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"Beauty is a fearful and terrible thing!...The terrible thing is that beauty is not only fearful but also mysterious. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Songbattling: The Logistics (opens the original)
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THIS IS A COLLECTION OF THIS TOPIC’S NOTES. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ IT IF YOU ALREADY READ THE NOTES, I AM MERELY COLLECTING THEM AND PUTTING THEM IN THE ARCIVES IN AN EASY TO REACH PLACE FOR POSTERITY. (BUT ALSO FOR MY OWN SANITY.)You guys remember that my world is made of song, right?(That was a while ago but here we are)<input class="button primar
Irish Essay - Part 9 (opens the original)
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(Disclaimer: it only looks long because of the Bibliography lol)The Dream of OengusI have a Penguin edition collection of selected myths, translated into English, containing the Dream of Oengus[1]. This myth in particular is among my personal favorites because it is a love story that handles the topic, not with devouring passion, but with a delicacy I was not expecting.A summary of the plot is as follows: Oengus, the god of love, falls in love with this woman who came to him in a dream an
Irish Essay - Part 8 (opens the original)
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SECTION 5: Ancient Myths (As Recorded by Monks)All that being said, it is time we turn to the primary sources themselves. English translations were very hard to find and had I the ability, I would have simply read the original Irish. However, I did find a couple reputable translations into which I shall go into detail. The mythology itself comes across less narrative like the Odessey and more like a historical account, or a druidic recitation. There seems to be less poetic exaggeration in the de
Irish Essay - Part 7 (opens the original)
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SECTION 4: Dealing with Missing Lore (and How to Read Between it)Some cultures wrote down lore for themselves, by themselves, such as the Greeks and Romans. However, the Celts leave us in a different situation. The Celts wrote down nothing for themselves, trusting their entire body of lore to a class of bards[1]. The druids considered writing things down the first step in forgetting[2]. Knowledge was not something to be written down, as anything on paper a
Irish Essay - Part 6 (opens the original)
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Courage was the main virtue of their cultureThis permeates every source I have found. Heroism is deeply tied to reputation, where many warriors have met either good fortune or, more likely, ill fate at the hands of what Dougherty calls ‘bardic satire’ (basically mock threatening to call them a coward) of whoever was intending to encourage the warrior in question to do better because he was slipping—or to exact some kind of vengeance[1]. This tactic was also used to depose various chieftains the
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