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#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: #Cróchan Crogderg (= ”bloodred”) was an obscure goddess or heroine who gave birth to the great queen/goddess #Medb in the cave of #Cruachain. Medb`s royal seat was named after Cróchan which means `cup` or `cauldron`. Both form an entrance to the #Otherworld, `a miniature well`.
Source: Patricia Monaghan `The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog`

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: „The names of the #Irish goddess #Medb and the #Gaulish goddesses #Meduna and the #Comedovae may be derived from an Indo-European word *médhu– signifying ‘honey’, ‘intoxication’, and designate the fermented drink extracted from honey, that is ‘mead’. If this etymology is correct – other possibilities have been suggested -, their names may be therefore glossed as ‘Goddess of Intoxication by Mead’ or ‘Mead Goddess’.“

“A wine made from honey, #mead figures in a number of #Celtic myths and legends as a drink favored by warriors. Its most consistent mythological association is with the goddess/queen whose name is the same as the drink, #Medb, and who represented the intoxication and danger of kingship.”
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `The Táin Bó Cúailnge is an epic from #Irish #mythology. It is often called "the Irish Iliad". The Táin tells of a war against Ulster by Queen #Medb of Connacht and her husband King Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge. Due to a curse upon the king and warriors of Ulster, the invaders are opposed only by the young demigod, Cú Chulainn.
The Táin is traditionally set in the 1st century in a pagan heroic age.
Source: Táin Bó Cúailnge - Wikipedia

#FolkyFriday: Queen #Medb went to her chief #druid and demanded of him what her own lot in the Tain Bó Cuilgne should be. But the druid said only: “Whoever comes back in safety, or comes not, thou thyself shalt come.”
Source: Dru Magus #Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Medb Chrúachna was courted by Finn mac Rosa Ruaid, King of Leinster, by Cairbre Nia-Fer mac Rosa Ruaid, King of Temair, by Conchobor mac Fachtna, King of Ulster and by Eochu Bec, but turned them all away because she just wanted a man without sparseness and fear and jealousy. For if her husband had been inferior to her in the first two qualities, this would have been an insult to him. And she didn't need a jealous man because one man always replaced the other in her company. In Ailill mac Rosa Ruaid she found what she was looking for.
#strongwomen

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: The name #Medb has the same root as the word mead. This emphasizes the fertility aspect of the goddess/queen the king (heavenly) is wedded to. Marriage to Queen Medb symbolised a legitimate transfer of sovereignty from one king to the next. #strongwomen

#Celtic #InternationalWomensDay: #Medb Chrúachna (`the intoxication`) is the embodiment of the great mother goddess in #Connacht. As a religious principle she was espoused to a series of kings. As Ó Máille has shown, these `intoxicating´ woman was frequently portrayed as choosing her own royal spouses, and he reasoned that this was because Medb symbolized sovereignty over her population group. #strongwomen

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: King Chonchobar Mac Nessa was able to stop the fight between #Loegaire, #Conall Cernach and #CuChulainn at #Bricriu's banquet. #Sencha the Wise advised to appoint #Medb and #Ailill as arbiters. Only these kings were able to divide the hero's bite in such a way that no new dispute broke out for the time being.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Ireland`

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: King Chonchobar Mac Nessa was able to stop the fight between #Loegaire, #Conall Cernach and #CuChulainn at #Bricriu's banquet. #Sencha the Wise advised to appoint #Medb and #Ailill as arbiters. Only these kings were able to divide the hero's bite in such a way that no new dispute broke out for the time being.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Ireland`

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: King Chonchobar Mac Nessa was able to stop the fight between #Loegaire, #Conall Cernach and #CuChulainn at #Bricriu's banquet. #Sencha the Wise advised to appoint #Medb and #Ailill as arbiters. Only these kings were able to divide the hero's bite in such a way that no new dispute broke out for the time being.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Ireland`

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: King Chonchobar Mac Nessa was able to stop the fight between #Loegaire, #Conall Cernach and #CuChulainn at #Bricriu's banquet. #Sencha the Wise advised to appoint #Medb and #Ailill as arbiters. Only these kings were able to divide the hero's bite in such a way that no new dispute broke out for the time being.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Ireland`

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: King Chonchobar Mac Nessa was able to stop the fight between #Loegaire, #Conall Cernach and #CuChulainn at #Bricriu's banquet. #Sencha the Wise advised to appoint #Medb and #Ailill as arbiters. Only these kings were able to divide the hero's bite in such a way that no new dispute broke out for the time being.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Ireland`

Once the sound of a gigantic voice issuing from the tiny opening of the cave called #Oweynagat, the cave of cats, frightened away the heroine or goddess Erne and a group of maidens from Cruachan, the great capital of the province of #Connacht. `Taking with her the comb (symbol of feminine potency) of her mistress, the great queen #Medb, Erne took her party northward to a lake in which they all drowned.` This is how the river Erne (an Éirne in Modern #Irish) and the lake from which it rises gained their names.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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