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1. Neu-Kelte

@neu-kelte.bsky.social
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Lead author of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto (zotum.net/profile/ncm), fantasy novelist (unpublished), patchwork family person, environmentalist & conservationist, lightworker, student of Dr. and Master Sha Lives and works in Béal Átha Caointe

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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 1h
#FolkloreSunday @SundayFolklore #Celtic: `#Fionn mac Cumhaill and his Fianna were said to have regularly visited Belleek in the autumn to feast on the annual salmon run, and sharpen their weapons there.` #Celtic Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
Salmon at Aasleagh Falls on the Erriff River just above Killary, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 3h
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: The hag goddess #Cailleach was sometimes said to appear as a hare or other small creature. A shout went up from harvesters as they approached the end of a field to “drive the Cailleach” into the next field. 1/2
Hare, Moon, Halo, Brujería del Cerco, iFeliz Pri…, licenced under CC BY-NC-ND
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 4h
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: „The Cŵn Annwn are associated with the Wild Hunt. They are supposed to hunt on specific nights (the eves of St. John, St. Martin, Saint Michael the Archangel, All Saints, Christmas, New Year, Saint Agnes, Saint David, and Good Friday), or just in the autumn and winter. 1/2
Cŵn Annwn, cut out from Giles Watson's The Lords of Annwn and edited by 1. Neu-Kelte; CC BY-SA 2.0
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests: www.theguardian.com/... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
theguardian.com
UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests
Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030: www.theguardian.com/... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 1/2
theguardian.com
Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction
Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%: www.theguardian.com/environment/... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
We want to prevent the climate catastrophe as well as the collapse of the social systems and overcome a comprehensive crisis of meaning and existing poverty. But how can we expect the same thinking and action to produce different results this time? 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FindsFriday: `Thousands of pits from which iron ore was extracted, large-scale deforestation and a heavily fortified, sprawling #Celtic settlement: this is roughly how one can picture the area around what is now Oberpullendorf in Burgenland 2,000 years ago: www.derstandard.at/s...
Open-air museum Keltendorf Schwarzenbach, photo credit 1. Neu-KelteOpen-air museum Keltendorf Schwarzenbach, photo credit 1. Neu-KelteOpen-air museum Keltendorf Schwarzenbach, photo credit 1. Neu-KelteOpen-air museum Keltendorf Schwarzenbach, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FindsFriday #Celtic #IronAge: `The Gauls‘ use of wood demonstrates their technological skills. It ist believed that the extrordinary machinery discovered at the bottom of a 18m deep well at the settlement of Saint-Symphorien was used to pump water. 1/2
Remains of a device for pumping water, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron. 1/2
‘Druid Crown’, NHM Wien; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte Reconstruction of a druid crown, Natural History Museum Vienna, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
Even now, in this ecological, social, democratic, poverty, hunger, debt, financial, economic and sense crisis, attempts are again being made to solve those problems that we did not have in the first place with Neoliberalism and Monetarism. Do we really want more of the means and methods that have made us sick? 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `During the #IronAge people at Castell Henllys didn't use money. They measured wealth in cattle instead. The more cattle someone had, the more important and powerful they were. 1/2
Brown bull and cattle, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `There is a well on Unst, the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles. It has two names, Yellabrön and Heilyaburn. If travelled to after sunset and before sunrise, it will provide water with healing powers. 1/2
Mouse, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: "Truly, I see here," said Fiall, daughter of Forgall, "two steeds of like size, beauty, fierceness, and speed, bounding together, high-headed, spirited, powerful, pricking their ears (?), thin-mouthed, with long tresses, with broad foreheads, much speckled, slightly 1/6
D. Murray Smith, CúChulain and Laeg, CC BY-SA 4.0
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
Various religious, governmental, formal and informal norms, programs, philosophies and economic systems have been tried. And now we are faced with leaving our descendants hardly anything of true value, but only a filthy, exploited Mother Earth and debts. 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social #Celtic: `The #boobrie (cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Boobrie) is a mythological shapeshifting entity inhabiting the lochs of the west coast of #Scotland. It commonly adopts the appearance of a gigantic water bird, but it can also materialise in the form of 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `For three days and three nights Maelduin an his men were tossed upon the sea, finding neither land nor ground. But on the morning of the third day they put in close to a shore. 1/4
John D. Batten, creator QS-P170,Q13385323, The book of wonder voyages - page 96 inset, public domain
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `After several adventures Maelduin an his men sighted an island that had a fence of stone around it. 1/6
John D. Batten creator QS-P170,Q13385323, The Monster of The Feats from The book of wonder voyages - page 100 inset, public domain
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
The logical-linear thinking gained the upper hand against the holistic thinking in dynamic cycles of the Celtic peoples with the defeat of the Gauls against the Romans. What has not been tried since then to enable people to live a good life in harmony with nature? 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#FairyTaleTuesday: `In #Scotland black cats were believed to be shape-shifting witches, a belief that may explain some common American Hallowe’en decorations.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
Black Cat, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In the British folk tale "The King of the Cats", a man comes home to tell his wife and cat, Old Tom, that he saw nine black cats with white spots on their chests carrying a coffin with a crown on it and one of the cats tells the man to "Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim 1/2
John D. Batten, creator QS-P170,Q13385323, Page 158 illustration in More English Fairy Tales, public domain
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#FairyTaleTuesday: `The contemporary fear of black cats, like their association with witches and Hallowe’en, may be #Celtic in origin, although some have traced the connection to the Greek goddess of witchcraft, Hecate, who was also associated with cats.` Source: P. 1/2
Black cat, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
As humanity we shall serve all life on earth in such a way that we give more than we take with the lowest consumption of resources. We Nua-Celts strive for the highest possible state of soul, which automatically decreases our material needs. 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The friends of #CuChulain, and Emer, his dear wife, had taken the hero away with them from his own home at Dun Dalgan to a secret glen in Ulster, that is called the Glen of the Deaf, because no sound of war or tumult reached it, where was a pleasant summer palace 1/2
CúChulainn, The Hound of Ulster, Stephen Reid, no known copyright restrictions
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Almost all the rivers of Scotland were abodes of goddesses, but about many of them there are no surviving stories. The character of a goddess was suggested by that of a river. 1/2
River Forth by Karel Čapek creator QS-P170,Q155855, Letters from England, public domain
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: "Win victory and blessings," said Conan, "and, as it contributes much to my satisfaction and amusement to listen to you, pray inform me now what are the greatest wonders found among the Fenians." "I will give you a true account of that," replied Fionn. 1/2
Old Fians cut out from Stephen Reid`s Finn McCool Comes to Aid The Fianna , public domain
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares were sent by the dwellers in the hill to warn mortals if they trespassed too closely into forbidden places, or sought to damage or destroy the old mounds. 1/2
Hare, Moon, Halo, Brujería del Cerco, iFeliz Pri…, licenced under CC BY-NC-ND
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares in Ireland have long been seen as mysterious creatures, deeply connected to the #Otherworld and the subject of legend, song and story. Their association with the realms of the fairies and good folk led the old Druids to capture and release them in a place with 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Saint Melangell became the patron saint of hares when she fled from Ireland to escape an arranged marriage after taking a vow of celibacy. 1/4
John Ingleby artist QS-P170,Q21727807, Shrine of St. Monacella in Pennant Melangel Church, 1795; cropped von 1. Neu-Kelte, CC0 1.0
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
Every living being is treated with the same respect and mindfulness, which should also find expression in a legal system that provides adequate compensation for any discrimination. We want to live in happy co-habitation with all other human beings and species and encounter each other in a nonviolent manner. 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says: www.theguardian.com/... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
theguardian.com
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says: www.theguardian.com/... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 1/2
theguardian.com
Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says
Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn: www.theguardian.com/environment/... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
A loving cooperation in mutual appreciation is possible and necessary. We strive for knowledge free of dominance and a cooperative and caring co-existence without a `dominance pyramid` (Riane Eisler).
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Largest hoard of iron artefacts from the La Tène period discovered in a gravel pit in Upper Austria: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FindsFriday: `#Celtic rulers have been discovered who apparently bequeathed their treasures to their sisters rather than to their own children. A new study has found evidence of matrilineal dynasties in burial mounds in southern Germany. The reason for this may have been widespread extramarital 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FindsFriday: `Macabre finds and a warrior figure in a Bavarian Celtic settlement baffle experts. Researchers have unearthed more than 40.000 new artefacts in Manching, near Ingolstadt. In the process, they have learnt new things about diet and craftsmanship and have come across what may be the 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
The dignity of all life is equal. The rights of all living beings are equal in aiming for a good life without concerns. The chances for mental, spiritual, emotional as well as physical development and integrity must also be provided equally. 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `An #Cailleach grows old in autumn and becomes younger as the winter passes, until in spring she relinquishes her hold and lets the summer flowers blossom.` Source: emeraldisle.ie/an-ca...
Cailleach, Slieve Gullion Forrest Park, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social: `St. Michael’s feast day on September 29, called Michaelmas, is close enough to the autumnal Equinox that harvest festivals have collected around that day; in the Scottish islands a special harvest-bread called struan or 1/2
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday: `The Corn Dolly was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual. 1/2
The last sheaf, The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
A healthy life on a sick planet is impossible! Nua-Celts therefore contribute to the preservation or re-establishment of intact, species-rich ecosystems for human and non-human beings as well as the plant world everywhere. Additionally, they contribute to the availability of clean air and soil as well as clean water for all living beings everywhere. 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `When the landlord, or farmer, entered for the first time the field where harvesting operations went on, it was customary to bind him with sugganes, or straw ropes, and not to release him till he paid a forfeit.` Source: www.isle-of-man.com/...
Straw rope, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `Under such beautifully bright moonlight, we’ll inevitably get some weird and surreal fairies offering a helping hand with the harvest. We even have one of the lesser-known tales of the MacLeods and the fairy banner of Dunvegan Castle. 1/3
Fenodyree, 2, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `The harvest festival is called in Manx yn mheillea, or yn meailley, 'the harvest home,' "though," says Gill, "more strictly it is the name of the garland made of the last handful of corn which is shorn and formed into the shape of that which is borne by Ceres. This 1/2
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Attached: 1 image #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `The harvest festival is called in Manx yn mheillea, or yn meailley, 'the harvest home,' "though," says Gill, "more strictly it is the name of the garland made of the last handful of corn which is shorn and formed into the shape of that which is borne by Ceres. This figure (https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115338830834122239), dressed with ribbons, is carried before the reapers, and is called, together with the procession, yn meailley, or meilley, 'the reapers feast,' from meall." "Meall," he adds, "is the whole gang of reapers." This figure, somewhat obscurely described by Gill, was called yn moidyn, 'the maiden,' and was made of straw, decorated with ribbons and wild flowers. It was carried by the Queen of the Meailley, a girl elected from among the female workers, though usually the youngest of them, to the highest part of the field where it was placed and saluted with hearty cheers.` Source: https://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/folklore/ch06.htm
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
Nua-Celts resist the exploitation of their labour by capitalists, serve in their professions from an inner need and thus create a good life for All-That-Is. This includes the Realm of Energy, human and non-human beings, the plants as well as the elementals, the Ore and Metal Realm and the Stone and Mineral Realm. 
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `The Autumn equinox was considered to be a day of great importance by the ancient Irish, especially for the first farmers who arrived and built the great megalithic civilisation. 1/3
Cairn T at Loughcrew, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In the episode `Nuckelavee (nicovleeuwen.blogspot.com/2019/06/gael...), Scotland's Scariest Demon` the makers of `Stories of Scotland` journey to the cold waters of the North Sea. Annie relates, how `as the middle of autumn approached, 1/3
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: At this time of the year, `apples were picked, along with different fruit and nuts - children were warned not to touch blackberries after the equinox, since a púca might have poisoned them! 1/2
Blackberries near the forrest of Broceliande; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
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1. Neu-Kelte @neu-kelte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 1/2
People living in a Nua-Celtic fashion make it their highest priority to continuously increase their level of spirituality through daily spiritual practices. These should be individually chosen and as diverse as possible.
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto
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