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It's very good I would say. I'd say a few things about history and mythology. Again it's prefect as the world of the Dark Ages as found in Medieval manuscripts and Modern folklore, as opposed to a mythic version of the actual Dark Ages.This came up in another thread, but figured I'd ask it here since it's an on-topic excuse to bump this thread -
Séadna , what are your thoughts on the Celtic magc system presented in the Mythras supplement Mythic Britain?
Yes certainly. I'll write something up, I'll just have to double check two of my folklore collections later today.Any interesting info on the Knights of the Red Branch?
So to follow up on this, but there isn't much to it.Out visiting old storytellers and will write about the Red Branch stuff when I get back.
I asked them some questions about the Sidhe in various media, including the Mignolaverse. I'll write a bit about it as I think people might find their responses interesting.
The major element they thought was missing from modern depcitions is that the Sidhe don't seem very religious or devoutly Christian and the absence of Otherworldly mass being held. One guy was quite surprised when I said that the Sidhe are associated with Paganism in the English speaking world since he thought they were "as Christian as angels".
There's a few old recordings where the speaker stopped being an atheist and started going to mass after seeing the Sidhe, so the association between the Sidhe and devout Catholicism is pretty strong.
Yeah it's quite funny. Like the younger storytellers, where by younger I mean less than sixty, they'd be well aware of the pagan origins, but most of these older storytellers are >80 years old and lived their lives on the Western seaboard with little contact with the rest of the world and yeah they'd be essentially totally unaware of the pagan origins. The closest you'd get is that they think Sidhe were pagans themselves in their time in the surface world and were probably from Troy or were Doric Greeks.I know that the legends that have survived passed through a long period of Christianization, but it surprises me that there would be so little awareness of the pagan origins among modern storytellers.
There is some Canada specific vocabulary of course.
heh, what's Gaelic for "eh?"
And yet still pronounced "eh?"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
That's unexpected! Do you happen to know what was the reasoning behind this?In the 19th Century many Irish people did not consider themselves to be the same "race" as other Western Europeans, but of one race with the First Nations of Canada. Even into the 20th Century our first President Douglas Hyde/Dubhglas de Híde thought there was some sort of ancient connection especially to the Wolastoqiyik, Ojibwe and Algonquin groups.
It's a mix of stuff some stretching back to the Middle Ages.That's unexpected! Do you happen to know what was the reasoning behind this?
Amusingly, that part is familiar from local sources, though I don't put much stock into it...At points in the 19th Century this stretch to pretty funny ideas of some Ancient super-empire spanning from Spain through Ireland and into Canada.
"I'm not being boorish by neither thanking nor apologizing, and I'm not being evasive by not saying my full name, and neither agreeing, nor disagreeing. I'm just suspecting you of being a Fae!"I'm somehow reminded of this, which turned up in the memes a little while ago.
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