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  This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #PeopleOverProfits

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  This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #PeopleOverProfits

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  #FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares were sent by the dwellers in the hill to warn mortals if they trespassed too closely into forbidden places, or sought to damage or destroy the old mounds. So if you happen to be in the wild places of Ireland when the moon waxes full above and see a hare looking at you steadily from the tall grass, look out!` Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-irish-hare

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  #FindsFriday: `Macabre finds and a warrior figure in a Bavarian Celtic settlement baffle experts Researchers have unearthed more than 40.000 new artefacts in Manching, near Ingolstadt. In the process, they have learnt new things about diet and craftsmanship and have come across what may be the remains of a ritual`: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000283551/morbide-funde-und-kriegerfigur-in-bayerischer-keltenstadt-geben-fachleuten-raetsel-auf

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  #FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In the episode `Nuckelavee, Scotland's Scariest Demon` the makers of `Stories of Scotland` journey to the cold waters of the North Sea. Annie relates, how `as the middle of autumn approached, and the autumnal equinox drew near, the Sea Mither (In an evil hour her powerful and black-hearted rival breaks his bonds; a terrific battle ensues, called the Gore vellye (harvest destructive work). The Sea Mither is overcome, and has to take her flight from the ocean, leav...

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  #FindsFriday #Celtic: Parts of wagon and horse harness, bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE Source: kaernten.museum

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  #FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `James Macgrigor encountered a Kelpie disguised as a stallion. Recognizing it, he stroke its nose with his claymore, severing its magical bridle bit. The Kelpie pleaded for its return, revealing its transformational powers and ability to reveal hidden beings: “If you look through the holes in the bit, you will see all manners of fairies and witches and devils.” `Macgrigor lifted the bit to his eyes and peered through, and sure enough, the world he saw was bright with c...

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  #FolkloreThursday #Celtic: The last lintel of the entrance passage to #Oweynagat is an #ogham stone with characters on both lower edges. „They read "VRAICCI...MAQI MEDVVI" which means "Fraech... son of Medb". Actually Fraech wasn't Medb's son, he was the husband of Findabair, daughter of Medb and Ailill.“ Source: https://www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p=789

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  This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

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  #MythologyMonday #Celtic: `There were two monsters fighting in the sea one time, the Curruid and the Coinchenn their names were, and at the last the Coinchenn made for the strand to escape, but the other followed him and killed him there. Then Bolg, son of Buan, a champion of the eastern part of the world, found the bones of the Coinchenn on the strand, and he made a spear with them. And he gave it to a great fighting man, the son of Jubar, and it went from one to another till it came to the wom...

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  This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

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  #FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The #tarroo-ushtey, the #Manx Water-Bull, is an "amphibious creature" with every semblance of a natural bull, but a cow mating with it calves only a misshapen "lump of flesh and skin without bones" and often dies giving birth. Waldron also wrote that a neighbor detected a stray bull in his herd and, suspecting it to be a Water-Bull, rounded up a group of men with pitchforks to give it chase. The beast, however, dove into a river and...

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  #FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Grace McGloighlin lived in the townland of Creevelea at the north-west corner of Glenade Lough. One day in 1722 she went to the river to wash some clothes and, failing to return that evening, her husband Terence went looking by the lough shore. Tradition has it that he found her bloody remains with the Dobhar-Chú asleep on her breast. James Roonian's version, recounted to Patrick Tohall in the 1940s, details how Terence “returning to the house for his dagger h...

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  #FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Moore says there was a sighting of the #cabyll-ushtey, a #Manx Water-Horse, in 1859 at Ballure Glen, and after being spotted people from nearby Ramsey flocked to see, but no one caught sight of it. The glen beneath the Glen Meay Waterfall was haunted by the ghost of a man who unwittingly rode on the horseback of the glashtin or cabbyl-ushtey, and was drowned at sea. One tale recounts how a cabbyl-ushtey emerged from the Awin Dhoo (Black River) and devoured a farmer&a...

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  #FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `In the folklore of the Isle of Man the #Fenodyree is a hairy supernatural creature, often carrying out chores to help humans, like the brownies. Besides herding animals, reaping and threshing overnight may be added to the list of chores he performs for the farmer, as well as herding sheep on a snowy night. The fenodyree may also repair fishnets or the boat, according to lore among fishermen.` Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenodyree

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  #FolkloreThursday #Celtic: „A buggane was a huge ogre-like creature native to the Isle of Man. A shapeshifter, the buggane is generally described as a malevolent being that can appear as a large black calf or human with ears or hooves of a horse. Its natural form is described as "covered with a mane of coarse, black hair; it had eyes like torches, and glittering sharp tusks". Another tales describes it as a huge man with bull's horns, glowing eyes and large teeth. As ma...

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  This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm. We need degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏 #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

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  #FindsFriday #Celtic: Small combs with a bronze horse-shaped handle from a cremation grave found at Fechenheim – ‘Schwedenschanze’, City of Frankfurt am Main Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum

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  #FindsFriday #Celtic: Bronze comb, second half of the 5th century BCE, find from a mountain pass, Aigle, Routes des Ormonts, Canton of Vaud` Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum

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  #FindsFriday #Celtic: Bronze belt chain with an animal-head clasp from a woman’s grave found at Berstadt, ‘Im Felde’, Büdingen district Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum

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  #FindsFriday #Celtic: Two-part neck ring with stamp ends, brooch with base disc, knotted arm ring with stamp ends, bronze finger ring from a women’s grave, recovered in 1911 at Praunheim-‘Ebel’, City of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt Archaeological Museum Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum

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  As Water Pollution Concerns Grow in Iowa, So Do Fertilizer Industry Profits: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082026/fertilizer-industry-profits-grow/ We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

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  Data Center Developers in Texas Plan Massive New Gas Power Projects: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082026/texas-data-center-gas-projects/ We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills