Revisiting Manannán Mac Lir In His Youth. I Suppose If Orbsen Mac Allot, Aka Manannán Mac Lir, Was

i really dont like to post my irish pagan art, BUT i really wanna share with folks who have a similar love for this stuff, is there a way thats best for me to share this w you? /pos /nf

I would be delighted to see it! I can be found on Insta at @aodhan_ph (my art account there is half-dead and I'll probably restart it anyways).

Tonaroasty (Tóin an Róistigh, something along the lines of 'The bottom end of de Roche lands') is a medieval ghost village in Co. Galway I accidentally came across when out to shoot a stone circle on a barrow (I did take photos of it too). Judging from the onomastics (and from the satellite photos clearly showing rectangular foundations and what seems to be a cross-shaped church) it was an Anglo-Norman settlement, so built no later than 12th c. This also gives us a clue about how and why it ended. When the Black Death reached Ireland, the Gaels were in a more advantageous position than the Normans as they lived in less crowded conditions and did not have any religious prejudice about cats (hence, less rats and less fleas carrying plague). The Norman settlers were traditionally living in a more compact way, were in frequent contact with people from crowded castles, and the relationship between cats and folk Christianity soon turned to be rocky at best (to put it very mildly). Therefore, the plague was feasting on them at will, and it was one of the factors that contributed to the subsequent Gaelicisation of the surviving Anglo-Norman nobility. The plague hypothesis also explains quite neatly why the site has not been used for settlement again ever since.

It's only a wip but yes, what we have here is two Tuatha Dé Danann kissing, one of whom is a bog body.

Everyone in this pic is fully sentient, consenting, and of proper adult age at the moment / when sacrificed, just in case. I have a weird idea of belated Beltane romance but it is what it is.

The Sun King’s goblet 🐍

One of the most enjoyable commissions I’ve ever done so far - Sreng and Bres as the Barbie and Ken meme. I think they’re a perfect tag yourself meme now!

Beltane is coming

The Navigator

Loch Léin, Samhain 2024

Altars of the dying sun