#BookologyThursday: `During the Táin Bó Cúailnge #CúChulainn `is both helped and hindered by supernatural figures from the Tuatha Dé Danann. Before one combat the #Morrígan, the goddess of war, visits him in the form of a beautiful young woman and offers him her love, but CúChulainn spurns her.` #Celtic
Source: Táin Bó Cúailnge - Wikipedia

#BookologyThursday: `The Tuatha Dé Danann is named for the #Celtic mother goddess Danu, bringer and nurturer of life. The battle and death goddess the #Morrígan is Danu’s divine opposite, possessing “the power of destruction and the fury of slaughter“.`
source: irishmyths.com/2022/08/21/samhain-mythology/

#FairyTaleTuesday: `The #Morrigan wasn't always on the side of the children of the Tuatha. When she and #CúChulainn met he didn't see the truth of her & gave her foul insult before leaping to the attack. Just in time she changed into a raven and sat on a branch close by, mocking him with her croaks, & then he discerned her true nature, so he gave his grudging apology, but she said to him, “it is at the guarding of thy death that I am; and I shall be.” #Celtic
Source: emeraldisle.ie/the-morrigan

#FairyTaleTuesday: „We first hear of the #Morrigan fighting alongside the warriors of the Tuatha De Danann in their struggles with the Fir Bolg and then the Fomors who came from afar to conquer and enslave. In her raven-coat she'd soar above bloody battlefields, which she called her garden, her cry emboldening those she favoured into battle fury, riastradh, and putting terror on those she opposed.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-morrigan