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While plenty of research has been done on lunar extremes at Stonehenge and Caillinish, relatively little is known about how Irish monuments relate to the moon.` Source: www.carrowkeel.com/s... 2/2

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The lunar standstill occurs every 18.6 years, when the moon reaches its maximum swing away from the ecliptic. 1/2

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A cemetery in Stull, Kansas is said to contain a gateway to hell, where the Devil can enter our world twice a year, on Halloween and the spring equinox. On those days, people walking in the cemetery have reported growling noises and being grabbed by ghostly hands. #LegendaryWednesday

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Return of the Sun Serpent is a spring and autumn equinox phenomenon at Chichén Itzá, Mexico, where the illusion of a serpent appears on the El Castillo pyramid. This represents the Mayan serpent deity, Kukulcán, returning to bless either the spring planting or fall harvest. #LegendaryWednesday

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#LegendaryWednesday Welsh Dragons emerge from hibernation around the time of the spring equinox [Alban Eilir] after slumbering throughout the cold dark days of winter ... 🎨Keli Clark

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, marks the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. The symbol of the ram has been tied back to Dumuzi, the Sumerian god of fertility, agriculture, shepherds, and farmers, who spends winter in the Underworld. #LegendaryWednesday

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Holme II is centred on two #oak logs laid flat. Adjacent to Holme I, the ring is dated to the same year. For Holme II University of Aberdeen researcher Dr David Nance points to legends of ‘sacred kings’ described in […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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In medieval European folklore, mandrake root could be made into good luck amulets, and was a key ingredient in various magic potions. However, the mandrake would scream if pulled out, killing anyone who heard it. Thus, sorcerers would tie the root to a dog, and have them pull it out. #WyrdWednesday

A mandrake tied to a dog, about to be pulled out. From the "Tacuinum Sanitatis," a medieval handbook on health.

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

#LegendaryWednesday: `Some form of religious and ritual astronomy undoubtedly played a major role in the design and location of the Irish passage-graves. Stone and chalk balls are a kind of neolithic artefact commonly found in the chambers of these monuments […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Newgrange is aligned with the rising sun on the Winter solstice, Carrowmore visitor centre; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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Quite possibly they may have been used as teaching or recording aids, placed in the roofbox to show solar and lunar positions on the horizon. Some of the examples found in Carrowkeel are on display in the National Museum in Dublin.` Source: www.carrowkeel.com/s... 2/2

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#LegendaryWednesday @LegendaryWedne1: `Some form of religious and ritual astronomy undoubtedly played a major role in the design and location of the Irish passage-graves. Stone and chalk balls are a kind of neolithic artefact commonly found in the chambers of these monuments. 1/2

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#LegendaryWednesday According to #Mythology Pan is dead, however this can be refuted by his attendance at the New York Doll's Halloween show at the Waldorf Astoria, 1973. There was a riot before the Dolls hit the stage so its possible it might have been down to Pan's presence.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 25/03/2026

Called Mushuk Nina by the Quichua of Ecuador, this Spring Equinox Festival represents the beginning of the Andean New Year, a time for purification and renewal, time to plant seeds for the future, both physically and spiritually. #LegendaryWednesday

A Quichua ritual, where two women are standing before one another in the middle of a circle of people, one chanting one listening, while both hold a bowl that burns with coals and wheat.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 25/03/2026

At the spring equinox, Teotihuacán swells with visitors, coming to seek the old Aztec gods for health and vitality. This is an attempt to honor indigenous ancestors and their astronomical prowess: many buildings line up with the equinox exactly. #LegendaryWednesday

While it looks like women doing yoga on Teotihuacán's Pyramid of the Sun, they are actually stretching their arms to the sun and asking it for energy. Each one wears white, save one in pink pants and one with a pink sweater around her neck, and all wear hats. The edge of the temple has orange tape to prevent them from falling.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 25/03/2026

Loughcrew Cairns' T-cairn lines up with the spring equinox, much as Newgrange at Bru na Boinne lines up with the winter solstice. Many suggest the Irish may have had a spring equinox festival, potentially informing the timing of St. Patrick's Day #LegendaryWednesday 📷: R. Hurson

The rocky area around Loughcrew Cairn, showing covered in grass where rocks do not make shapes like circles or potential descents beneath the cairn, or the massive cairn of piled rocks.

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `The circle „Holme I“, consisting of an upturned tree-stump surrounded by 55 closely fitted #oak posts, was originally built on the saltmarsh away from the sea and specialists estimate it to have been built of timbers dating […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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“This ritual is remembered in the ‘myth of the pent cuckoo’ where an unfledged cuckoo was placed into a thorn bush and the bird was ‘walled-in’ to extend the summer but it always flew away.” Source: www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23205 5/5

Was Seahenge created for a ritual to extend the summer during climate change battle?

New research into an ancient timber circle discovered on a Norfolk beach and dubbed 'Seahenge' suggests it was created in response to a period of extreme climatic deterioration at the close of the…

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“The monument’s form appears to imitate two supposed winter dwellings of the cuckoo remembered in folklore: a hollow tree or ‘the bowers of the #Otherworld’ represented by the upturned oak-stump at its centre. 4/5

Was Seahenge created for a ritual to extend the summer during climate change battle?

New research into an ancient timber circle discovered on a Norfolk beach and dubbed 'Seahenge' suggests it was created in response to a period of extreme climatic deterioration at the close of the…

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unfledged cuckoo with the intention to keep the bird singing and thereby extend the summer. “Summer solstice was the date when according to folklore the cuckoo, symbolising fertility, traditionally stopped singing, returned to the Otherworld and the summer went with it,’ Dr Nance added. 3/5

Was Seahenge created for a ritual to extend the summer during climate change battle?

New research into an ancient timber circle discovered on a Norfolk beach and dubbed 'Seahenge' suggests it was created in response to a period of extreme climatic deterioration at the close of the…

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2049 BC. Dr David Nance explains: “Dating of the Seahenge timbers showed they were felled in the spring, and it was considered most probable that these timbers were aligned with sunrise on the summer solstice. He suggests that its function was to mimic the ‘pen’ described in folklore for an 2/5

Was Seahenge created for a ritual to extend the summer during climate change battle?

New research into an ancient timber circle discovered on a Norfolk beach and dubbed 'Seahenge' suggests it was created in response to a period of extreme climatic deterioration at the close of the…

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Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `The circle „Holme I“, consisting of an upturned tree-stump surrounded by 55 closely fitted #oak posts, was originally built on the saltmarsh away from the sea and specialists estimate it to have been built of timbers dating from the spring of 1/5

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In a Russian tradition called "curling the birches" young women would set out with picnics and ribbons to decorate and celebrate the fertility of trees first budding in spring on a day called Semik. They would then send that energy into their own crops. #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️Alphonse Osbert

a painting of a group of young girls in filmy dresses dancing around in a forest

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A shooting star was once believed to be a soul crossing between worlds. Wishes made in that moment were thought to be heard more clearly. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Olha Tupikina

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Source: C.S. Wharton, “The Folklore of South Warwickshire” (unpublished PhD thesis, 1974). 📷 by me

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Plants which grow upwards should be planted by the waxing moon. Plants like root crops which grow downwards should be planted by the waning moon. Moon planting lore found by collector C.S. Wharton to be still current in Brailes in the 1970s. #LegendaryWednesday

Umbellifer seed heads against a twilight sky with faint crescent moon in the background

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TamelaRedfin @tamelaredfin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So this is a harpy eagle. But my theory is, this is is 100% six sparrows in a trench coat. 🤔 Doesn't matter. I like birds. Photo by @elnopower.bsky.social. Check them out for more. :) #birds

A harpy eagle next to a man squatting. The harpy eagle is native to South America and is the largest eagle. Or is it six sparrows in a trench coat?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Goodnight from Weychester Planetarium, where the stars have aligned in a most unfortunate way. Goodnight from Martha Holden, dreaming yet again of putting her hand into the hollow tree only for it to be bitten by the porcelain teeth of her old doll Miss Maggie. Goodnight from Hookland.

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#LegendaryWednesday @legendarywednes1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

💫Join me #Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the theme is the #SpringEquinox. With your solstice legends, springtide tales, Ostara traditions, blackberry-winter art, & Vernal deities. Give me your #legend #folklore #photo #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #mythology #art💫

Astronomy: a star map of the night sky in the northern hemisphere, with the names of the constellations.

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `In the episode „Nuckelavee, Scotland's Scariest Demon“ the makers of „Stories of Scotland“ journey to the cold waters of the North Sea. Annie relates, how the ancient Sea Mither ( […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Blair Leighton #legendarywednesday

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Labbacallee is aligned to the setting sun at the #equinoxes. On these days, given favourable weather conditions, the setting sun shines directly into the chamber and illuminates it with a beam of light.` `The folklore […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Labbacallee Wedge-Tomb, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `After a more or less violent conflict around every #SpringEquinox, Teran is conquered, bound, and laid in the bottom of the deep sea. Then began the reign of the victorious Sea Mither ( […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: The #SpringEquinox is most associated with the Cailleach, the queen of winter. Source: emeraldisle.ie/autumn-equinox

Cailleach Bheur from Bruxaria, licenced under CC BY-NC-ND

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `The Mither of the Sea (youtu.be/SZzaIg77W5o) was a great and benign being, who gave vitality to every living creature in the sea. The Sea Mither did not, however, reside permanently in the watery element […] [Original post on hear-me.social]