The Gods and Their Croziers
@godsandcroziers@pagan.plus
A project to apply comparative mythology to Celtic-Christian Hagiography to undo the layers of "Interpretatio Christiana" that rendered the Celtic gods into Saints. Focusing mostly on the Irish saints and Gods, but with wider relevance to how we understand Celtic, Norse, Mediterranian, Ossetian, Iranian, and Indian traditions.
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The Gods and Their Croziers
@godsandcroziers@pagan.plus
A project to apply comparative mythology to Celtic-Christian Hagiography to undo the layers of "Interpretatio Christiana" that rendered the Celtic gods into Saints. Focusing mostly on the Irish saints and Gods, but with wider relevance to how we understand Celtic, Norse, Mediterranian, Ossetian, Iranian, and Indian traditions.
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Today's issue of The Gods and Their Croziers is out: Cellach & Muiredach (AKA Cúchongeilt) - The Divided Divine Twins of Killala.
These two are as close as #IrishLegends come to the Asvins or Dioscuri. These brothers¹ represent possibly the most popular God in international mythology, the God whose incarnations and hypostases form the protagonists for probably half of all Epic literature.
They come in two *main* flavours, and the story of Cellach & Muiredach gives us both. While they are not, I thimk, *direct* parallels of Aengus Mac Óg & Cúchulainn, they come of the same essence and demonstrate my modelling of these two iconic characters as parts of a unified essence.
https://buttondown.com/godsandcroziers/archive/may-1st-cellach-muiredach-the-divided-divine-twins/
¹ These gods are in fact *usually* not Twins - that's an artefact of the comparative mythology of their most obvious exemplars
#Irish #Mythology #Pagan
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