#italo-celtic

[silverthornwitchery]

wanting to put my druidic path in a predominantly Celtic (continental Celtic as well as Old British to be exact.. sorry Irish Ancestors.) path so i've been through the help of the internet, coming up with constructed names for the roman deities, and coming up with syncretizations either through history or UPG. For Diana - Adruinna/Louna/Adsagsona Arduinna being the manifestation of the huntress and wilderness Diana, Louna being Luna, and Adsagsona (who we know very little of other than she's a cthonic witching goddess) for Trivia. As for Diana-Nemorensis, she appears to me as Nemetona. For Apollo (this is where it gets really messy) - Grannus is the name I call upon in regards to healing, and I call on Grannus alongside Sirona. In regards to Apollo as the Aradian-Lucifer, I feel that Lugus and Endovelicus both could fill that role. Though Lugus is more associated with Mercury that Apollo, I also tie Lugus to Lugh because of the light aspect. And Both Lucifer and Lugh are known to be mercurial trickster figures. In the fall I usually call to Apollo as Maponos. The Horned One - He's already VERY syncretic in terms of existence, so the name I call him varies based on how he shows himself to me. As the Folk Devil/Witches' Devil, he's usually Lupercus, who through demonization, is syncretized with Lucifer, but historically also Faunus. The Devil as Lightbearer to me is Cunamaglos (who i associate with Lupercus), Lugus, or Endovelicus (through Luciferian ties), and then as King of the Forest(both Folk Devil and Otherwise), Callirius. I dont really click with the name Cernunnos, but alternate spellings like Carneo or Carnonos, or Cernun, resonate a bit more. Cunamaglos also fills the role of my Wolf-Spirit deity in the masculine form. Fauna - Easy enough, Fauna is Druantia. Both the feminine form of the Horned One, and also the personification of Druidry as a whole. She IS Nature personified, and kinda blends with Diana-Nemorensis to form Nemetona. As a fertility and underworld goddess (an epithet i use for Druantia is Bone-Mother, giving her a Cthonic link), she can be Aeracura. Thus giving names such as Druantia, Druantia-Nemetona, and Druantia-Aeracura. Her cthonic form is also linked to her fertility aspect as well, since life and death are two sides of the same coin, which is fitting as Aeracura is historically a cthonic and fertility goddess. I haven't quite figured out where Venus stands in all this, though I'm sure I'll figure it out in time. I also plan to Incorperate Brigantia into my practice, since she's another form of Brigid. I also want to form a relationship with Andraste, and can respark my relationship with An Morrigan/The Raven Queen under the name Cathubodua, which is the first name of hers that really resonated with me. As for Aradia, I Personally don't view Aradia as an external spirit, I feel she exists WITHIN the practicioner, as I view Witches as all of Diana/Adsagsona's children. Though Aradia very well may have been a physical person or deity at some point. I feel Aradia works WITHIN us.

[sauljudgeman]

Music Recommendations Part 4

1. Faces - Clio

2. The Look of Love - ABC

3. Don't You Want Me - The Human League

4. Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie

5. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses

6. It's My Life - Talk Talk

7. Only You - Steve Monite

8. Estrelar - Marcos Valle

9. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

10. The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys

[ognimdo2002]

Ellen Trechend – Ultraviolent Trioleader

“ Tá tú rud ar bith, ach an dara grád. leathcheann! ”

– itself

The Ellén Trechend is a three-headed monster referred to in Irish mythology.

It is mentioned in the text Cath Maige Mucrama (The Battle of Mag Mucrima) as having emerged from the cave of Cruachan (Rathcroghan, County Roscommon) and laid waste to Ireland until it was killed by the Ulaid poet and hero Amergin.

The Ellén Trechend was introduced in Weather Dragons, Two Lights, Worldcraft, and Rescris as part of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure and Assassin's Creed sequels.

Physiology

The Yamata no Orochi, their parent, is larger than Ellén Trechend, a big, three-headed bird that resembles a dragon. Its entire body is covered in bioluminescent markings, including butterfly-like wing designs that change from orange, green, yellow, and blue with crystalline and shimmering patterns. It also contains prehensile scale-tipped lights. In order to counter enemies, their tail was extremely prehensile and spiky.

The Ellén Trechend's Achilles heel is a Christian cross shaped on its chest.

[antikien]

oulipo connections on a gray matter /

https://graphcommons.com/graphs/e1d3393e-7734-4c7e-a5da-abce59a0f928

[mindblowingscience]

A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to eastern and western Mediterranean Indo-European language speakers. Findings indicate that Spanish, French and Italian populations received steppe ancestry from Bell Beaker groups, while Greek and Armenian groups acquired ancestry directly from Yamnaya populations. Their results are consistent with the Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian linguistic models.

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[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze helmet, Italo-Celtic, 325-200 BC

from The Ashmolean Museum

[ishparpuaqib]

is it possible for a serious linguist to consider the italic branch paraphyletic, with latino-faliscan and osco-umbrian branching off directly from italo-celtic? (does anyone even care about italo-celtic anymore? am i hopelessly behind the times?)

[yeli-renrong]

Somebody's made a conlang family where Continental Celtic survives and develops along the approximate lines of Italo-Romance, right?

[tokkiyuna-rabbit]

First of all that rabbit is adorable!

Funny thing is, I had a link to a Shavian translator because I was researching the Voynich manuscript, and at the time there was theory it was some type of Italo-Celtic script, so I was looking at learning Celtic and saw that Shavian was created by an Irishman, so that has just been sitting in my computer for a while. I haven't looked at it much, unfortunately.

For some reason I thought it was more popular in Ireland than it is. But I figured that if you were studying Ireland, then you would know about Shavian, as well as George Bernard Shaw and Ronald Kingsley Read.

I guess you are using a voice to text translator if you are worried about an accent? I just translated it letter by letter, and it made sense.

The other funny thing is, coincidence or not, is that I am actually going to France and the Netherlands with a group in the coming days, so that will be fun. We are going to be studying in some art history museums, although I am hoping to get to one of the outdoor Natural History Museum. The trip is for less than 10 days, though.

Yeah, the Carmen Sandiego games require some very specific codes in order to play, that were specific to each sold box and very easy to lose. Some of them also required you to have an actual atlas in your house. And I don't think it worked well with some computers, since it was 16 bit and a lot of computers were 64 bit.

I think I heard the discussion on the Utahraptors and the fact that they, as well as possibly the t-rex, should have had feathers. Although apparently all tv and movie directors looked at ankylosaurus and thought they should be that way? Which is kind of sad, I would love to see one that is not a bully or has the intelligence of an in-setting dog.

The sail actually makes a lot of sense! Especially if they sat partially submerged for a long time like a crocodile. And then they could slowly move down and scoop some up.

It seems like the Jeff Corwin series, as well as the other two, may be on Internet Archive, but the quality would have been the quality of the time, I guess. It was pretty old. There are some reviews, but they seem to think it was as scary when they were kids as I did.

I mean, I guess at that point, you would have to hunt down every book that mentions Mary Anning, and maybe you could find it. I don't know if she would be mentioned in very many, but that would still be a project.

Thank you! The app crashed and nearly got rid of it. Luckily it saved unlike my original response to this :\

Anyways!

It's been a while since I last heard of the Voynich Manuscript. I never really looked into it since I wasn't too interested. So, the theory that it had Italo-Celtic script is interesting. I wonder if anyone had to wrtie the letters in an angular manner. The type of medium used can change how the script is written. Perhaps by studying it as if you are writing it in older times can give some clue? But I am sure someone has already tried this. I think there was a theory that the book is some sort of conlang. Which would mean this script will never be uncoded unless the person used too many references of their native tongue.

I am doing some studies of Ireland. But, I tend to stick to specific times and events. So, I simply never heard of Shavian before two days ago. The event in Irish history that I am most aware of is in Northern Ireland (the Troubles), which is something because it's so easy to be biased and miss some information.

And no, I wasn't using speech to text. I also do it letter by letter. But I would sound the word out and then pick which letter is best suited. Since I say "think" as "thank", I ended up using the wrong letter. I tried to sound it out as think but it sounds too strange to me. My area says "think" as "thank".

Oh! You are also traveling? Have fun and be safe on your trip! I hope you are able to learn a lot at the art museusm! I also hope you get to visit a outdoor Natural History Museum! The trip is less than 10 days, but I am sure you will enjoy it. Make sure to take pictures of yourself there. I regret not having many pictures of myself in Lithuania.

Yeah, uhh, my mom got that game from a thrift shop. And I distinctly remember that there wasn't much to the box other than the CD. So for all I know, the information needed was never there. My computer was a newer one for the times. My parents had to get after their older blocky computer decided to retire.

The feathers thing might be from a fossil found with signs of feathers and the fact that dinosaurs are the ancestors to birds. I find it unlikely that an ankylosaurus would ever be depicted like that again. With how society is, a character like that could be deemed ableist. Though, I would rather an ankylosaurus be depicted differently because the creator wanted them to be different. Not due to cancel culture because it would feel rather tasteless. (Apologies if this part is a bit uncomfortable. I wasn't too sure how to word it).

Yes! The sail will act as shade for fish to be attracted there and then the Spinosaurus would silently eat them. They say Spinosaurus was similar to a crocodile hence why they have a more semi-aquatic/crocodile appearance now.

I tried to search it up, but I only came across books. Perhaps I missed it. Though, it's strange the quality is so low. There are a lot of things of the past where the quality is better? Though, those may have been updated over time or were direct recordings instead.

I don't think I will ever find the book. I would have better luck looking for another book that I read in 6th grade. It was a decent book about a girl living in the U.S. during WW2. The one thing I remember is her mom slapping her for helping a neighbor hide (in a treehouse) from draft when her own brother was killed in the war. But whenever I try to find this book, it gives me other names. I remember the name of the author being Laura or Lauren.

[senzacaponecoda]

I got myself trying to fix PIE stops again for some reason

I think at this point I kind of think the original system was like

tʰ t d

Anatolian breaks off, merges t d, spells tʰ tt for some goddamn reason

Tocharian breaks off, Uralic sees it merge all three into t.

Germanic breaks off, tʰ > þ. d > ð shortly after

The Balkan group radiates out as VOT starts to shift or d > ð or something

Thraco-Armenian first, nothing special happens to its stops until the post classical era, where Armenian goes really crazy

Greco-Phrygian breaks off. Phrygian merges tʰ t, Greek does some goddamn shuffle tʰ t d > t d tʰ

Albanian breaks off as the last of the Balkan radiation. Remnant PIE has finished tʰ t d > t(ʰ) d ð or t(ʰ) d+H d+L or something

Italo-Celtic shows ð

Balto-Slavic shows d+L

Indo-Iranian either murmurs ð or d+L and then splits t(ʰ)

Greek is the only thing really hard to explain but even Phrygian is well behaved with this so whatever

[ahzisskoroh]

the tes conlangs are boring so I feel like when I use them I'd expand their syntax a bit. call it "old" or something when appropriate

for Ta'agra in particular I'm thinking a Romani style case system with some dynamism to the verbs, like making impf stems do the yaparras thing of afroasiatic. "modern" ta'agra would have analyticalized under Imperial influence so I could use the Ta'agra project's ta'agra with my own

Old Nord would be a bit more Old Norse. Like, -r and such maybe. Dragon influences could disassociate the entire tense system, instead focusing on telicity since that's probably something a Dragon could want/understand.

Bretic could inherit Celtic mutation and maybe some Frenchisms

I feel like Aldmeris is going for some celto-italo-greco thing and a PIE-typical suffixing grammar probably wouldn't be too crazy to attach to it.

[tlaquetzqui]

Interesting that it’s sean nós, not nós sean. Seems Irish does like several Romance languages (“Italo-Celtic”) and puts adjectives of age (e.g. nouveau riche, jeune fille) before the noun, not after. (But not size—French puts grand before, Spanish has gran for before and grande for after, but mor only goes after.)

Although the Latin root that sean shares is mostly replaced for describing age by viejo and vieux and similar, in Romance, you might recognize it in the English words “senior”, “senile”, and “Senate”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3Z8qG7AKo

[forgeofideas]

France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy are grouped together based on the fact that they are an amalgamation of Celtic, Germanic, and Italo-Roman attributes. Ancestrally, they are primarily Celtic but have been dominated by a Germanic hegemon which has influenced their culture. Italo-Roman influence manifests in the form of both language and religeon, not to mention the Latin cultural hegemony and possible intermarriage that occurred during the Roman period. 

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[full-on-sam]

For the weather asking game:

💧- What’s the most emotional scene you’ve written?

⚡️- what’s something spontaneous you’ve added to your story that you wouldn’t normally add?

💦- How many WIPs do you have in all?

Hi, thanks for the question!! I'm a bit Kate in answering it, but its very much appreciated!!

💧 I think for now a scene about Liam's dream in Causing an Apocalypse. Actually tho I feel like the most emotional scene I have yet to write, and I have a feeling it will be in the first/second chapter of TSOU. Its when Katz exits from the bar and you realise that all her boldness is just a façade, and she is actually extremely lonely. I based this scene on a scene of Pin in Path to the Spider's Nest by Italo Calvino. Its my favorite book

⚡Mh, I some scenes such as characters driving in a storm or similar. Those are often things that happen to me but exaggerated. Writing them both my characters helps me metabolize things. I don't know if they will make it in the official thing, but for now they are there

💦 Thecnically? Just 2. But there is a ton of stories that I want to write. An illustrated children's book. An anthology of short stories. Another fantasy based on wind and celtic magic. So many ideas and possibilities really

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze helmet, Italo-Celtic, 325-200 BC

from The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[max1461]

bodacious italo-celtic babes

bodacious germanic babes