I wanna research more but sadly I don’t have the ability to get any books or such, and I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations for free resources? Like pdfs or even YouTube channels?

I'm an artist (or at least a wanna-be artist) And I just deeply struggle trying to find references for clothes when drawing Gaulish/Celtic Deities 😖 So with anyone knows any good sites or resources talking about clothing in that period I would really appreciate it🙏

Thank you!

I was sure that I read somewhere, that Muman had a son with a high king, fled with madness, after giving birth, and then her son was killed because he had snakes in his heart that would destroy the world. But I'm struggling to find a source text, I'm I mixing things up? Does anyone know the tales I'm going on about?

I plan on transcribing all the religious research I’ve done into a hand-bound book as a devotional act. I grew up in Wicca, and in Wiccan practice such a book is usually called a Book of Shadows or a Grimoire, but now that I’m pursuing a somewhat more Celtic reconstructionist path, I’m sorta at a loss as to what to call it.

I know this is sort of a silly question, and ultimately it doesn’t matter what I call my book, but I find what language I use to be a helpful way of centering my thoughts and grounding me in my faith, so I thought I’d ask in case there’s a more appropriate word or term I could be using. Thanks!

I've been praying to Brighid for a few months now I think as well as offering a daily devotional. The matter of the devotional is what has brought me here. My daily devotional consists of study and practice of bookbinding. She has noted connections to smithwork as a whole as well as poetry. I personally made the conjecture of bookbinding being included seeing how bookbinding was not even commonly practiced in Europe until about 400 ce.

My wonder is if there is anything more substantial in ancient structures or noted myth to support my personal practice with Brighid. I've yet to find anything but all that she stands for seems to support that she would hold domain over the creations of books themselves. Especially when what she does have noted connections to are all especially close or needed to store some of her most important aspects. Especially matters around poetry, wisdom, prophecy and smithwork have convinced me that she shouldn't be that far removed from physical books being created that was created past her worship being shuffled around and sainted.

Tl;Dr - Looking for anything that could support her association with book binding. I know it's a stretch given her worship and book binding just barely miss eachother by a few centuries of creation. (Maybe texts on St. Brighid offer more insight?)

Today is Mabon, and for the life of me I'm still struggling to determine whether that's actually a Celtic holiday or not. I believe it is, but I also know that most resources for holidays & the Wheel Of The Year have influences of Wicca & other pagan practices in them. Is Mabon part of Celtic paganism? If so, what's everyone doing for it tonight?

Hi all, I'm pretty new to Celtic Reconstructionism and Paganism in general. I'm currently based in Edinburgh and would love to find a community to learn more about CR! Does anyone know of anywhere good?

I am curious since when I asked about what people thought of celtic mythos people told me it's basically very little sources + christianized. Also that the mythologies are unreliable

So for context. Reading Morgan Daimlers book, she mentions that any interaction she's had with Nuada it's been with the hawk as a messenger. Taking it with a grain of salt, I continued to develop my relationship with him and started seeing more hawks in an area where I haven't seen them.

Today I let the dogs out a second time within 20 minutes this showed up in front of the back door. Double checked to make sure it wasn't any other feather

Hey all! Does anyone have any books/sources they recommend on Dian Cécht? Thank you in advance!

I’m a little too tired and emotional to research deep dive this myself so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask. My grandfather passed away yesterday. He and I were extremely close. Obviously, I will not be overwriting any of his wishes, but I wanted to see what I could do for him with death rites or the like. It would mean a lot to me to do that. What do we know about that?

So I've been reading about Celtic paganism and I wanna start celebrating the sabbats, but I keep seeing slightly varying dates for them (i.e., Samhain being October 31 and also seeing it as November 1, etc.), so I was hoping to see if y'all had any answers to clear that up because it's rather confusing.

I'm an American with Welsh heritage. Over the course of the past three years or so I've been making an earnest attempt to connect with that heritage by researching my family history, Welsh history, Welsh mythology and folklore. I've been learning the Welsh language for about a year now on Duolingo, and about a month ago I made the choice to convert to Celtic Paganism, focusing my practice on the worship of Lleu Llaw Gyffes and Ceridwen. I posted my new altar to them on this sub a few days ago.

Worshipping Welsh deities, having Welsh heritage, and knowing a bit of the Welsh tongue, it seems intuitive and proper to me to conduct my prayers, rituals, and spells in Welsh. I can't do it this way "off the cuff" yet. I have to write them ahead of time with the assistance of Google Translate. But it feels nice to finally have a way to apply the language in my daily life, not having any mortal Welsh-speakers to chat with. 🙂

My question, though, is this: is what I'm doing here...in bad taste? I could see native Welsh-speakers regarding it as somehow disrespectful, as I'm basically using Welsh as a ceremonial language, like it's some dead exotic language like Latin. Or maybe my tendency towards obsessive thinking is getting the better of me and I'm overthinking this. Any Welsh-speakers on here who could offer their input?

Hello I want to make a talisman by invoking Cernunnos and asking Cernunnos to Bless the talisman for my intention but I don't know how to do this can you please help me ?

I was reading Ethniu’s wikipedia page and stumble across,

“In the “Wooing of Étaín,” we are told that Eithne’s other name is Boand and in the Banshenchas, Ethniu’s “true name” is revealed to be Feada.”

So i’m confused… Boann of the River Boyne is Ethnie? Are these separate deities or the same? Does anyone have any clarification ? Thank you😭

Does anyone know of any Dia or Bhandia who represent/are good to pray to for overcoming obstacles? Gaelic deities are preferred if possible.

Near the beginning of the text The Siege of Knocklong there's an episode in which Cormac mac Airt wishes for advice/prophecy about his coming reign as king. Aonghus appears to him, playing a tympan, and delivers the prophecy, followed by Cormac making a lay (song/poem) about the event.

I found this really interesting, and I'm wondering whether there are other texts which present Aonghus as a prophet, poet, or musician. Anybody know of any?

I'm interested in the figure of Afallach and anything anyone can share about him. Be that information, resources to look up, personal gnosis, etc. Anyone have any experience worshipping him? Or any experiences regarding him through his family of Madron and Mabon?

Hi Y'all!! So I'm working through a very extensive list of books in my quest to start learning significantly more depth on CR specifically Irish paganism. I love the topic, but a lot of the books aren't something I can easily access, or are rather heavy reading, so I've been watching some polytheist content on YouTube. (IPS, Ocean Keltoi)

I was wondering if anyone could recommend any Irish pagan youtube channels. I've been recommended a couple by the youtube algorithm, but I'm not yet confident in the knowledge I do have to sort out channels with good/bad information.

Thanks :)

I'm curious to know more about the folklore of the dead and ancestors. I know that if you die you linger until Donn calls you home to Tech Duinn samhain eve.

What other folklore is there related to thus and prating to your ancestors? Any sources I can read would be great too

SO, this requires a bit of explanation... so I've been frustrated with how much, and I mean how there's SO MANY Nordic pagan music groups, and practically nothing full Celtic inspired besides maybe Clann An Drumma. The problem I have with some Celtic pagan groups is that it makes it seem like it was all fairies and magic. When most of, at least Irish paganism, is about fate, warriors, battles, animals and, yes, magic.

I remember a quote someone said that was loosely about, if you don't like the music scene, change it. So I'm attempting to do so. I've made four songs so far, all with drums and percussions, I'd like to put chanting in my songs, and some do have harps and flutes but not a lot since I'm keeping with a specific vibe.

Imagine a war song with a carnyx in the beginning, low and solid tone, and you hear a rhythmic bass drum pattern, but then a Bodhrán kicks in with full force in a fast rhythm.

Or imagine a song about the Morrígan, crow's cawwing, small bells ringing, and, yes, plenty of drums to even conjure the goddess herself.

All in summary, this is an attempt to strike interest in celtic pagans to either make your own music, or join and help me. To those who search for courage, I hope this type of music will aid you. To those who look to worship the gods, I aim to worship with you.

-Cú Na Marbh

Background: I'm 18F and I've been wanting to delve further into my genealogy because my last name is so weird. My last name sounds extremely French but doesn't quite fit the bill- think Dubois, but spelled as Duboys. It's puzzled me since the day I realized something "looked wrong" about my name. It's also an extremely uncommon surname most prominent in the Caribbean, so I decided to delve into the records. I couldn't find anyone who ever migrated from the Caribbean, nor records of anyone ever going to the Caribbean, but I could find records detailing my paternal Irish great-great-grandpa immigrating to North America. I talked to an aunt on my mom's side and a huge chunk of our ancestry is mostly Irish, English, and Scottish. Dad's side were Protestants (and my theory is that his family are descended from Huguenot refugees from France, though I can't confirm that) and Mom's were Catholics (though my grandma became "lapsed" and never had my mom baptized) so those're my only clues about whichever counties the Irish parts of our ancestry might come from.

In my learning about my ancestry, I learned about CR and it spoke to me. My step-grandma (who was a huge part of my upbringing) was Indigenous (I won't say which tribe for the sake of my privacy, as all the information I've revealed above might already give away who I am since I love blabbing about genealogy to my friends, and I'd like to have one form of social media they don't know about lol) and was incredibly sad her biological children didn't want to carry on her culture. So I decided to start looking at my own ancestors more, I started trying to learn Irish (I'm bad at it lmao) and now I'm here. The only problem is that I'm not sure which authors to trust, because I know a lot of misinformation floats around by virtue of the people who twist Celtic religion with Wicca. Are there any authors the people of this sub feel are particularly trustworthy? Thank you :)

I absolutely am entranced with Heilung for what it is; Germanic/Norse ancient ritual rythm/vocal reconstruction, or at least as close to it as can be improvised given current academia and folk knowledge on the subject.

That said, are there are groups yet doing the exact same thing but with a Celtic or even specifically Gaelic theme?

I did a search and most threads were 4 to 5 years old and the consensus at that time was no. I'm wondering if that has changed.

Thanks!

Is there a similar idea in any of the Celtic Pagan faiths to the Greek idea of Khaos?

And if not is there any sorta of idea what came BEFORE existence?

Do y’all have any resources on starting out with Romano-British polytheism? Or anything with Brythonic polytheism in general (Scotland, England, and Wales)

As the title states I am fairly new to all this. I guess I'll just start with "my story" so to speak.

I'm a Trans Woman living in California U.S. and some time last year I was looking around for a name I was going to change over to when I started presenting more feminine.

I came across the name Áine and sorta just fell in love with it. Did a little reading on the Goddess, but not much. It was mostly just a fun little name I liked.

Then, a few months later, I had taken a pretty large dose of psychedelics and had quite the spiritual experience. I won't bother you with all the details. Just at one point, I could feel these like 3 entities trying to speak to me. They kept asking me for my name, so I told them I was named Áine. After that, they seemed pretty pleased with my answer and left.

Ever since then, that has been on my mind for a while. I won't lie. I'm not a particularly superstitious person, but I am a pretty firm believer in signs from the universe(or whatever divine essence exists in the universe).

So I've been looking around for info and came across you guys, and I really love the way you all go about things. I just am unsure where is a good place to start.

I noticed the Irish Pagan School online, but some of their courses and other stuff can get a bit pricey. Thoughts? Opinions?