Spring Clean 2021 - Totally historically accurate fantasy Celtic army
Review: The Celtic Myths - Chapter 2
This chapter mainly focused on how oral tradition eventually gave away to written myths. The Christian monks that wrote down the stories were motivated to either adapt the stories to promote Christian ideals, or as a way of mocking old Pagan beliefs. This led to the myths being changed subtly, but never the less the written stories are all we have to go on.
There were a couple of things that came up in this chapter that were interesting. Above you can see an illustration of an encounter with a siren, which looks very much like me to a mermaid. Another nugget of information is that creatures from the Otherworld are often depicted with either red or red and white colouration. This should be useful to know if I decide to paint up a creature from the Otherworld.
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