Ancient Greek híppos, Latin equus, Irish each, and Icelandic jór all mean 'horse', and Spanish yegua and Romanian iapă mean 'mare'. They're very different, yet they ultimately stem from the same Proto-Indo-European word. They drifted apart due to the sound changes they underwent.

What would their modern English, German, Dutch, French and Italian cognates look like if they had survived? I tell about it on my Patreon.

there's something so beautiful and so tragic about crying out to the gods and any gods that would help, because you're own kind failed you, and yet, those deity's have more humanity then people, so they help you when others wont

So as far as I'm aware in the Celtic umbrella of deities we don't have any deities SPECIFICALLY related to weaving/textiles or pottery. Which in the grand pattern of Indo-European branches (or even humanity as a whole) seems.... very odd...

What are the community's thoughts on these acts falling under the purview of Brigit or her other language counter parts? Are there other deities that would make more sense for these activities? What are our thoughts?

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A short list of bands that sing in rare, extinct or indigenous languages

Old Church Slavonic: Батюшка (Batushka)

Old Saxon: Menhir

Gaulish: Eluveitie

Old Norse: Skáld

Te Reo Māori: Alien Weaponry

Samoan: Shepherds Reign

Khakas and Chulyms: Otyken

retour au dessin épique , gloire au gaulois !

Reaching out, or rather, returning the call I suppose. I’m way out of my comfort zone, I feel silly. I’m doubting myself; though I can’t ignore this..this.. fire? Idk how to describe the pull I feel towards her- it’s like my spirit is ablaze with yearning ( cringe Ik).

Tsirona, Damona, Brixta

Stellar Queen I beseech Hail, Hail

Star, Cow, Moon, Sorceress Great, Hail

I, humble, who you have called to

I, having given praise, art, Hail

Do now call, Shinning one- hear me

To my prayer kindly incline, Hail

Threefold Queen Divine; cosmic spring

Tsirona, Damona, Brixta

This prayer was inspired by the octosyllable formula found in Gaulish curse tablets

Nuada

First king of the Gods

Drawing by Ire

With all of the depictions of Cernunnos these days as this hulking, bearded, muscle-clad macho man who lives in the woods, it's very easy to forget that the single major depiction we have of him looks like this:

Image description begin: The engravings on the Gundestrup Cauldron, depicting a male-ish figure with noodle arms holding a torc in the right hand (image left) and a snake in the left hand (image right). There are deer of some kind on the left side of the image, and some strange dogs on the right side of the image. End image description.

I mean...

Image description begin: The same image, zoomed in to the face of the figure. The mouth is partially open, the eyes are looking slightly forward, and the nose is very flat. It overall looks very goofy. End image description.

Gaulish Translation 1 :

Source : Arknights https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=137187401178598&set=pcb.137188081178530 Auteur/Author :@Lalvice_沙離dr在銭鎖双狼 https://passport.weibo.com/visitor/visitor?entry=miniblog&a=enter&url=https%3A%2F%2Fweibo.com%2Fu%2F5207773548&domain=.weibo.com&sudaref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&ua=php-sso_sdk_client-0.6.36&_rand=1675412986.2487 It's not an "litteral" translation because some words aren't simply existing in reconstructions or are attested, so I tried to fill the gaps by modifying a little bit the dialogs. ----------------------------- Ce n'est pas une traduction "littérale" car certains mots n'existent simplement pas dans les reconstructions ou attestés, alors j'ai essayé de combler le manque en modifiant un peu les dialogues Translation (French-English) : Silverash : Il y a ici un "complément de cause", alors quel mot je dois mettre Exusiai peut-tu répondre ? There is here an "adverbial phrase of "reason", so which word should I put ? Exusiai, can you answer ? Exusiai : OUI, c'est...c'est/YES, it's...it's Mostima M.Silverash a demandé quelle était ta nourriture préré Sir (Lord) Silverash asked what is your favorite food Exusiai: Oh ! (ma) nourriture préférée/Oh ! Favorite food ! J'aime les tartes au pommes ! OUI ! I like apple pies, YES ! Silverash : Sors de (cette) salle ! Get out of this room

Adsaxsona: "Weaver of Spells" and Gaulish goddess of the Underworld, witches, revenge, justice, and magick.

The child and the partridge 🌿

Cernunnos e offering

I've been feeling Taranis a lot lately, with the recent late summer storms here. You'd think thunder gods would more or less feel the same, but they don't. Taranis feels quite different from Thor, more...watery?

The Reims Stela (Autel de Reims) is one of the more impressive and complete survivals of Cernunnos iconography.

Because the weathered stone is so dull, I've always wanted to see it restored to its former polychromy glory — so I experimented with some digital colorization!

(SOLD)- Chaplet of Sirona

snake vertebrae, moonstone, fossilized coral

A chaplet dedicated to the dewoi of stars, springs, and healing, Sirona. Worshipped by the continental celtic people, the goddess Sirona was petitioned for miracles of health. Contemporarily, Sirona is often viewed as an ouranic and ocean dwelling dewoi, so this double tailed and winged mermaid amulet felt the perfect fit to depict the goddess.

Sirona's traditional attributes of the serpent and basket of eggs, the venom and the remedy, are represented here by snake vertebrae and milky white moonstones. The fossilized coral is meant to represent her connection the waters, and I hand picked specimens which reminded me glittering stars in all their many hues.

This piece, completed under the full moon, was blessed with lunar oils (as I am among those Gauls who see Sirona as a lunar-spirit), and other appropriate stellar materials. A prayer recited over each bead as it was passed over a fumigation of mugwort.

$78