Irish Gods: Abarta

I got this from Wikipedia.

In Irish mythology, Abarta (possibly meaning "doer of deeds"^[1]), was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and is associated with Fionn mac Cumhaill.^[1]

One tale of Abarta's trickery is where he offered himself as a servant to Fionn mac Cumhaill, shortly after Mac Cumhaill had succeeded his father as leader of the Fianna, a band of mighty Milesian warriors.^[1] In a gesture of goodwill, Abarta then gave them a wild grey horse, which fourteen Fianna had to mount onto its back before it would even move.^[1] After Abarta had mounted behind the Fianna on the horse, it galloped off taking the warriors to the Otherworld where the Tuatha Dé Danann had been driven underground by the Milesians.^[1]

The Fianna, led by Fionn mac Cumhaill's assistant Foltor, had to acquire a magical ship to hunt down Abarta's steed.^[1] Foltor, being the Fianna's best tracker, managed to navigate into the otherworld, where Abarta was made to release the imprisoned Fianna warriors, and to satisfy honour, had to hold on to the horse's tail and be dragged back to Ireland.

New Moon (January 2017)

Tonight will be the New Moon and I will be honoring the Morrigan. I hope that you all have a good New Moon and be well.

Druidic Meditation (6 Months)

Today marks six months that I've been doing my Druidic meditations. Making it to this point has been something that I've been looking forward to. Now I move onto the other half of my first year and I'm really looking forward to it. These meditations have helped me out in more ways than one and I'm glad that I decided to start doing them.

Blog's Been Up for Two Months

Today marks two months that my blog has been up. It's amazing how long that I've been doing this path even though I've only been blogging under this blog for two months. Thanks, everyone, that has come on here and read my posts. Means the world to me.

Getting ready for Imbolc

Next Wednesday will be Imbolc, the first of the three spring festivals. Imbolc is sacred to Breed and is celebrated by all that practice some form of paganism. Even if they don't call themselves a pagan. We look forward to the warm weather returning. Imbolc coming means that we're on the other side of winter, with spring just around the corner. Imbolc is also the second sabbath of the dark half of the year.

The Ewes are going to start producing milk, meaning that milk base items are the thing during this year. There's a whole history of Imbolc that you can google yourself but to me Imbolc is a time that I look forward to. My brain looks forward to the end of winter and the beginning of flowers and tall grass.

Earth Path for the Week of January 23, 2017

This will be the last, on-time post, until the 6th of next month. My net is going down and I won't be able to blog on-time. Here's today's video.

Irish Gods: Aimend

Time for another one. I got this from Wikipedia.




In Irish mythology and genealogy, Aimend is the daughter of Óengus Bolg, king of the Dáirine or Corcu Loígde. She marries Conall Corc, founder of the Eóganachta dynasties, and through him is an ancestor of the "inner circle" septs of Eóganacht Chaisil, Eóganacht Glendamnach, and Eóganacht Áine, who established the powerful kingship of Cashel. Details of the story imply she may have originally been a goddess (Byrne 2001: 166, 193).

Etymology.

This name appears to be derived from Proto-Celtic *aidu-mandā. The name literally means "burning stain," which may have been a byword for the notion of ‘sunburn’ (q.v. [1] [2] [3]). The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic name is likely to have been *Aedumanda