Mo Cosán Nua

When a person begins to feel inner peace, that same person begins to live within the light.

When a person begins to live within the light, that person is unstoppable. Light causes darkness to retreat and hide behind others.

Nature is not our religion or beliefs, Nature is everyone’s reality.

There is no division between humans and Nature, we are Nature.

The only division between humans and Nature is created within the human mind. Nature didn’t separate from humans, it is the human that tried to separate themselves from Nature. It is Nature that keeps humans alive and yet the human tries so hard to get away from it, to the point that the human begins to act like a cancer and destroy their host. The rise and intensity of diseases today is Natures way of showing the human how they are acting within the environment.

Where is your place within Nature my friend?

Do you see it as a separate entity from yourself?

Láeg: Yes you were. You were flirting with Emer.

Cú Chulainn: So what? She's my wife.

Láeg: You asked her if she was single.

Here’s the thing about Irish deities: they’re not really “gods of such and such”, ya know? They share many MANY skills and traits so that you get 10 different gods associated with healing, or like 20 that are associated with war lmao. Etc etc etc.

So there really is no gods of music in Irish mythos

That being said we can look at gods which had association with arts and music.

I’m thinking of The Dagda, who is skilled in many ways, who had a harp. So did Aengus, I believe. He was theson of the Dagda. And I’ve read he has depictions of birds singing over his head. He’s typically a god associated inspiration and poetry as well

Then there’s a god associated with bards named Ogma. And Brighid has associations with poetry. You can make an argument that singing and such involves poetic lyrics in which you can trace inspiration to them.

After reviewing everything, though, Aengus and Ogma stuck out the most in my mind. I would try divination with them and see if you can find your answers from them

Irish mythology by FieryWolverine

“Lugh has several magical possessions. He wields an unstoppable fiery spear, a sling stone, and a sword named Fragarach (“the answerer”). He also owns a self-sailing boat named Scuabtuinne (“wave sweeper”), a horse named Enbarr, and a hound named Failinis. He is said to have invented fidchell (a Gaelic equivalent of chess), ball games and horse racing.“

‘What number comes to lift that tribute?’ asks Cúchulainn. ‘Three sons of Alatrom of the Fomorians,’ she answers, ‘and Dub, Mell and Dubros are their names.’ Not long had they been at those talks when they saw the well-manned, full-great vessel approaching them over the furious waves of the sea. And when the damsel’s people saw the ship coming, they all fled from her, and not a single person remained in her company save only Cúchulainn. And thus was that vessel: a single warrior, dark, gloomy, devilish, on the stern of that good ship, and he was laughing roughly, ill-fatedly, so that every one saw his entrails and his bowels through the body of his gullet.

I feel like some of the discussion of Morrigan tends to lump her in with European or Norse ideas of war deities and she’s just so different. She’s arguably not even a war deity in the traditional sense.

The Morrigan rarely fights herself. She’s a talker and a planner and a prophet and poet.

She inspires heroes and sets up leaders.

She’ll go in disguise to judge your merit.

She’ll appear like a monster to test your resolve.

It’s not a case of not fighting, but choosing the moment carefully.

She crosses between this world and the next. She knows death, knows what the cost of fighting can be.

A writer not being on one of those “don’t touch with a ten-foot-pole” lists doesn’t guarantee that they’re right about everything. Read carefully, and read widely, not just in your tradition! 

Not even just within paganism! Read science! Read–don’t take willy-nilly, but read–from other faiths! Read about logic and how rhetoric functions! 

Read about medicine, and for the love of all the gods, don’t take medical advice, including mental health advice, from anybody who hasn’t been properly trained, especially if you’re putting materials in your body (herbs are drugs, charcoal absorbs everything, essential oils SHOULD NOT BE INGESTED)! FIND OUT WHAT PROPER TRAINING LOOKS LIKE!