#Cailleach

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a>: There`s a pre-Celtic cosmic tale in which the winter sun’s daughter is born as an old woman and grows younger through the winter, ending as a lovely maid, which was adopted by the arriving <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celts</a> and melded to their own myth of the bestowal of sovereignty on the chosen king, who typically had to kiss or have intercourse with the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cailleach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cailleach</a> in her hag form before she revealed herself as a splendid young woman. Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Mythology & <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>`

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a>: `It is interesting that, consistent with the notion of womb tombs, some designs carved into the orthostats of some of these cairns have been interpreted as female symbolism. The elliptical carvings at Loughcrew, for example, have been described as vulvas, yet I have also heard of these same symbols described as boats. When I stood in the belly of one of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cailleach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cailleach</a>’s mounds at Loughcrew and witnessed the light of the rising sun at Imbolc enter the passageway and light up the symbols in the chamber, I couldn’t shake the feeling of immense female power that stole into the chamber with the dawn, and I couldn’t help thinking, this would be a wonderfully inspiring place to give birth. In this light, the oval shape of female anatomy etched into stone suddenly made perfect sense.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: <a href="https://substack.com/@aliisaac" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@aliisaac</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a>: `It might seem more fitting if womb tombs were associated with the bountiful maiden of spring, of growth and regeneration and rebirth, rather than the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cailleach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cailleach</a>, the barren old hag of decay and cold, dead winter. But that is because we are thinking from the starting point of our modern patriarchal information system. Spring is not the moment of regeneration that we think it is; the Cailleach is not the grandmother we presume her to be. She has been gestating all the activity of burgeoning new life deep underground throughout the long winter. We are ignorant of it because we can only appreciate that which we can see and touch, such as the green shoots of spring bursting out of the ground with the arrival of Brigid. An Cailleach, the pregnant mother, has done her work; now she hands over to Brigid, the foster mother, to rear her offspring.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: <a href="https://substack.com/@aliisaac" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@aliisaac</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a>: `Perhaps the dead were carried into passage tombs to the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cailleach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cailleach</a> to allow their physical selves to decay so that their souls could be released. Reborn, some might say. Perhaps women came to these spaces to give birth. To bring forth new life. Perhaps the Cailleach performed the function of psychopomp and midwife. Perhaps these places did not function so narrowly as solely places of burial, as our patriarchy has decided. Perhaps they celebrated birth as well.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: <a href="https://substack.com/@aliisaac" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@aliisaac</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a>: `Why is the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cailleach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cailleach</a> associated with so many passage tombs and cliffs? Female deities are popularly associated with fertility, or sovereignty, yet the Cailleach is associated with the dark and decay of winter, and with the land particularly, in its barren state of wintry stasis. From the darkness of the womb, though, the light of life is born, and the dark, silent inner chamber of the cairn or mound can be likened to the womb, the entrance or exit passage associated with the birth canal; in fact, sometimes these burial spaces are actually referred to as ‘womb tombs’.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: <a href="https://substack.com/@aliisaac" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@aliisaac</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a>: `<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Loughcrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Loughcrew</a> is connected in legend to the great hag, the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cailleach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cailleach</a>, and its <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Irish</a> name means “mountain of the hag” (Sliab na Cailleach). One cairn at <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Loughcrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Loughcrew</a> opens to the dawn of both <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Equinoxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Equinoxes</a>.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and Folklore` Loughcrew, photocredits: 1. Neu-Kelte

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