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Comunidade imaxinada. Caderno de bitácora dunha singradura de Fisterra a Cinn Tìre 🌅 #historia, #mitos, #música, #folklore... ▶️ Unrepentant Hibernophile.
Groyne/Cathair na Cruinne
Joined September 2020
É ben sabido que a Corunha galega non é a única poboación con tan sonoro nome. Mais sabiades que nas illas Hébridas escocesas (máis en concreto na de North Uist) hai tamén unha "Corùna" (así, tal cal) que debe o seu nome directamente á nosa Corunha? Vai fío.
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1/ Aproveitando que Castelao vai ser recoñecido como primeiro presidente de Galiza, tráiovos un texto publicado na revista bretoa "Al Liamm" en 1950, aos poucos días do seu pasamento. O texto orixinal está en bretón, mais vou tentar traducilo para galego ⬇️
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#FindsFriday Granite head found in the hillfort of Santa Trega (A Guarda, #Galicia). This type of sculpture is often related to the Celtic cult of "severed heads". 📸 @GC_GCiencia
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#FindsFriday. A triskelion engraved in granite, recently found in San Vicente hillfort (co. Avión, #Galicia). 📸 O Neto do Rei
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Como me acaba de dicir unha seguidora, é de xustiza mostrar a foto completa: Sinéad con Carlos Núñez nos bastidores do Carnegie Hall, após un concerto con The Chieftains, naqueles felices e fulgurantes anos finais da década de 90. Porque. 👇
Pois fóisenos Sinéad O'Connor. Unha muller que vivía como cantaba: ardendo nos extremos. Que a terra lle sexa leve. E que soen as gaitas na súa viaxe a Tír na nÓg.
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#FindsFriday . Baptismal font recently found by Eva Formoso in the chapel of Folgoso (#Galicia), with typical Gallaecian Iron Age decorative motifs (and even traces of polychromy). 📸 Paco Boluda (@PBoludaGROWIA)
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#FaustianFriday . In #Galicia it is said that two or more crows walking together announce not only the death of someone, but also the number of priests who will officiate at the burial.
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#FolkloreSunday .In #Ireland, yellow fresh flowers (usually gathered before dusk on May Eve, or before dawn on May Day) are left on doorsteps on May Day. Also in #Galicia and #Portugal, we put broom or gorse flowers (the "Maias") on the door on that day.
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1/ The massive exodus of Irish Catholics to #Galicia in the first half of the 17th century remains remains little known to the general public. But we must not to fall into idealizations. Like any mass migration phenomenon, this one also brought tensions and conflicts.
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Imos dar as boas vindas á semana cun tema no cal só agora reparei: o feixe de topónimos cuxa etimoloxía se relaciona na tradición mítica irlandesa con personaxes epónimos procedentes da Península Ibérica, e en concreto de #Galiza. Dá para un pequeno 🧵 e alá vou con el.
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1/3 "O patrón do barco era da parte de Galway, non adoitaba falar inglés, metía moitas palabras de gaélico. E un dos mariñeiros viñera do norte de todo, cun acento de Derry pechado. Ás veces custáballes entenderse entre eles, e tiña que entrar eu polo medio"
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#HillfortsWednesday. Reconstruction of the clothing of a Gallaecian warrior statue found in the #Lesenho hillfort (co. Boticas, Northern #Portugal), by our very favorite artist Paco Boluda.
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No corazón mesmo da vila de Outeiro de Rei (Lugo) érguese, en deplorábel estado de ruína total, o pazo chamado "Casa da Senhorita". Mais sabiades que este pazo garda relación co éxodo irlandés á Galiza no s. XVII? Vai fío 📝📝
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#WyrdWednesday . Stone heads, probably a manifestation of Celtic cult of severed heads, are abundant in Galician Iron Age art. It is not uncommon that they end up being reused in walls of houses, fountain pipes or other places. 📸 Stone heads from Armea hillfort (co. #Allariz).
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"Para min, após a escocesa, a música galega é a máis afín á irlandesa de todas as músicas celtas. E está a actitude da xente. Temos o mesmo temperamento". (Paddy Moloney, 1938-2021)
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#FolkloreThursday In Pedride (#Galicia) there is a stone cross under which an unbaptized child was buried. Since then, a huge black dog that nobody knows usually appears next to the cross (in Galician lore, the souls of the deceased usually appear in the form of black dogs).
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#HillfortsWednesday "Castro" is the most common Galician word for "hillfort". In 17th C, Denis MacCrath, one of the many Irish exiles in Galicia, adapted his name as "Denis de Castro", MB because he was born near Caiseal (which can easily be translated into Galician as "castro").
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Eu son moi prosma con estas cousas, ben o sei, mais cando desfrutaremos dun mapa así (feito con gusto, rigor e calidade) para a mitoloxía popular galega?
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#HillfortsWednesday. The cistern of the Elviña hillfort (#Galicia), full after the intense rains of recent days. 📸 Dolores González
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#HillfortsWednesday.In Galicia we usually say that there is a hillfort in every hamlet, so we have about 5K hillforts scattered all along the country! This map, made from data compiled by researcher Xabier Moure, shows the number of documented hillforts in each municipality 🤯
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Aproveitando que Mr. Musk pareceu darnos unha pequena prórroga, vou falarvos hoxe brevemente dun personaxe moi popular do folclore irlandés, a "banshee", e dalgúns paralelismos interesantes que encontra nos nosos mitos e tradicións. Vai fío🧵
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#TombTuesday.Tomb of Fernam Peres de Andrade (a great Galician nobleman of the 14th century) depicting a wild boar hunt. The bear and the wild boar on which the tomb rests are the totemic animals of the House of Andrade 🐗 🐻
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#FindsFriday. 📀 The torc from Foxados (#Galicia), with its exquisite Celtic knots, is a masterpiece of ancient Galician goldsmithing. ⚱️ It was discovered in 1932. It had been buried in a pot containing three other torcs, a bracelet and several coins.
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#HillfortsWednesday .Stone carvings found in Santa Trega hillfort (co. A Guarda, #Galicia), with usual symbols in Galician Iron Age art.
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#WyrdWednesday The XACIOS live in the pools of the Miño river, in #Galicia. Many years ago, a "xacia" married a human boy and she even had children with him. But, after an argument, she returned to the river. Since she had been baptized, the other "xacios" killed her inmediately.
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É sabido que o noso "Dubra" ten a mesma orixe ca "Dover", e o noso "Tambre" a mesma etimoloxía cós tamén ingleses "Thames" e "Tamar". Mais nen todo o mundo sabe que en Irlanda existiu un río chamado "Duris", que partilla orixe co noso Douro (< Durius).
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Por algún motivo (ignoro cal 🤷♂️), varios armoriais alemáns do séc. XVI representan o brasón do reino da Galiza coma unha man ou unha luva vermella. Probabelmente non terá nada a ver, mais.
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@PedroInsua1 Es realmente indignante que se vulnere sistemáticamente vuestro derecho a la ignorancia.
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Se vistes a serie "Vikings", decerto que vos soa o rei Ecbert de Wessex e Mercia, interpretado por Linus Roache. Mais sabiades que unha filla de Ecbert, Milia, casou con Román Romániz, conde de Monterroso e señor de Ortigueira, un dos máis poderosos magnatas galegos da altura?
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Hai inúmeras razóns, mais Santalla de Bóveda, por si soa, abondaría para xustificar o hashtag #LugoPatrimonioMundial
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#SuperstitionSat The "pagaíños" ('little pagans') live in Northern #Galicia mountains. They are small, unkempt, long-haired beings that dwell underground. They do not like to interact with humans, although they can be seen dancing (with great dexterity) on top of certain rocks.
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#TombTuesday . A team led by the GIAP research group of the Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica has published the first results of the application of AI to the location of archaeological sites. They have located about 9,000 megalythic mounds only in #Galicia! 👇
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#FindsFriday. An inscribed stone from Roman times reused in a wall of the chapel of San Miguel das Uvas (co. Bande, #Galicia). It contains a fragment of the ethnonym QVERQVERNI ('the oak tree people'), the name of the Celtic people that inhabited that area. 📸 Dolores González
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O céltico *karn- 'montículo, milladoiro' debía estar vivo e operativo durante a romanización. Só así se explica o diminutivo celto-latino *karnolos que serviu de base, á súa vez, ao derivado "karnoletu(m), tamén con sufixo latino. Del provén CARNOEDO 'lugar dos pequenos túmulos'.
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Cousas da visión de túnel: esta adorábel lesma (Geomalacus malacosus) costuma ser denominada en inglés "Kerry slug", por ser "endémica" (🙌) dese condado irlandés. Mais abonda con abrirmos un chisco o plano para descubrirmos de onde viñeron.os bisavós do becho en cuestión.
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#HillfortsWednesday .Inspired by the statues of Gallaecian warriors and objects found in Galician and Portuguese #hillforts, artist Miguel Torre has recreated the appearance of a "corono" (chieftain) from Southern #Gallaecia during the Iron Age.
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#FolkloreThursday .In #Galicia, at this time, it is common to carve pumpkins (and even turnips or melons) in the shape of a human head. In some towns, this pumpkin is dried and used as a mask in the #Entroido (Galician traditional carnival).
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#SuperstitionSat In #Galicia, the "ánimas" are the souls of the deceased who are not in Heaven or Hell. They often interact with the living to help them or to ask them to deal with certain issues which they could not solve in life (e.g., going to pilgrimage to some shrine).
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#FaustianFriday .Orcavella was a horrible, child-eating hag who ravaged the Kingdom of Galicia for 176 years. When she decided to die, she forced a young shepherd to build a tomb for her in the vicinity of Cape Fisterra. Then she buried him alive with her!
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Ollade esta imaxe. Foi tirada en Irlanda, en 1910. Un lanchón aproxímase do peirao onde varios pasaxeiros agardan para atravesar a bordo del as augas dunha ría. Ese lanchón ténchevos unha historia que nos toca. E, con licenza, cóntovola brevemente.
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#EpigraphyTuesday . An inscribed stone from Roman times reused in a wall of the chapel of San Miguel das Uvas (co. Bande, #Galicia). It contains a fragment of the ethnonym QUERQUERNI ('the oak people'), the name of the Celtic people that inhabited that area. 📸 Dolores González
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#FairyTaleTuesday .In Galician and Portuguese lore, the "peeira de lobos" is a woman (usually the seventh daughter of a marriage) who flees to the forest to live with a pack of wolves, which she leads as if she were their captain.
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1/8 Temos falado abondo sobre o éxodo de católicos irlandeses a Galiza na primeira metade do século XVII. Mais cómpre non caer en idealizacións. Como todo fenómeno migratorio masivo, este tamén acarretou tensións e conflitos.
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1/ O conto sábelo de sobra: unha muller idosa e arrepiante que encontras de noite á beira dun regato, facendo a bogada. Pasas ao carón dela e pídeche que a axudes a retorcer a roupa. Por sorte, tes claro o protocolo a seguir nestes casos.
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#SuperstitionSat White quartz stones are a common apotopraic element in old Galician houses, both embedded in the walls and placed on the top of roofs and chimneys.
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#StandingStoneSunday The Pedra Alta, in the former Antela lake (#Galicia), is believed to have been brought by a "moura" on her head, while spinning with a distaff. The legend (like the menhir) was Christianized, and the "moura" was replaced by Saint Mary. 📸 Miro Cerredelo
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#FaustianFriday Difficult to choose a character from the diverse, colorful and sometimes terrifying Galician masquerades. But my favorite might be the Oso de Salcedo, who comes down from the mountain together with his sinister servants to smudge the faces of the merry passers-by.
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Nobres galegos derrotados polas forzas da Coroa castelá prestes a atravesar o río Miño para exilárense en Portugal (interpretación libre).
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#WyrdWednesday In Galician lore, "As Tres Marías" (the Three Marys) appear next to the dying person's bed, as an omen of his/her imminent death.
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En gaélico, Steòrnabhagh. En inglés, Stornoway. En galego dos pescadores que por aló andaron, Escornabois.
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#StandingStoneSunday.In 1929, Galician politician, artist and writer #Castelao (1886-1950) visited the stone crosses and calvaries of #Brittany to study their similarities with the Galician ones. Here is the author posing next to the #Lancerf cross (co. #Plourivo, Bro-Dreger).
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Non todo o mundo o sabe, mais nun documento inédito (e por desgraza moi deteriorado) da Catedral de Mondoñedo, datado por volta de 1215, aparece a primeira referencia ao rei Artur en Galiza: "[e]t in illa spelunca in Valle de Brea ubi Arturus rex Britanorum dormit in perpetuum".
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Incríbel que non exista (ou polo menos non me consta 🤷♂️) un mapa así, completo e ben feito, para os nosos seres mitolóxicos galegos. Aínda que só sexa para deixar claro que hai vida alén dos mouros (e as mouras) no noso folclore. 🖼️ Neil Parkinson
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3/3 Belarmino Trillo, aka "O Fillo do Churreiro", en "Contos do mar de Irlanda", do Xurxo Souto. (Ten máis mundo nunha deda do pé un dos nosos mariñeiros que calquera dos cosmopaletos que se prodigan por esta rede, non achades?).
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@MarioMartosJaen Dónde ha quedado aquello de "qué ponte en tu DNI?" que tanto os gusta sacar a relucir?.
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#WyrdWednesday During a walk in the forest, abbot Saint Ero (founder of Armenteira monastery, in #Galicia) sat at the foot of a tree and, listening to the song of a bird, fell asleep. Upon awakening, he returned to the monastery. No monk recognized him. 300 years had passed! ⏳⏳
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#March8 .One of the first Galician women whose name we know: Apana (from the tribe of the Celtici Supertamarici), to whom this beautiful funerary stele was dedicated.
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1/9 Nesta altura é costume que rule pola rede a famosa frase admonitoria que preside o cemiterio de #Trobo, aló na miña terra chairega de cruces neogóticas e magníficos cruceiros. E aínda que non o creades, vou aproveitar para castigarvos con outro pequeno fío etimolóxico 😅🧵
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#WyrdWednesday Three "mouras" (magical ladies) live in a dolmen in Monterroso (#Galicia). They are said to hold the capstone with their heads as they nurse each child and churn each pot of butter. It is also said that they gave #gifts to the boys, like coins and pieces of cloth.
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#WyrdWednesday In #Galicia we say that if the Candeloria (Candlemas) cries (rainy weather 🌧️) half winter has already passed, but if the Candeloria laughs (sunny weather ☀️), there is still half of winter to pass. Candlemas is the day when birds get married, too.
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1/15 Todas e todos sabedes do conto de Ero de #Armenteira, que inspirou unha das máis fermosas (e famosas) Cantigas de Santa María de Afonso o Sabio. Mais, por se acaso, ímolo relembrar brevemente.
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#MythologyMonday. 🎨 "Leyenda marina", by Galician artist Urbano Lugrís (1908-1973). 🐳 The painting depicts the famous episode of Saint Brendan and the whale, according to "Nauigatio Sancti Brendani".
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A ver, irlandeses, XA ESTÁ BEN de copiarnos os atavismos! 😁.
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#FairyTaleTuesday In a Galician folktale, a lady emerged from a lake seated on a throne and asked a young man three times to dig a certain amount of soil in the forest. On the third time, she finally accepted the young man, who got into the water with her and disappeared forever.
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#FairyTaleTuesday In some tales by Galician writer Álvaro Cunqueiro, the souls of the deceased turn into ravens and they even retain some characteristics that they had whey they were human (for example, a lame human will be a lame raven).
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#FaustianFriday .In Galician lore, the so called "paxaro da morte" ('bird of death') is an invisible bird whose wails near houses portend someone's imminent death. For that reason, he is also called "avelaiona" ('the bird that wails') or even "paxaro cadaleito" ('coffin bird').
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#HillfortsWednesday . In #Galicia there are many place names ending in -obre. It comes from a variant of -briga, a Celtic lexeme meaning "hillfort, fortress, walled city". A good and well known example is O Grove (medieval Ogobre = 'the point hillfort').
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Bailaches Carolina. 🎶🎶.
Ag damhsa, Oileáin Árann. Dancing on the Aran Islands. 1929. Movietone 2-919 © @UofSClibraries .@palettefm @ffmpeg
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#FolkloreSunday .Galician "lavandeira" (washerwoman), like Scottish "bean nìghe", is a woman who appears at night washing bloodstained clothes in a stream. If she asks you to help to twist her laundry, you must do it just the opposite way to her, and she will disappear.
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#FaustianFriday In Castrolandín (#Galicia), 52 sticks with pine cones attached to them are driven around the perimeter of an ancient Iron Age fort. At midnight, people light the pine cones with the fire of the St John's bonfires. and the hillfort is surrounded by a wall of 🔥🔥
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#TombTuesday . The "Casota de Freáns" or "Arca dos Mouros", in Berdoias (co. Vimianzo, #Galicia). The sculptures on one of its slabs have been interpreted by some scholars as depicting the Big Dipper.
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#HillfortsWednesday.In Galician folklore, hillforts are often associated with hidden treasures. Sometimes we are lucky to find them! .Triskelion engraved in bronze found in Castromaior hillfort (4th century BC).
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#SuperstitionSat. In Galician folklore, the Can Negro is a huge black dog that appears at night on the roads. If you ever meet him, you must tell him "Deus te acompañe" ('God be with you'), and the Can Negro will explode engulfed in fire.
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Sabías que na Escocia hai un camiño medieval de peregrinación cuxo símbolo é a vieira e que atravesa o país de oeste para leste, terminando na catedral de Santo André, onde conservan as reliquias do santo? (a falanxe non, claro, que esa témola nós en Santo André de #Teixido 😬).
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#SuperstitionSat .In #Galicia, the "trubincos" are a kind of goblins that go down the chimney on Christmas Eve. You must offer them as a gift a pine cone smeared in tar; if you don't, they will mess up your house and do all kinds of mischief!
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#FaustianFriday . In Galician lore, "as Tres Marías" (the Three Marys) appear next to the dying person's bed, as an omen of his/her imminent death.
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#StandingStoneSunday . "Pedra da Póvoa" in Trás-os -Montes region (NE #Portugal, ancient #Gallaecia). The stone (maybe an omphalos one) has interesting parallels in other Atlantic territories, such as #Brittany. 🎨 Illustration by Paco Boluda (@PBoludaGROWIA)
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#FairyTaleTuesday Seven sisters were born from the crack of a stone near Pena de Anamão, between #Galicia and #Portugal. They became saints and are venerated in different sanctuaries in the region. One of them, Our Lady of Anamão, stayed in the place where the stone is found.
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#HillfortsWednesday. Recreation of an Iron Age sauna in a Gallaecian hillfort. Source: "Kallaikos. Unha viaxe á Galiza céltica" (Paco Boluda, 2018).
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Pois fóisenos Sinéad O'Connor. Unha muller que vivía como cantaba: ardendo nos extremos. Que a terra lle sexa leve. E que soen as gaitas na súa viaxe a Tír na nÓg.
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#FaustianFriday.If you come across the #Estantiga, #Estadea or #Compaña (that is to say, rhe procession of the souls of the dead in Galician lore), you are in trouble 🤦 Luckily, there are ways to get out of that situation. I tell you some of them🧵
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#FaustianFriday A girl saw a "moura" (Otherworldly woman in Galician lore) combing her hair with a gold comb. She was taken by the "moura" to her underground palace and, after many years, she reappeared in her village, covered in rings and necklaces. And she hadn't aged at all!
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