Celtic Otherworld

In Celtic mythology, the Otherworld is the realm of the living and the
home of the deities and other powerful spirits.
Tales and folklore refer to the Otherworld as "The Fortunate Isles" in the
western sea, or at other times underground (such as in the Sdhe) or
right alongside the world of the living, but invisible to most humans. The
intrusion of the Otherworld into this one is signaled by the appearance of
divine beings or unusual animals, or other phenomena such as sudden
changes in the weather.
Bashees (spirits that communicate the death of someone) Elfs, goblins,
fairies, irish fairies, etc.

Celtic Gods and

Goddessess

Danu
Lugh
Brighid

Celtic Trinity

THE CELTIC TRINITY

It means the union between the three goddess that represents
the three faces of death.

MORRIGAN, MACHA Y BADB

Morrigan: Represent
the battle and death.
She sometimes
appears in the form
of a crow.

Macha: goddess of
strife and sovereignty

Badb: Is a war goddess

Dadga Gods

The Dagda was the father God of the Celts they called him the Good
God because he protected their crops.
He was king of the Tuatha D Danann and ruled
over Uisnech in Co. Meath.
He had a cauldron called the Undry which supplied
unlimited food and was one of the magical items the
Tuatha brought with them when they first landed on
Ireland. He also had a living oak harp called Uaithne
which caused the seasons to change in their order and
also played three types of music, the music of sorrow,
the music of joy and the music of dreaming.
He was portrayed as wearing a brown low-necked tunic
which just reached his hips and a hooded cape that
barely covered his shoulders. On his feet were horsehide boots. Behind him he pulled his eight pronged war
club on a wheel, one end of the club killed the living
and the other end revived the dead, and when it was
dragged behind him it left a track as deep as the
boundary ditch between two provinces.

There are many humorous tales about him, about his

appetites both for food and sexual gratification. In


She is the daughter of The Dagda, the All
Father of the Tuatha de Danann
Poetry and inspiration.
Midwifery and healing.
Crafts and smiths.
She was born at sunrise and a tower of
flame beamed from her head. As
Goddess of fire and water, she is
immortalized by many wells and springs.


Most important of her monuments, a shrine
at Kildare where there was a perpetual flame
burning.
Her feast is St.Brighids Days in Ireland and is
the Pagan Festival of Imbolc.
When Christianity began its onset, so loved
was Brighid that she was made a saint.
However, the upkeep on her flame was
considered pagan by the church and it was
extinguished out of more than a thousand
years of burning.

Brighid Chant

Dark the bitter winter,

cutting its sharpness,
but Bride's mantle,
brings spring to Ireland.

Danu
The Universal
Mother.
Patroness of
wizards.
Symbolizes
rivers, water,
wells,
prosperity,
magick, and
wisdom


Goddess, the mother of The Dagda the All father,
Creation Goddess, and Mother of the Tuatha de
Danaan. Aspect of the Morrigan or Triple Goddess.
Considered to have been an early form of Anu, the
Universal Mother.
EXTREMELY potent Goddess form I easily connect
with and work very closely with, personally for
most of my rituals and castings.
Her celebrations were either Beltane and/or Litha
(Summer Solstice).

LUGH

Celtic (Welsh, Irish) God, also known as Lleu,

Llew and Lugh the Many Skilled.
He is a druid, carpenter, poet, and mason.
His animals are the raven and the lynx.
Also a Sun God as well hence the Pagan
Sabbath Lughnasadh, his namesake.
Son of Cian, a Tuatha de Danaan.


He symbolizes
healing,
reincarnation,
prophecy, and
revenge.
He had a magic
spear and
otherworldly
hounds.

"The Coming of Lugh",

Iarwain.

I am Lugh Samildanach
I am Lugh the Il-Dana
I am Lugh, master of the battle
I am Lugh, master of healing
I am Lugh, master of knowledge
I am Lugh, master of sailing
I am Lugh, master of sorcery
I am Lugh, master of smithing.

C Chulainn

Is an Irish mythological hero who appears in the

stories of the Ulster Cycle, as well as in Scottish
and Manx folklore.

The son of the god Lugh and Deichtine (sister of

Conchobar mac Nessa), his childhood name was
Stanta.

He gained his better-known name as a child after he killed

Culann's fierce guard-dog in self-defence and offered to take
its place until a replacement could be reared. At the age of
seventeen he defended Ulster single-handedly against the
armies of queen Medb of Connacht in the epic Tin B
Cailnge ("Cattle Raid of Cooley"). It was prophesied that his
great deeds would give him everlasting fame, but that his
life would be a short one. For this reason he is compared to
the Greek hero Achilles. He is known for his terrifying battle
frenzy, or rastrad(translated by Thomas Kinsella as "warp
spasm" and by Ciaran Carson as "torque", in which he
becomes an unrecognisable monster who knows neither
friend nor foe. He fights from his chariot, driven by his loyal
charioteer Leg and drawn by his horses, Liath Macha and
Dub Sainglend. In more modern times, C Chulainn is often
referred to as the "Hound of Ulster".
C Chulainn shows striking similarities to the Persian epic
hero Rostam, as well as to the Germanic Lay of Hildebrand
and the labours of the Greek epic hero Hercules, suggesting
a common Indo-European origin,but lacking in linguistic,
anthropological and archaeological material.

Druids
A druid was a memeber of the
educated,profesional class among the celtic
peoples of Gaul, Britain and Ireland during the
Iron Age.

 In ancient times a Druid was a philosopher, teacher, counsellor and magician,

the word probably meaning A Forest Sage or Strong Seer. In modern times, a
Druid is someone who follows Druidry as their chosen spiritual path, or who has
entered the Druid level of training in a Druid Order.

 The druid class included law-speakers, poets and

doctors, teachers, magicians and philosophers among
other learned professions, although the best known
among the druids were the religious leaders.

Druid beliefs

Theology

The Otherworld
Death and Rebirth

 Living in the world

The web of life
The law of the
harvest

3 Goals:
Wisdom
Creativity
Love

Celtic Paganism

Burial and afterlife

Celts believed in reincarnation and transmigration of the soul.

A common factor in late Celtic nations was the otherworld,
this was the realm of the fairy folk and other supernatural
beings.
The burial practices included burying food, weapons, and
ornaments with the dead (only for wealthy people).

Ritual of Oak and

Mistletoe

Mistletoe was believed to have all sorts of miracle

qualities
The ritual consisted of a ceremony in which whiteclad druids climbed a sacred oak, cut down the
mistletoe growing on it, sacrificed two bulls and
used the mistletoe to make an elixir to cure
infertility and the effects of poison.

 Offerings to the
gods were made
throughout the
landscape both the
natural and the
domestic.
At times they
worshipped in
constructed
temples and
shrines.
They also
worshipped in areas
of the natural world
that were held to
be sacred namely
in groves of trees.

Cultic
Practice

Votive Offerings

Offerings were buried in the earth or thrown into rivers or

bogs.
In particular, there was a trend to offer items associated
with warfare in the watery areas.
At times, jewelry and other high prestige items that were
not related to warfare were also deposited in a ritual
context.

Head Hunting

The head was believed to house a persons

soul.
This practice continued approximately till the
end of the Middle Ages in Ireland.

Halloween

Inspired by folk customs and beliefs from the

Celtic-speaking countries.
Samhain (summer end) was the limital time,
when the spirits or fairies could more easily
come into our world.
Offerings of food and drinks or portions of
the crops were left fot the Aos si.

Samhain

SAMAHAIN

Beginning the Celtic

year, was an
important social and
religious occasion

 Samhain also contains in its ritual some of the old

pastoral cults, while as a new year feast its ritual
is in great part of all festivals of begginings


Divination and forecasting the fate of the
inquirer for the coming year also took place.
Sometimes these were connected with the
bonfire, stones placed in it showing by their
appereance the fortune or misfortune awaiting
their owners.

 In Gaul and
Germany

riotous
processions
took place with
men dressed in
the heads and
skins of animals

Temples

The earliest temples of the Gauls were sacred

groves


Sacred groves were still used in gallo-roman
times, and the druids may have had a preference
for them.
But ptobably more elaborated temples, great
tribal sanctuaries, existed side by side with these
local groves

Equipo

Kenia Osornio
Aldo Peraza
Amairani Hernandez
Armando Ponce
Melisa Terrones
Galy Valero
Genevive Rodiles