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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com@bsky.brid.gy · Aug 05, 2026
Higan is a seven-day Japanese Buddhist festival, a celebration of the equinoxes. The fall version is called shūbun, when farmers assess their harvest and families have ceremonies at ancestral graves. The red spider lilly, a symbol of death, marks the holiday. #WyrdWednesday
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 29, 2026
Herne the Hunter is mentioned in William Shakespeare's play "The Merry Wives of Windsor" as the ghost of a gamekeeper who has antlers and haunts Windsor Forest. Later people have claimed Herne was originally a British pagan god, but no references to him before Shakespeare survive. 🎨 Alfred Concanen and Thomas Lee #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #Literature #Poetry #Theatre
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 29, 2026
Cernunnos is the Celtic horned god, called the great peacemaker and master of the wild places. This figure is largely mysterious, and we only know his name from a single source, a stone pillar in Paris, yet he has captured the modern imagination of Celtophiles. #WyrdWednesday
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 29, 2026
The Horned Serpent of Muscogee Creek myth has crystalline scales and a gem imbedded in its forehead, feasting on sumac and being a magnet for wild game. Its horns are used for medicine, its scales for divination. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Dracarian
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @NeuKelte@hear-me.social · Jul 29, 2026
#WyrdWednesday: While horned helmets among the #Celtic tribes are well documented in artwork and coins from the period, actual archaeological confirmation of the existence of this particular type of helmet has been rare. Indeed, until now it was thought that the only known example from Iron Age Europe was the Waterloo Helmet found in the River Thames in London, which is ceremonial in nature and differs greatly from Celtic horned helmets depicted elsewhere.` Photo: Warrior with horned helmet depicted on a stele from Bormio (Lombardy), Italy, (early 4th c. BC) Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/the-tyle-helmet-a-balkan-celtic-horned-helmet-from-bryastovets-eastern-bulgaria/
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 22, 2026
If you need a masterclass in well-deserved rest, look to the apex Landlord of the Swamp. Nothing relaxes like an alligator on a hot July afternoon -sprawled out in the blackwater mud, soaking up the heat, completely unbothered by the world moving past. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature #WitchSky
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @NeuKelte@hear-me.social · Jul 22, 2026
Replying to @NeuKelte@hear-me.social
#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `...the voice of Sualtach from the dissevered head still called aloud, as though he were alive, “Your men are being slain, your cattle driven away; your women fall as captives to the men of Erin. In wild Murthemne’s plain Cuchulain all alone still holds the foemen back. Ulster, Arise, arise!” “Too noisy is that head,” King Conor said, moving again and stirring in his sleep; “put it upon the pillar of the house that it may go to rest.” Then one of the warriors, hearing his King’s voice, bestirred himself, and lifted up the head and set it on a pillar; ... .” Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/115011490083543289
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 22, 2026
In Greek mythology, the moon goddess Selene falls in love with the handsome shepherd Endymion as he sleeps on Mt. Latmus, so she begs Zeus to keep Endymion forever young. Zeus puts the youth into an eternal sleep, and he never ages. Selene visits Endymion every night. 🎨 Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Greece #Roman
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 15, 2026
“If there is a halo round the sun or moon, then we can all expect rain quite soon.” It's true, the old saying: ice crystals in clouds refract off the light, creating a halo that indicates a front is about to move through the area. #WyrdWednesday
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 08, 2026
#WyrdWednesday In 1786 a sea monster described as 14 metres long with a human-like head and a hard turtle-like shell was washed up at Porthleven in Cornwall after a storm, as depicted in this contemporary watercolour by Charles Catton. peter-moore.co.uk/blog/histori...
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 08, 2026
The al-mi'raj from medieval Arabic folklore resembles a yellow hare with a single horn. This creature is so fierce that much larger animals flee from it. The inhabitants of an island in the Indian Ocean gave Alexander the Great an al-mi'raj to repay him for slaying a dragon. #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Literature #Arabia #Medieval #AlexandertheGreat #Monster
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Jul 08, 2026
In Arabian folklore, one of Sinbad the Sailor's adventures was when he sailed to the City of Apes. The city's inhabitants must sleep in boats on the water since at night savage apes come down from the mountains and enter the city to steal its fruit and attack any humans they find. #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Arabia #MiddleEast #Literature #ArabianNights #Sinbad #Ape
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 08, 2026
Final one for #WyrdWednesday. (A newspaper cartoon by Hans Arnold from - and I can't think why I'm assuming this - the 1970s.) #mermaid
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 08, 2026
According to the Sawa of Cameroon, the Jengu is a sea witch, a mermaid with wooly hair and a smile with a notable gap. She can cure illness and bring good fortune when worshipped, so have a care and be respectful. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: reneenault
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 08, 2026
When his sacred chickens refused to eat, thus giving him a bad omen for an upcoming battle, Roman general Publius Claudius Pulcher had them thrown into the sea. The Roman fleet was immediately devastated in the Battle of Drepana against Carthage. #WyrdWednesday
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The Godyssey Podcast @Godyssey@pagan.plus · Jul 08, 2026
Mazu is the Chinese sea goddess, who began life as a shaman from Fujian only a millennium ago. She scans the seas for her faithful, saving many against all odds and blessing them with safe passage and a safe return home. #WyrdWednesday
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NeuKelte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻 @NeuKelte@hear-me.social · Jul 08, 2026

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: At the time the Fomor used to be coming to Ireland, Balor of the Strong Blows, or, as some called him, of the Evil Eye, was living on the Island of the Tower of Glass. There was danger for ships that went near that island, for the Fomor would come out and take them. And some say the sons of Nemed in the old time, before the Firbolgs were in Ireland, passed near it in their ships, and what they saw was a tower of glass in the middle of the sea, and on the tower something that had the appearance of men, and they went against it with Druid spells to attack it. And the Fomor worked against them with Druid spells of their own; and the sons of Nemed attacked the tower, and it vanished, and they thought it was destroyed. But a great wave rose over them then, and all their ships went down and all that were in them. Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

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