#oengus og

[reejindeed]

Aengus Óg!

[a-studious-reej]

Must be rough out here for any male gods associated with love

[royal-wren]

A quick joke a small few will understand but personally, has me howling with laughter

[fireinthesea-blog]

prefacing this by saying that i've been hardcore ruminating and having intrusive thoughts about this for the past day, so i'm just writing this down to hopefully get it out of my head and i can't promise how coherent it'll be

i've been listening to quite a bit of podcasts since my surgery last week (yeahhh yeeterus at last!). and honestly i've just kinda been blown away by the amount of celtic myth/folklore and scottish/irish history podcasts have popped up since i've been gone, and it's really getting me feeling comfortable with the mythology and the language in a way i never have before. it's a piece that was missing for years for me. which is why it's really driving me nuts that like...

i'm not expecting to agree with everything these people are saying. especially going into the myth podcasts, i very much do not, and with the couple i've listened to most at this point, i'm interested in what these people have to say and have a lot of respect for them as storytellers and for people who surrounding immersing themselves so much in these stories, even when i disagree with what they're saying. for the most part.

but fucking what's with this 'the tuatha dé weren't actually gods' thing? especially coming an episode or two after they went on a whole big thing about how the glorious goddess danu was erased by that nasty christian patriarchy. how can you hold those two views at the same time? the latter seems to imply some damn heavy things about the former to me?

their points were that they weren't all powerful/all knowing/omnipresent/etc/that they die (which i'd recently seen other professionals say and been annoyed by), which is bullshit because there are other gods like that who don't get called into question. they literally said that the irish gods weren't gods like the norse gods, and i'm pretty sure they also fall into a lot of those 'failings'?

their other was that the ancient irish didn't worship their gods??? have i..... missed some things? my brain has stopped working

[spiced-wine-fic]

“in Brittany and in Wales, the Twelve Days of Christmas, which mark the intercalary days of the year, are called ‘the Omen Days,’ and they have a special purpose. ‘Intercalary days’ are really the days left over from reckoning up the solar year and, in calendars throughout the world and at different times, they are special because they are considered to be ‘the days out of time.’  It is in this interval between the ordinary count of days that gods are born or conceived in many different mythologies, including the Irish one, where Oengus Og, Young Angus, is conceived, grown and born at Brúg na Boinne within this time, all in one day, by the magical workings of the Dagda.”

[tuatha-de-danann-blog]

Boand/Boann

Mother to Oengus Og. Her husband had a well only he and his cupbearers could visit. If someone else would go to the well, their eyes would burst. Boand defied this and circled the well three times counterclockwise. Three waves leaped up and took her eye, thigh, and hand. She ran to the ocean but the water flowed out and drowned her, creating a river that took her name.

[natashaswinterwolf]

Lancelot is the reincarnation of Oengus mac Og.

...absolutely amazing 🥰🥰

[pippa-writes]

Aengus Óg isn’t even really the god of love, he’s just the god of Uppity Teenagers Who Say ‘Do You Know Who My Father Is????!!!!’ At Least Forty Times A Day and that’s just that.

[not-poignant]

i was rereading TIP1 and wow, i’m in awe of how you make your side characters (oengus and the gancanagh) so memorable and iconic. i’m curious, what was oengus and gwyn’s relationship like back when gwyn was seelie?

This is actually talked about a little bit in book one! It's talked about in chapter 17, and you might not be up to that yet in your reread. But Oengus and Gwyn were comrades in the Seelie military and were both considered great warriors.

Beyond that, they weren't especially close. They had the closeness that comes from protecting each other's lives and therefore trusting each other with their lives as warriors. But they weren't like...seeing each other as friends outside of battle or military tours.

[natashaswinterwolf]

I always saw Lancelot as the reincarnation of Oengus mac Og and Nimue as Bridget.

Chapter 4 is posted! I really enjoyed writing this one. Had fun making up some backstory for Lancelot. Enjoy!

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[reejindeed]

Some Oengus Ógses

[a-studious-reej]

This is how I like to imagine this conversation going

(From: Fate of the Children of Lir)

[royal-wren]

Giving Aengus the epithet "of many kisses" has got to be one of the best moves I have ever made. It just really fits him especially since I do see him as being somewhere between Aphrodite and Inanna (but closer to Aphrodite). It just shows his softer side in my opinion, one that I love as much as any other side to him.

[to-lugh-devoted]

Kisses 

As I kiss my lover I feel you As I peck my friend's cheek I hear you laugh As I hug my family close I see your smile in my mind

In my dreams You came to me Your ruby hair making A halo atop your head Your beard just as curly and ruddy as your hair

You were wearing a tourist shirt and blue jeans with a brooch of a dove Odd atire for a god, I thought You wrapped me in your arms, and, laughing, kissed my cheeks We shared strawberry whiskey and

You told me I should kiss my friends more Advice I am happy to follow

[faetalesresearch]

Fae Tales - The Ice Plague - King Oengus Og

"And I, one of the strongest Mages, who had once been a member of the Thirteen, who had once tutored Mages in the arts of song and charm and wordplay, who had even tutored Davix and Olphix to strengthen their skills – I could not break her curse. So, instead, I became a swan.”