Cuchulainn the Celtic God-The Goddess Scathach of the Celtic Underworld

Cuchulainn the Celtic God-
The Goddess Scathach of the Celtic Underworld-

CuChulainn Celtic God

-Hello my dear Friends & Followers, for today's post I am going to bring you all into the Celtic
World of the Irish God Cuchulainn~
Cuchulainn was one of the greatest heroes of Irish mythology they say, Cuchulainn was a champion warrior of Ulster and the people Ireland thought of him as the 'Irish Achilles'. Cuchulainn was born Setanta son of human parents, Sualtam the warrior hero and Dechtire half sister to Conchobar the King of Ulster. His divine lineage includes the fact that he was an 
ancestor of the Dagda- the good God, and son of Lugh the Sun God/ God of light. Cuchulainn was short in stature yet no one could look upon him without blinking. The heat of his body could melt snow and ice for yards around him, his body glowed red and when he dipped his body in water to bathe, the water would hiss and turned into steam.  As a handsome lad he was, the son of Sualtam.  The Celtic God Cuchulainn had three colours type hair. His hair was Brown, in the middle it was red and on the outside area's it was like a diadem of golden. It was comparable to yellow gold.  Each glittering long curl of his beautiful hair,would fall freely down between his  shoulders. All about his neck were a hundred tiny links of red gold flashing, with pedants hung from them. His headgear was adorned with a hundred different jewels. On either cheek he had four moles; a yellow; green; blue and a red. In either eye the Celtic God Cuchulainn had seven pupils, 
sparkling like seven gems. Each of his feet had seven toes, each of his hands had seven fingers and his hands and feet were endowed with the clutching power of hawk's talons and hedgehog's claws. He also wore his gorgeous raiment for great gatherings - a fair crimson tunic of five plies all. The champion carried a trusty special shield coloured dark crimson with a pure white silver rim all around its circumference; at his left side hung a long golden hilted sword. Beside him in his chariot was a lengthy spear, together with a keen aggressive javelin

Cuchulainn

fitted with a hurling thong and rivets of white bronze. In one hand he carried nine heads and nine more in the other; he held these heads as emblems of his valour and skill in arms and at the sight of him the opposing army shook with terror'.
Cuchulainn was given the name Setanta at birth, However, he was dubbed his now most famous name Cuchulainn, which means 'Hound of Culann'. How he got his new name Cuchulainn from his birth name? it was at a very young age when he killed a ferocious guard hound with his bare hands, and offered to take its place guarding the castle. It seems that the Celtic God Cuchulainn was the great-Grandson of the God Aonghus and so Cuchualainn had both noble and divine blood in his veins. After he was given the name of Cuchulainn, the Celtic God was very eager to head out and take on Ulster's enemies. Which the Cuchulainn did and he fought three semi-divine warriors by the name of Foill, Fannel and Tuachell. In these battles with these three semi-divine warriors Foill, Fannel and Tuachell the Celtic God Cuchulainn was able to kill each of them with little trouble at all. Of course The Celtic God Cuchulainn had a horrifying technique.

This image show the God Cuchulain in both
forms. His godly Form as the Celtic God
and the when he turn into the 'Battle of Fury'
The Creature that no man can defeat in battle, on
 any battlefield in Scotland and Ireland.

What was this? Well in battle Cuchulainn battle-frenzy was a horrifying thing in it's time. It was  called 'The Battle of Fury', his entree body would trembled violently in the beginning. Then he would suffer his paroxysm, whereby he became a fearsome, multiform and wondrous unknown  creature. All over him, from his Golden crown to the ground, his flesh and every limb and joint  point would quiver as does a tree in a mid-wind storm. Within his very skin he put forth an unnatural effort of his body, meaning his feet, heels, shins and his knees would shifted
themselves and were behind him odd Eh! Then his heels, calves and ham-strings were displaced to the front of his leg-bones in hence a condition such that they were knotted muscles that stood up in large lumps on his legs as if that of clenched fist of fighting men. But there's more! The Cuchulainn frontal sinews of his head were dragged to the back of his neck, where they showed huge lumps. These lumps that were shown on the back of his head were much larger than that of the head of a average boy at the age of one month. Then there is the face, which underwent an extraordinary transformation, to a point that the God of Celtic Cuchulainn didn't look much like himself. One eye became engulfed in his head so far that 'tis a question whether a wild heron could have got at it. And where it lay against his occupied, to drag it out upon the surface of his cheek, Horrible simply terrify. Then there was his other eye, on the contrary which protruded suddenly out on itself and rested upon his cheek. Of there is his mouth, which was a twisted awry till it met his ears.
He kinda look like a lion of sorts with his lion gnashing which caused flakes of fire, flying of his mane, each one would get larger than the next one. Then the flames would stream from his throat into his mouth and outwards. He would sound like that of a lion in the act of charging bears with the sound of a howl like a ban of wolfs. Among the clouds over his head were visible the virulent pouring showers and sparks of ruddy fire which the seething of his savage wrath which caused him to mount up above him.  It seems that his hair would always be tangled about his head, as it had been branches of a red thorn bush stuffed into a strongly fenced gap to block it.  How he would kill men? Well, it seems that in this fit of frenzy a man's head could fit into his jaw and his hair bristled like that of hawthorn, with a drop of blood at the end of each single hair. All he would have to do is flash his hair around and each individual hair would impale a warrior from the bristle at the end of each of his very long red hair. At the top of his head arose a thick column of very deep dark blood like the mast of a ship. So let me ask you? Who would try or could fight against that Creature?  And that is how many men have died horribly! His hero's paroxysm would projected itself out from his forehead, and show longer than the wet-stone of a first rate man at arms. Finally he was taller, thicker and more rigid, than any mast of the greatest ships of the day. And any man too, with the perpendicular jet of dusky dark blood which would spurt out of his scalp at very central points upward and then was scattered to the four cardinal points; meaning this! Whereby was formed a magical mist of gloom resembling the smoky pall that drapes a regal dwelling, what time a king at night-fall of a winters day draws near to it. This is what the Celtic Goddess of the

Goddess Scathach of the Underworld Celtic

 Dead and sometimes called the Shadowy One taught Cuchulainn in her lair. The Goddess is the most skilled and skilled in the arts of Combat. She was the one who taught the Celtic God Cuchulainn for a year and a day, the fighting techniques and various magick spells to build and effective weapons for his fighting skills in combat. It was she who gave the hero of Ulster, the famous and efficient launch 'Gae Bolga' which was to be launched with feet and once locked on the enemy body blew a fresh load of darts that tore inside the enemy's body. So by starting sexually educating by his amatory arts. The two became very close Cuchulainn and the Goddess Scathach. Her home being the queen of the Underworld Celtic, was located on the Isle of Skye - Isle of Shadows, which is the largest of the Inner Hebrides Islands, which is located in Scotland. The abode of the Goddess is protected by the 'Bridge of the Jumps', which when stepped upon on one end is raised and returned to the point of origin. So if you tried to jump on it the balance is lost and you are returned to the point of origin to

The Goddess Scathach 

which you jumped again where you are lost and fall into an abyss where creatures and monsters are waiting for you. The Celts have said that she is characterized as being a warrior Cuchulainn later became lovers. She had a woman's body, however of great beauty and of oddly ageless. She was strong without losing her femininity and had fiery red hair.
History of the Goddess~
The Goddess Scathach was once a mortal and was a well known woman warrior in life. She met her end to her happy life as a mortal violently. When she was captured and held in prison raped and tortured and finally murdered. Just before her death, Scathach soul called out for revenge. What the Goddess Scathach wish was? She was granted as a Demi Goddess sent back to Avenge all women and protector of women. Her job was to assist those slain in battle and then  help them through passage of the dead to Heaven. She was then called the warrior-woman risen to divinity, The Gaelic Goddess of the Dead. She is also
similar to the Valkyrie of the Norse. She would search the battlefields for the souls of the slain, it is also the duty of Scathach to destroy those who are Evil and do harm to woman and children. She would travel all over the world seeking out to destroy evil where ever it existed. She was also a potent magician. She had the gift of prophecy and also learned battle tactics from every Culture, learned all languages on thee Earth that she traveled village to village. In her quest to seek to do all the wrongs right and to protect the Innocent. Teaching women to fight and to read, write and learn not to be the weak sex or submissive to man. Since she was born in a beautiful well endowed woman it was a bait for those who had evil in their hearts and that is why she believes when she was mortal she was raped and now it is her role now to protect women and is a fearsome expert in the art of war.

Our Celtic God Cuchulainn

It is her that only the great warrior CuChulainn, of Ireland discovers there is more to his craft at a young youth. This teaching took place in Alba, I t was from Scathach that the Youth Cuchulainn received the 'Gae Bolg' his formidable barbed spear sword whose thrust was invariably fatal. Its seems it was the Celtic King Conchobar that suggested that Cuchulainn should train with the Goddess Scathach on her island off the coast of Scotland.
Well before Cuchulainn could be train he had to pass to test of the famous Bridge'. This is the bridge that is for every twisting and turning against you, which is every way you happen to land on the bridge or tilt it. The bridge will rise up vertically, almost 90 degrees,  so one will slide down to the other side and if your not quick, when your trying to cross while your sliding cross the huge vertical drop, you can fall to the depths of devouring beasts below. This is what has happened to thousands of men. However, for the Cuchulainn who attempted to cross the bridge three times and each time failed and lived. But even the heroic Cuchulainn had his limits too. But he being and strong god and clever one was able to access an stronghold of the goddess Scathach and threatened her with his sword until she agreed to teach him the skill 'Gae Bolg'. During the time that he was be taught the skill 'Gae Bolg' by the Goddess Scathach in the Underworld of the Celtic, Cuchulainn became very attracted to Scathach's daughter Uathach and the two became lovers while he lived at Schthach's stronghold. It seems that in return for the teachings of the 'Gae Bolg' from the Goddess, he had to carry out a task for Scathach. What this was?

Young Cuchulainn Celtic God

 He was to go to war and defeat another great warrior woman Aoife in battle.  This weapon was given by Scathach the warrior woman to Aoife who Cuchulainn conquered as a test while in the service of  the Goddess Scathach therefore it passed into his ownership when Aoife was defeated in battle. So now Cuchulainn has the famous weapon of harpoon with retractable barbs. This weapon had thirty barbs and was made from the bones of a sea monster with the 'Gae Bulga'. Which made Cuchulaninn unstoppable and invincible in combat and battle. He became the Greatest Warrior the Celts ever had - Cuchulainn the Celtic God which he owed much of his great fame and skill to the Goddess Scathach teaching.
Cuchulainn was known as the 'Hound of Ulster', an name he had gained after killing the guard dog of Cullan the Smith. It seems that the Celtic God was remembered as the 'tough guy' of many adventures in his time, even though he was mortal. However, he finally meet his match and his end when he meet the Goddess Morrigan.
After he had trained in the Land of Shadows under the lovey Goddess Scathach, warrior princess, where he learned his famous battle leap the "Gae Bulga' and became the most powerful warrior of Scotland and Ireland. He used his skills in his final campaign, defending Ulster against a whole army by himself fighting to the last in spite of curses and being
outnumbered by thousands-to-one, Cuchulainn tied himself to an upright stone so that he Morrigan, the Goddess of death of the battlefield. As he died, Morrigan rested on his shoulder in the form of a crow, signaling the end of the Mighty hero.

The Great Cuchulainn at his End

could fight to his very last breath, even as he was wounded and dying. Even as he was dying he spurned the advances of the
When the goddess Morrigan had offered him immortality, Cuchulainn had rejected her offer believing that it shouldn't be a gift bestowed . Thus, by not excepting the gift from the Morrigan it was his End.

It seems After the Celtic God Cuchulainn died, It was the end of a mighty hero of all of Ireland and Scotland.  As for the Goddess Scathach of the Celtic Underworld it is sad that I just came upon her. She was an amazing goddess of her time. For this reason I decided to make this post on both the God Cuchulainn and the Goddess Scathach of the Celtic Underworld.  It is said that most of the stories about her have been destroyed when Christianity came to Scotland and Ireland. However, at some point I will explore this a bit more and see for myself if there is truly any info on this Amazing Goddess. So say tune! I hope that you did Enjoy the two legends my dear

Cuchulainn last moments on the Battle field with
his mates looking on...

The Goddess Scathach of the Celtic Underworld

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Swan Maiden-

Swan Maiden

Swan Maiden

Good Evening my dear friends & followers, I have

a new post on the Swan Maiden. There have been many

legends about these beautiful women. In some ways

they are very much like that of the Selkie legend.

If you arent' familiar with this legend, its

about beautiful women and their seal skins.

These Swan Maidens are quite beautiful and live

in either ponds or lakes. Then at night they will 

shed their beautiful white feathery coats and 

will reveal themselves as these beautiful women.

It is said that they like to come up on the banks

of the lakes to dance and sing leaving the feathery

coats on the shores of the lakes

This is very similar to that of the Selkie who live in the Arctic oceans and will come the the shores of the beaches to shed their skins like a seal to reveal the beautiful women too. They to like to dance and sing on the shore. while they leave the seal skins on the shore. 

Although if their different types of skins are stolen the out-come it very different.( You can find more about the Selkie - just look it up in my blog Archives) 

Now if the coat of the Swan Maiden is Stolen, then the maiden will become trapped in the human form. If the thief is a human male, he may decided to take the Maiden (swan) as a unwilling bride. Which at the moment she would not have any say in the matter. But should this happen, it could raise an rebelling with the swan maiden's sisters when the man least expects it. So it would be that long that she would be rescued from her sister swans. This happens in just a few days after she was taken from her sisters.

A flight of white swans will come to liberate their sister and swam around the human male and find her feathery coat skin. Then in a flash they gone! 

Characteristics of the Swan Maiden ~

Swan Maiden

Despite their usual serene demeanor, swan maiden's should not be underestimated, for if they should become displeased they can prove themselves to be considerably powerful and aggressive creatures. Therefore meddling in the life of the swan maiden could be sorely regrettable for an male and his actions. 

Other Celtic Mythology Swan Maiden ~There are other swan maiden that may be trapped in another way - This could be from the result of a curse that had been bestowed upon them by a witch.

It was customary in Celtic Mythology for someone to embark upon and to complete a series of heroic 

tasks on the behalf of the swan maiden and occasionally the swan men, in order that their human form may again be resumed. 

The Celtic Goddess - Saint Bridget was also worshipped in some locations as being a Swan Goddess.

I found that the Swan Maiden to be an eloquent & graceful creature but also strong and not to mess with either.
I hope that you all found the legend of the 
Swan Maiden as Eloquent and Graceful as I did my dearest
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TipsFromtheGarden-BeginningGuidetoHomeCanning-

TipsFromtheGarden~
BeginningGuidetoHomeCanning-

Good afternoon my dear 

Friends and Followers. I hope that you all had a Joyous & Happy

Christmas Holiday. For today Saturday's Tips From the Garden I found

a great piece o how to canned your own fresh fruits, vegetables, jams,

pickled foods and even meats that can help bring delicious food

in your pantry year around. 

For beginners, canning can seem like a daunting task,

However with a few basic tips you all can become great home caner's too

in no time. It just might take a bit of patience. 

First of all there are two different kinds of methods too a

Canning. Each way, I found was with a varying of different levels.

For  Beginners it would seem that they would have the most 

Success, with the water bath canning Method.

Briefly how this is done; and late in the post I will go in more

Detail on the Water bath Method. 

You just fill the canning jars that you can get at any

local Store, with foods like Jams, Pickles Tomatoes or other kinda

Vegetables and Fruits too. This could be also whole fruits or puree fruits

For jams ( like strawberry jam, blueberry jam, plum jam etc.)

Then after you fill your jars with what ever you decide, be it fruits or

vegetables, then make sure the jars are sealed tied so the won't leak.

Then have a Stainless steel large pot, that is all ready boiling with about 

2 to 3 inches from the top of space of water. Put as many as you can fit in the pot 

with being able to put the pots lid on. Then lit boil for about an hour . What 

this will do is create a seal on the jars. Once the jars have cooled the 

food inside will be prevent any growth of bacteria in the jars.

Now for the brief- more advance Method.

This process is usually involves a pressure cooker, and that is 

why it is a bit more advance for caners.

It en able the caners to reach higher temperatures, then 

just the regular boiling pot. This will destroy any microorganisms, particularly

the colostrum that can cause botulism. This happens much more often

in the pressure cooker canning, in low-acid foods such as corn and other 

vegetables, meat and even seafood's too. 

If you were try to do this type of canning with the Water Bath Method

It usually will lead to unsafe food and a threat to botulism poisoning. 

As you can see the Second Method Pressure cooker canning

can be much more involved. This is why most folks try their first try at 

canning the Water Bath Method. However, there are a few adventurous folks

that want to try the pressure cooker canning particularly for the 

poultry, and other types of meats that you can can and even some seafood.
'Hint ~ One of the Keys to Great Canning is Starting with Good Food'
~So this is what you will need for Basic Water Bath Canning~

Water Bath Canning requires very basic equipment.
1-canning jars
2-lids with a ring of sealant and threaded rings to hold the lids in place,
during the water bath.
3-A large pot - it could be made of either aluminum, stainless steel or
porcelain-coat steel that is deep enough to hold whatever size glass
canning jars you're canning with. Plus the pot must be at least 1-2 inches from
the top of the boiling area.
4-After filling the pot with water and setting it to boil, its time to prepare
the food. This often involves simply filing the canning jars with
raw food and ready type liquid you'll use to fill them with.
5-For raw fruits and vegetables, be sure to check the acidity levels or PH levels.
If the PH levels are below 4.6 the food is considered, acidic which means
the environment inside the jars will inhibit the growth of bacteria during storage.

6-Commonly canned acidic foods are foods such as, jams,
pickles, jellies, fruit butters, most all fruits, and sauerkraut too.
7-Oddly enough, there are some tomatoes, figs, and other fresh fruits
that need a little help reaching their acidic levels of 4.6 of lower too. This
can be done with a little bit of Vinegar, citric acid or even lemon juice too.
So double -check a food's PH levels before canning as it has a large impact
on the method you'll need to use.
8-Figuring out a food acidity and which method to use it
can be a little trick to canning too.

9-Boiling the lidded jars is called 'processing' and the time required to
process foods varies depends on the packing method either raw or hot.
With the raw packing, clean often peeled raw fruits and vegetables are cut to
uniform sizes and placed directly into clean, sterilized jars. The same
goes for making pickles, this entailed cutting up cucumber and placing into the jars.
10- Once the unheated food is well packed into the jar, a hot
canning liquid of some sort-water, vinegar or syrup is then added
to the food and filled to within what is called the 'headspace'.
(Again, for the pickle recipe this may involve pouring a brine over the cucumbers.)
11- The head space refers to the clearance at the top of the
jar between the level of liquid and the lid. This area is vital to the proper
sealing of each and every jar, as it allows for the escape of air during jar,
Processing, creating a vacuum.
12- With hot packing, the food is also brought to a boil along with
the packing liquid, and both are added to the jar as the same time. This process
helps remove air from the food and helps prevent the food from floating in the jars too.
Also it increases the vacuum in the sealed jars and helps increase the shelf life of the
canned items. Hot packing is recommenced for Water Bath Canning!
13- After filling the jars with the food of your choose, cover each of them with
the sealant side down then screw on the ring until its tight, but not to tight. if you over
tighten the ring there is a chance the sealant will leak out during the processing and
damage the the jar and the food inside.
14- Now, lower the jars into the pot of boiling water bath that you have made for
your canning jars. This will ensuring that all the canning jars are fully covered by
at least an inch of water or more. Note you might want to get a canning
jar holder that enables you to hold the jars as you put them into the boiling water.
The jars need to be in the boiling water at least an hour to kill all bacterias for the food
to be save after you take the jars out and cooled..
Note: there are a number of resources available such as the 
USDA's Complete Guide to Home Canning' to help you on how long to process
your canned goods or keep them boiling in your pot. Altitude, hot versus
raw packing will all play into a factor to how long your jars need to boil
in your pot to get an effective seal and to ensure that the food inside will be safe to store and eat.
15- Once your jars have survived the Water Bath, they are to be cooled at room
temperature. While it can take up to 24-hours for the jars to fully cool and seal, you
can start hearing the satisfying 'pop' of a seal within as little as 30 minutes.
However, be sure to check all your jars for a true seal after a 24-hour period.
How you do this is: You can do this with a simple thumb test - simply press your thumb
on the top of the lid, and if it springs back, the jar didn't seal. You can also test the seal by hitting the lid with a spoon or checking to see if it  curves down slightly in the center.
16-If a jar fails to seal, on you remove the lid and check for any nicks in the sealant or the
rim or the jar itself. Switch the contents to a new jar, if needed and reprocess
the food within 24-hours. Be sure to remove the rings before storage on all jars.
They aren't  needed to keep the seal and after the water bath, they can rust and wrap
and cause problems when opening the stored jars.
17- Finally After a successful canning you might try a different food.
Each time you try, try something new so that it won't seem so scary. and intimidating.
You might Enjoy the process you never know.

I have canned Jam many years ago and it was lots of Fun!
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