#wales

[thesilicontribesman]

Segontium Roman Fort, Caernarfon, Wales

[bobby-luv]

[llyfrenfys]

Support the museum if you can! I love the museum and it would be wonderful to secure these artefact's future.

[thurgon]

Mari Lwyd

Enough with these Christmas glittery decorations and all this Farther Christmas nonsense.

As per Welsh tradition it is the holyday season only when Mari Lwyd with its horse skull creeps at your doorstep.

[jadeseadragon]

David Cox (English, 1783 - 1859), Welsh Mountain Stream.

[cincinnatiburgoo]

I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣😂🤣

[daianotherday]

I'd love to bask in this and laugh my arse off at the disconnect between the propaganda and the actual feeling of people, but ...

How long are we going to tolerate this?

[princessbubblegumandjustice]

Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Could Jump-Start Efforts to Abolish Monarchy in Former British Colonies

As it should! And why stop there? :)

[bodhrancomedy]

Listen, for people wanting to call out colonialism, there are way too many of you mocking Irish, Welsh, and Scottish names.

No, they’re not alphabet soup, no they do not look like “you’ve thrown letters at a wall and used what stuck,” they are living, breathing languages which we did CPR on after the British Empire shot them.

Like, people DIED to keep them alive.

Every time I see some (English/American) interviewer make an entire segment forcing Saoirse Ronan to list off Irish names, I die a little inside. It’s particularly galling to see the same people ooh-ing over how “mystical” they sound, or claiming ancient heritage to us.

Realise there’s a world beyond your myopic lens and just accept sometimes you’ve got new stuff to learn. Fuck knows I do.

[maureen2musings]

jacklodgephotography

[deus-phoenix]

[thesilicontribesman]

Segontium Roman Fort, Caernarfon, Wales

[demonsandpieohmy]

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: acalmwalk

[jacindaelena]

Gwrych Castle by wander_linaa

[leekdraws]

Just something to think about when you see Mari Lwyd around social media! I'm from North Wales, and it's been very nice to see a old customs become more popular, even more amusing to see people really taken with Mari Lwyd. There has been a lot of fantastic artwork which I love to see! But, I do notice people not looking into where she comes from, the culture, the history and so on. When I do try to explain on some posts and link to resources, it's largely ignored. Which is a bit of a blow. So let's not just use Mari Lwyd for clicks and likes, otherwise the Welsh'ness and culture is diluted.

(I was playing Among Us recently... and there is a Mari Lwyd costume in that o.o) Here's a little video to explain a bit about Mari Lwyd https://youtu.be/6ptel9C3Zhg?si=yN3O3X7nkw03byyQ

And here is the cultural folk traditions website teaching people about Welsh traditions (some of it is in Welsh!) Trac Cymru – Folk development for Wales / Datblygu traddodiadau Cymru