May it be nine times eternal...

Hello and welcome! I go by NeoDestati or Neo for short here on the World Wide Web

[restfulraccoon]

candles, fluffy blankets, cozy cushions, hot chocolates and pumpkin spiced lattes, soup in your favourite mug after a chilly walk, crunchy leaves everywhere you go, cinnamon, log fires and toasted marshmallows. knitted sweaters and woolly socks. feelings of warmth and comfort after being out in the rain, watching your favourite autumn movies while your pet sleeps on your lap.

it’s coming, the best season is coming. 🧶🍁🍄🍂🤎

[aurorafaery]

📷iambrandon747

[yanika717]

Инстаграм не работает, но куда-то же мне нужно запостить мои патиссоны! Из меня так себе огородник, я люблю то, что растёт само по себе, поэтому кабачки и им подобные это вот прям мое. А ещё они очень вкусные, если пожарить их с яйцом.

[crowcottagecore]

f o r a g e 🌿🍄🧚🏻

images from pinterest

[serosedflamio]

“Everyone else and their orientations are able to bond and relate to the love and romance aspects and we’re over here like— We don’t do that.” - Jaiden Animations

Edit– link to vid <3 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1DTK4U1AM&t=3s

[yharnamsnewslug]

I do feel like, while this is how A LOT of aroace people feel when having discussion about amatonormativity and acephobia and how the world is catered around those who have romantic relationships -

I also have so much in common with people whom I thought I never would?

Even in this video’s comments, there were people who weren’t aroace saying “this is how I felt at that age!” And they were lesbians, bisexuals, trans people, even someone who was like “I felt like I had to be bisexual, right? And finding the right term for me was as amazing as you finding aroace!”

There IS a rift, and it has been created not just by aphobes outside of our community, but inside. I want to mend it, I want to let everyone know that I feel a kinship with other queer and trans people, yeah? But we do have to acknowledge that rift.

Listen to aromantic people more often! We are now in the spotlight and other creators and figures around the internet are coming out to say they’re in the aromantic spectrum! I was able to come out because of one of these creators :)

And as always, also listen to us ace folk when we talk about what we go through and the expectations that most people just figure are normal things!

The aroace community is important. And we have things in common with the rest of the community.

Let’s mend the rift Jaiden spoke of.

[neodestati]

Just got home from work to this! Thank you to @comfycozywitch for packaging your new book from @weiserbooks all pretty like this! I'm excited to start reading it AND to try out the pumpkin spice sauce! I follow an Irish Pagan path so some of the ideas in here will be modified to suit my path. Now time to reconnect with my kitchen witchery like when I first got into the craft! . . . #comfycozywitch #weisnerbooks #pagan #paganism #witch #witchcraft #hearthwitch #kitchenwitch #hearthandhomewitchcraft #irishpagan #irishpaganism #witchyvibes #witchy #witchythings (at Bay City, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2-faXLpQT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[artbyjenisse]

Please Reblog. Do Not Repost. Do Not Remove Credits/Words.

Morrigan, or The Morrigan, is a Celtic goddess of war, death, fate, and magic.

Sometimes she is three goddesses, a triple goddess, other times she is a single individual.

Fourth in a series of goddesses of the world.

[art-of-lore]

New in the shop ~ A5 Print sets of three powerful Goddesses from Irish Mythology, Brighid, Mórrígan and Scáthach. Shipping now.

Also available in bigger sizes individually.

www.theartoflore.etsy.com

[diioonysus]

mythologies | europe | death goddesses

[awakened-tarot]

Imbolc

• Midpoint between Yule & Ostara, welcome the rebirth of the sun

• Date(s): January 31st to February 2nd

• Altar Decorations: Brigid’s cross, candle wheels, dish of snow, evergreens, grain dollies, ploughs, sun wheels, white flowers

• Activities: Cleanse & redecorate your space, plan your spring garden, review your intentions for the year, light candles to welcome the sun, make room for new beginnings, make candles

• Animals: Cow, dragon, groundhog, hibernating animals (bears), deer, lark, robin, lamb, sheep, snake, swan, vulture, wolf

• Spellwork: Fire scrying, blessing your tools, enhance creativity, take a purifying bath

• Colors: Gold, gray, light green, white, yellow, pink, spring green

• Crystals: Red stones (garnet, bloodstone, ruby), amethyst, calcite, moonstone, turquoise, carnelian, chrysocolla

• Deities:

Greek: Athena, Gaia, Selene, Eros, Pan

Celtic: Artio, Brigid

Welsh: Bronwen

Roman: Aradia, Diana, Februa, Lucina, Venus, Vesta, Februus, Pax

Sumerian: Inanna

Semitic: Dagon

• Flowers: Crocus, daffodil, iris, snowdrop

• Foods: Breads, onions, leeks, shallots, garlic, olives, dairy, egg dishes, pork dishes, scones, muffins, peppers, bread pudding, poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, apple cider, spiced/white wine, herbal teas

• Herbs/Incense: Rosemary, basil, cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, wormwood, heather, hay, blackberry, Angelica, bay laurel, celandine, reed, straw

• Trees: Birch, blackthorn, rowan, sycamore, evergreen, willows

[corvinusgenesis]

The Old Gods - The Morrigan

“Don’t fear death. If it comes embrace it as if you are lying down next to a beautiful woman.”

Pantheon: Celtic

[greatqueens-themorrigan]

Credit:

А что если у Кацуки есть сестра...

[swansean]

Introductory Resources for Irish Polytheists

https://youtu.be/X_7OmYLjLlE

A very skilled bard shares some basic stories in a captivating way. A great place to start.

https://bardmythologies.com/

Really palatable introductory character cards and stories, though not always fully faithful to the texts.

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/index_irish.html

Translated texts, which can be intimidating. Good if you want to do some of your own digging.

https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/

(The best) Irish dictionary for pronunciation and translating needs. Google translate cannot save you; there’s also Focloir.ie if you need it

https://www.duchas.ie/en

This is a database of Irish folklore as recorded and reported by Irish folks. Definitely worth a deep dive, especially if you’re not Irish, in order to get a grasp on the way certain elements or stories are treated.

https://loraobrien.ie

Lora O’Brien (and Jon O’Sullivan) is a big deal. She has a lot of awesome books/does interviews/youtubes. If her name is attached, it’s pretty trustworthy information. Her site also links to the following:

https://irishpaganschool.com

Which offers some free introductory courses from time to time (lora o briens site links to a free intro course if you do some digging, and in the month of may they’re offering a free course on the Morrígan).

https://www.dagdabard.com/

This is Jon O’Sullivan’s blog; it’s abt An Dagda, and while it’s not as informative as Lora’s, it can connect you to some Dagda specific resources if you feel so called.

[bethany-sellers]

The Phantom Queen

Here’s my piece (featuring the Morrigan from Irish mythology) for Light Grey Art Lab’s new show, The End is Nigh! They’re now having a presale on the book that collects all the works featured in the exhibition, so check out their page for more info on that! Prints are also available here. If you’re in the Minneapolis area, be sure to go by their gallery to see the show in person!

[strangesigils]

Hi Strange! Could I request a sigil for Hecate and The Morrigan? Thank you again, you rock!!!

FOR SURE! Thank you so much for actually requesting both of these, because a lot of people were asking about it when requests were closed and it’s always a bummer when something is asked for a lot but nobody sends a request in for it when requests are open, because if it’s not in the ask box as a request I honestly just forget about it.

SO the thing about both of these goddesses is that both have various ways to spell their names or refer to them, so normally in situations like that I’ll make a sigil for every variation of their name if I find that out during my research.  So here ya go!

*** SIGIL REQUESTS ARE CLOSED ***

[tarotbee]

hello!! I see you post mostly about norse/hellenistic deities but was wondering if you could do a worship post about The Morrigan/The Dagda for celtic deities? Thanks so much :D

Offerings and ways of worshipping An Morrigan

(Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn outside my scope!)

- associated scents for candles and incense: opium, clove, dragons blood, pumpkin, sandalwood, apple, cinnamon, patchouli, cedar,

- herbs/plants/spices: clove, sage, peppercorn, holly, star anise, garlic, rosemary, basil, weeping willows, hawthorn, juniper, blackthorn flowers, sage, jasmine, mugwort, angelica root, maple leaves, celandine, clover, rageweed, snapdragon, nightshade, vervain, belladonna, yew, cedarwood, rowan, dahlias, dandelion, pumpkin spice, orchids, aldar and red or black roses

- black tourmaline, carnelian, smokey quartz, snowflake obsidian, onyx, opal, blood stone, hematite and other dark stones relating to strength, protection or love

- bugs

- red wine and other red alcohols

- strong and red coloured teas

- fireball whiskey and Irish whiskey

- mead

- red beans

- red coloured food

- red meats (such as beef and lamb)

- traditional Irish foods

- knife/dagger

- knife/daggers imagery

- shield and armour imagery

- crow or raven feathers (ethically sourced)

- crow feet (ethically sourced)

- crow or raven skulls (ethically sourced)

- storm water, rain water, spring water or moon water

- coffee

- milk

-honey

- candles of black, red, grey, gold, purple or white

- practice self love and self care

- spend time in a cemetery

- clean up cemeteries

- do your shadow work!!

- attend therapy

- aid and support pregnant folks

- destroy some stuff, go to a rage room, rip apart a pillow, break some old plates etc

- go to the gym/establish a workout routine

- set firm boundaries and stick to them

- study her, read up on her mythology

- study celtic folklore and Irish culture

- leave food out for birds

- practice divination

- draw or paint something for her

- write or read poetry to her

- sing for her

- carry or take care of a child (it doesn't have to be yours but pls don't steal someone's kid)

- dedicate time to your craft

- pumpkins/pumpkin flavoured things

- apples/apples flavoured foods

- @skyewillow has a really awesome list of songs that she has found the Morrigan to like!

- s3ggs and s3ggs magic

- nuts such as almonds, cashews, walnuts (these are the only nuts I know but go crazy if you know more)

- chocolate

- potatoes!!

Offerings and ways of Worshipping An Dagda

- cauldrons

- Irish harp

- a version of his club lorg mór

- boar, horse and pig imagery

- pork

- pig ears and pig snouts (can be found at pet stores)

- horse shoes

- oats and porridge

- bread

- the colour red

- red jasper

- study celtic mythology and folklore

- study Irish culture and keep the books on An Dagda's shrine or altar

- create, thrift and commission art work and items for his altar

- just generally be creative with his offerings! Make sculptures and paintings and drawings and poetry

- sing for him

- acorns

- Oak tree bark and leaves

- milk

- cream

- butter

- home baked treats

- beer

- mead

- whiskey

- support other celtic practioners and Irish businesses

- aid pregnant people and animals

- grow your own produce

- symbols of fertility and abundance on his altar or shrine

- fruit

- s3ggs

- honey

-host dinner parties for family or friends

- a token/coin

[solitary-pagan-deactivated20230]

The Morrígan - Masterpost

General Description

The Morrígan (Irish: Mór-Ríoghain) is an Irish goddess of death, war and prophecy.

In the myths, she would often appear to foretell the outcome of a battle or to foretell a doom. When appearing to someone, she would usually take another form which brings us to her next special ability, and that is shape-shifting.

She was a great shape-shifter. Her most famous shape is the one of a raven. Besides the raven, she would also appear as a beautiful maiden, an old hag, a wolf, an eel and a heifer.

The Morrígan is described as a very powerful and sometimes even erotic character. That is why a lot of people see her as a goddess of sovereignty, feminine energy and sexuality too.

A single deity or a trinity?

There is a discussion about whether The Morrígan is a single deity or a trinity consisting of a three different but closely related goddesses - Badb, Macha and Nemain.

In the myths, there is a great inconsistency when it comes to her names. It is stated that The Morrígan is a daughter of Ernmas, but Badb and Macha are also described as his daughters. So, it is possible that The Morrígan is a single deity, who then has two sisters.

However, there is also a theory where the three sisters, Badb, Macha and Anand, are collectively named as "The Morrígna", which would then make The Morrígan a trinity.

In Lebor Gabála Érenn it is stated: "Badb and Macha and Anand, of whom are the Paps of Anu in Luachar were the three daughters of Ernmas the she-farmer." (...) "Ernmas had other three daughters, Badb and Macha and Morrigu, whose name was Anand. Her three sons were Glon and Gaim and Coscar." (...) "Badb and Macha, greatness of wealth, Morrigu - springs of craftiness, sources of bitter fighting were the three daughters of Ernmas."

When it comes to me and my opinion:

I have always seen The Morrígan as a single deity, and not a trinity. Then, Badb, Macha and Nemain (or Morrigu or Anand - The Morrígan) could be single, separated deities, or they are just The Morrigan's different shapes, since she is a great shape-shifter, so they are actually different persons but in their core all of them are actually one person, The Morrígan - that (second) theory seems most logical to me.

I am talking highly theoretically here and theory is not always so important, especially not in Paganism. What matters are our experiences with the deities and our gut feeling, so I would say that you should go for a theory that seems more logical to you and that gives you a better "frame" for your spirituality.

Offerings

These are the offerings that I find suitable for The Morrígan:

Red Wine

Meat

Milk and Diary Products

Fish

Black Tea

Divination

Pictures or symbols of animals that The Morrígan shape-shifted to

Coffee

Dark/Bitter Chocolate

All red fruit and their juices

Sharp Items (swords, blades, knives...)

Visiting a graveyard

Spirit Work

Crow/Raven feathers

Black, purple or red candles

Frankincense

Passages from the myths

The Second Battle of Mag Tuired:

"Then she said to him, 'Undertake a battle of overthrowing.' The Morrigan said to Lug, 'Awake...'"

The Dagda had a house in Glen Edin in the north, and he had arranged to meet a woman in Glen Edin a year from that day, near the All Hallows of the battle. The Unshin of Connacht roars to the south of it. He saw the woman at the Unshin in Corann, washing, with one of her feet at Allod Echae (that is, Aghanagh) south of the water and the other at Lisconny north of the water. There were nine loosened tresses on her head. The Dagda spoke with her, and they united. "The Bed of the Couple" was the name of that place from that time on. (The woman mentioned here is the Morrigan). Then she told the Dagda that the Fomoire would land at Mag Ceidne, and that he should summon the aes dana of Ireland to meet her at the Ford of the Unshin, and she would go into Scetne to destroy Indech mac De Domnann, the king of the Fomoire, and would take from him the blood of his heart and the kidneys of his valor. Later she gave two handfuls of that blood to the hosts that were waiting at the Ford of the Unshin. Its name became "The Ford of Destruction" because of that destruction of the king."

"'And you, Morrigan,' said Lug, 'what power?' 'Not hard to say,' she said. 'I have stood fast; I shall pursue what was watched; I will be able to kill; I will be able to destroy those who might be subdued.'"

"Then the Morrigan the daughter of Ernmas came, and she was strengthening the Tuatha De to fight the battle resolutely and fiercely. She then chanted the following poem: 'Kings arise to the battle!' Immediately afterwards the battle broke, and the Fomoire were driven to the sea."

"Then after the battle was won and the slaughter had been cleaned away, the Morrigan, the daughter of Ernmas, proceeded to announce the battle and the great victory which had occurred there to the royal heights of Ireland and to its sid−hosts, to its chief waters and to its rivermouths. And that is the reason Badb still relates great deeds. 'Have you any news?' everyone asked her then.

'Peace up to heaven.

Heaven down to earth.

Earth beneath heaven,

Strength in each,

A cup very full,

Full of honey;

Mead in abundance.

Summer in winter,

Peace up to heaven.'

She also prophesied the end of the world, foretelling every evil that would occur then, and every disease and every vengeance; and she chanted the following poem:

'I shall not see a world

Which will be dear to me:

Summer without blossoms,

Cattle will be without milk,

Women without modesty,

Men without valor.

Conquests without a king...

Woods without mast.

Sea without produce...

False judgements of old men.

False precedents of lawyers,

Every man a betrayer.

Every son a reaver.

The son will go to the bed of his father,

The father will go to the bed of his son.

Each his brother's brother−in−law.

He will not seek any woman outside his house...

An evil time,

Son will deceive his father,

Daughter will deceive...'"

Táin Bó Cúalnge:

"It is the same day that the Morrigan, daughter of Ernmas, came from the Sid, so that she was on the pillar in Temair Cuailnge, taking a warning to the Dun of Cualnge before the men of Ireland, and she began to speak to him, and 'Good, O wretched one, O Dun of Cualnge,' said the Morrigan, 'keep watch, for the men of Ireland have reached thee, and they will take thee to their camp unless thou keepest watch'; and she began to take a warning to him thus, and uttered her words on high."

"Cuchulainn saw a young woman coming towards him, with a dress of every colour on, and her form very excellent."

"'I will be a help to you. … I shall be more troublesome to you,' said she, 'when I come against you when you are in combat against the men. I will come in the form of an eel about your feet in the ford, so that you shall fall."

"I will drive the cattle on the ford to you, in the form of a grey she-wolf."

"I will come to you in the form of a hornless red heifer before the cattle. They will rush on you on the plains(?), and on the fords, and on the pools, and you will not see me before you."

"When Cuchulainn was in this great weariness, the Morrigan met him in the form of an old hag, and she blind and lame, milking a cow with three teats, and he asked her for a drink. She gave him milk from a teat. Then her head was healed so that it was whole. She gave the milk of the second teat, and her eye was whole; and gave the milk of the third teat, and her leg was whole. So that this was what he said about each thing of them, 'A doom of blessing on you,' said he. 'You told me,' said the Morrigan, 'I should not have healing from you for ever.' 'If I had known it was you,' said Cuchulainn, 'I would not have healed you ever.'"

Sources

https://mythopedia.com/celtic-mythology/gods/morrigan/

http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/tain_faraday.pdf

http://public-library.uk/ebooks/59/98.pdf

https://www.ecauldron.net/forum/index.php?topic=8884.0;p=0

Artwork: YaxeMoon (https://www.deviantart.com/yaxemoon/art/The-Morrigan-Celtic-Goddess-796517106)