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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

#FolkloreSunday: #Samhain is the #Celtic holiday most observed today, for it has become the children’s holiday of Hallowe’en, celebrated with decorations, costumes and pranks. Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

#FolkloreSunday: The #Celts saw darkness as preceding light, both in the diurnal and the annual cycle. Thus a day began at sundown. #Samhain began on the evening of October 31, which we now call Hallowe’en or the “hallowed evening.” Source: P. Monaghan […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

#FolkloreSunday: Barmbrack, the Irish #Halloween cake, and the meanings behind traditional items in fortune-telling. #Celtic Source: www.irishstar.com/culture/nostalgia…

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

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 🙏 […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

To live Nua-Celtic means, for example
... intensive exchange within the neighbourhood where everything is shared as far as possible and wherever possible is provided on a division of labour basis (e.g. growing fruit and vegetables, cooking or building a house together), cf. meitheal.
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

To live Nua-Celtic means, for example
... that we choose the smaller, if it is sufficient, to the bigger (e.g. handicraft over industrial production).
... that, ideally, at least three generations live together harmoniously under one roof.
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Belt buckle with palmette, bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE Source: kärnten.museum

Belt buckle with palmette, bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE, kärnten.museum, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Stag fibula, bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE Source: kärnten.museum

Stag fibula, bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic chariots were not used individually, but in larger groups of several hundred, a formation that was very impressive to opponents. In addition to their use in battle, they were primarily used as a fast means of transport for […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Eyelet pin and linchpin, Natural History Museum Vienna, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Criomthan Nianair was a King of Ireland, and the son of Lugaidh Sriabhdearg ‘of the Red Stripes’, who was famously #CúChulainn’s foster son. Criomthan was said to have brought back a golden chariot and a cloak woven with golden […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Reconstruction of a Celtic chariot, MAMUZ, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: In the story of ‘Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise’, Cormac finds himself surrounded by fog. When it lifts, he is wandering through the Otherworld. #Manannán shows him the Well of Knowledge with its five streams flowing out […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Bigfish, Donegal Quay, Belfast, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#FolkloreThursday: `#Irish legends from time immemorial have a great deal to say about the #Otherworld, the land of the fairies, the home of the Tuatha De Danann, or the world of the Sidhe.

STEPHEN REID, Oisín and Niamh travelling to Tír na nÓg, 15 They rode up to a stately palace, public domain

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

To live Nua-Celtic means, for example
... to become more aware of ourselves and to realize that our soul is immortal.
... to use our incarnations to reach a higher state of soul through service.
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: “… for the belief of Pythagoras prevails among them, that the souls of men are immortal and that after a prescribed number of years they commence upon a new life, the soul entering into another body”. (Diodorus V.28:5-6) Link […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `From a practical aspect, metempsychosis was closely linked to manipulation of corpses and excarnation. In the transportation of the soul from one world to the next scavengers, and birds of prey in particular, played a central role: “…to these men death in battle is glorious;

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: “While you, ye Druids, when the war was done, To mysteries strange and hateful rites returned: To you alone ‟tis given the heavenly gods To know or not to know; secluded groves Your dwelling-place, and forests far remote. If what ye […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger, Old Druid forest, Brittany

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A tree without healthy roots dies and falls over. What prevents us from returning to our Celtic roots, drawing inspiration and strength from them to develop a Nua-Celtic Culture?
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday: `#Fairies and ghosts were attracted to the hearth, especially at pivotal days such as #Samhain. On that night, ghosts of the deceased would sometimes be seen warming themselves by the hearth-fire or sitting in their accustomed place, calmly […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Cottage, Highland Folk Museum Kingussie; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Brandub son of Eochaid, king of Leinster, was slain by Saran, a Leinsterman. ‘This is grievous to me,’ said Moeog, ‘(he was) the head of the poor, and the protector of the weak; and may the hand fall off that smote that true hero.’ […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday: `Once upon a time in Tyrone there were two little children, the son and daughter of parents who had died when they were little. They missed their parents very much, but they were raised by a guardian who was a fanatical atheist, and was […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

We want to try something partly new, using ancient values that meet today's highest moral standards as a compass. Why not adopt the superior habits of thought and the ancestral knowledge of the druids and go the Nua-Celtic way?
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Tech Duinn (translating to “house of Donn”) is said to be the place where the souls of the death gather and commonly identified with Bull Rock, a small island off the coast of the Beara Peninsula in the far southwest of Ireland.

Bull Rock, C1.staticflickr.com, public domain

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Muirgen, son of #Ireland’s chief bard, Seanchán Toirpéist, called up the ghost of the great warrior Fergus at his grave as he was an excellent source for the missing material of the Táin. The poet who performed the invocation […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Fergus mac Róich, cut out from Fergus Speaks His Words of Anger to Maev by John P Campbell, public domain

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Donn, 'the brown, or dark, one', is the Irish god of the dead par excellence. His abode is a small rocky island, known as Tech Duinn, 'the House of Donn', off the south-west coast of Ireland, and he bids his descendants, in other […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Colin Park, On Dursey Island - Bull Rock as seen from Dursey Head - geograph.org.uk - 6008936, CC BY-SA 2.0

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

How could we hope that through the capitalist greed for profit, the declining attractiveness of the liberal democracies will be reversed and finally a good life for all living beings on Mother Earth will be made possible?
Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#FolkloreSunday: 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. Some argue that this harvest […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Hare, Moon, Halo, Brujería del Cerco, iFeliz Pri…, licenced under CC BY-NC-ND

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#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) […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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/202… We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Open-air museum Keltendorf Schwarzenbach, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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. The device […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Remains of a device for pumping water, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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. Despite the iron material of this Roseldorf specimen, it should by […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

‘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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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. Warriors loved stealing their enemies' cattle, and many […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Brown bull and cattle, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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. If a mouse ran across […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

D. Murray Smith, CúChulain and Laeg, CC BY-SA 4.0

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday #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 […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday #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. Lots were cast to decide which among them should visit the strange land;

John D. Batten, creator QS-P170,Q13385323, The book of wonder voyages - page 96 inset, public domain

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `After several adventures Maelduin an his men sighted an island that had a fence of stone around it. They drew near to spy it out more closely, and when they had landed and gone a little way inland, there sprang up a huge beast, which […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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`

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

John D. Batten, creator QS-P170,Q13385323, Page 158 illustration in More English Fairy Tales, public domain

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