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irelandseyeonmythology · 1 year ago

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One thing I'm mildly obsessed with is the idea, that we see in a couple of texts, that the Tuatha Dé regularly "put on" another form, even though might have a "true" face or appearance.

Like, how much of that image of perfection that they convey is them naturally looking like/obviously medieval writers writing them to conform to a specific image, and how much of that is them very consciously projecting the image that they WANT to project?

Do they have stretch marks? Do they have lines under their eyes, or dark circles? Do they have scars from battles that took place centuries ago? Do they have laugh lines or frown lines? Like.

#irish mythology #because i'm predictable i'm especially fascinated by like. Bres and Lugh and the image of 'perfection'#Bres with the scars from the boils on his face. Potentially stretch marks from his body being forced to grow too early #potentially some scars from where Eochaid mac Eirc got him in the First Battle #potentially as we get closer to the Second Battle Bres getting very little sleep and developing heavy shadows under his eyes #possibly aging a little bit because he's 40 by the time of CMT. Not the kid he was when he was king #the pressure to conform to a specific IMAGE because it's what's expected and if he doesn't have his looks what DOES he have?#potentially going out to meet Lugh with all of his 'flaws' intact #Lugh feeling all this immense pressure to portray this almost unnatural level of smoothness #because he HAS to be the ideal warrior and champion #he can't show flaws #he has to be 'a cliff without a wrinkle'#I think that in my ideal fancasting like. There'd be this distinctively alien quality to Lugh #specifically BECAUSE it's like he forgets his own humanity #whereas Bres...man's flawed but he's human to the end #mythological cycle

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