The Devil often sends terrifying visions to would-be treasure hunters in order to deter them from their task.
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Once, carters on a routine journey beheld a terrifying vision of Hell.
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: Óengus, son of the Dagdae, was in decay for two years.
“What ails him?” asked Bodb.
“He has seen a girl in his sleep. We do not know where in Ireland is the girl he has loved and has seen.
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: Óengus, son of the Dagdae, was in decay for two years.
“What ails him?” asked Bodb.
“He has seen a girl in his sleep. We do not know where in Ireland is the girl he has loved and has seen. You are commanded by the Dagdae to seek […]
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On his journey to Paradise, a cobbler beheld a vast, color-changing ocean.
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Gold Roman coin featuring Emperor Magnus Maximus
In Welsh folklore, Macsen Wledig was a mythologized version of Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus. One night in Rome, he dreamed of a beautiful maiden in a far-off land, and sent men all over the Earth to find her. She turned out to be a Welsh princess named Elen, and Macsen married her.
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Seeing visions of the future tends to be a bad idea.
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: For a full year the girl (https://sl.bing.net/hFE8UtmpW9s was visiting Óengus in his dreams, `so that he wasted away.
He didn’t speak to anyone. He continued to decay then and nobody knew what was the matter with him. The physicians of Ireland were gathered. They […]
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: For a full year the girl (sl.bing.net/hFE8UtmpW9s) was visiting Óengus in his dreams, `so that he wasted away. He didn’t speak to anyone. He continued to decay then and nobody knew what was the matter with him. The physicians of Ireland were gathered.
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#MythologyMonday This parallel universe/multi-verse, The Otherworld, it's a world of flora and fauna, and nature spirits. In Druidry we develop the ability to travel in this other world, in dreams or in trance. art: Tomasz Alen Kopera
#MythologyMonday This parallel universe/multi-verse, The Otherworld, it's a world of flora and fauna, and nature spirits. In Druidry we develop the ability to travel in this other world, in dreams or in trance.
art: Tomasz Alen Kopera
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `After the first visit of the girl (https://sl.bing.net/joCfDdFuGya Óengus remained in his compartment until night again. He saw a harp in her hand, the sweetest that was. She played music for him. She slept with him. He was there until the next morning. He was not […]
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `After the first visit of the girl (sl.bing.net/joCfDdFuGya), Óengus remained in his compartment until night again. He saw a harp in her hand, the sweetest that was. She played music for him. She slept with him. He was there until the next morning.
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A dragon used to fly around Edinburgh, terrorising locals and eating their livestock. One day it ate so much, it lay down for a sleep and never woke up. Its body became the hill know as Arthur’s Seat. #mythologymonday #Scotland art: 'Sleeping Dragon' by Stephen G. Rae
A dragon used to fly around Edinburgh, terrorising locals and eating their livestock. One day it ate so much, it lay down for a sleep and never woke up. Its body became the hill know as Arthur’s Seat.
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art: 'Sleeping Dragon' by Stephen G. Rae
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So-called "Ember Sunday Children" can see visions which will indicate who will die in the next three months.
This might include themselves...
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2/2 Morpheus brings dreams in the form of man, Phobetor, or Frightener, brings dreams in form of beast, and Phantasos, or Fantasy, dreams in the form of all lifeless things.
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1/2 Nyx, goddess of night, is the mother of Hypnos (sleep) and the Oneiros (dreams), Morpheus, Phobetor & Phantasos.
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2/2 She promised Apollo she'd lie with him for the gift, but reneged. Being unable to take the gift back, he instead added a curse. She was driven mad by her visions & inability to act on them.
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1/2 Cassandra was a Trojan princess gifted with prophecy but cursed to not be believed. Both gift and curse came from the god Apollo.
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The monk Albertus Magnus once conjured fantastic visions for the entertainment of the Imperial Court.
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Another night Óengus (https://sl.bing.net/h5h9rnMBVkW was asleep. While he was in bed, he saw something, a girl coming towards him, the most beautiful that was in Ireland. Óengus went to take her hand, to take her to him into his compartment.
He saw something; she […]
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Another night Óengus (sl.bing.net/iau0zV4876i) was asleep. While he was in bed, he saw something, a girl coming towards him, the most beautiful that was in Ireland. Óengus went to take her hand, to take her to him into his compartment.
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In Norse lore, seers known as völvas entered trance states to see what others could not. Their visions came at a cost, pulling them between worlds where not everything wished to be seen. #MythologyMonday
Art: Lady of the Vanir by Annie Stegg
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Once, the black mage named "Teufelsklaue" conjured bizarre visions for his audience.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion, by Bernarda Bryson Shahn, showing a barefoot Nat Turner in lithotype pointing to a partial solar eclipse.
A solar eclipse on February 12, 1831 turned into a vision for Nat Turner, who saw it as a black man's hand overtaking the sun, reaching for freedom. Inspired by this holy vision, on August 21 of that year he launched a spiritually-inspired rebellion. #MythologyMonday
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The Sun God Tablet, showing humans worshiping Shamash, the sun god, as he sits on a throne and the humans stand with prayers and sticks before the altar of the sun nearby.
Iškar Zaqīqu is an ancient Babylonian text that is equal parts divination and medical texts. Analyzing the dreams of people, it uses past evidence to suggest a root cause for types of dreams, and how to excise bad ones; good dreams come from gods, bad from demons #MythologyMonday
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Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CúChulainn, Detail from Desmond Kinney’s mosaic (6179099398); CC BY 2.0
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The Ultonians had a custom of holding a fair every year, which lasted the three days before #Samhain, the day of Samhain itself, and the three days that followed it.
That was the period of time which the Ultonians devoted to the holding of the Fair of Samhain
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The Ultonians had a custom of holding a fair every year, which lasted the three days before #Samhain, the day of Samhain itself, and the three days that followed it. That was the period of time which the Ultonians devoted to the […]
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One of the oldest stories of King Arthur is found in The Dream of Rhonabwy, in the Mabinogion. While Rhonabwy sleeps, he has a vision of Arthur playing chess against his follower, Owain, to the backdrop of the Battle of Badon.
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At Stettin, a young boy was shown visions of the afterlife and of the future.
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GOTHIC DREAMS Rackham's re-imagining of the Pandora myth c. 1910 shows the contents on her box to be #bats; a gothicising of the myth of how evil got into the world takes place & a referencing of Goya's sleep of reason producing monsters #mythologymonday
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