#MythologyMonday: Time in the #Celtic #Otherworld is progressing much slower than with us. For #Oisín it turned out that three years in Tír na nÓg was equal to three hundred years in our world.
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#MythologyMonday: #Oisin, `the little fawn`, was found as a naked boy of about seven by his father, #Fionn Mac Cumhaill, on the old magic mountain #BenBulbin. He became a warrior-poet of the #Fianna, living 300 years in the land of eternal youth #TírNanÓg. #Celtic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nFcXcPldzY
Oisin and Tír na nÓg: Here’s a 2 minute long animation I created this week in about 8 hours for Little Cinema’s Buddy Cop-themed night. … https://www.caricatures-ireland.com/oisin-and-tir-na-nog/ #animation #FenianCycle #Fianna #GardaCar #gardai #GardaiCartoon #GardaiDrawing #GardaiNewUniform #horse #IrishMythology #NiamhChinnÓir #oisin #TheGuards #TirNaNog #mastodaoine #mastoart
#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Niamh, Princess of the Golden Hair, had fallen in love with #Oisin, who was overtaken on first sight with desire for this lovely woman from the #Otherworld. The beauty with the shining eyes pulled him onto her fine white horse with golden reins. Without a look back #Oisin went over seas and plains and mountains far beyond #Ireland to the Land of Pleasure.
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: After enjoying life with #Niamh for 3 years, #Oisin returned to #Ireland. When his white horse shied away, he fell to the ground. In a matter of seconds he became old. The poet had been gone for 300 years. The place he returned to was the same but not the same as it was.
https://twitter.com/irishspiritmag/status/1564230053885616130?t=MewaoteQoIyysonxR1pnjg&s=09
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After enjoying life with #Niamh for 3 years, #Oisin returned to #Ireland. When his white horse shied away, he fell to the ground. In a matter of seconds he became old. The poet had been gone for 300 years. The place he returned to was the same but not the same as it was.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
#Niamh, Princess of the Golden Hair, had fallen in love with the poet #Oisin, who was overtaken on first sight with desire for this lovely woman from the #Otherworld. The beauty with the shining eyes pulled him onto her fine white horse with golden reins. Without a look back #Oisin went over seas and plains and mountains far beyond #Ireland to the Land of Pleasure.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nFcXcPldzY
https://twitter.com/irishspiritmag/status/1564230053885616130?t=MewaoteQoIyysonxR1pnjg&s=09
Here's a piece I wrote about the Fianna - and St Patrick and Oisín and dogs https://cassandravoices.com/society-culture/culture/the-dog-and-deer-with-fionn-mac-cumhaill/ #StPatrick #Dogs #Heaven #Hell #Oisín
Cassandra VoicesThe Dogs and Deer with Fionn mac Cumhaill | Cassandra VoicesAn intimate relationship between dogs and deer and legendary figures such as Fionn mac Cumhaill was a feature of the Irish Dreamtime writes Lucille Redmond.