I fell in love with her the first time I read about her as a child. She never scared me. For some reason she resonated with me. I loved her fierceness. I'm 43 now and I guess I've always drawn some strength from her inspiration 🖤💜💙
Interesting video, thank you for posting. I am from the Scottish Highlands. We have stories about the 3 sisters (the Morrigan) they come at times of war and hang about the sea. they never side with any clan but support the Mackenzie's and MacDonalds more than most. They take the form of cats, crows and cows a lot in the old stories. They bring the evil eye (jealousy) and project children. They are loyal to nothing but death in all stories.
The three sisters are, in some oral traditions, her daughters: Badb, Macha, and Anand. In other tribes, Badb and Macha are her sisters and Anand is left out. But the latter oral traditions also mashed banshees into the mix and renamed Leosin as Dagda (because of differences in the tribal languages) but fail to name his shape-shifting wife although acknowledging his wife was a shapechanger or skinchanger. She was known as the 'Moon Girl' as well as Thulvia by tribes in Northern France and Belgium. She was also an early archetype for werewolves.
@@green_hound How are certain clans favored? Some tribes left better records and some regional Governors from Rome took an interest in recording local culture over which they administered.
@@ixchelskyfeather2513 May she light the FIRE of action, movement and real purpose in the spirit of the chosen , like keen stout blades they will be forged from dross with her glorious hand and will....Babd Catha glorious forger of warriors.
Morrigan ancient crone of war, I hear your voice, I'll breathe no more, Morrigan ancient crone of war, Come set my spirit free "Morrigan" by Omnia If you want an ineresting book, check out "Ravens of Avalon" by Diana Paxon and Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's based on the history, (what's known of it) of Queen Boudica's revolt. In it, the Morrigan is pivotal to much of Boudica's campaign, which is a lot of the fictional part. ✌😸
I've always been fascinated by the Morrígan but knew very little about Her, and wow I had no idea She was so deadly cunning and played such a crucial role in determining the fate of men. Thank you for this amazing in-depth video, love the visuals as well, your content just keeps getting better and better.
Thank you Kevin , Morrigan has never been simple for anyone , our ideas are so far away from the ancients understanding who came before , as a Gael , all i can say about her , is that she protects all who stand on this little island . stay safe from Eire
Perhaps both of y’all have missed a crucial point: when two men fight at the instigation of Morrigan’s antics, one of them lives and is victorious, and the other man dies upon being defeated. She is thereby giving a blessing and curse at the same time. Even if it’s more Her choosing against someone she dislikes rather than choosing in favor of someone She likes, it still plays out the same way. One army dies, the other army wins.
I for one am glad that eye witnesses survive to dispute the respectful thing that The Full Irish GK said about the ancient place that they and I live, I enjoy the videos of this channel because of its balanced look at things, usually saying neither this or that but showing possibilities, I have just read someone claim that part of our ancient culture is the cause of our deaths! My grandfather was a child refugee from the Irish war of Independence only 100 years ago, that is why I am third generation Scottish, Should have been born in Dublin, his grandfather survived the great hunger, his grandfather survived another event, his grandfather survived another and on and on for at least 4000 years that science knows about through DNA, do you see where I am going with this? Who lived here 4000 years ago? My DNA lived here. The house I live in is older than America. These things to you might seem so ancient and far away, some fairy stories or a mythic pagan religion that you've read about on your favourite website, yet trust me, an ancient war is still going on here right now, look at the news, we do not live in a fairy tale or a computer game here and like the original statement "our ideas are so far away from the ancients understanding who came before" so do not sit there telling people in a country they live in all about their ancient culture and how it is killing them. I'm sorry if I have missed the mark here, yet I am fed up with the disrespectful drivel that I am forced to endure from people like this. The Morrigan looking out for us is likely why we are still here.
I've resonated with the tales of the Morrigan for so many years, my wife and I took one of her names after our marriage ceremony. She came to me in a dream, with horns like a bull's, during one of the hardest times in my life, showing me a hard path to victory or a promise of death if I didn't take it. She wasn't wrong. It was long before I knew anything about her as a god, or any of her associations. We all eventually meet our fate, it's what we leave behind us that measures us. I don't believe the Morrigan ever forced anyone to do anything; she just helped them decide what world they needed to leave behind them.
In Indo-European myth, the pole going through the horse is a symbol of the tree of life, going all the way back to the Scythians. Often it would be raised near a pond (symbolizing the world ocean), making an entire model of the cosmos and the pathways between the worlds. The vikings would raise such poles where they knew a hated rival would see it, in order to mock them, perhaps by symbolizing their soon-to-be sacrifice to the gods by their betters. Regrettably, I have zero clue what the one-legged horse represents in mythology, but the colors red and white keep turning up as being very important for cattle and horses all the way back to the Cretans, whereas black is mainly associated with birds and dogs, and later (famously) cats. Something to do with the gods/spirits of light and darkness. Even the Egyptians had their own version of the world tree and the connection between the upper- and underworlds. It is the lotus flower which alternatively rises and submerges beneath the waters, and when drawn out as a hieroglyph is the Ankh, the symbol of life and rebirth. That is why water birds were the messengers of the gods, because they moved both in the air and in water. So now you know why it is storks that carry babies to the word of the living. The Hallstatt Proto-Celts liked ducks better, which survives in one story as the duck that carried Hansel and Grethel between the land of the witch (the underworld) and the world of the humans (light/living). Gods that are forgotten often turn into fairy tale monsters, so the Grimm Brothers' witch may originally have been the goddess of the underworld, known in this video as Danaan, and so we come full circle. Finally, notice how many rivers that are named something with DN. The DoN, the DNiepr, the DaNube. The goddess after which they are named had a male form which is identical to the merman depicted in this video. Danaan again, in an earlier form.
I thought I knew a thing or two about mythology legend and allegory but you have added greatly to my little store of knowledge. So thank you for that. I too have been pondering the one legged horse and I can see nothing that makes sense or is linked in any way with anything similar from another tradition. All the best and shwmai as we say. Ja
Most interesting that a God of life and death such as Dagda would have a Goddess of death, war, and victory as a wife. Great video. Can’t wait til the Goibniu video comes out.
It is likely he had two consorts, and this is reflected in his affair with Bóinne, who is reflective of the mother-type goddess. Just as he is is ultimately an infernal god who represents both forces and cycles he has two different consorts that represent opposites
It is a sacred marriage of the Land bonded to a chosen people who serve as protectors and guardians of the Land. The Land is the domain of the Goddess, women are strongly earthbound, their cycles of fertility are linked to the cycles of the Land. So the Land of the Goddess is governed by her representative priestess Queens. The Land needs the right people to help protect and be it's guardians, so the ruling Queens as the face of the Goddess will perform a sacred marriage to the peoples chosen King, bonding the people to the Land and to the Goddess. The Queen may have several consort Kings, depending upon how many different tribes of people are granted permission to become the Lands Guardian protectors. Likewise each tribes King, although wed to the ruling Queen, it is a ceremonial and sacred vow of marriage of a peoples King, who vows to serve and protect the Land that is the outward personification of the Goddess. The King is allowed to marry women from the tribes who are bonded to the Land in this sacred marriage, but it must be sanctioned by the Priestess Queen, as she being the face of the Goddess has the responsibility of ensuring the Land has the right people in inheritance to follow after the present King dies. Even if the Kings chosen bride is not considered a viable choice by the ruling Queen to produce a royal heir to follow the King, the King can still marry her but she would have no royal heir, her children may be royal princes or princesses, but they would not be considered worthy successors. For a true royal heir, sanctioned by the ruling Queen, often one of the noble lineage of priestesses, who serve the Goddess and are part of the Royal court serving the Queen, will be selected by the Queen and her council of ruling priestesses, to be wed to the King, so that the heirs will be of sacred lineage, continuing the sacred bond of marriage of People bonded to the Land in both sacred vow and sacred royal blood, Goddess of the Land bonded through blood to her chosen Guardian peoples.
@@3rdeye671 very interesting and as Cloney Cavan man was found sacrificed at the edge of water in a bog, he was found to be a king of that area, he had an armlet still attached(only a headless torso was found) and was found in excellent condition, well fed, very tall and in great shape, the experts believe he was sacrificed because of crop failures over a few years and yes the King had the honour as the God's demanded only the best for sacrifice in ancient Irish culture. So anyone who wants to go all snowflaky and invite the Morrigan in good luck, at best she won't even notice you at worst you get involved and don't come out well. Be warned, I know someone involved with her and I suspect a decline in mental health or the person was mentally unfit in the first place to enter into contract with her. Be warned my fellow humans
@@karmakat8016 I don't think this necessarily contradicts your comment but I was always under the impression that being buried in a bog was more of a punishment than a sacrifice. In most all pagan cultures that believe in reincarnation they believed the body had to be destroyed for the spirit to move on to the next life, bog bodies don't decompose. At the very least this is true for germanic and vedic belief which is not that far removed from celtic beliefs. I wonder if there was believed to be a difference in giving someone to a god and they don't move on / reincarnate like a bog body, and destroying the body so they may come back here
I am somewhat disturbed by your describing her in a constant negative way. Yes she was Goddess of war and fate but she also nurtures the dying, gathered them into her embrace. As for her shaping the destinies of men, you don't clearly say why, surely you don't suggest har actions are wilful and arbitrary. No doubt a one with the site she was leading towards a particular end game which may well have been in order to protect her people. Anyway Spectre Queen sounds pretty awesome to me, not monstrous at all as her enemies were bound to call her.
The Morrigan is considered a Triple Goddess... It consists of sisters Badb (a black haired older woman with speckled skin called the War Crow connected to ones Fate), Nemain (the thin framed white haired and white clothed Banshee who cries out and washes the clothes of the dead in the river) and Macha (intimidating red headed high queen and great warrioress who is associated with horses and battles). Much like maiden mother and crone aspects of many ancient northern races....💜
@@salleygardens8959 historical books on ancient Irish and Celtic mythology (I've read so many over the years I couldn't count lol) and of course my grandparents and great grandparents telling stories. I'm mostly Scot-Irish, German, Norman French and Scandinavian. With others thrown in there lol. Bean Sidhe's are familiar spirits and cry out for those of their dead/dying to warn them. They are also said to wash the clothing if the dead in the river so the dead can wear it in the Afterlife. Most Bean Sidhe's/Banshees were said to be skeletal and had dark hair but the one in charge that watched over the others was said to sometimes have silver almost white hair. SIDENOTE: it is believed now that it was a type of barn owl that made the cries/keens attributed to the the bean sidhe. Many Irishmen would gather neighbors and burn the barn down bc they thought the bean sidhe lived there... And they wanted to drive her away. But it was the poor owl.
If you had read the source texts you wouldn't come to these conclusions. While the Morrigan does often show up with two sisters, she's not a triple goddess of the maiden-mother-crone aspects. These are constructs that came about much later in time. She represents a lot of things but they most definitely do not revolve around her states of fertility. And the Morrigan is an IRISH goddess. There are similar deities in many PIE cultures but the Morrigan is Irish, period. Though a similar goddess who shows up with the others, it's debatable whether or not Nemain is actually one of The Great Queens, or rather a similar regional goddess. I suggest reading the Irish texts themselves, anything by Irish author and historian Lora Obrien, etymologist Morgan Daimler's academic writings, or Morpheus Ravenna(Book of the Great Queen) on the topic.
@@mindydevine5814 she was an Irish goddess the scotch Irish would not of worshipped her they are lowland scots they are not Irish, and they are not gaelic . The whole point if the ulster plantation was to get rid if foreign gaelic out if Scotland. They didn't send west scots or Highlanders to ulster because they were the same people as the Irish. They sent lowland and border English-speaking scots who had a different culture. All if Ireland was gaelic but all of Scotland was not
Marzanna, the Polish goddess of winter and death, who is cast into the river by peasants who create simulacra of her to make way for the spring, is part of a triad and equated with the Latin Morta, the un-turnable crone, death.
@@tillieking3348 I understood it similarly... as 3 sep goddesses who ban together to form a sort of super goddess .... kind of like the crystal gems in the kids TV show, Steven Universe.... I've always favored the Morrigan and Macha.. the morrigan kicks ass and takes names while sort of playing with her prey... meanwhile Macha seeks justice for women and children who've suffered trauma from men.
Amazing video! I find it so interesting the similarities bewteen Roman, Norse, and Celtic myths. The psychology and sociology of which would be very interesting to learn about in how they influenced eachother. I also wondered if Morrigan influenced the name of Morgan le Fae in the English myth of Arthur and Merlin. I looked into it and it does appear the the female use of the name has ties with the Celtic use. It's considered a Welsh name meaning "sea born" and associated with a Celtic Christian woman that was a Saint of the sea. In England it seems the name is more associated with water. I think this is because of it's origin from Ireland and it being across a sea. I know this may seem obvious, but I just find it fascinating. It also makes Morgan le Fae that much cooler in my book!
Thank you for this. I am drawn to the Morrigan, even though I am not the least warlike. I cannot explain it, only accept. I have her on my altar and do not yet understand my attraction to Her. I am a Crone so perhaps that is it. Or my Celtic blood. Maybe she's chosen to protect me. All I know is the pull I feel in my depths.
Likely as not, she will show you how to protect yourself. Mórrígan has a tendency to plant you on your feet and give you the strength to fight your own battles. She is not just a goddess of war, she is a goddess of sovereignty and that includes personal sovereignty and autonomy.
I’ll follow that up since it is mentioned in this video clip, she is associated with King making which is why she is associated with sovereignty. Translated into a modern context, it easily fits into the realm of personal sovereignty and autonomy. The offers that she has made to Cu Chulain and others throughout the epics and literature relates back to her being a goddess of the land. Kings were expected to marry the land or couple with the goddess in order to earn their kinghood.
She protects honorable warriors. She is a powerful ally. 🌹🙏🏾🌏🪴🕯she is not evil but those who see her as evil are often themselves avoiding their own darkness and shadow. I love her.
1:47 Mori= sea Rigani=queen Morrigani=sea queen. The oldest use of the name goes back to an ancient Proto-Celtic queen from the southern coast of what is now Cornwall. Her tribe's trade routes ranged along the coasts and up rivers reaching Berber, Basque, and Beaker tribes.
@@kazzysenpai5906 The oral traditions, older than who knows, are as epic as memories can make them. The stories of Morrigani are quite wicked and on the scale of something out of a Lovecraftian mind.
I asked the universe to connect me with a God or Goddess. I read the Morrigan's story and instantly felt connected or like she had been trying to contact me. I have had 2 near death experiences, which could have and maybe should have killed me, and I have been haunted before. Besides all of that, I always feel like I'm being watched.. I asked for a sign, I meditated and asked how I'd like to see the sign in a dream, and then I was asking for real life, I said through a bird, intending to list off a few birds I could think of off the top of my head, and when the word bird came out of my mouth, a raven flew past me. I started to talk to the Morrigan, and I feel connected to her now. She has been calling me for years and I am just now realizing. That expericne was so magical and it was a sign that just slaps you in the face. So excited to learn more about this Goddess!
The universe? You cannot ask the universe. You will only invite demons. God is just one. And all those gods and godesses are demons that tremble in fear in front of the sign of the cross which burns them.
In Serbian 🇷🇸 folklore mythology, very rich btw, she is Морана / Morana. The root word Mora means trouble in Serbian, also found in English as night + MARE = nightmare. The prime archetype of Serbian mythology is The Wolf. Almost every second Serbian name or family name has root word Vuk, Vul meaning Wolf, in countless of combinations. At the end of each year, whole 9 days since 15th- 26th of November are Вучији дани / The Days of the Wolf. Lore says that ancestral archetype of our people, during those 9 days, comes as wounded Wolf limping on one leg, visits every household and evaluates each Host / Домаћин, on how loyal and pious Host he has been in a passing year. Anyways, there is also archaic Serbian word for year ЈАРА / JARA, which is 100% the same word as in English. Jara as Jarilo has connotation of Fire / Sun. On that subject may i suggest book titled 'Dream Dremati'. Author Dejan Đuričić. It is a dictionary with about *5000* the same or etymologically similar words in Serbian and English. From the title: Dream is Dremati in Serbian, only Dremati means to have a nap.
Proud of Serbian heritage that reaches far into the history, and ages Mrs Ranka Kuic explore, research and writes Srpski i keltski jezik/ Ranka Kuic Serbian and Celtic language
We do have to remember that the sources were penned by monks, who did have a tendency to demonize powerful, pagan female deities. The Morrigan is all this for sure, but there is so much more to Her.
It's also worth noting that though the catholic monks who wrote down our stories did so at a time when a bard's reputation relied on them telling "true" stories of Ireland's history, and they were, at the time, the most respected class of lay people. This left the church in an awkward position. They couldn't just throw out the stories entirely, they had to shape them just enough to meld them into Christianity through addition and subsumption. Doing otherwise, or changing the stories too much, would have meant that the bards would have continued to tell the "true" stories in opposition to the monks, hurting their efforts to convert the Gaels from Celtism to Christianity.
The Morrigan is not a sovereign Goddess in the traditional sense, in that she tends to each one individually (in some sense, the way Jesus is said to be there for each person that prays to him is similar mechanically). However, the loss of historical records notwithstanding, she is a Goddess of individual seers, revelators, and prophets; she is the Goddess of personal revelations, and I can think of no patroness on this Earth with whom it is less concerning that we do not host a direct terrestrial connection. If there is any Goddess that is meant exist without historical records, any patroness meant to be seen or heard even when she can't be seen or heard, it is the Phantom Magpie. You will find her, not by the clues that have been left, but by your own instincts, your own internal sovereignty. When she senses this, she will find *you*
Thank you for another excellent video! Its interesting to think about how the mystery surrounding the Morrigan mirrors our own human feeling that death is mysterious.
Not what it means. The malevolent spirit that sat on a sleeper was akin to the rider of a horse. Night - Mare. It was a belief in the spirit's demonic control of the sleeper.
I’d love to see a video done about Scathach the warrior maid. I heard about her through a book series I’m reading and I’d love to know more. I will be doing my own research, but this video seems so good that I assume so is the rest of your content. Thanks for teaching me about the Morrígan. I really enjoyed the video.
This is the 2nd time I've seen/heard thos character mentioned in the last couple days but I cant remember where it was mentioned the 1st time or in what context. Weird.
Cuchulainn: "You shape-shifting deamon! I vow to cut out your eye, break your rib and leg, and never heal you." Also Cuchulainn: *Sees a random, old lady with one eye and a broken rib and leg immediately after dealing these same wounds to a known shapeshifter* "Seems legit, I'll heal you!"
@@thegreenmage6956 well like King Arthur, Lugh was born of an illicit encounter then taken from his mother and raised in hiding. Both returned to unite the people and became an enlightened and just King linked to the Land. Arthur has the sword aspect, but pulling it from the stone indicates it was set at the start of the bronze age, as you pour molton bronze into a stone cast. Morgana's name is similar to the Morrigans name and both were closely related to Lugh/Arthur but could not be trusted as they had their own designs which they implemented to change the fate of the future. Merlin can also be linked to Lugh's Uncle who was given Lugh to foster care. He was a dwarven smith and knew secret mysteries, making him a Shamanic figure similar to a Druid. You also have the Lady of the Lake who can be linked to Lugh's mother, Lugh left the Tuatha De Danaan forces to ally with her and the two peoples united under Lugh making him King with her blessing. Just as Arthur united the warring Kings with the backing of the Lady of the Lake. One could say that prior to the Tuatha De Danaan coming to the Land the people were ruled by a class of Priestess Queens and this element is replicated by the ethereal figure of the Lady of the Lake, who granted Arthur the mystical sword of Power, Excalibur to assist him in his rule and grant him some of her power as he was her chosen ruler to unite the Land with her patronage. There are so many similarities in motifs of a broad scope, that underly both legends that it's hard not to think they are the same tale, with King Arthur just being a retelling brought into later times, with only minor details and aspects of the later times added into the tale to make it into a narrative to suit those later times.
@@3rdeye671 A lot of the similarities are due to the common Indo-European source of the typical sky god origin story, for instance Zeus being raised in a cave in secret away from Cronus, both the stories you are comparing are probably just referring back to that. The sword motifs in the Arthyr story are likely from the Scythian-style cultural ideas brought by the Roman horseman mercenary auxiliaries, who have a similar sword-worshiping practice in association with their war god, whom we call Scythian Ares. The Morrigan-Morgan connection is hotly debated, it is not clear that they come from the same name. The Irish story which DOES have a lot in common with the Arthyr legend is the tale of Diarmuid betraying Finn McCool and the Fianna, very similar to the Lancelot cycle, but then again it’s also similar to the Tristan and Isolde story, so it’s probable that Arthyr’s legends contain collections of many different disparate Celtic stories drawn together to make a coherent narrative. They are great in that we have the pieces of those stories, but not so helpful in the sense that they are muddled and we don’t know what goes where, which story was what originally.
@@thegreenmage6956 The sword motif of pulling a sword from a stone refers to bronze age casting technique. Whoever pulls the sword will be King, meaning it is early bronze age and swords were new to Britain. The Arthurian legend is set during the Anglo-Saxon incursions around 450 - 600 AD. The tale of Lugh, the Morrigan and the Tuatha De Danaan is an early bronze age tale, c.2,500 BC. That is a 3,000 year difference! So since the two tales have the same basic related elements, comparable characters and follow a closely aligned plot then it appears that the Arthurian tale is really just a retelling of the far older tale of Lugh. Maybe one of the British Christian monks, having heard the Irish tale of Lugh decided to update it to his times and make it a unique British identity. Yes, I also see the common template of early Indo-European mythology, of a hidden child who battles and kills his father/grandfather to become the new ruler. Although the Irish tale of the Tuatha De Danaan, the Morrigan and the rise of Lugh has the aspect of Lugh born of two different peoples and only his changing of sides to ally with his mother's people decides the battle, and unites the Fir Bolg with the Tuatha De Danaan and establishes Lugh as their King before Lugh goes on to fight Balor One Eye, his grandfather, and his Fomorian giants army. The Morrigan and her forces, come late to the battle, undecided which side to take, before joining with Lugh and deciding the battle against Balor and his Fomorians. These early Indo-European mythologies, are set at the start of the bronze age, which was what gave the Indo-European peoples their warrior aristocracy class. We are talking c.2,800 BC onwards, so obviously as over 3,000 years has past, yet there is still the bronze age reference to casting a sword in stone, meaning that it is a retold and modernized tale. The Lancelot aspect is again a much later, medieval addition to further add to the Arthurian mythology. The entire Arthurian legend appears to be a resurrected much older tale retold for a British audience.
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Goddess of love, devotion, and victory. She gives victory in war. The fearless. She destroys fear and also invokes fear in hearts not strong enuf to receive her name. She is also the mother and nurtures.
Morrigan is a sovereign goddess of Ireland. She is in fact the state or Ireland when its going through war or famine. She offers herself to Cu Chulainn in the form of Eriu /Eire ....(symbol of a peaceful Ireland) he refuses. And Ireland gets war . I worry about people who call themselves wiccans ...they don't seem to get ..war means war ...like the troubles in Northern Ireland. Its not something you welcome. Its the DARKNESS of my country. Its not the light of my country. Its our darkness. Its how we hurt ourselves. Our military is DIFFERENT ....we use stalking and ambush techniques. But this is not what she wants to offer us here in Ireland. People here don't talk about her ..unless we are ACTUALLY on her turf ...or in a war! She is not a valkery either. She is NOT a shielf maiden. She is a symbol of corruption of our politicians ...poverty ..war..she is associated with the cailleach of beara (the hag of beara ) who is supposed to be a nun .She asks Cu Chulainn to accept her as a young woman ...a peaceful prosperous country where every child is equal and safe..the morrigan is every bomb blast ...every tear. And the land is hers. But she wants it to be offered away from the sorrow. That is why we named our country Eire and not morrigan.
Morrigu is a Goddess of need: you seek vengeance, cruelty and things of the sword, She is that. Need courage while staring at certain defeat, comfort when your very spirit has been beaten down or a lover when the nights have been too cold and too long: Morrigu will meet that need as well. Morrigu is a Goddess for all who have the courage to reach out to Her. Be warned, She Will Not Tolerate fools nor the weak. You will be harshly tested, but should you gain Her acceptance the Morrigu Will Never Allow You To Stand Alone nor Will You Ever Be Forsaken. Trust in Her as She expects you to trust in Her.
Morrigan does not eat children, but she can be scary. Not the goddess you want to cross, but she always has our back. If you follow her, and trust her, she can be your greatest freind and teacher.
I have seen the Morrigan in very vivid dreams, I kid you not I didn’t have a clue who she was until now. A strange, beautiful but demonic red headed women I see her all the time. What mean?
She’s not a monster When I call upon her During rituals and meditation she is always there. She’s a Beautiful woman with gorgeous green eyes who is powerful and was taken advantage by men, men are intimidated by her power strength and beauty they label her as a monster and downplay her powerful energies and strength she is a goddess and needs to be treated like one PERIODTTTT.
Too many people take the Christian translations at face value without critical scrutiny. The Christian monks were obviously threatened by the Morrigan. Read both her blessing and prophecy after the battle of Maige Tuiredh; she is not a monster. Before the battle when she goes to kill the king of the opposing army and bring his blood to the aes dana gathered at the river by the Dagda, she does so to ensure the victory of her people. This event obviously shows her as a sovereign Goddess protective of her people.
Be careful, she can bring only what she wants, you do not matter, she rarely appears , she will only turn her gaze on you if it serves her ,be careful, us Irish hide from her because if you enter a pact with this one that she will see fulfilled, no pity, your description is not she but something else. Please be careful with this one, your nonsense of beauty and green eyes is literally nonsense to what this one really is, example 3 headed crone, 2 which are ravens, vicious warrior,
@@hotgirlhealer916 It's not my feelings and thoughts it's my culture, my heritage and what I have been taught from my ancestors. You can ignore the wisdom I give you
I named my daughter Morrigan. Hoping she would draw strength from her name sake . She is now the most beautiful women and indeed very strong and independent who doesn't take shit from anyone. 0:13
When you talk about Danaan... are you referring to Danu? I personally prefer the reconstruction of her as a goddess of primordial waters... but the afterlife implications are interesting.
Despite having deep Irish roots (O’Connley and Fitzpatrick bloodlines) I knew nothing of the Morrigan or Irish culture. Until I a had a disturbing dream one night. I dreamt that I was on a boat and a woman appeared, I loved her dearly and I started to cry when I saw her, I got the feeling I had know her in a past life. She handed me a baby and I said “Margo” it’s the baby, and I continued to cry. There is more to the dream but I won’t go into the disturbing details. Long story short, My daughter was 8 months pregnant at the time of this dream. 2 weeks later she and the baby were brutally murdered. I’m now an activist seeking justice for their murders. After much research, I believe what I thought was “Margo” was the Morrigan but with the Irish accent my American ears interpreted it as Margo. I’ve also had a crow walk in front of my car, stop look at me and then fly away. About 4 years ago I felt the need to visit Ireland. I booked a 6 week trip and off to Ireland I went. I knew nothing about Ireland but off I went to explore this country solo. There’s been other strange things but I believe she’s been trying to get my attention for many years…and now she has it. One more thing, 4 ago during my trip to Ireland COVID-19 started, I returned to the USA and went back to work as a frontline COVID-19 ICU RN. Death after Death after Death….
Because you educated person don't know there are better channels as this one you never heard of Legend of history i think there are enough stories abot Hera and Aphrodite Fortress of Lug knos only his Dagdas and Lugs or how do they all call
Wow girl! I am subscribed to "Legends of History" AND "Mythology & Fiction explained". NEITHER has ANY content on either Hera or Aphrodite! I just put in a request, since he's done videos on the likes of Apollo & Athena. Why exactly do you feel the need to attack the channel creator (Fortress of L) His content is great, and his channel keeps growing. Your just being petty & vindictive!
I have a suggestion: what if Morrigan simply means swamp witch from moor. And it was a witch whose image melded with other characters. Most of her actions are classical to a witch. Sometimes she gives advice for a price, sometimes she sells potions. That is you find her in a good mood if not you might get killed or eaten by her. She seems similar to the Baba Yaga. In pagan Irish culture it might have been a function like a priestess of some deity that was played by an old witch.
You're reading of the myths involving The Morrigan and Cú Chulainn intrigues me, in that it is basically the opposite of my own. My interpretation of it is (or was, since I may need to revise it) that Cú Chulainn in challenging The Morrigan, a god, is some sort of rebellious act that, while in some ways admirable (he is trying to protect his fellow Ulstermen and their livelihoods), ultimately amounts to some sort of divine insubordination. However, his challenge ultimately is self-defeating, as the very actions he promises to take against the god leads to him actually blessing the god, just in the same way as in many myths, those who try to prevent their doom by doing devious deeds ultimately contribute to said doom through those deeds. I took it as almost a miniature sort of morality play, where the reader (or the listener, as I imagine the majority of those who experienced the story initially would have done so through an oral telling) is that challenging the divine is ultimately futile, and that one should be wary of their pride should it lead to their undoing, as it did with Cú Chulainn. Of course, your challenge of my reading here would definitely be the Táin Bó Ragamna, where The Morrigan seems to predict that Cú Chulainn would die by the end of the Cattle Raid. This was a good detail that I missed, and requires further research on my part, so I appreciate you bringing it up. My initial response however would be: 1) I'm not sure that's what she says. My Irish was never the strongest (Nílim líofa, ach lofa!), so I am only going off of a few translations that I've dug up quickly. She definitely says that it will lead to his doom during the time the calf is a yearling, but do we know that corresponds with the length of the war? The death of Donn Cúailnge is a long and arduous affair, so much so that Cú Chulainn might have met his end between the period of the end of the war and the bull dying. If such is the case, the prophecy, as written could have ended up being 100% accurate, though not in the way one would initially suspect (which is often the case in this sort of myth). Supporting evidence for this would be that The Morrigan does not deny that Cú Chulainn would end up injuring her, which would suggest she foresaw such, especially considered how she is healed afterwards by him. 2) We are reading from texts that are often not complete, and written down by individuals who's knowledge and bias towards the stories will forever remain unknown. It is possible that the Ragamna passage is not original, and was written after the main Myth a la Star Wars prequals, and so it would be a mistake to read the message of that text into the main myth. Other possibilities are that he simply wrote they myth down incorrectly, or from two sources that conflict with each other, or perhaps some other event between now and the past led to something being muddled. I know it happens all the time with other ancient texts I study, so I think it's certainly a possibility here. Also, we must remember the Christian bias, though I feel cliché'd bringing it up. Quite clearly though, more reading needs to be done on this topic on my part. Anyway, great video, and I'm glad the channel is still going strong. Have been tuning in since the early days, but rarely comment.
There is an even older bias than that brought by the Christains. The people of Old Europe were ruled by a priestess Queen who represents the face of the Goddess who is personified as the Land. Peoples coming into the Land had to be considered worthy protectors and guardians of the Land, to serve the Goddess, sacred marriage vows were made between the peoples chosen King to the ruling Queen. A vow of protection by the people bonding them to the Land that is the domain of the Goddess and she is represented by the ruling Queen who is a priestess of the Goddess. The Goddess blesses her chosen Guardian protectors with a fertile land that gives in abundance. The problem with most of our mythology is it is told from the perspective of the incoming Indo-European patriarchal peoples. They may recognize at the beginning the rule of the Land by these Queens, but they see the sacred marriage of Land to People, Queen of the Land to King of the People, as more of a sanctioning by priestesses of the Goddess, granting the peoples King divine right to rule, not just his people but the Land as well. They have no concept of the Land being the domain and personification of the Goddess, to them the realm of the divine is ruled by a male King of the Gods, the Land as such is not part of any Goddesses domain, except for certain features of the Land, usually springs and bodies of water, such as rivers and streams. To these patriarchal peoples the earth or it's lands are open to being claimed by a people as the Earth was granted to the peoples to live upon by the Gods who separated the realm of the divine from the realm of mortal men. Thus these Indo-European patriarchal peoples believe the Gods grant them lands by right of conquest, the Gods obviously blessing the victors by bestowing their favour. So at the start the Indo-European peoples recognize the law of the land, but once made King in sacred marriage to the ruling Queen, they take that as being both King of their People and King of the Land as well. Over time the power of the Priestess Queens was marginalized into being just a class of priestesses with no say in how the Land is governed. This is evidenced by the name Morrigan meaning 'Great Queen' or 'Phantom Queen' (probably alluding to her mystical connection as the face of the Goddess. Most Indo-European peoples have an ancient mythology of three sisters who weave the Fates of men into a divine tapestry that is mankinds destiny. They can see the future destiny of men's lives woven by fate, of which they are the weavers. The best example of this clash of different cultures, patriarchal vs egalitarian/matriarchal is in Homers epic of the Illiad and the Odyssey, or better known as the Fall of Troy. Helen was Queen of Sparta, her sister was Chlytemistra, Queen of Mycenea. Agamemnon and his brother married these two ruling sister Queens, but once made King they usurped the rule of their Queens, establishing a noble class of warrior aristocracy that sidelined the previous rule of noble priestess bloodlines. So Helen fled her city of Sparta but was given refuge by Troy and she became Helen of Troy, recognising her divine rite as a royal priestess Queen and face of the Goddess who is personified as the Land itself. To prove the power these Queens had, when Agamemnon returned to Mycenea, the ruling Queen Chlytemistra had him executed by her household guards. In the Odyssey, the tale of the return journey of the Ithacan King Odysseus, his voyage takes him to many strange lands with many ruled by a Queen, but since the Indo-Europeans hold that a ruler is determined by might of arms, they can't understand how a woman can be in power unless she is aided by sorcery or witchcraft, which alludes to her connection to a class of priestesses, devotees of a divine Goddess who grants them powers of divination, or 'the Sight'. The Oracle of Delphi originally was under the patronage of a priestess class headed by a woman called the Pithion or Python. But once the Indo-European peoples took over they replaced her with the youthful new God, Apollo, who seems to be a child born of the Old Goddess Queens and the new Male Indo-European God's, a sort of fusion of the Old ways of both peoples creating a new youthful boy God, in a mirroring of the fusion of the two different cultures to create a new social and political order, heavily leaning to the patriarchal viewpoint of the new ruling class of warrior aristocracy. Echoes of this clash and fusion of two highly different cultures can also be found in the Germanic/Norse mythology of the incoming Aesir people who were met and resisted by the resident Vanir people who notably have a female leader in the character of Freya. This clash of matriarchal Goddess Queens of Old Europe, vs the incoming patriarchal God Kings of the nomadic herdsmen of the Eurasian steppe, is found all across Europe and even in India we see the same narrative, although the patriarchal peoples usurped the rule of the previous ruling Queens of the Land, they inevitably paint the rule of these Queens as being granted power by dark sorcery and witchcraft or instead they are personified as Demons, like the Indian Goddess Kali and several others. Once an understanding that Old Europe was governed by ruling Queens, patrons of the Goddess who was personified as the Land and that the people who were granted settlement on these lands were bonded in sacred marriage vows to serve the Goddess as protectors and guardians of the Goddesses Lands, with the people ruled by their own King who was subservient to the rule of the Priestess Queen, then a far better understanding of Indo-European mythology can be perceived.
The Skyrim music @ 20:00 totally threw me off because I'm playing Skyrim right now but the TV is on mute and I'm listening to this video on my phone with headphones, and I thought I had unmuted my TV for a second lol
Can you talk about the process of conversion to Christianity amongst the Celtic peoples? It was violent in many parts of Europe, but from what little I have read, the Gaels had a relatively peaceful experience. Why would the clergy approach the Celts differently? Of course post Reformation in Scotland many pre Christian practices were persecuted. But I haven't come across any forcible conversions of Gaels as happened elsewhere in Europe.
Morild - Milky seas effect - Mare fire Milky seas, also called mareel, is a luminous phenomenon in the ocean in which large areas of seawater (up to 6,000 sq mi or 16,000 km2) appear to glow translucently (in varying shades of blue). Occurrences of the phenomenon glow brightly enough at night to be seen by satellites orbiting Earth. Etymology The phenomenon is known as mareel in Shetland. This term is derived from the Norn word *mareld, which is itself derived from the Old Norse word mǫrueldr, which is a compound of marr (mere, sea) and eldr (fire). Navnet er avledet fra oldnordisk. Det er beslektet til engelsk (spesielt shetlandsdialekt) "mareel", islandsk "maurildi", dansk "morild", svensk "mareld" og finsk "merituli"
1. It is possible that the Germans did not call themselves Aryans for nothing, in addition to having a common root, they have a very similar mythology. The questions of Norman DNA theory cause, for a number of reasons, bewilderment. R1a as well as R1b has come a long way and can be traced back. However, this theory has Scandinavian halftones. Germanic-Scandinavian legends repeat Vedic stories. ...Surt rules the fire giants. On the day of Ragnarok, his hordes will move northward "like the south wind" to fight the Aesir gods. In the battle, Surt will kill Freyr, his sword will cut down the world tree Yggdrasil, and this will be the beginning of the death of the whole world. The Grove of Hoddmimir will remain as it is the place where his fiery sword loses its power. Also, the palace of Gimle will survive, in which righteous people will live at all times. (Scandinavian epic). Veda “At the time of devastation, when Lord Anantadeva desires to destroy the entire creation, He becomes slightly angry. Then from between His two eyebrows appears three-eyed Rudra, carrying a trident. This Rudra, who is known as Sāṅkarṣaṇa, is the embodiment of the eleven Rudras, or incarnations of Lord Śiva. He appears in order to devastate the entire creation."(Srimad Bhagavatam 5.25,3). Дополнения Germanic-Scandinavian legends repeat Vedic stories. Is the mainland equal to the island and who is the mainland? Skandan legends Haplogroup I1, Germanic tribes R1b Is German Gott equal to English God? 2. German The river as the border between the world of the living and the dead. Scandinavian stories The Huhl River. After the death of the god of spring, the son of Odin descended after him into the kingdom of the dead and came to this river. Ambassador Hermat is the son of Odin. Veda "A person who is born into a responsible family - such as a kṣatriya, a member of royalty or a government servant - but who neglects to execute his prescribed duties according to religious principles, and who thus becomes degraded, falls down at the time of death into the river of hell known as Vaitaraṇī. This river, which is a moat surrounding hell, is full of ferocious aquatic animals. When a sinful man is thrown into the river Vaitaraṇī, the aquatic animals there immediately begin to eat him, but because of his extremely sinful life, he does not leave his body. He constantly remembers his sinful activities and suffers terribly in that river, which is full of stool, urine, pus, blood, hair, nails, bones, marrow, flesh and fat."(Srimad Bhagavatam 5,26,22). In other sources, this river is known as Leta and Styx. Saturn is Shani has two messengers of the ravens. The ravens Huginn and Muninn are well associated with the Quranic messengers of warning Gog and Magog.
Know I am late but I have a question. So at first it were 3 goddesses that were called Morrigan and later were turned into one, or was it kinda Hecate deal where 3 goddesses can merge into one goddess? Or it all depends on the source and story?
Do you think that maybe the Northern Scottish Druids could have invoked the Morogon against the Roman's? The Roman's only tried 123 times to take over. They some how lost their way.
You know what's funny, my aunt's name is Lamia', well it's a supposed Arab name. My other aunt's name is Maha or Mache, in Arabic it translates to the female of the deer, or doe. I used to call them succubi behind their backs. Guess I wasn't too far off, lol.
I have red hair and red eyes that shift red into black in times that call for strength of intention or sickness of body or Soul. It was my frightened mother who explained her fear being a witness to the reddened overtaken by the blackness an exact match of lashes and brows. Cue Twilight Zone musical theme. lol. Thank you for your work!
I've never actually heard someone say my name properly, I'm surprised that the 'I' is so quiet. I knew Morrigan was a goddess but I was NOT ready to hear about how much of a monster she was haha I think I'll leave that part out at parties
Kind of gives a bit of context to the "triple sacrifice" of kings believed to have been preformed in Celtic culture. Maybe each ritual was meant to appease a different aspect of the whole?
I fell in love with her the first time I read about her as a child. She never scared me. For some reason she resonated with me. I loved her fierceness. I'm 43 now and I guess I've always drawn some strength from her inspiration 🖤💜💙
I too resonate with her. A powerful force of nature! )0(
She Is my mother too❤
Interesting video, thank you for posting. I am from the Scottish Highlands. We have stories about the 3 sisters (the Morrigan) they come at times of war and hang about the sea. they never side with any clan but support the Mackenzie's and MacDonalds more than most. They take the form of cats, crows and cows a lot in the old stories. They bring the evil eye (jealousy) and project children. They are loyal to nothing but death in all stories.
How are certain clans favored? Genuinely curious.
@@green_hound the truth is they were the biggest clans in the area. Keeping it local and relatable I guess.
The three sisters are, in some oral traditions, her daughters: Badb, Macha, and Anand. In other tribes, Badb and Macha are her sisters and Anand is left out. But the latter oral traditions also mashed banshees into the mix and renamed Leosin as Dagda (because of differences in the tribal languages) but fail to name his shape-shifting wife although acknowledging his wife was a shapechanger or skinchanger. She was known as the 'Moon Girl' as well as Thulvia by tribes in Northern France and Belgium. She was also an early archetype for werewolves.
@@green_hound How are certain clans favored? Some tribes left better records and some regional Governors from Rome took an interest in recording local culture over which they administered.
Glory to her, may we who love her and are chosen, find ourselves ready.
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“Forged in fire..” If one is not ready, She will make them ready. ♥️🖤♥️🖤
@@ixchelskyfeather2513 May she light the FIRE of action, movement and real purpose in the spirit of the chosen , like keen stout blades they will be forged from dross with her glorious hand and will....Babd Catha glorious forger of warriors.
My son is Morgan is named for this Goddess, Earth mother
Morrigan ancient crone of war,
I hear your voice, I'll breathe no more,
Morrigan ancient crone of war,
Come set my spirit free
"Morrigan" by Omnia
If you want an ineresting book, check out "Ravens of Avalon" by Diana Paxon and Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's based on the history, (what's known of it) of Queen Boudica's revolt. In it, the Morrigan is pivotal to much of Boudica's campaign, which is a lot of the fictional part. ✌😸
I've always been fascinated by the Morrígan but knew very little about Her, and wow I had no idea She was so deadly cunning and played such a crucial role in determining the fate of men. Thank you for this amazing in-depth video, love the visuals as well, your content just keeps getting better and better.
Maybe she can slap my abusive husband into shape.
@@EarthAirFireWaterSpirit u do that yourself 🤫
Thank you Kevin ,
Morrigan has never been simple for anyone , our ideas are so far away from the ancients understanding who came before , as a Gael , all i can say about her , is that she protects all who stand on this little island .
stay safe from Eire
No man she literally causes people, especially Irish people; to die
Perhaps both of y’all have missed a crucial point: when two men fight at the instigation of Morrigan’s antics, one of them lives and is victorious, and the other man dies upon being defeated. She is thereby giving a blessing and curse at the same time. Even if it’s more Her choosing against someone she dislikes rather than choosing in favor of someone She likes, it still plays out the same way. One army dies, the other army wins.
She protects all the Gaels, regardless of where they are.
Hail an Morrigan!
I for one am glad that eye witnesses survive to dispute the respectful thing that The Full Irish GK said about the ancient place that they and I live, I enjoy the videos of this channel because of its balanced look at things, usually saying neither this or that but showing possibilities, I have just read someone claim that part of our ancient culture is the cause of our deaths!
My grandfather was a child refugee from the Irish war of Independence only 100 years ago, that is why I am third generation Scottish, Should have been born in Dublin, his grandfather survived the great hunger, his grandfather survived another event, his grandfather survived another and on and on for at least 4000 years that science knows about through DNA, do you see where I am going with this? Who lived here 4000 years ago? My DNA lived here.
The house I live in is older than America.
These things to you might seem so ancient and far away, some fairy stories or a mythic pagan religion that you've read about on your favourite website, yet trust me, an ancient war is still going on here right now, look at the news, we do not live in a fairy tale or a computer game here and like the original statement "our ideas are so far away from the ancients understanding who came before" so do not sit there telling people in a country they live in all about their ancient culture and how it is killing them.
I'm sorry if I have missed the mark here, yet I am fed up with the disrespectful drivel that I am forced to endure from people like this. The Morrigan looking out for us is likely why we are still here.
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I've resonated with the tales of the Morrigan for so many years, my wife and I took one of her names after our marriage ceremony. She came to me in a dream, with horns like a bull's, during one of the hardest times in my life, showing me a hard path to victory or a promise of death if I didn't take it. She wasn't wrong.
It was long before I knew anything about her as a god, or any of her associations. We all eventually meet our fate, it's what we leave behind us that measures us. I don't believe the Morrigan ever forced anyone to do anything; she just helped them decide what world they needed to leave behind them.
Is good to avoid calling on demons.
In Indo-European myth, the pole going through the horse is a symbol of the tree of life, going all the way back to the Scythians. Often it would be raised near a pond (symbolizing the world ocean), making an entire model of the cosmos and the pathways between the worlds. The vikings would raise such poles where they knew a hated rival would see it, in order to mock them, perhaps by symbolizing their soon-to-be sacrifice to the gods by their betters.
Regrettably, I have zero clue what the one-legged horse represents in mythology, but the colors red and white keep turning up as being very important for cattle and horses all the way back to the Cretans, whereas black is mainly associated with birds and dogs, and later (famously) cats. Something to do with the gods/spirits of light and darkness.
Even the Egyptians had their own version of the world tree and the connection between the upper- and underworlds. It is the lotus flower which alternatively rises and submerges beneath the waters, and when drawn out as a hieroglyph is the Ankh, the symbol of life and rebirth. That is why water birds were the messengers of the gods, because they moved both in the air and in water. So now you know why it is storks that carry babies to the word of the living. The Hallstatt Proto-Celts liked ducks better, which survives in one story as the duck that carried Hansel and Grethel between the land of the witch (the underworld) and the world of the humans (light/living).
Gods that are forgotten often turn into fairy tale monsters, so the Grimm Brothers' witch may originally have been the goddess of the underworld, known in this video as Danaan, and so we come full circle. Finally, notice how many rivers that are named something with DN. The DoN, the DNiepr, the DaNube. The goddess after which they are named had a male form which is identical to the merman depicted in this video. Danaan again, in an earlier form.
Wow! 🤩 Thank you!
I vaguely recall the one-legged horse have something to do with Badb. I might be wrong, though.
mmmmmmm dannon...
Tuatha Da Dannan
I thought I knew a thing or two about mythology legend and allegory but you have added greatly to my little store of knowledge. So thank you for that. I too have been pondering the one legged horse and I can see nothing that makes sense or is linked in any way with anything similar from another tradition. All the best and shwmai as we say. Ja
Most interesting that a God of life and death such as Dagda would have a Goddess of death, war, and victory as a wife. Great video. Can’t wait til the Goibniu video comes out.
It is likely he had two consorts, and this is reflected in his affair with Bóinne, who is reflective of the mother-type goddess. Just as he is is ultimately an infernal god who represents both forces and cycles he has two different consorts that represent opposites
Wasn’t aware of His relations with Bóinne. Rather odd, but still speaks volumes about the complexities and workings of the Deities in question.
It is a sacred marriage of the Land bonded to a chosen people who serve as protectors and guardians of the Land.
The Land is the domain of the Goddess, women are strongly earthbound, their cycles of fertility are linked to the cycles of the Land. So the Land of the Goddess is governed by her representative priestess Queens.
The Land needs the right people to help protect and be it's guardians, so the ruling Queens as the face of the Goddess will perform a sacred marriage to the peoples chosen King, bonding the people to the Land and to the Goddess.
The Queen may have several consort Kings, depending upon how many different tribes of people are granted permission to become the Lands Guardian protectors. Likewise each tribes King, although wed to the ruling Queen, it is a ceremonial and sacred vow of marriage of a peoples King, who vows to serve and protect the Land that is the outward personification of the Goddess. The King is allowed to marry women from the tribes who are bonded to the Land in this sacred marriage, but it must be sanctioned by the Priestess Queen, as she being the face of the Goddess has the responsibility of ensuring the Land has the right people in inheritance to follow after the present King dies. Even if the Kings chosen bride is not considered a viable choice by the ruling Queen to produce a royal heir to follow the King, the King can still marry her but she would have no royal heir, her children may be royal princes or princesses, but they would not be considered worthy successors.
For a true royal heir, sanctioned by the ruling Queen, often one of the noble lineage of priestesses, who serve the Goddess and are part of the Royal court serving the Queen, will be selected by the Queen and her council of ruling priestesses, to be wed to the King, so that the heirs will be of sacred lineage, continuing the sacred bond of marriage of People bonded to the Land in both sacred vow and sacred royal blood, Goddess of the Land bonded through blood to her chosen Guardian peoples.
@@3rdeye671 very interesting and as Cloney Cavan man was found sacrificed at the edge of water in a bog, he was found to be a king of that area, he had an armlet still attached(only a headless torso was found) and was found in excellent condition, well fed, very tall and in great shape, the experts believe he was sacrificed because of crop failures over a few years and yes the King had the honour as the God's demanded only the best for sacrifice in ancient Irish culture. So anyone who wants to go all snowflaky and invite the Morrigan in good luck, at best she won't even notice you at worst you get involved and don't come out well. Be warned, I know someone involved with her and I suspect a decline in mental health or the person was mentally unfit in the first place to enter into contract with her. Be warned my fellow humans
@@karmakat8016 I don't think this necessarily contradicts your comment but I was always under the impression that being buried in a bog was more of a punishment than a sacrifice. In most all pagan cultures that believe in reincarnation they believed the body had to be destroyed for the spirit to move on to the next life, bog bodies don't decompose. At the very least this is true for germanic and vedic belief which is not that far removed from celtic beliefs. I wonder if there was believed to be a difference in giving someone to a god and they don't move on / reincarnate like a bog body, and destroying the body so they may come back here
I am somewhat disturbed by your describing her in a constant negative way. Yes she was Goddess of war and fate but she also nurtures the dying, gathered them into her embrace. As for her shaping the destinies of men, you don't clearly say why, surely you don't suggest har actions are wilful and arbitrary. No doubt a one with the site she was leading towards a particular end game which may well have been in order to protect her people. Anyway Spectre Queen sounds pretty awesome to me, not monstrous at all as her enemies were bound to call her.
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She had 3 asspects . Youthful girl. Mother and old crone.
She is an earth goddess. And can appear in one of those three forms. 3 ages of life. Youth.. mother crone.
Gathering souls us pretty negative
Feminists
The Morrigan is considered a Triple Goddess... It consists of sisters Badb (a black haired older woman with speckled skin called the War Crow connected to ones Fate), Nemain (the thin framed white haired and white clothed Banshee who cries out and washes the clothes of the dead in the river) and Macha (intimidating red headed high queen and great warrioress who is associated with horses and battles). Much like maiden mother and crone aspects of many ancient northern races....💜
OK but at least that bit about the banshee is definitely wrong.
Where did you get the info
@@salleygardens8959 historical books on ancient Irish and Celtic mythology (I've read so many over the years I couldn't count lol) and of course my grandparents and great grandparents telling stories. I'm mostly Scot-Irish, German, Norman French and Scandinavian. With others thrown in there lol. Bean Sidhe's are familiar spirits and cry out for those of their dead/dying to warn them. They are also said to wash the clothing if the dead in the river so the dead can wear it in the Afterlife. Most Bean Sidhe's/Banshees were said to be skeletal and had dark hair but the one in charge that watched over the others was said to sometimes have silver almost white hair. SIDENOTE: it is believed now that it was a type of barn owl that made the cries/keens attributed to the the bean sidhe. Many Irishmen would gather neighbors and burn the barn down bc they thought the bean sidhe lived there... And they wanted to drive her away. But it was the poor owl.
is just Hekate !!!
If you had read the source texts you wouldn't come to these conclusions. While the Morrigan does often show up with two sisters, she's not a triple goddess of the maiden-mother-crone aspects. These are constructs that came about much later in time. She represents a lot of things but they most definitely do not revolve around her states of fertility. And the Morrigan is an IRISH goddess. There are similar deities in many PIE cultures but the Morrigan is Irish, period. Though a similar goddess who shows up with the others, it's debatable whether or not Nemain is actually one of The Great Queens, or rather a similar regional goddess. I suggest reading the Irish texts themselves, anything by Irish author and historian Lora Obrien, etymologist Morgan Daimler's academic writings, or Morpheus Ravenna(Book of the Great Queen) on the topic.
@@mindydevine5814 she was an Irish goddess the scotch Irish would not of worshipped her they are lowland scots they are not Irish, and they are not gaelic . The whole point if the ulster plantation was to get rid if foreign gaelic out if Scotland. They didn't send west scots or Highlanders to ulster because they were the same people as the Irish. They sent lowland and border English-speaking scots who had a different culture. All if Ireland was gaelic but all of Scotland was not
The Morrigan is indeed a Goddess we respect as well as love
"We" is a big assumption. Especially when caused Cu's death.
Hail thee Morrighan,
Hail Battle Raven,
Goddess of warriors,
Goddess of sovereignty,
Wise in the way she rules her people,
May She ever be praised.
Cetlic goddess crow not raven
Norse mythology raven god name odin not goddess😊
Hey. I didn't make up the prayer, take it up with the author.
My favorite Celtic deity
You🤣i'am always the last i thought i'am first
As mine. But so very complex!
She is my patroness
Why?
Marzanna, the Polish goddess of winter and death, who is cast into the river by peasants who create simulacra of her to make way for the spring, is part of a triad and equated with the Latin Morta, the un-turnable crone, death.
Sounds like the Snow Queen...
Indo-European mythology.
A lavandeira in Galicia Spain also washes at night.
The same is done for Hréðe, an Anglo-Saxon Goddess.
I've always understood that the Morrigan were 3 sisters like the Fates and Norn.
Another great video!!!
Hmm Interesting
Me too, in the highlands they are 3 sisters (triplets) war, fate and death. They sing a song on battlefields that can kill 1000s of men in minutes.
The Morrígna were, as I understood, the three aspects of the modernly known Morrígan, much like the Triple Goddess.
She is 3 sisters the Mordon was the earth mother.
@@tillieking3348 I understood it similarly... as 3 sep goddesses who ban together to form a sort of super goddess .... kind of like the crystal gems in the kids TV show, Steven Universe.... I've always favored the Morrigan and Macha.. the morrigan kicks ass and takes names while sort of playing with her prey... meanwhile Macha seeks justice for women and children who've suffered trauma from men.
Love the video. The Morrigan is me Goddess and I know I have pleased her by joining the Army.
May she watch over me always.
Amazing video! I find it so interesting the similarities bewteen Roman, Norse, and Celtic myths. The psychology and sociology of which would be very interesting to learn about in how they influenced eachother.
I also wondered if Morrigan influenced the name of Morgan le Fae in the English myth of Arthur and Merlin. I looked into it and it does appear the the female use of the name has ties with the Celtic use. It's considered a Welsh name meaning "sea born" and associated with a Celtic Christian woman that was a Saint of the sea. In England it seems the name is more associated with water. I think this is because of it's origin from Ireland and it being across a sea. I know this may seem obvious, but I just find it fascinating. It also makes Morgan le Fae that much cooler in my book!
Morgan as a name from Morrigan and le Fae means the fairy, or the magician.
Another good one! Don't know much about Celtic Mythology, so thank you for adding to my knowledge...
I always knew she was kind of grim, but I never thought this grim...
Yes but she is totally perfect and so are all the things she rules (death etc.) It's a beautiful and natural part of life and we have to accept it
Thank you for this. I am drawn to the Morrigan, even though I am not the least warlike. I cannot explain it, only accept. I have her on my altar and do not yet understand my attraction to Her. I am a Crone so perhaps that is it. Or my Celtic blood. Maybe she's chosen to protect me. All I know is the pull I feel in my depths.
Likely as not, she will show you how to protect yourself. Mórrígan has a tendency to plant you on your feet and give you the strength to fight your own battles. She is not just a goddess of war, she is a goddess of sovereignty and that includes personal sovereignty and autonomy.
I’ll follow that up since it is mentioned in this video clip, she is associated with King making which is why she is associated with sovereignty. Translated into a modern context, it easily fits into the realm of personal sovereignty and autonomy. The offers that she has made to Cu Chulain and others throughout the epics and literature relates back to her being a goddess of the land. Kings were expected to marry the land or couple with the goddess in order to earn their kinghood.
@Gen UA-cam Blessed Be back!
She protects honorable warriors. She is a powerful ally. 🌹🙏🏾🌏🪴🕯she is not evil but those who see her as evil are often themselves avoiding their own darkness and shadow. I love her.
1:47 Mori= sea Rigani=queen Morrigani=sea queen.
The oldest use of the name goes back to an ancient Proto-Celtic queen from the southern coast of what is now Cornwall. Her tribe's trade routes ranged along the coasts and up rivers reaching Berber, Basque, and Beaker tribes.
Except we wouldn’t know that considering they kept an oral history tradition and written history didn’t start until the Romans conquered
again the english trying to claim things/whatever that doesn't belong to them
@@kazzysenpai5906 The oral traditions, older than who knows, are as epic as memories can make them. The stories of Morrigani are quite wicked and on the scale of something out of a Lovecraftian mind.
My buddy got a vampire grimoir, had me flip through it, all I read was, "How to Make Friends and Influence People".
I asked the universe to connect me with a God or Goddess. I read the Morrigan's story and instantly felt connected or like she had been trying to contact me. I have had 2 near death experiences, which could have and maybe should have killed me, and I have been haunted before. Besides all of that, I always feel like I'm being watched.. I asked for a sign, I meditated and asked how I'd like to see the sign in a dream, and then I was asking for real life, I said through a bird, intending to list off a few birds I could think of off the top of my head, and when the word bird came out of my mouth, a raven flew past me. I started to talk to the Morrigan, and I feel connected to her now. She has been calling me for years and I am just now realizing. That expericne was so magical and it was a sign that just slaps you in the face. So excited to learn more about this Goddess!
I wanted to speak with her but instead mananan showed up and jokingly accused me of trying to learn everything ever known. Really funny guy, lol.
The universe? You cannot ask the universe. You will only invite demons. God is just one. And all those gods and godesses are demons that tremble in fear in front of the sign of the cross which burns them.
A perfect article about The Morrigan made by you, Fortreess of Lugh!
In Serbian 🇷🇸 folklore mythology, very rich btw, she is Морана / Morana. The root word Mora means trouble in Serbian, also found in English as night + MARE = nightmare.
The prime archetype of Serbian mythology is The Wolf. Almost every second Serbian name or family name has root word Vuk, Vul meaning Wolf, in countless of combinations. At the end of each year, whole 9 days since 15th- 26th of November are Вучији дани / The Days of the Wolf. Lore says that ancestral archetype of our people, during those 9 days, comes as wounded Wolf limping on one leg, visits every household and evaluates each Host / Домаћин, on how loyal and pious Host he has been in a passing year.
Anyways, there is also archaic Serbian word for year ЈАРА / JARA, which is 100% the same word as in English. Jara as Jarilo has connotation of Fire / Sun.
On that subject may i suggest book titled 'Dream Dremati'. Author Dejan Đuričić. It is a dictionary with about *5000* the same or etymologically similar words in Serbian and English.
From the title: Dream is Dremati in Serbian, only Dremati means to have a nap.
This is awesome! My name is Morana (I am Scottish) my Russian friends told me it means death or nightmares. I didn't believe it before but now...
Proud of Serbian heritage that reaches far into the history, and ages Mrs Ranka Kuic explore, research and writes Srpski i keltski jezik/ Ranka Kuic Serbian and Celtic language
@@MultiSauen Best of her life's work in book titled "Crveno i Crno".
We do have to remember that the sources were penned by monks, who did have a tendency to demonize powerful, pagan female deities. The Morrigan is all this for sure, but there is so much more to Her.
It's also worth noting that though the catholic monks who wrote down our stories did so at a time when a bard's reputation relied on them telling "true" stories of Ireland's history, and they were, at the time, the most respected class of lay people. This left the church in an awkward position. They couldn't just throw out the stories entirely, they had to shape them just enough to meld them into Christianity through addition and subsumption. Doing otherwise, or changing the stories too much, would have meant that the bards would have continued to tell the "true" stories in opposition to the monks, hurting their efforts to convert the Gaels from Celtism to Christianity.
Great to finally learn more about this Goddess from you, thank you for your hard work.
The Morrigan is not a sovereign Goddess in the traditional sense, in that she tends to each one individually (in some sense, the way Jesus is said to be there for each person that prays to him is similar mechanically).
However, the loss of historical records notwithstanding, she is a Goddess of individual seers, revelators, and prophets; she is the Goddess of personal revelations, and I can think of no patroness on this Earth with whom it is less concerning that we do not host a direct terrestrial connection.
If there is any Goddess that is meant exist without historical records, any patroness meant to be seen or heard even when she can't be seen or heard, it is the Phantom Magpie.
You will find her, not by the clues that have been left, but by your own instincts, your own internal sovereignty.
When she senses this, she will find *you*
Thank you for another excellent video! Its interesting to think about how the mystery surrounding the Morrigan mirrors our own human feeling that death is mysterious.
The Morrigan’s poem was beautiful!
Nightmare comes from Old Norse, from their belief a spirit horse sat on the upper body of sleepers.
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Nightmare moon
Not what it means. The malevolent spirit that sat on a sleeper was akin to the rider of a horse. Night - Mare. It was a belief in the spirit's demonic control of the sleeper.
Hail Morrígan and Dagda
Your knowledge and research is always so extensive. Love your channel. No better place to learn Irish mythology!
I’d love to see a video done about Scathach the warrior maid. I heard about her through a book series I’m reading and I’d love to know more. I will be doing my own research, but this video seems so good that I assume so is the rest of your content. Thanks for teaching me about the Morrígan. I really enjoyed the video.
Love your channel ❤
Have you told the story 'Deirdre of the sorrows'? I always loved that story especially the end, its sad and beautiful.
This is the 2nd time I've seen/heard thos character mentioned in the last couple days but I cant remember where it was mentioned the 1st time or in what context. Weird.
Cuchulainn: "You shape-shifting deamon! I vow to cut out your eye, break your rib and leg, and never heal you."
Also Cuchulainn: *Sees a random, old lady with one eye and a broken rib and leg immediately after dealing these same wounds to a known shapeshifter* "Seems legit, I'll heal you!"
Don't disrespect them 😭 idk if this is but it very important to me and others so 💀
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA LEGIT
@@Mimi-cg5oo The Morrigan is not offended by the comment , no worries 🖤
Lol this is what I was thinking what a doof
Your channel is a real gem for those who love mysterious myths!
The legend of King Arthur seems to be a retelling of the story of Lugh with the Morrigan being retold as Morgana Le Fey.
Not really.
@@thegreenmage6956 well like King Arthur, Lugh was born of an illicit encounter then taken from his mother and raised in hiding. Both returned to unite the people and became an enlightened and just King linked to the Land.
Arthur has the sword aspect, but pulling it from the stone indicates it was set at the start of the bronze age, as you pour molton bronze into a stone cast.
Morgana's name is similar to the Morrigans name and both were closely related to Lugh/Arthur but could not be trusted as they had their own designs which they implemented to change the fate of the future.
Merlin can also be linked to Lugh's Uncle who was given Lugh to foster care. He was a dwarven smith and knew secret mysteries, making him a Shamanic figure similar to a Druid.
You also have the Lady of the Lake who can be linked to Lugh's mother, Lugh left the Tuatha De Danaan forces to ally with her and the two peoples united under Lugh making him King with her blessing. Just as Arthur united the warring Kings with the backing of the Lady of the Lake.
One could say that prior to the Tuatha De Danaan coming to the Land the people were ruled by a class of Priestess Queens and this element is replicated by the ethereal figure of the Lady of the Lake, who granted Arthur the mystical sword of Power, Excalibur to assist him in his rule and grant him some of her power as he was her chosen ruler to unite the Land with her patronage.
There are so many similarities in motifs of a broad scope, that underly both legends that it's hard not to think they are the same tale, with King Arthur just being a retelling brought into later times, with only minor details and aspects of the later times added into the tale to make it into a narrative to suit those later times.
@@thegreenmage6956 and what reasons do you give to say "Not really"?
@@3rdeye671 A lot of the similarities are due to the common Indo-European source of the typical sky god origin story, for instance Zeus being raised in a cave in secret away from Cronus, both the stories you are comparing are probably just referring back to that.
The sword motifs in the Arthyr story are likely from the Scythian-style cultural ideas brought by the Roman horseman mercenary auxiliaries, who have a similar sword-worshiping practice in association with their war god, whom we call Scythian Ares.
The Morrigan-Morgan connection is hotly debated, it is not clear that they come from the same name.
The Irish story which DOES have a lot in common with the Arthyr legend is the tale of Diarmuid betraying Finn McCool and the Fianna, very similar to the Lancelot cycle, but then again it’s also similar to the Tristan and Isolde story, so it’s probable that Arthyr’s legends contain collections of many different disparate Celtic stories drawn together to make a coherent narrative. They are great in that we have the pieces of those stories, but not so helpful in the sense that they are muddled and we don’t know what goes where, which story was what originally.
@@thegreenmage6956 The sword motif of pulling a sword from a stone refers to bronze age casting technique. Whoever pulls the sword will be King, meaning it is early bronze age and swords were new to Britain.
The Arthurian legend is set during the Anglo-Saxon incursions around 450 - 600 AD.
The tale of Lugh, the Morrigan and the Tuatha De Danaan is an early bronze age tale, c.2,500 BC. That is a 3,000 year difference!
So since the two tales have the same basic related elements, comparable characters and follow a closely aligned plot then it appears that the Arthurian tale is really just a retelling of the far older tale of Lugh. Maybe one of the British Christian monks, having heard the Irish tale of Lugh decided to update it to his times and make it a unique British identity.
Yes, I also see the common template of early Indo-European mythology, of a hidden child who battles and kills his father/grandfather to become the new ruler. Although the Irish tale of the Tuatha De Danaan, the Morrigan and the rise of Lugh has the aspect of Lugh born of two different peoples and only his changing of sides to ally with his mother's people decides the battle, and unites the Fir Bolg with the Tuatha De Danaan and establishes Lugh as their King before Lugh goes on to fight Balor One Eye, his grandfather, and his Fomorian giants army. The Morrigan and her forces, come late to the battle, undecided which side to take, before joining with Lugh and deciding the battle against Balor and his Fomorians.
These early Indo-European mythologies, are set at the start of the bronze age, which was what gave the Indo-European peoples their warrior aristocracy class. We are talking c.2,800 BC onwards, so obviously as over 3,000 years has past, yet there is still the bronze age reference to casting a sword in stone, meaning that it is a retold and modernized tale. The Lancelot aspect is again a much later, medieval addition to further add to the Arthurian mythology.
The entire Arthurian legend appears to be a resurrected much older tale retold for a British audience.
Oh wow, I never heard for this channel before. I will definitely follow you from now on👍💜
Its got some great content
You can't go wrong! This channel has some pretty incredible content... Educational, informative, Fascinating, and a realistic angle. The narrator is also excellent! ✔️
I just found this channel and am so glad that I did!
Very good video! Thorough and interesting (on a complex topic)! Thanks!
Goddess of love, devotion, and victory. She gives victory in war.
The fearless. She destroys fear and also invokes fear in hearts not strong enuf to receive her name.
She is also the mother and nurtures.
Morrigan is a sovereign goddess of Ireland. She is in fact the state or Ireland when its going through war or famine. She offers herself to Cu Chulainn in the form of Eriu /Eire ....(symbol of a peaceful Ireland) he refuses. And Ireland gets war . I worry about people who call themselves wiccans ...they don't seem to get ..war means war ...like the troubles in Northern Ireland. Its not something you welcome. Its the DARKNESS of my country. Its not the light of my country. Its our darkness. Its how we hurt ourselves. Our military is DIFFERENT ....we use stalking and ambush techniques. But this is not what she wants to offer us here in Ireland. People here don't talk about her ..unless we are ACTUALLY on her turf ...or in a war! She is not a valkery either. She is NOT a shielf maiden. She is a symbol of corruption of our politicians ...poverty ..war..she is associated with the cailleach of beara (the hag of beara ) who is supposed to be a nun .She asks Cu Chulainn to accept her as a young woman ...a peaceful prosperous country where every child is equal and safe..the morrigan is every bomb blast ...every tear. And the land is hers. But she wants it to be offered away from the sorrow. That is why we named our country Eire and not morrigan.
This is the best video I have seen on her, thank you
As someone who was named after her (different spelling). This is really cool to watch and see what intentions were put behind my name.
The people say also my Goddess Hekate is evil but people have no idea
Morrigu is a Goddess of need: you seek vengeance, cruelty and things of the sword, She is that. Need courage while staring at certain defeat, comfort when your very spirit has been beaten down or a lover when the nights have been too cold and too long: Morrigu will meet that need as well. Morrigu is a Goddess for all who have the courage to reach out to Her. Be warned, She Will Not Tolerate fools nor the weak. You will be harshly tested, but should you gain Her acceptance the Morrigu Will Never Allow You To Stand Alone nor Will You Ever Be Forsaken. Trust in Her as She expects you to trust in Her.
Morrigan does not eat children, but she can be scary. Not the goddess you want to cross, but she always has our back. If you follow her, and trust her, she can be your greatest freind and teacher.
I have seen the Morrigan in very vivid dreams, I kid you not I didn’t have a clue who she was until now. A strange, beautiful but demonic red headed women I see her all the time. What mean?
Be not afraid. Open your heart. Fly free from your chains
Excellent, thanks for the video, mate.
She’s not a monster
When I call upon her During rituals and meditation she is always there. She’s a Beautiful woman with gorgeous green eyes who is powerful and was taken advantage by men, men are intimidated by her power strength and beauty they label her as a monster and downplay her powerful energies and strength she is a goddess and needs to be treated like one
PERIODTTTT.
Too many people take the Christian translations at face value without critical scrutiny. The Christian monks were obviously threatened by the Morrigan. Read both her blessing and prophecy after the battle of Maige Tuiredh; she is not a monster. Before the battle when she goes to kill the king of the opposing army and bring his blood to the aes dana gathered at the river by the Dagda, she does so to ensure the victory of her people. This event obviously shows her as a sovereign Goddess protective of her people.
Be careful, she can bring only what she wants, you do not matter, she rarely appears , she will only turn her gaze on you if it serves her ,be careful, us Irish hide from her because if you enter a pact with this one that she will see fulfilled, no pity, your description is not she but something else. Please be careful with this one, your nonsense of beauty and green eyes is literally nonsense to what this one really is, example 3 headed crone, 2 which are ravens, vicious warrior,
@@karmakat8016 she comes in different forms to everyone but I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts and feelings about her
@@hotgirlhealer916 It's not my feelings and thoughts it's my culture, my heritage and what I have been taught from my ancestors. You can ignore the wisdom I give you
@@karmakat8016 EXCUSE ME. she saved my life. SHE SAVED SO MANY PEOPLES LIVES.
I named my daughter Morrigan. Hoping she would draw strength from her name sake . She is now the most beautiful women and indeed very strong and independent who doesn't take shit from anyone. 0:13
Nice content! I also like how you pronounce the important words with an authentic sound. New subsriber here!
2024 here Kevin. Third time watching this spectacular episode. ✌️🌹🇿🇦😎
Very useful and interesting.Great video, thank you!
Great example of Morrigan in the book "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore.
If yall find The Morrigan interesting.. Look into Macha. She's an Irish goddess who's just as kick ass.
Been attacked by the MORGAN! Lived this nightmare in my life for sure!
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You might like the book called “The Hounds of Morrigan ,” by Pat O’Shea. It’s very delightful.
When you talk about Danaan... are you referring to Danu? I personally prefer the reconstruction of her as a goddess of primordial waters... but the afterlife implications are interesting.
That was amazingly fascinating. I really loved the information it contained .
Wow interesting thank you for sharing 💕
Despite having deep Irish roots (O’Connley and Fitzpatrick bloodlines) I knew nothing of the Morrigan or Irish culture. Until I a had a disturbing dream one night. I dreamt that I was on a boat and a woman appeared, I loved her dearly and I started to cry when I saw her, I got the feeling I had know her in a past life. She handed me a baby and I said “Margo” it’s the baby, and I continued to cry. There is more to the dream but I won’t go into the disturbing details. Long story short, My daughter was 8 months pregnant at the time of this dream. 2 weeks later she and the baby were brutally murdered. I’m now an activist seeking justice for their murders. After much research, I believe what I thought was “Margo” was the Morrigan but with the Irish accent my American ears interpreted it as Margo. I’ve also had a crow walk in front of my car, stop look at me and then fly away. About 4 years ago I felt the need to visit Ireland. I booked a 6 week trip and off to Ireland I went. I knew nothing about Ireland but off I went to explore this country solo. There’s been other strange things but I believe she’s been trying to get my attention for many years…and now she has it. One more thing, 4 ago during my trip to Ireland COVID-19 started, I returned to the USA and went back to work as a frontline COVID-19 ICU RN. Death after Death after Death….
the virgin...the mother...the crone... tripartite goddess of old... she has always been my guide and protector..xx
if a girl makes your blood freeze you hammer her with the lightning. Knightmare.....the valkyrie that takes your life.
Um what stop being disrespectful to women
@@Mimi-cg5oo Mimi should be a mime's name. Fucking Be quiet.
@@spectreberlin1128 excuse me?
@@Mimi-cg5oo You are pardoned.
@@spectreberlin1128 no. What the fuck?
Would love to see similar work on the goddesses Hera & Aphrodite! 🌟🌟🌟
Can't find alot of half way decent content on either. 😏
Because you educated person don't know there are better channels as this one you never heard of Legend of history i think there are enough stories abot Hera and Aphrodite Fortress of Lug knos only his Dagdas and Lugs or how do they all call
Ach my English yes that's only when i'am mad .Fortress of Lugh knows only his own Land history and Legend of history knows much much more
Wow girl!
I am subscribed to "Legends of History" AND "Mythology & Fiction explained". NEITHER has ANY content on either Hera or Aphrodite!
I just put in a request, since he's done videos on the likes of Apollo & Athena.
Why exactly do you feel the need to attack the channel creator (Fortress of L)
His content is great, and his channel keeps growing. Your just being petty & vindictive!
@@marinakaiser7639 I mean he has done videos on several other Greek deities 🤷🏽♀️
@@GorillaGrip300 i had a argument with him there are are other channels that are much better
Amazing i really enjoyed this.
Well done and thank you for posting.
I have a suggestion: what if Morrigan simply means swamp witch from moor. And it was a witch whose image melded with other characters. Most of her actions are classical to a witch. Sometimes she gives advice for a price, sometimes she sells potions. That is you find her in a good mood if not you might get killed or eaten by her. She seems similar to the Baba Yaga. In pagan Irish culture it might have been a function like a priestess of some deity that was played by an old witch.
You know the skyrim theme goes really good with ur video tbh
My Celtic name is Kelton Fox. I like this information very much.
You're reading of the myths involving The Morrigan and Cú Chulainn intrigues me, in that it is basically the opposite of my own.
My interpretation of it is (or was, since I may need to revise it) that Cú Chulainn in challenging The Morrigan, a god, is some sort of rebellious act that, while in some ways admirable (he is trying to protect his fellow Ulstermen and their livelihoods), ultimately amounts to some sort of divine insubordination. However, his challenge ultimately is self-defeating, as the very actions he promises to take against the god leads to him actually blessing the god, just in the same way as in many myths, those who try to prevent their doom by doing devious deeds ultimately contribute to said doom through those deeds. I took it as almost a miniature sort of morality play, where the reader (or the listener, as I imagine the majority of those who experienced the story initially would have done so through an oral telling) is that challenging the divine is ultimately futile, and that one should be wary of their pride should it lead to their undoing, as it did with Cú Chulainn.
Of course, your challenge of my reading here would definitely be the Táin Bó Ragamna, where The Morrigan seems to predict that Cú Chulainn would die by the end of the Cattle Raid. This was a good detail that I missed, and requires further research on my part, so I appreciate you bringing it up. My initial response however would be:
1) I'm not sure that's what she says. My Irish was never the strongest (Nílim líofa, ach lofa!), so I am only going off of a few translations that I've dug up quickly. She definitely says that it will lead to his doom during the time the calf is a yearling, but do we know that corresponds with the length of the war? The death of Donn Cúailnge is a long and arduous affair, so much so that Cú Chulainn might have met his end between the period of the end of the war and the bull dying. If such is the case, the prophecy, as written could have ended up being 100% accurate, though not in the way one would initially suspect (which is often the case in this sort of myth). Supporting evidence for this would be that The Morrigan does not deny that Cú Chulainn would end up injuring her, which would suggest she foresaw such, especially considered how she is healed afterwards by him.
2) We are reading from texts that are often not complete, and written down by individuals who's knowledge and bias towards the stories will forever remain unknown. It is possible that the Ragamna passage is not original, and was written after the main Myth a la Star Wars prequals, and so it would be a mistake to read the message of that text into the main myth. Other possibilities are that he simply wrote they myth down incorrectly, or from two sources that conflict with each other, or perhaps some other event between now and the past led to something being muddled. I know it happens all the time with other ancient texts I study, so I think it's certainly a possibility here. Also, we must remember the Christian bias, though I feel cliché'd bringing it up.
Quite clearly though, more reading needs to be done on this topic on my part.
Anyway, great video, and I'm glad the channel is still going strong. Have been tuning in since the early days, but rarely comment.
There is an even older bias than that brought by the Christains. The people of Old Europe were ruled by a priestess Queen who represents the face of the Goddess who is personified as the Land. Peoples coming into the Land had to be considered worthy protectors and guardians of the Land, to serve the Goddess, sacred marriage vows were made between the peoples chosen King to the ruling Queen. A vow of protection by the people bonding them to the Land that is the domain of the Goddess and she is represented by the ruling Queen who is a priestess of the Goddess.
The Goddess blesses her chosen Guardian protectors with a fertile land that gives in abundance.
The problem with most of our mythology is it is told from the perspective of the incoming Indo-European patriarchal peoples. They may recognize at the beginning the rule of the Land by these Queens, but they see the sacred marriage of Land to People, Queen of the Land to King of the People, as more of a sanctioning by priestesses of the Goddess, granting the peoples King divine right to rule, not just his people but the Land as well. They have no concept of the Land being the domain and personification of the Goddess, to them the realm of the divine is ruled by a male King of the Gods, the Land as such is not part of any Goddesses domain, except for certain features of the Land, usually springs and bodies of water, such as rivers and streams. To these patriarchal peoples the earth or it's lands are open to being claimed by a people as the Earth was granted to the peoples to live upon by the Gods who separated the realm of the divine from the realm of mortal men. Thus these Indo-European patriarchal peoples believe the Gods grant them lands by right of conquest, the Gods obviously blessing the victors by bestowing their favour.
So at the start the Indo-European peoples recognize the law of the land, but once made King in sacred marriage to the ruling Queen, they take that as being both King of their People and King of the Land as well. Over time the power of the Priestess Queens was marginalized into being just a class of priestesses with no say in how the Land is governed.
This is evidenced by the name Morrigan meaning 'Great Queen' or 'Phantom Queen' (probably alluding to her mystical connection as the face of the Goddess. Most Indo-European peoples have an ancient mythology of three sisters who weave the Fates of men into a divine tapestry that is mankinds destiny. They can see the future destiny of men's lives woven by fate, of which they are the weavers.
The best example of this clash of different cultures, patriarchal vs egalitarian/matriarchal is in Homers epic of the Illiad and the Odyssey, or better known as the Fall of Troy. Helen was Queen of Sparta, her sister was Chlytemistra, Queen of Mycenea. Agamemnon and his brother married these two ruling sister Queens, but once made King they usurped the rule of their Queens, establishing a noble class of warrior aristocracy that sidelined the previous rule of noble priestess bloodlines. So Helen fled her city of Sparta but was given refuge by Troy and she became Helen of Troy, recognising her divine rite as a royal priestess Queen and face of the Goddess who is personified as the Land itself.
To prove the power these Queens had, when Agamemnon returned to Mycenea, the ruling Queen Chlytemistra had him executed by her household guards. In the Odyssey, the tale of the return journey of the Ithacan King Odysseus, his voyage takes him to many strange lands with many ruled by a Queen, but since the Indo-Europeans hold that a ruler is determined by might of arms, they can't understand how a woman can be in power unless she is aided by sorcery or witchcraft, which alludes to her connection to a class of priestesses, devotees of a divine Goddess who grants them powers of divination, or 'the Sight'. The Oracle of Delphi originally was under the patronage of a priestess class headed by a woman called the Pithion or Python. But once the Indo-European peoples took over they replaced her with the youthful new God, Apollo, who seems to be a child born of the Old Goddess Queens and the new Male Indo-European God's, a sort of fusion of the Old ways of both peoples creating a new youthful boy God, in a mirroring of the fusion of the two different cultures to create a new social and political order, heavily leaning to the patriarchal viewpoint of the new ruling class of warrior aristocracy.
Echoes of this clash and fusion of two highly different cultures can also be found in the Germanic/Norse mythology of the incoming Aesir people who were met and resisted by the resident Vanir people who notably have a female leader in the character of Freya.
This clash of matriarchal Goddess Queens of Old Europe, vs the incoming patriarchal God Kings of the nomadic herdsmen of the Eurasian steppe, is found all across Europe and even in India we see the same narrative, although the patriarchal peoples usurped the rule of the previous ruling Queens of the Land, they inevitably paint the rule of these Queens as being granted power by dark sorcery and witchcraft or instead they are personified as Demons, like the Indian Goddess Kali and several others.
Once an understanding that Old Europe was governed by ruling Queens, patrons of the Goddess who was personified as the Land and that the people who were granted settlement on these lands were bonded in sacred marriage vows to serve the Goddess as protectors and guardians of the Goddesses Lands, with the people ruled by their own King who was subservient to the rule of the Priestess Queen, then a far better understanding of Indo-European mythology can be perceived.
@@3rdeye671 Yeah that was a good read. I didn’t know who she was until today. Saw her in a vision. Very positive vision. Thank you 🙏.
The Skyrim music @ 20:00 totally threw me off because I'm playing Skyrim right now but the TV is on mute and I'm listening to this video on my phone with headphones, and I thought I had unmuted my TV for a second lol
Can you talk about the process of conversion to Christianity amongst the Celtic peoples? It was violent in many parts of Europe, but from what little I have read, the Gaels had a relatively peaceful experience. Why would the clergy approach the Celts differently? Of course post Reformation in Scotland many pre Christian practices were persecuted. But I haven't come across any forcible conversions of Gaels as happened elsewhere in Europe.
Morild - Milky seas effect - Mare fire
Milky seas, also called mareel, is a luminous phenomenon in the ocean in which large areas of seawater (up to 6,000 sq mi or 16,000 km2) appear to glow translucently (in varying shades of blue). Occurrences of the phenomenon glow brightly enough at night to be seen by satellites orbiting Earth.
Etymology
The phenomenon is known as mareel in Shetland. This term is derived from the Norn word *mareld, which is itself derived from the Old Norse word mǫrueldr, which is a compound of marr (mere, sea) and eldr (fire).
Navnet er avledet fra oldnordisk. Det er beslektet til engelsk (spesielt shetlandsdialekt) "mareel", islandsk "maurildi", dansk "morild", svensk "mareld" og finsk "merituli"
I have always drawn a distinction between Danann and Anand aka The Morrigan
She helps dead warriors to go to the other side and she is always there where battle is
Very good video thanks
In the US Army, the infantry is called Queen of the Battle and I can't help think that was a reference to Morrigan or inspired by the Morrigan.
Every gothic metal girl had a nickname that incorporated her name. I hope she avenges her name 🤣
Excellent presentation! Informative as it is educational. I'm happy to become a new subscriber. Thank you and be safe 🙏
Yes a goddess of war.We're all fighting one.She is more good than bad believe me.She is strength
Hum interesting context. Myself dont know much about this .So I saved the video. Educational thank you
Love your content. Learning a lot from this
Thanks for the spellings along with pronouncing! I appreciate it..
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It is possible that the Germans did not call themselves Aryans for nothing, in addition to having a common root, they have a very similar mythology.
The questions of Norman DNA theory cause, for a number of reasons, bewilderment.
R1a as well as R1b has come a long way and can be traced back. However, this theory has Scandinavian halftones.
Germanic-Scandinavian legends repeat Vedic stories.
...Surt rules the fire giants. On the day of Ragnarok, his hordes will move northward "like the south wind" to fight the Aesir gods. In the battle, Surt will kill Freyr, his sword will cut down the world tree Yggdrasil, and this will be the beginning of the death of the whole world. The Grove of Hoddmimir will remain as it is the place where his fiery sword loses its power. Also, the palace of Gimle will survive, in which righteous people will live at all times. (Scandinavian epic).
Veda
“At the time of devastation, when Lord Anantadeva desires to destroy the entire creation, He becomes slightly angry. Then from between His two eyebrows appears three-eyed Rudra, carrying a trident. This Rudra, who is known as Sāṅkarṣaṇa, is the embodiment of the eleven Rudras, or incarnations of Lord Śiva. He appears in order to devastate the entire creation."(Srimad Bhagavatam 5.25,3).
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Germanic-Scandinavian legends repeat Vedic stories.
Is the mainland equal to the island and who is the mainland?
Skandan legends Haplogroup I1, Germanic tribes R1b
Is German Gott equal to English God?
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German
The river as the border between the world of the living and the dead.
Scandinavian stories
The Huhl River. After the death of the god of spring, the son of Odin descended after him into the kingdom of the dead and came to this river. Ambassador Hermat is the son of Odin.
Veda
"A person who is born into a responsible family - such as a kṣatriya, a member of royalty or a government servant - but who neglects to execute his prescribed duties according to religious principles, and who thus becomes degraded, falls down at the time of death into the river of hell known as Vaitaraṇī. This river, which is a moat surrounding hell, is full of ferocious aquatic animals. When a sinful man is thrown into the river Vaitaraṇī, the aquatic animals there immediately begin to eat him, but because of his extremely sinful life, he does not leave his body. He constantly remembers his sinful activities and suffers terribly in that river, which is full of stool, urine, pus, blood, hair, nails, bones, marrow, flesh and fat."(Srimad Bhagavatam 5,26,22).
In other sources, this river is known as Leta and Styx.
Saturn is Shani has two messengers of the ravens.
The ravens Huginn and Muninn are well associated with the Quranic messengers of warning Gog and Magog.
Know I am late but I have a question.
So at first it were 3 goddesses that were called Morrigan and later were turned into one, or was it kinda Hecate deal where 3 goddesses can merge into one goddess? Or it all depends on the source and story?
Interesting ... *TY Fortress of Lugh* 👍👍👍👍👍
Captivating, and stunning images!
Do you think that maybe the Northern Scottish Druids could have invoked the Morogon against the Roman's?
The Roman's only tried 123 times to take over. They some how lost their way.
19:34 RE safe room music right? Ya got me
Glory and honor to Morrigan Our Lady.
I think I more than like the video! Thank you 😊✌️
You know what's funny, my aunt's name is Lamia', well it's a supposed Arab name. My other aunt's name is Maha or Mache, in Arabic it translates to the female of the deer, or doe. I used to call them succubi behind their backs. Guess I wasn't too far off, lol.
I live close to Baduhenna grove, a place dedicated to a Frisian goddess likely similar to Badb.
Cernunnos . The horned one.. green man. Carved everywhere.
I have red hair and red eyes that shift red into black in times that call for strength of intention or sickness of body or Soul. It was my frightened mother who explained her fear being a witness to the reddened overtaken by the blackness an exact match of lashes and brows. Cue Twilight Zone musical theme. lol. Thank you for your work!
I get this.... i think... but i already KNOW- i never think
I've never actually heard someone say my name properly, I'm surprised that the 'I' is so quiet. I knew Morrigan was a goddess but I was NOT ready to hear about how much of a monster she was haha I think I'll leave that part out at parties
Kind of gives a bit of context to the "triple sacrifice" of kings believed to have been preformed in Celtic culture. Maybe each ritual was meant to appease a different aspect of the whole?
She is very connected with Hecate / Hekate.
Excellent video!