#the irish sun

[zonetrente-trois]

[aidansplaguewind]

"I was cutting the bottom of the sofa for coins to get milk for the kids - it wasn’t that long ago," Aidan says about tougher times before his career really took off.

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[Photo by Allen Kiery]

[joshuaballsett]

[irishgal06]

Please don’t leave summer I’m begging you ☀️🥺

[meatiors]

I call this one "I didn't know molly was supposed to be irish until I heard his dead corpse talking and now I can't stop thinking about it"

[nicoscheer]

Amidst all these rumoured and potentially confirmed castings for the four Beatles Biopics I`m still a firm believer of just having Miles grow back his mop hair so he can simply play all four of them (or at least Lennon)

[surlifen]

new sona ref at long last! and I named him finally (sort of) (was stuck between two so I've uploaded different versions of the ref in different places LMAO)

just in time for artfight teehee

[oh-my-little-hearth]

[solargeist]

i cant get over how perfect Grian's name is for him, like. It means the Sun in Irish, and slang for trolling/pranking in Thai

[panoramicireland]

Sun rays and crashing wave on County Antrim's Causeway Coast.

I've just returned from a visit to Scotland and the Hebridean Isles of Skye and Mull, including Staffa with its geological features the same as those on this part of the coast of Ireland.

More posts to follow.

[noctilionoidea]

Been drawing Clíodhna more lately to try and refine my design for her.

I love adding little lines everywhere. And using multiple markers for one spot of colour. It makes running out of ink less stressful lol. anyways I decided I’d give her my mole. I just for the fun of it. It’s on the other side than mine though lol

The squiggles are so fun wthhhhhh. Started doing them during lectures since they didn’t distract me and created interesting forms. The greatest thing about art school is being encouraged to doodle during lectures lmao.

[elven-kisses]

every day I wake up and wish grian hadn't chosen the name grian for his channel. have to endure watching people use my language for the most fuckass hcs

[storytellingbadger]

Fanart for the sheer poetry that is @shirajellyfish's Wildcat, Wildfire. An animatronic searching for a lost child meets a fae made of embers.

"Metal, humans called the material. Abhorrent, she called the shape of it. A dead thing dropped into her forest, into her presence, into her home. This garbage weighing into her soul was a pollution of her self. So, she appeared to it, to cast her judgment and her punishment onto its existence."

Plus experimenting with sunspot patterns on the rays. I think I like it!

[claer]

lugh by forest rogers

[nogetron]

Balor, high chief of the Fomorians. Balor was the embodiment of the scorching sun, who brought drought and death to those against him. Balor’s body towered over all who laid eyes on him, with his one eye emanating an abyssal darkness. This eye was said to bring about death whenever it was opened, scorching the earth. Balor prides himself on his ruling of the Fomorians, demons who sought to subjugate the Tuatha dé and humanity. During the Fomorian’s rule over the Tuatha dé, Balor installed a puppet ruler named bres a member of the Tuatha dé whose father was a Fomorian. Under Bres the Tuatha dé and humanity were enslaved. However Balor heard of a prophecy which detailed his fall from the hands of his grandson. To remedy this Balor sent for all of his daughter’s children to be drowned, the only one to survive was Lugh, who faced off against his grandfather in the final battle against the Fomorians. Using his spear, Lugh punched out Balor’s eye, stealing his grandfather’s eye, Lugh used it to decimate the Fomorian army and obtain victory for the Tuatha dé. However Balor still survived and will occasionally return to the mortal world, but he’s always stopped by his grandson, their combat resulting in storms.

Balor’s most common epithet is “Balor of the evil eye” but he has many others, such as “Balor the smiter” and “Balor of the piercing eye”. In modern scholarship it’s believed that Balor was originally a demonic god of the sun, being the incarnation of the harmful effects of the sun’s rays, like burns and droughts. Balor’s battle with Lugh is believed to be reflected in the story of Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh, with Crom Dubh most likely being a reflection of Balor himself. Another being connected to Balor is the fire spirit slayed by Fionn mac Cumhail, who may have been seen as an aspect of Balor. In wales, Balor was reflected in the evil giant Ysbaddaden, who fought King Arthur. Balor’s fight with Lugh comes from a long line of stories that possibly orginated from the myth of Baal’s combat with Yam in Canaan, these stories pervade the religious landscape like the battle between Indra and Vritra, and the Slavic myth of Perun’s rivalry with Veles. All these stories are grouped together under the moniker of Chaoskampf, a battle against the forces of chaos and drought to bring life and fertility to the world.

[quitealotofsodapop]

I'm discovering a lot about Chinese mythology, mainly that the difference between a celestial or god and a demon really just amounts to if they have heaven's approval or not.

Basically yeah.

Its why Princess Iron Fan is techinically considered both a Celestial and a Demoness/Rakshasa. She became the latter when she abandoned/got kicked out of Heaven. And the Monkey King is techincally considered a "Celestial animal" due to him being their ally despite his confusing origins.

Obtaining "Godhood" is a lot more complicated. Sun Wukong is *techincally* a god, but not to the extent of say Erlang or Nezha. It's heavily based upon belief and what mortals believe you to be.

A similar example I can think of is my own country's (Ireland) mythology. The squad of the Tuatha Dé Danann are "Gods" but they're not "GODS" - thats saved for deities like Samhain or the Morrigan. The Tuatha are more akin to a superhero league who are also kings. The "true" Gods are things that cant be changed, destroyed, or created easily; like the arrival of winter or death. A Tuatha can be overthrown, the Morrigan can not.

Similarly in Chinese Mythology (most of which is a conglomerate of multiple folk religions plus Daoism, Buddhisim, and Hinduism), beings such as the Jade Emperor or Nezha are Gods in the way that they interact with humanity and the forces of nature, but you also have the big names of the Three Pure Ones which are more revered with respect. And lets not get into the complications that is a god/celestial or mortal becoming Bodhisattva - that basically means that they've reached enlightenment but decided to stay on earth to help.