#Celtic women

[city-of-ladies]

"Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built around women's blood lines, according to new research.

Skeletons unearthed in Dorset contained DNA evidence that Celtic men moved to live with their wives' families and communities.

Scientists found evidence of a whole community built around the female line of a family over generations, probably originating with one woman.

"This points to an Iron Age society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of influence and could shape its trajectory in many ways," says Dr Lara Cassidy at Trinity College, Dublin, lead author of the research."

It is the first time this evidence of communities being built around women has been documented in ancient European history.

The scientists believe that the communities also invested a lot in their daughters as they would probably inherit their mother's status.

"It's relatively rare in modern societies, but this might not always have been the case," says Dr Cassidy.

The team found evidence that it happened in numerous places in Britain, suggesting it was widespread.

The communities analysed lived around the same time as Boudica, the warrior Queen who led a rebellion against Roman invaders in East Anglia around AD 61."

[coralcatsea]

For years, I've been searching for other diving/ocean games like Endless Ocean, but none of the others have ever seemed to compare.

NOW I FINALLY HAVE THE ANSWER TO MY PROBLEMS.

ANOTHER ENDLESS OCEAN.

[totaly-obsessed]

Chloe Craig Appreciation

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[bokettochild]

Okay, I grew up on Celtic Women, so I need everyone who loves Link's Awakening to stop what they're doing and listen to Send Me A Song right now and tell me they don't want to scream/cry

[lightofraye]

Christmas Music (Day Six of Twenty-Five)

Celtic Women - Carol Of The Bells

Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding

Hark! how the bells Sweet silver bells All seem to say "Throw cares away." Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old Meek and the bold

Ding, dong, ding, dong That is their song With joyful ring All caroling One seems to hear Words of good cheer From ev'rywhere Filling the air

Oh how they pound Raising the sound O'er hill and dale Telling their tale Gaily they ring While people sing Songs of good cheer Christmas is here Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

Hark! how the bells Sweet silver bells All seem to say "Throw cares away." Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old Meek and the bold

Ding, dong, ding, dong That is their song With joyful ring All caroling One seems to hear Words of good cheer From ev'rywhere Filling the air Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

On, on they send On without end Their joyful tone To ev'ry home

Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old

Ding, dong, ding, dong

[arwendeluhtiene]

🎨♀Herstory+Celtic throwback♀🎨 -  Graphite lineart and watercolour painting of the Scottish warrior-trainer Scáthach from Celtic myth for the 2014 FWW Stock Challenge on DeviantArt. I quite like how this painting turned out 😃 ! . . 🎨Media: Watercolours over graphite drawing . 🍀Other references: DeviantArt stock pic for the main pose, photographs of stones and Celtic swords and designs, self-picture for the skirt movement.

I wanted to draw a Celtic warrior-woman from Irish myth, so here is how I imagine Scáthach of Alba, a formidable warrior-woman with druidic skills who trained warriors in her renowned academy in the island of Skye in Alba (Scotland). She trained a lot of famous heroes, Cúchulainn among them. Her sister, Aoife, was also a great warrior-woman, even greater than herself. . .  "If Cúchulainn would go to Scathach, the woman-warrior that lived in the east of Alban, his skill would be more wonderful still, for he could not have perfect knowledge of the feats of a warrior without that." (Lady Gregory's Cúchulainn of Muirthemne).

I wrote Scáthach's name and the names of some other famous warrior-women in Irish myth in the stones using the Celtic tree Ogham alphabet: The left stone includes the names of Nessa, Conchubar's mother, and queen Medb. The stone on the right has "Scáthach banlaoch" (Warrior-woman Scáthach), plus Ogarmach, the invader daughter of the King of Greece, and Macha. . I depicted Scáthach with woad skin-paint, flowing loose hair and a checked sleeveless, ankle-length dress. Although the Celts in Gaul, seemed to favour trousers when fighting, there is evidence that the Insular Celts often preferred dresses and short/long tunics to pants. The warrior-women of this time (c. 1st Century BC) are often described in the mythology as wearing long dresses and cloaks, loose hair, a great number of ornaments, and little to no armour. The same goes for the men (with short/long tunics instead of dresses), as Celts didn't seem to be great fans of wearing armour, preferring to go to battle fully decked in all their (often encumbering) finery and/or with bare chest or directly fully naked xD

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[djtheabishai]

So, I was through my sneak peak of my College AU and it got me wondering:

It's was suppose to say "Keep or Expand the length of the song?" But I apparently, it didn't put that

I'm not getting rid of it either since it's already in the preview.

I don't think I'll be doing the whole song either. If I do, "Expand it!" Will have to win AND I have to feel like doing it.

In case you don't know what preview I'm talking about, it's here:

You can read through that before you vote

[bratty-metalhead]

Thanks for tagging me,

@fancassticfiction 🖤

((The amount of Ghost songs on this list lmao))

B - Broken - Seether and Amy Lee

R - Ritual - Ghost

A - Another Life - Motionless in White

T - Twenties - Ghost

T - Time Is Running Out - Muse

Y - Year Zero - Ghost

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M- Monstrance Clock - Ghost

E - Eat Your Young - Hozier

T - Tír na nÓg - Celtic Women

A - A Match In The Water - Pierce the Veil

L - Life Eternal - Ghost

H - Hunters Moon - Ghost

E - emo girl - Paige Six

A - All the Things She Said - t.A.T.u

D - Dance Macabre - Ghost

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[thestonedsage]

Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities in Britain placed women centre-stage, showing that women remained in their ancestral homes while men moved in from other communities—a practice that lasted centuries.

The work supports growing archaeological evidence that women had high status within Celtic societies across Europe, including Britain, and gives credence to Roman written accounts that were often thought to be exaggerated for Mediterranean audiences when they described Celtic women as empowered.

“Men typically still dominate formal positions of authority, but women can wield huge influence through their strong networks of matrilineal relatives and their central role in the local economy,” says Cassidy.

“This is very exciting new research and is revolutionising how we understand prehistoric society,” says Rachel Pope at the University of Liverpool, UK, who has previously found evidence of female-focused kinship in Iron Age Europe. “What we are learning is that the nature of society in Europe before the Romans was really very different.”

[thoughtlessarse]

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after marriage, while men were more likely to move away. New genetic research is challenging long-held assumptions about ancient European societies, particularly during the Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Ages, which were believed to be predominantly patrilocal, with couples settling near the husband’s family. A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals an extraordinarily different social structure in Iron Age Britain, showing that Celtic communities were, in fact, matrilocal. Here, married women stayed in their ancestral homes, while men moved around to join them. The latest findings from Trinity College Dublin provide genetic evidence to support this theory. Researchers analysed the genomes of 57 individuals buried in Iron Age cemeteries associated with Durotrigian people, part of a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago. The results concluded that most of the individuals were maternally related, while the male individuals in these cemeteries appeared to have migrated into the area, likely after marriage.

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[bilesandthesourwolf]

teir abhaile riu by celtic women is an absolute BANGER of a song 10/10 taste

Sorry I didn't see this before, but yes!! It is such a good song! Tir na nOg is also really great!

[bluebellhairpin]

Mood in the tavern tonight.

[coralcatsea]

So. Yesterday I found out they're making a third ENDLESS OCEAN, one of my favourite games of all time. I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN. THE SECOND GAME WAS ALL THE WAY BACK IN 2009. 2009!! I thought they were done!

I actually cried. I have so much nostalgia for this game and so many memories of bringing it to play with my closest real life friends.

I also watched playthroughs of it from Skullkid3, likely even before some of the big YouTubers, that's how long ago it was. It may very well have been my first Let's Play.

It may be an obscure game to most, but it had such an influence on me as a child. It is THE reason I want to go diving someday, and a major contributor to my obsession and love for the ocean. It also introduced me to my love for Celtic Women.

I have both of the first two games. The second, Blue World, was my favourite.

It may just LOOK like a game where you dive and learn about fish, but the previous game had a story and so many cool mythological elements, danger, diving for treasure, solving mysteries, and other characters.

I can't wait to see what they add to this one.

It'd be cool if they had cameos from old characters, like GG. 👀 They at least should include Thanatos.

The only thing I'm concerned about...the multiplayer stuff better not come at the expense of other aspects. I hope it's just a marketing tactic and the game can stand on its own without all that.

Still, the fact they're making another at all...this is such insane and amazing news.

[city-of-ladies]

"Centuries ago, two people were buried arm in arm on top of a horse in what is now Austria. The unique burial prompted archaeologists to think that the two were a male-female married couple from medieval times. But it turns out they couldn't have been more wrong.

A new analysis of the remains suggests that the couple was actually a mother-daughter pair who died around 1,800 years ago during the Roman era.

"It's the first genetically proven mother-daughter burial in Austria in Roman times," study senior author Sylvia Kirchengast, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Vienna, told Live Science. "We also disprove a long-held misconception about the kind of relation between the two individuals.

In the new study the researchers re-evaluated the remains via radiocarbon dating, ancient DNA analysis and a visual inspection. They found that the bones belonged to individuals whose ages at death were 20 to 25 and 40 to 60 years old and lived around A.D. 200 when the Roman Empire held sway over the region. In a twist, both human skeletons turned out to be females, according to an anatomical analysis. DNA results confirmed their biological female status and showed they were first-degree relatives — meaning they were either sisters or mother and daughter, according to the study, which was published in the May issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Due to the pair's DNA results, their age difference and other factors, the researchers concluded that individuals were mother and daughter, with the daughter embracing the mother in the grave. "It's very unlikely that two sisters have an age difference of 20 years during those times. So we felt that it's more likely that they are a mother-daughter pair," Kirchengast said. 

The inclusion of a horse and gold pendants strongly hints that the women were of high social status. It also indicates they were non-Roman elites. "To our knowledge it's extremely uncommon for Roman people to be buried with horses. They were not a 'horse-people'," study lead author Dominik Hagmann, an archaeologist at University of Vienna, told Live Science. He suspected these two individuals were from a Celtic culture still existing in Roman times. The Celts were more commonly buried horses with their owners.

There are other signs that the deceased were familiar with horses. "What I find odd is that the older skeleton shows signs of frequent horse riding," Kirchengast said. "Maybe both women were enthusiastic horse-riders.""

[woso-scotland]

Celtic’s just qualified for champions league group stages for the first time ever is fucking massive

History made tonight as Celtic become the first Scottish club to ever reach the group stages of the uwcl

[margridarnauds]

Rereading the First Branch of the Mabinogi lowkey makes me want to do a retelling of the second half, but from the perspective of one of the women who was sent to look after Baby Pryderi and framed Rhiannon.

Because like. These women do something despicable. They hurt mostly innocents. There's no softening this. They hurt someone who does nothing but try to reassure them that she'll protect them, they hurt an ENTIRELY innocent creature in a way that I literally can't type and could barely translate. There's no point where you can girlbossify this.

But the thing that the author of the Mabinogi does is that they don't act out of jealousy, or because they're naturally evil, but because they're scared. They just lost the king's son. They explicitly think that being burned to death or put to death (no, the text doesn't quite explain how burning isn't a form of being put to death) would be a small punishment. Were they noblewomen? Were they common women who found themselves in over their heads? All we know is that they were sent in to watch over the baby and fell asleep...but we know that the thing that snatches Pryderi tends to make people fall asleep. Was it really their fault? They found themselves in a situation where they were in over their head and made a monstrous decision.

Did they see Rhiannon while she was doing her penance? Did any of them feel a hint of guilt? What did they think when her penance was over and they found out that Pryderi was alive? How do you live with that kind of secret? What kind of twisted, fucked up bond do you have with someone when you've smeared blood on the queen's face and hands with them?