#templethursday — Public Fediverse posts

Revered by both the Shinto and Buddhist religions, Inari is the Japanese goddess of agriculture and fertility. According to myth, she first arrived in Japan riding on the back of a white fox, and benevolent foxes known as zenko continue to be her messengers. #TempleThursday

📷: Levi Meir Clancy

#Mythology #Inari #Fox #Kitsune #Zenko #Kami #Shrine #Shinto #Buddhism #Japan

#Celtic #TempleThursday: The #Pictish #druid #Drostan recommended pouring the milk of 3x50 white cows without horns (`bo mael fin`) into a hole in the middle of the battlefield to cure the soldiers from the poisoned arrows of the British.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`

#Celtic #TempleThursday: `Throughout the British Isles it is #Brighid who revives the “dead” landscape in #spring from its winter slumber with her white wand of birch wood.`
Source: Wade MacMorrighan „Rekindling the Rites of Imbolg“

#Celtic #TempleThursday: „On Brighid’s Eve, the elder women of the home—clearly intimating the role of midwives—fashioned the leaba Bríde (“Brighid’s bed”) in the shape of an oblong basket after the form of a cradle and adorned it with early-blooming flowers such as snowdrops, daisies or primroses. Brighid was called in. The customary brídeóg and a white wand, made from sacred wood like birch, broom, blackberry or white willow that had been carefully stripped of its bark were placed in the bed. Carefully the ashes of the hearth were raked evenly before bed, and the next morning, the ashes were checked for signs of Brighid’s presence. A sign of Brighid’s wand or her footprint (lorge Bríde) signified blessings for the year. If no sign was found, it was believed Brighid may have been offended, leading to offerings and prayers.“ #Imbolc
Source: Wade MacMorrighan „Rekindling the Rites of #Imbolg“

#Celtic #TempleThursday: #Conchobar lured #Deirdre and Noísiu back to #Ireland by vowing that he had lost interest in his bride. Noísiu, homesick, agreed to return. Despite premonitions of doom, Deirdre reluctantly agreed. Under an ominous blood-red cloud she sailed for Ireland with the three sons of Uisneach.
„Immediately upon landing, Noísiu and his brothers were set upon by Conchobar’s warriors, who killed them."
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`