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About #gaulish deities of #death and the #underworld. What do we have besides Aerecura? #Nantosuelta is often spoken of, but I perceive her morely as a household deity like #Hestia. #Sucellos is described by the romans in the #interpretatioRomana in comparsion to #Silvanus, #Silenus which would make him a consort of #Dionysos and wanderer of liminal spaces between culture and nature, civilisation and wilderness.
I would like to see some post about the gaulish view to that topic.
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As far as I can tell, the 1st publication to use "Eponalia" is "The Wicca Book of Days" (Dunwich, 1995). While it is a sensible analogy to Saturnalia and Opalia (the days before and after), the Guidizzolo fragment writes out "Saturnalia," but leaves the next day as just "Epone".
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Happy Day of Epona! 🐴 🌹 ❄️
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Wikimedia has a nice gallery of #Gaulish votive wood carvings that miraculously survive from Sequana's sanctuary (exhibit at Musée de Dijon):
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CW: Image of a God
The #Reims Stela 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. I experimented with some digital colorization, and here is the result!
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CW: Image of the Goddess Epona
A lovely copper-gilt wooden statue of #Epona that was recovered from the depths of a well.
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Question for my #Pagan friends:
Are there any blog posts, books, etc., you know of that were influential in spreading anti-“#eclectic” or #syncretic beliefs?
Particularly ones which portray historical #polytheism as having been inherently monocultural, “pure,” provincial, etc.?
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🧵 A good thread from @dianmanios for debunking #Pagan and other #Fakelore about #SaintPatrick ☘️
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CW: Conversion therapy, Pagan spirituality
I've seen a lot of discourse about hypothetically "curing" #transgender, which stems from a #materialist fallacy of viewing #LGBT people as having "medical conditions" — or as the more extreme like to say, of LGBT people being *diseases*.
"What makes #ConversionTherapy immoral is that it doesn't work," they argue, implying that a successful method to eradicate us would somehow be "moral". 1/x
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I used to argue against Heathen narratives that "queers get the bog" on historical grounds, but at this point, why bother? Might as well reclaim it.
That's right: We are those bog bodies reincarnate. We are here to corrupt your traditions and haunt your waking life. Fucking fight us.
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It's obvious, given #Rowling's penchant for naming characters with ham-fisted puns, that she intended "Sirona Ryan" as a cryptic, backhanded way to #misgender a trans woman (first, for Sirona sounding like "sir", second for the surname sounding like a man's name).
This is an extremely cynical way to troll the trans-rights boycott of her video game. I'm sure we'll never hear the end of people claiming Rowling and #HogwartsLegacy are really inclusive now, since they "even have a trans character"
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#Sirona is in fact a Gaulish #Goddess associated with thermal baths and healing. Her name means something like "Divine Star," and was also spelled Đirona, Θirona, or Serona.
She was often worshipped alongside #Apollo ~ #Grannos, Solar Gods Who were also of healing and thermal baths.
Her iconography was represented by Roman artists as #Hygeia, a Greek Goddess of health and hygiene.
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I normally would not stoop to mentioning such a disreputable person as J.K. #Rowling, but unfortunately she seems to be invoking the names of #Gaulish Gods now, as part of her fanatical bigot campaign:
#HogwartsLegacy has reportedly introduced a trans woman character named #Sirona Ryan.
https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/934065-hogwarts-legacy-trans-character-transgender-sirona-ryan
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This stela of an unusually muscular #Mercury from #Lugdunum is a great example of the Mercurius #Gebrinius icon, where He rests His bag of money on the head of a ram.
This piqued my interest especially because the only inscriptions we have to #Gebrinios that I know of are from Germania, much further Northeast.
If only the inscription on this stela had survived like the icon did...
https://social.sciences.re/@RomaAeterna753/109745007424109908
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This stela of an unusually muscular #Mercury from #Lugdunum is a great example of the Mercurius #Gebrinius icon, where He rests His bag of money on the head of a ram.
This piqued my interest especially because the only inscriptions we have to #Gebrinios that I know of are from Germania, much further Northeast.
If only the inscription on this stela had survived like the icon did...
https://social.sciences.re/@RomaAeterna753/109745007424109908
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This stela of an unusually muscular #Mercury from #Lugdunum is a great example of the Mercurius #Gebrinius icon, where He rests His bag of money on the head of a ram.
This piqued my interest especially because the only inscriptions we have to #Gebrinios that I know of are from Germania, much further Northeast.
If only the inscription on this stela had survived like the icon did...
https://social.sciences.re/@RomaAeterna753/109745007424109908
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This stela of an unusually muscular #Mercury from #Lugdunum is a great example of the Mercurius #Gebrinius icon, where He rests His bag of money on the head of a ram.
This piqued my interest especially because the only inscriptions we have to #Gebrinios that I know of are from Germania, much further Northeast.
If only the inscription on this stela had survived like the icon did...
https://social.sciences.re/@RomaAeterna753/109745007424109908
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#Newsie is getting #defederated by some instances b/c it is harboring #transphobia and serial harassers.
But Newsie is also where indigenous journalist and inclusive Heathen accounts that I follow are at.
This system where—*surprise!*—the admin can turn out to be a total POS after all the good people already signed up is dysfunctional.
#Mastodon needs real accountability and community control of its instances, otherwise this will keep happening, and the #Fediverse will splinter.
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@lannan I see a couple new Gauloises just joined up, so that's cool... #GaulishPolytheism
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It's been rare for me to run into an account that worries me here on #Mastodon—e.g., a right winger who's up to no good.
But when I DO, I have a problem: there's no way to check their "favorites."
That was a key way for me to protect against crypto-fash accounts on #Twitter. People who carefully curate their posts often still expose themselves with their "likes." Probably half my blocklist was based on what people "liked."
This is a key #safety feature that's missing here.
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Just because there are limits to "reconstructing" #paganism does not mean authenticity goes out the window, and everything is a free-for-all.
Plastic #shamanism, plastic Paddies, #fakelore, etc., still need to be rejected.
History is not the only source of authenticity—or even the main one.
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On the eve of #Eponalia, I offered rose incense to #Epona and enjoyed some drinking afterwards 🍻. Today, I listened to a playlist of songs about Epona from Eluveitie, Enya (and yes even Zelda 🤫).
My friend @dianmanios was also so generous to make a proxy offering for me as part of the Bolgoi's Eponalia ritual today 🙏
molatus eponí ! 🐴🌹❄️
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@dianmanios 🧵 A good thread for debunking #Pagan and other #Fakelore about #SaintPatrick ☘️
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CW: A Gaulish Prayer to Cissonios
A bedtime prayer to #Cissonios was conceptualized by @dianmanios working from Delamarre's interpretation of Cissonios as *cit-souno- 'qui apporte des rêves' (He Who brings dreams). Cissonios had a Mercurial cult throughout the Keltiké that De Bernardo Stempel views as economic. She proposes a different analysis of His name, relating it to the root *kistā 'woven basket'—in reference to vessels for goods, perhaps like the cornucopia that adorns one of His altars.
In Old Irish, ces (< *kistā) could also refer to a coracle (boat). This could certainly be fitting for a God of travels and commerce. Dianmanios also reminded me how #Nodens, God of the Sea, had an incubatory cult (beds in His temple for worshippers to rest, for the purpose of dreaming and healing).
Finally, we found prayers in #CarminaGadelica that feature maritime symbolism and imagery for sleep and dreams—this is the source of the terminology I used for this prayer.
All of this together led me to an "inter alia" interpretation of Cissonios that weaves these threads into one: A God of journeying, Who leads our barque to the peaceful Sea of Dreams.
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CW: Dévá Eponá
The Goddess Epona is one of the most well-known from the Keltiké, but She was not always called exactly that.
One of the most striking variations of Her name comes from Apuleius' novel The Golden Ass, where he tells a story about a shrine to "Hippona" that was kept inside a stable. This variant is clearly influenced by the Greek word ἵππος (híppos) 'horse'.
Other known variants of Her name include EPHONA, YPONA, and even EPANA.
Besides the theonym proper, there are also theophoric personal names such as Épponus, Epponina, and Eponeilus. Interestingly, a Galatian theophoric name, Ἐπόνη, preserves the Celtic spelling and pronunciation in spite of its Hellenized context (in contrast to Apuleius).
#Epona #epigraphy #theonomastics #GaulishPolytheism
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Wetteraumuseum_Epona_Kapersburg.jpg
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These awesome #canticumancy videos @dianmanios made are to:
1. #Magusenos
2. #Camulos
3. #Cernunnos
4. #Epona
5. #Cathubodua
6. #Taranus
7. #SironaCheck them out!