Mitologías del Mundo | Huellas del Pasado

Tír na nÓg: The Land of Eternal Youth

In Irish mythology, Tír na nÓg literally means “the land of the young.” It is not an ordinary place, nor...

There was a place spoken of in ancient tales. It was not exactly an island… nor entirely a realm. It was something in between.

El tiempo cíclico en la mitología celta es una de las claves para comprender su visión del mundo. No se

Unlike other mythologies, in Celtic tradition the access to the Otherworld was not reserved to a single place or a single moment

Unlike other mythologies, the Otherworld is not presented as a single defined place. There is no

The mythical invasions of Ireland do not describe a single origin, but rather a succession of arrivals that shaped the Celtic world.

Unlike other ancient traditions, Celtic mythology does not describe a creation of the universe, but a reality divided between

In Norse mythology, even the gods have an end. Yet Ragnarök is not merely the end of the world. It is the collapse of order...

Muspelheim is the world of primordial fire, one of the most ancient realities of the Norse cosmos. It is a

Helheim is the world world to which those who did not die in glorious battle are destined. It does not represent a hell of moral punishment