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Im a bit of an amateur celticist, and a pitfall of that is how many popular works are just outdated at this point. What journals provide well researched discussion on the ancient celtic world?

Mine is Bricriu 's feast because it has everything a good fantasy story needs: magic, monsters, heros, honor, suspense

Interested hear what stories some of y'all like best?

I've read a ton of different creation myth reconstructions and a lot of them put Bile as the sacred tree, but I cannot for the life of me find a reference to Bile as a sacred tree in any non reconstructed text I've found. I get that it is a cognate with Belin/Beli/Balor who are variously different ancestral figures, but my understanding was that they always had more to do with the sun than any sacred tree

I knew Wales was famous for its Draig Goch, but Scotland has a lot of dragons in its folklore too. Am I the only one who didn't know?

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Hi. I'm an American author (who has not published a book yet) and I like to write a series that involve with a mythology. Now, I could have easily started with the most common three myths (Greeks/Roman, Egyptians, or Norse), but I deided why not go for one that is not further explore yet such as Polynesians, Aztec, or Babylonian. In the end, I went with Celtic Mythology. But, I don't know where to begin. Is there a book of origins for Celtic mythology? I just need something like the Elder Edda and the Prosa Edda for Norse mythologies. I want to know what I am writing about as it helps me get invested into it. Also if I write something down that isn't part of the actual lore, than I would not only end up hating my book for the rest of my life, but I would also insult the celtics fans with this false knowledge. Please help me so that I don't screw up in my books.

And can you also recommended a book that dives deep into the Celtic culture? I just need to know everything as it would help to build the world the MC lives in.

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I'm working on something based on Garlic Mythology. These are some of the creatures I've thought of with their closest English equivalents, and my sources where I heard of them.

Sidhe (elves)- sources Tomharc Etain and Cath Magh Turadh Fomhor (sea giants): Cath Magh Turadh, Boyhood Deeds of Cu Chulain, Destruction of Da Dergas Hostel. Gruagach (goblin): Sword of Osgar in Duanaire Finn Bodach (ogre) fled bricriu Lepracan (dwarf): death of Fergus mac Leite Sinach (Sea Dragon) death of Fergus mac Leite Bananach (Spectre): Duanaire Finn, destruction of Da Dergas Hostel Caileach (hag): caves of Kesh Koran in Silva Gadelica, Duanaire Finn, Boyhood Deeds of Cu Chulain Murduchan (merrow) Flory Cantillon's Funeral

Other ones whose Irish names I don't know, so if you know what they're called in the untranslated sources, I'd be much obliged:

1. The land giant in fled bricriu
2. Changeling from Brewery of Eggshells (I know it's more recent, but I imagine that there is an Irish word for them
3. Shadow Giant in Fled Bricriu
4. Cats that came out of Cruachan cave (forget when)

If you have the Irish names for these, or any other recommendations (with sources please) please comment!

Hello everyone. How are you doing, guys? I am Yas and I´m doing a research for my college´s last semester. For this one, I need to understand better the Deirdre Of the Sorrow´s story, but every version I read is different one from another. Can anyone clarify it for me? It´s urgent. Thanks for the attention <3

Hello everyone, I have recently gotten more interested in learning about Celtic mythology. I was hoping to get some suggestions on websites or books to help me get started in researching. Thanks in advance!

I was absent mindedly scrolling through Irish Myths on wikipedia (as one does) and i came across the folk version or Lugh’s birth. Birog really stuck out to me.

“A folktale told to John O'Donovan by Shane O'Dugan of Tory Island in 1835 recounts the birth of a grandson of Balor who grows up to kill his grandfather. The grandson is unnamed, his father is called Mac Cinnfhaelaidh and the manner of his killing of Balor is different, but it has been taken as a version of the birth of Lugh, and was adapted as such by Lady Gregory. In this tale, Balor hears a druid's prophecy that he will be killed by his own grandson. To prevent this he imprisons his only daughter in the Tór Mór (great tower) of Tory Island. She is cared for by twelve women, who are to prevent her ever meeting or even learning of the existence of men. On the mainland, Mac Cinnfhaelaidh owns a magic cow who gives such abundant milk that everyone, including Balor, wants to possess her. While the cow is in the care of Mac Cinnfhaelaidh's brother Mac Samthainn, Balor appears in the form of a little red-haired boy and tricks him into giving him the cow. Looking for revenge, Mac Cinnfhaelaidh calls on a leanan sídhe (fairy woman) called Biróg, who transports him by magic to the top of Balor's tower, where he seduces Eithne. In time she gives birth to triplets, which Balor gathers up in a sheet and sends to be drowned in a whirlpool. The messenger drowns two of the babies but unwittingly drops one child into the harbour, where he is rescued by Biróg. She takes him to his father, who gives him to his brother, Gavida the smith, in fosterage”

In the Mabinogion, Gwydion tricks Math into leaving by stealing a pig from Pryderi, allowing Gilfaethwy to rape Goewin (in some versions Arianhrod). Subsequently, Lue is born, and Gwydion raises him. Cian often gets mentioned as the irish version of Gwydion (since hes Lugh’s father) but In this folk version, Cian has more in common with Gilfaethwy while Birog and Gavidda seem to have more in common with Gwydion (though as the smith Gavidda seems closer to Goivannon)

I'm keeping on with Irish mythology, and now I want to go further back even. Does anyone know where an English translation of the Book of Leinster can be bought (looking for physical books for sale, not online; if it's spread in multiple volumes, that's ok, I just want to make sure to find a place to buy them all)?

I'm somewhat confused about the history of the discovery of this saga, so hoping someone here knows how it went down. Jeffrey Gantz's 'early Irish Myths and Sagas' says that the complete story wasn't discovered till 1937, before which the first of three parts was missing (where she got turned into a fly). Tom Cross's and Clark Slover's Ancient Irish tales from 1936 corroborates this since it skips the first section.

The thing is that Lady Gregory's God's and Fighting Men from 1902 has her retelling the events from part one to make the same story as Gantz's direct translation. My question is this: how'd she know about the stuff that happened in part one before it was discovered (Gantz says in Cheltenham) in 1937?

Does anyone have any idea what the big buildings like Da Derga's Hostel and the three houses of Emain Macha would have looked like? What was the interior layout like? Any interior or exterior details of these sorts of pre Norman Irish buildings will be sincerely appreciated by me.

How can I help?

I am kind of obsessed with helping people learn about Celtic myths and deities. I run online classes, and make lots of free content on YouTube and things like blog posts. I'm not interested in making it more sensational or romantic than it really is. I'm not interested in fake folklore or New Age junk-myth. I'm all about what's in the Medieval texts and where to find it, and how to understand it, etc.

Of course I'm just one person, and I can't reach everybody, but I constantly hear from people how hard it is for them to get good information. I promise you that the information is there, and a great deal of it is online and can be accessed for free, if you know where to look. So what kind of help do you need? I'm open to suggestions.

I was just curious on what gods or beings were Omnipotent in the Celtic Mythology??