danaan went out against three times nine hurlers of the Firbolgs, and they were beaten, and every one of them was killed.”
So the Fir Bolg won the game, but unfortunately for them, went on to lose the battle. In some versions, they actually played with the heads of their enemies, instead of a ball.“
Source: Ali Isaac