The individual occupations of the male deities are mostly divine versions of the occupations of men, and the occupations of the goddesses similarly correspond to those of women, with a few exceptions. Greek and Roman women did not engage in hunting as a sport, an activity that was proper to males, yet the goddess Artemis roams the wilderness as a huntress. Real Greek and Roman women did not act as soldiers, yet Athena is a goddess of war. Although women did not serve as heralds, the goddess Iris is one of the gods’ messengers. In these cases female deities specialize in activities in which human females did not participate.

William F. Hansen
A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans

Seal impression of king Llywellyn the Great, son of Iorwerth of Gwynedd (1195-1240). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 From a charter dated 25 November 1209, in which the king granted land to the monks of Strata Marcella in Powys, Wales. The king is shown as an armored knight charging into battle.

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"Fortress of Lugh" by Ire (2022)

Book of Kells

Northumbria during its golden age was the most important centre of learning and arts in Britain. Initially the kingdom was evangelised by Irish monks whose centre was Iona in the Inner Hebrides. This led to a flowering of monastic life. Lindisfarne was founded from Iona by St Aidan approx 635, and was to remain the major Northumbrian monastic centre, producing figures like Wilfrid and Snt Cuthbert. The nobleman Benedict Biscop visited Rome and headed the monastery at Canterbury in Kent and his twin-foundation Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey added a direct Roman influence to Northumbrian culture, and produced figures such as Ceolfrith and Bede. Northumbria played a key role in the formation of Insular art, a unique style combining Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Pictish, Byzantine and other elements, producing works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, St Cuthbert Gospel, the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, and later the Book of Kells, which was probably created at Iona.


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On the windswept plains of Sardinia, this carved stele stands as a sentinel of the prehistoric sacred spring of Santa Cristina, dating back to the Nuragic era around 1200 BCE. It marks a site where water was revered as a divine source of life and renewal.

The surface of the stone is adorned with spirals, concentric circles, and geometric motifs, symbols believed to represent cosmic cycles, the sun, and the eternal flow of water. Below, a small channel still carries the trickle of ancient springs, as if connecting past rituals to the living earth of today.

Its presence feels both earthly and celestial, as though it speaks the language of time itself. How many prayers, whispered under stormy skies or golden sunsets, have risen from this place to the gods of water and stone?

Happy Lughnasadh day, day to celebrate the God Lugh

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

– C.G. Jung, “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”

The Hilton of Cadboll stone, Pictish ~80AD, originally located on the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland