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A little bit 🦉 about 🦉the 🦉word “owl”🦉 Some words it seems, begin through what is called “imitative origin.” In the case of “owl,” our ancestors named them after the sounds they heard them make. It seems the Germanics evolved their words mostly from the *who* sound; while Italo-Celts did it from *caw* and *who* Celtic: ☘️🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇲 PIE: *kaw 🦉 Proto-Celtic: *kawannos (see Latin cavannus) Gaulish: *cauannos Scottish: comhachag [kõ.exag] You also have comhachag-ruan, and comachag-donn (tawny owl or brown owl) Comhachag-adharach and comhachag-chluasacg (long eared owl and short eared owl) Welsh: cuan Cornish: kowan Old Breton: couann Modern Breton: kaouenn These seem to be the Celtic *caw* names, while others seemed to derive from *who:* Irish: ulchabhán (ul-ha-wan)  Ulchabhán donn (tawny or brown owl) Ulchabhán réisc (short-eared owl) Old Irish: Ulchobcán  Scottish: Ullaid  Ullaid-sgrech (barn owl) Manx: hullad (and various iterations of this for different species, ex. hullad eairkagh or long-eared owl) hullad vane or hullad soailt (barn owl hullad ghoan (tawny/brown owl) Cornish: oula or ula ula gwynn (barn owl) ula kernek (long-eared owl) ula gwenn (short-eared owl) Fascinatingly enough, it seems that the Gaels must have associated The Callieach, the goddess of storms and winter, the Hag of Herbs, with owls—as barn owls are also known as callieach oíche, and tawny owls Callieach-oidhche, while the Manx called barn owls calliagh oie (all of which mean “night crone” or “night witch.”) Identification with other animals also happens with Irish ceann cait and Manx, kione kyit (Both translate roughly to “cat head”) 🐈‍⬛🐱 Germanic: 🇩🇪🇫🇴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇳🇱 (Apparently from imitative origin *who-who, I am unable to find a PIE root) Proto-Germanic: *uwwô *uwwalō, *uwwalon Proto-West-Germanic: *hūwuk Old English: *hū, ūle, *hūle Old Saxon: hūwo, hūo Middle Low German: hûk, hûke Old High German: hūwo, hūwila (☝️🤓) hûke German: Eule Schleiereule (barn owl), Schneeeule (snowy owl), Uhu (eagle owl), Sumpfohreule (short-eared owl) Dutch: uil  kerkuil (barn owl) Frisian: ûle Old Norse: ugla Icelandic: ugla Faroese: ugla, ugli, úla Norwegian and Danish: ugle Swedish: uggla I do not claim this list to be by any means exhaustive or free from inaccuracies—if you know of any local/regional names for owls or specific owl species in a Celtic/Germanic language, let me know! If you speak a language that is something other than a Celtic or Germanic language and you know your language’s “owl etymology,” please do share, I love learning new words. 1. An Callieach (John Duncan - Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend) 2.Tawny owl (Strix aluco) 3. Barred owl (an American cousin of the European tawny owl, Strix varia) 4. Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) 5. Long-eared owl (Asio otus) 6. Barn owl (Tyto alba) 7. Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) - Huwila 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

A kenning for Odin used by Egill Skallagrímsson in Sonatorrek was vagna rúni; friend of the wagon. Grimm recorded that a 15th Century Dutch term for the Big Dipper was Woenswaghen, derived from Woden, along with Irminswagen in Lower Saxony. An Old English term was wænes þísl, wagon pole. 卐

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A little bit 🦉 about 🦉the 🦉word “owl”🦉 Some words it seems, begin through what is called “imitative origin.” In the case of “owl,” our ancestors named them after the sounds they heard them make. It seems the Germanics evolved their words mostly from the *who* sound; while Italo-Celts did it from *caw* and *who* Celtic: ☘️🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇲 PIE: *kaw 🦉 Proto-Celtic: *kawannos (see Latin cavannus) Gaulish: *cauannos Scottish: comhachag [kõ.exag] You also have comhachag-ruan, and comachag-donn (tawny owl or brown owl) Comhachag-adharach and comhachag-chluasacg (long eared owl and short eared owl) Welsh: cuan Cornish: kowan Old Breton: couann Modern Breton: kaouenn These seem to be the Celtic *caw* names, while others seemed to derive from *who:* Irish: ulchabhán (ul-ha-wan)  Ulchabhán donn (tawny or brown owl) Ulchabhán réisc (short-eared owl) Old Irish: Ulchobcán  Scottish: Ullaid  Ullaid-sgrech (barn owl) Manx: hullad (and various iterations of this for different species, ex. hullad eairkagh or long-eared owl) hullad vane or hullad soailt (barn owl hullad ghoan (tawny/brown owl) Cornish: oula or ula ula gwynn (barn owl) ula kernek (long-eared owl) ula gwenn (short-eared owl) Fascinatingly enough, it seems that the Gaels must have associated The Callieach, the goddess of storms and winter, the Hag of Herbs, with owls—as barn owls are also known as callieach oíche, and tawny owls Callieach-oidhche, while the Manx called barn owls calliagh oie (all of which mean “night crone” or “night witch.”) Identification with other animals also happens with Irish ceann cait and Manx, kione kyit (Both translate roughly to “cat head”) 🐈‍⬛🐱 Germanic: 🇩🇪🇫🇴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇳🇱 (Apparently from imitative origin *who-who, I am unable to find a PIE root) Proto-Germanic: *uwwô *uwwalō, *uwwalon Proto-West-Germanic: *hūwuk Old English: *hū, ūle, *hūle Old Saxon: hūwo, hūo Middle Low German: hûk, hûke Old High German: hūwo, hūwila (☝️🤓) hûke German: Eule Schleiereule (barn owl), Schneeeule (snowy owl), Uhu (eagle owl), Sumpfohreule (short-eared owl) Dutch: uil  kerkuil (barn owl) Frisian: ûle Old Norse: ugla Icelandic: ugla Faroese: ugla, ugli, úla Norwegian and Danish: ugle Swedish: uggla I do not claim this list to be by any means exhaustive or free from inaccuracies—if you know of any local/regional names for owls or specific owl species in a Celtic/Germanic language, let me know! If you speak a language that is something other than a Celtic or Germanic language and you know your language’s “owl etymology,” please do share, I love learning new words. 1. An Callieach (John Duncan - Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend) 2.Tawny owl (Strix aluco) 3. Barred owl (an American cousin of the European tawny owl, Strix varia) 4. Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) 5. Long-eared owl (Asio otus) 6. Barn owl (Tyto alba) 7. Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) - Huwila 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

In Confessio, Saint Patrick didn’t mince words. He proclaimed the Christian holy book as the true word of God, denouncing the druids’ texts as not only false but dangerously unholy. Corc, a revered Irish druid, was outraged by this bold accusation. He defended the sanctity of the druids’ knowledge, earned only through at least a minimum of seven years of dedicated study and discipline. Incensed, he challenged Patrick, determined to prove the purity of the druidic faith. Patrick accepted with a glint in his eye. Knowing how deeply the druids revered water as a bridge to the spirit world, he proposed a trial by water. “We’ll place our sacred books in a barrel,” he declared (though some say it was a river). “The holiest book will float, upheld by its truth. The unholy will sink.” Confident in his gods, Corc lowered his dense, and heavy volume into the water, whispering a prayer to the spirits. Patrick placed his book beside it and stepped back. Within seconds, Corc’s book plummeted to the bottom like a stone, while Patrick’s floated serenely atop the water’s surface. Gasps rippled through the crowd. Patrick turned to them, seizing the moment. “Behold!” he declared. “The power of the Christian God, the one true God, who has lifted His word and proven it pure. And look-your own text has sunk, abandoned by the Pagan Gods.” A silence settled over the people as Corc, pale with disbelief, lifted Patrick’s book, inspecting it closely. It was thinner, yes, but solid and substantial enough to sink, just as his own should have. It was then that Patrick, his gaze sly and triumphant, dried off his book-a book not bound in ordinary wood, leather or heavy slate like Corc’s, but in a material the Pagans hadn’t considered: cork. But weren’t we always taught that the Irish Pagans couldn’t read or write, that they were illiterate? Yet Corc held a thick, heavy volume—filled with years of druidic knowledge, far greater in depth than Patrick’s holy book..

Krampus, Wild Lord of the Alps In the Wilds there is no Good nor Evil. There is Strength and Cunning, Brutality and Kindness, Liberty and Passion, Fervor and Abundance. There is only Life or Death... and all of these things have their God, The Lord of the Wilds, Krampus the Wild Man of the Alps. Sometimes he is horned. Sometimes he is not. Sometimes he is red or black, white or piebald, his face ferocious and sturdy as the mighty Wood. His body shaggy with a pelt thick to withstand the blistering chill of his mountain home. At times he is horned as the Ibex, at times he is not. Sometimes he is draped in moss other times he is as proud and naked as the bear. But always... always he is watching and he will come. THEY will all come. The God Krampus leading his host of spirits through the mountain passes, down the winding roads, across the cottage roofs, birch switch in his hand and basket astride his back he comes to witness and to revel with the many ghosts both alive and dead. He is there to punish. And to reward. The ashen ghosts of the long dead riding along beside him, the hanger on of Sinterklaas newly added and fitting in as best he can with his new shaggy beard. He runs through the streets greeting the kids and chastising or praising the adults, ruffling hair and roughing finery, tired of the pomp and circumstance, the overgroomed and duplicitous. For he is the God of the Wilds, he has no use for the Domesticated save as dinner and dessert. For his people he brings the conception of children, he finds lovers amidst the women and pairs others who show courage and strength. He gifts fertile fields in the shadow of his mountains. Joyous battles shall occur between Krampus and man, Krampus and Krampus. The wonderful, ecstatic festivities draw to a close, his gifts given, he takes his ghosts and his spirits back to the mountains, until next year hoping they did not forget the lessons he gave and cherishing memories he made. -I.M.Knosp Happy Krampusnacht! 🍄Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)🌲

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