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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.
What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.
What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
3/3 -
The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.
What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.
What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.
What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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An Lanntair: Join children’s author Louisa MacDougall to celebrate her new book The Ugly Puffling and other stories. There will be story time, crafts and wildlife-themed games for primary-aged children. Pop in at any time between 12.30 and 2.30pm
The post https://lanntair.com/events/event/the-ugly-puffling-and-other-stories-book-launch/ appeared first on https://lanntair.com.Source: https://lanntair.com/events/event/the-ugly-puffling-and-other-stories-book-launch/
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Pangrattato. Italian grandmothers have called it poor man's parmesan for four hundred years. Cost: nothing. Keeps a week in a jar.
Aran — bread.
What does your house do with the stale end?
#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
The rest of today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking.
They go the color of a paper bag and the kitchen smells like a bakery.
#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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Call for Applications: Crossing Tongues Poetry Residency
Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature invites a Scottish poet writing in English, Scots &/or Scottish Gaelic to undertake a 7-day residency in Nigeria, alongside the Hausa International Book & Arts Festival, December 2026
Applications open until 30 September
https://cityofliterature.com/opportunities/call-for-applications-crossing-tongues-poetry-residency/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Nigeria #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #residency
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: ✍️🏛️ At Cicero’s request, his freed slave and secretary Marcus Tullius Tiro devised Tironian notes, a #shorthand system of roughly 4,000 symbols for #Latin.
Used to transcribe the orator’s speeches, it expanded to 14,000 signs before emperors suppressed it as diabolical. The symbol ⁊ survives today as the Tironian et in #Unicode, preserved by #Irish and #Gaelic #typography.
#cicero #history #rome #writing #language #linguistics #typing #ancientrome #science
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Recognition, not reverence — three people who did the thing this week, with their actual hands.
#LGBTQ #Pride #TransRights #Heroes #QueerJoy #Solidarity #Resistance #GoodNews #Paralympics #Gaelic
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Uamh an Uisge, Eilean Mhuile.
Larach poite-duibhe ann an uamh mara.
The 'whisky cave' on the coastline in Mull.
#Whisky #WhiskyWednesday #UisgeBeatha #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scotland #Scotch #archaeology #MastoDaoine #IsleOfMull #Argyll #photography
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
"Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day.
"The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, also empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic.
"It includes powers for ministers to commission research into the use of Gaelic and Scots and establish teaching standards for the languages.
"Scotland's Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes called it a 'historic milestone'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o#CulturalErasure #CulturalPreservation #LanguagePreservation #Gaelic #Celts
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
"Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day.
"The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, also empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic.
"It includes powers for ministers to commission research into the use of Gaelic and Scots and establish teaching standards for the languages.
"Scotland's Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes called it a 'historic milestone'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o#CulturalErasure #CulturalPreservation #LanguagePreservation #Gaelic #Celts
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
"Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day.
"The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, also empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic.
"It includes powers for ministers to commission research into the use of Gaelic and Scots and establish teaching standards for the languages.
"Scotland's Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes called it a 'historic milestone'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o#CulturalErasure #CulturalPreservation #LanguagePreservation #Gaelic #Celts
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
"Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day.
"The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, also empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic.
"It includes powers for ministers to commission research into the use of Gaelic and Scots and establish teaching standards for the languages.
"Scotland's Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes called it a 'historic milestone'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o#CulturalErasure #CulturalPreservation #LanguagePreservation #Gaelic #Celts
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
"Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day.
"The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, also empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic.
"It includes powers for ministers to commission research into the use of Gaelic and Scots and establish teaching standards for the languages.
"Scotland's Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes called it a 'historic milestone'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o#CulturalErasure #CulturalPreservation #LanguagePreservation #Gaelic #Celts
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#BostonWeekend 17x Sun CELTIC Scottish Country Dance with Canadian flair in #SomervilleMA 29$, cheaper for students, free for years 5 and under. https://artsatthearmory.org/events/rscds-boston-presents-celebrating-our-celtic-connections/ #BostonDancing #BostonKids #Celtic #Pipes #ceilidh #Gaelic #Boston
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Banshees
A banshee (Bean si in Modern Irish & ben side, in Old Irish, meaning “woman of the fairy mound,” or “fairy woman”) is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member. She usually does this by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening. Keening is a traditional form of vocal lament for the dead in the Gaelic Celtic tradition. This is known to have taken place in Ireland & Scotland.
Banshees are strongly associated with specific Irish families. The belief is that the banshee is a family spirit attached to a particular lineage. Her mournful wail/cry is heard only by family members as a warning of an imminent death.
Another of the banshee characteristics is their unwavering attachment to certain Gaelic families such as the O’Neills, O’Brians, O’Connors, O’Grady, & Kavanaghs, among others. Some traditions hold that the banshee is the ghost. This is perhaps a mother of a famous poet/singer from the family who died tragically. In this sense, she’s an ancestral spirit tied to the bloodline & the land.
She appears or is heard only to mourn & warn the family of an impending death. Often before anyone has received news of it. This direct, specific role makes her an inherently familiar guardian or omen for that clan/family.
They aren’t family pets, the banshees presence is a known, if terrifying, part of the family’s history & destiny, linking her fate to theirs across generations.
A banshee is an autonomous entity, a powerful fairy-woman (bean sidhe) or ghost, isn’t under the control of any living person.
Sometimes she has long streaming hair, which she may be seen combing, with some legends specifying she can only be keen while combing her hair. She wears a gray cloak over a green dress. Her eyes are red from continual weeping. She’s sometimes dressed in white with red hair & a ghastly complexion.
In Ireland & parts of Scotland, a traditional part of mourning is the keening woman (bean chaointe), who wails a lament. This keening woman may be a professional, in some cases. The best Keeners would be in high demand.
Irish legends talks about a lament being sung by a fairy woman, or banshee. She would sing it when a family member died or was about to die. Even if the person had died far away & news of their death hasn’t come yet. In those cases, her wailing would be the 1st warning the household had of the death.
The banshee is also a predictor of death. If someone is about to enter a situation where it’s unlikely they’ll come out alive, she’ll warn people by screaming/wailing. This gives rise to the banshee also being known as a wailing woman. The banshee was also linked with the death coach. The banshee is said to either summon the death coach with her keening or travel in tandem with it.
When several banshees show up at 1 time, it usually indicates the death of someone holy or great. The story sometimes tells that the woman (though called a fairy) was a ghost. She’s often a specific murdered woman, or a man who passed away in childbirth.
In some parts of Leinster, she’s referred to as the bean chaointe or ban nigheachain (“little washerwoman”) or nigheag na h-ath (“little washer at the ford”). She’s seen washing bloodstained clothes or armor of those who are about to die.
In Welsh folklore, there’s also a similar being known as the cyhyraeth. The cyhyraeth gives a disembodied moaning voice before the person’s passing.
Some sources suggest that the banshees Laments only the descendants of pure Milesian stock of Ireland. The Milesians were the final race to settle in Ireland. The original belief appears to be associated with a number of ancient Irish families. According to tradition, a banshee wouldn’t lament or visit someone of Saxon or Norman descent or those who came to Ireland later.
Most, not all, of the last names associated with banshees have the “O” or “Mc/Mac” prefix. That means people with the last names of Goidelic origin. This means a family native to the Insular Celtic lands. Rather than those of the Norse, Anglo-Saxon, or Norman.
There are some exceptions to the banshee lore. A banshee may lament a person who’s been gifted with music & song.
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#AngloSaxon #BanNigheachain #Banshees #BeanChaointe #BeanNighe #BeanSi #beanSidhe #BenSide #Celtic #Cyhyraeth #DeathCoach #Gaelic #Goidelic #InsularCeltic #Ireland #IrishFolklore #Kavanaghs #keening #KeeningWoman #Milesian #ModernIrish #Norman #Norse #OBrians #OConnors #OGrady #ONeills #OldIrish #Poet #Saxon #Scotland #ScottishFolklore #Singer #WelshFolklore
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Hackaday Links: October 15, 2023 - Want to get a chatbot to do your bidding, even when it’s programmed not to? It’s e... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/15/hackaday-links-october-15-2023/ #vehicleidentificationnumber #worldstandardsday #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #relevantxkcd #bluetooth #stoplight #chatgpt #traffic #vikings #slider #gaelic #google #prompt #gpt-4 #zulu #vin #ai
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
"Quern" come from #Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂-nu-, something like this:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/quern-from-PIE-gwerh2n.wav*gʷerh₂- also developed into #Balochi گران graan “heavy”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gwerh2n-to-Balochi-gran.wav#Punjabi ਗੁਰ gur, as in ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ gurdwara “gateway to the gurus” (= Sikh temple):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gwerh2-to-Punjabi-gur.wavAncient #Greek βάρος baros “weight”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gweh2rus-to-AncientGreek-baros.wavScottish #Gaelic brà “quern”
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gwreh2-to-Gaelic-bra.wav@linguistics #audio #etymology #phonetics #EnglishLanguage