Cultural Holidays the establishment likes to replace.

Well Groundhog day is apparently based in Imbolc.



An Ireland calendar should still have one of the native names for it.


This is from the book, A Druid's Herbal Of Sacred Tree Medicine, by Ellen Evert Hopman and it goes really in-depth with the original cultural details and legends. Another authentic Celtic writer is Ly De Angeles. Yes, I realize both their last names don't seem very Celtic. I can't really name any other authentic authors. Some others are at least interesting though not to be given as much credibility as I've spotted crap that's flat out wrong or just made up out of the finest grade A bullshit.


I suppose since we have such a proportion of Slavs here, I should come up with some of that stuff, though even though I'm part Slavic myself I have much less knowledge and books in that area.


So anyway, don't go molesting any serpents today.

Oh, and Ly De Angeles is absolutely a made up name. Translation one would be Lyde (lady) of the Angels. Translation two would be Ly de (lies of) the Anglos (English). Pretty funny, but always remember there is a Scottish industrial complex that revolves around selling bullshit to gullible Americans.

Also, that translation of the Gaelic is pretty suspect... if such a poem does exist in the oral tradition (press X to doubt), then the fact that it's talking about virgin brides and suspiciously (content removed)-like snakes ought to give the game away.

Hardly black-pilled. But if you're gonna go waltzing through the 18th and 19th centaury teuchter scene, then it helps to be aware that all teuchters are liars.

The closest modern version of this phenomenon I can think of is the failed Irish literature revolution at the start of the 20th centaury: Irish ex-pats & IRA wannabes were really agitating against the British state, and the university tweed-types needed to get in on that action. They noted that Ireland had no history, no legends to speak of - there was no Irish Iliad, no Beowulf, because Gaelic never got written down. There is a bunch of shit about Cullach / Cú Chulainn, but those are mostly redressed legends from abroad (we wuz Hercules, &c) and are fairly obviously so. England has the same problem (Arthurian legend is French - thank Willie the Conqueror for that). And so does Scotland.

Basically, legends got lost as the languages were replaced, and we got colonized by a people in the process of being colonized. We still have *no* idea about what the original Picts thought about things (Gaelic is Irish, not Scots - it was restricted to the west coast, and the idea that it's somehow the True & Original Scots language is exactly the sort of lies I'm on about here). Anyway, a bunch of Irish nerds decided to get together and form a literary movement to address this lack of legend - they would "miraculously" discover ancient super-secret Irish texts and translate them for general dissemination.

Turns out that the Ancient Irish hated the English, coincidently. And so fake history turned into propaganda in the space of about a year and a half.

Anyway, that whole shitshow eventually turned into modernism, because the intellectuals rebelled against what was a fundamentally dishonest way of doing things (it's no coincidence that James Joyce went on to write Ulysses, which is at least a more honestly come-by Irish version of the Iliad), and it wouldn't be until Tolkien finally pulled his finger out that the entire genre of fake reinvented legends & folklore would become anything other than semi-inspired claptrap.

The Scots *had* played with certain similar ideas before: Walter Scott's romances, but again, those are mostly retellings of French bumfuckery moved into a Highland setting, and Walter Scott was the most English Scotsman who ever lived. Away from the intellectual / university scene you have gypsies and teuchters, who claim that their songs and stories have been passed down through 160 generations, but in reality came mostly out of the glasgow gin-houses last thursday.

So, if all that shit is made up, what else do we have? Burns did not write Auld Lang Syne - his contribution was actually writing old laland shit down for the first time ever, his importance is as much as an archivist as it is a poet. Some of the stuff he collated is definitely 15th centaury, but that's still not the deep history these Gaelic dipshits claim to. As for your example, of how Scottish folklore about snakes was passed down through 160 generations until it hit the Americas and somehow became about groundhogs is definitely bullshit. There are ZERO stories in Scotland about snakes, we never see the little fuckers unless they are biting unspecified cocks in some unspecified heather field to some unspecified uncle who is mostly found in a Glasgow gin-house. You *might* come across an animal fable featuring a snake (I, personally, have not), but it's unlikely, as all those were written by bored monks a hundred years before Burns, who sensibly kept very very far away from anything even remotely resembling heresy, and fucking snakes and fucking apple trees are very much included in the You'll Burn For This McTavish school of biblical literature. You see a snake anywhere from this time period, it's the fucking Devil, no exceptions.

So, where the fuck have the snakes come from, because they ain't Scottish? Viking stories sound likely - Ragnar getting thrown into a pit of snakes comes to mind, but that sounds like a Christian addendum to the fucking Ragnar story as well. And *that* definitely can happen - I've come across a 15th centaury Scots version of the LOL LMAO scorpion + toad story written by a bored monk, and that is fairly fucking weird, because Scotland doesn't have fucking scorpions either, but blah blah the moral of the story is Jesus loves you and fuck scorpions.

Christ I'm rambling now... but yeah. Your gaelic snake poem is written in modern gaelic with modern punctuation. I'd be willing to bet it's written in Irish Gaelic rather than Scots, and the fact that there are snakes in it (see: St. Paddy) suggests to me it would be from the 20th centaury Irish School of Bullshit. There are no druids in Scotland because we never had any: religion and bullshit come from the desert - thinking about the mysteries of the cosmos means not freezing to death in the pishing rain and getting eaten alive by midges, which is a more Scottish thing. And religion and bullshit also come from the universities, which is pretty much the same deal, only fatter.

All of the above said, there is nothing wrong with reading all of the mad made-up history shit you can get your hands on Looked at through the correct lens, they are a fascinating snapshot of post-colonial orphaned societies trying to deal with the fact nobody knows fucking nothing.

England included. England especially.

Disagree with dn. Sounds like scottish sour grapes to me 😉

For example both the "Lebor Gabála Érenn" and "Táin Bó Cúailnge" are from at least the 12 century, so a bit hard to blame on 20th century Irish literary shennanigans.
Though I admit there are legends which do seem to be exactly what dn describes.
Guess it depends on what myths we're talking about.