I know this isn't weird, but this 'Treasure Island' illustration by Mervyn Peake is so brilliant and so evocative of travelling into adventure, I'm going to tag it #WyrdWednesday anyway.#MervynPeake #illustration #artsky
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#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `At the time the Fomor used to be coming to Ireland, Balor of the Strong Blows, or, as some called him, of the Evil Eye, was living on the Island of the Tower of Glass. There was danger for ships that went near that island, for the Fomor would come out and take them. And some say the sons of Nemed in the old time, before the Firbolgs were in Ireland, passed near it in their ships, and what they saw was a tower of glass in the middle of the sea, and on the tower something that had the appearance of men, and they went against it with Druid spells to attack it. And the Fomor worked against them with Druid spells of their own; and the sons of Nemed attacked the tower, and it vanished, and they thought it was destroyed. But a great wave rose over them then, and all their ships went down and all that were in them.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Dagon was the father of the gods in ancient Syria, as well as a god of fertility, prosperity, and kingship. Because his name sounds similar to the Hebrew word for "fish," Dagon is mistakenly called a sea god in medieval texts, and gets reinvented as a fish-like demon.
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#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `Train claims the glashtin to be a water-horse, and that this sea-glashtin would at one time emerge from his marine habitat, mingling with the local land-roving ponies, and cross breed to produce foal.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn
