http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda That's the world from my perspective - with a free weblog from blogigo. en thedagda thedagda Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:35 +0200 daily 1 Dagda, the senior God of the Irish pantheon The Tuatha de Danaans has returned to blogging after a crisis in the home of the gods, Hyperboria. Dagda's name means The Good and as evreryone knows God is the old spelling of good so Dagda is the only divine being who can truly claim the name God. And he's Irish...  Jaysus, has it been so long since I was here... To be honest things have been a bit hectic in Hyperboria where us God's live, what with all this climate change and Jehovah, who is not one of us, I say again JEHOVAH IS NOT A GOD, anyway he had a nervous breakdown and went crazy in the weather systems control room. Turned up the heat in the polar regions, the silly fecker. The mammy, Dana, Great Mother of All Things tried to calm him down but he kept ranting "youse are false gods, youse don't exist." Now this was pushing it a bit because everybody knows Dana is not the most patient of divine mothers so before long she's smacked... Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:35 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Return-of-Dagda/29/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Return-of-Dagda/29/ Well I had a really funny post lined up for my comeback. But this tosspot of a text editor will not let me paste from my Word document even though there is a special button for just that. Have they not heard of the Dagda, the top God of the ancient Irish pantheon? Do they not know what I'm capable of? Have they no fecking sense. There's an old saying in England, Scotland and Wales. "DON'T FUCK WITH THE IRISH." I'll be back. Dagda. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:36:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Dagda-s-Back./28/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Dagda-s-Back./28/ I tell you, us Gods have supped some stuff since the spring Equinox. We have hardly been sober. So no blogging because it all comes out like klhfgdsdgh ljhfk dufffijh dunsh. Which makes sense to us but not you. Just so you keep us in mind until Niamh of the Yellow Hair manages to stop danging, put her tits away and write her contribution, we suggest you get in on the celebrations by checking out The Making And Unmaking Dance Back soon with Niamh's blog and some advice from Dagda on offerings. Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:24:43 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Summer-Solstice/27/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Summer-Solstice/27/   America does not really get the World Cup. The fact that Americans insist on calling football "soccer" is probably a lot to do with that. Football is a man's game where to kick the BALL with your FOOT. Geddit. OK, there aree some instances where players have kicked an opponents balls with their foot. Such behaviour is regrettable, but these things happen. Its a funny old game. One of the great things about the world cup finals which happen every four years is the utterly silly songs that are issued to raise morale. Europeans long ago discovered that as Brazil win nearly every time the best way to raise morale is by habing a laugh. So the songs get silier and sillier. As America does not really do silly the Gods of the Tuatha de Danaans have taken pity on them. To help Americans join in the spirit of The World Cup we have revanpred an old Engl;and supporters song. Find the lyrics and links to an audio and a video download at Vindaloo on Gather.com Find out more about America's... Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:51:39 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/A-Song-For-The-World-Cup/26/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/A-Song-For-The-World-Cup/26/ No matter what your religion or spiritual leaning, poetry has the power to move us all. Our friend Robin Ouzman Hislop has just taken over the editorship of the UK's formost poetry e-zine, Poetry Life and times, and his first edition his the web this week. Check it out, and if you are a closet poet maybe you will consider submitting some of your work for consideration. Robin may be a pagan like us ancient gods but the only criterium for inclusion in the mag is quality. Quality is measured by skilful use of language and metre, by imagery, style and success in commicating ideas. So if you think you are good enough why not have a go. Poetry Life and Times Fri, 05 May 2006 18:44:05 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Poetry-Life-and-Times/25/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Poetry-Life-and-Times/25/ Today, May 1st, is one of the greayest festivals of the year for followers of the Tuatha de Danaans, so of course we are all totally off our divine faces on the rare ould stuff and not fit to write any sort of entry. You might like to teleport (its a god thing) over to Authors Den and check out Fires of Love, Ian Thorpes wonderful Beltane poem with a full write up on the significance of the festival and its purification and fertility rites. Fires of Love  at Authors Den Mon, 01 May 2006 18:00:22 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Fires-of-Love/24/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Fires-of-Love/24/ The Divine Will and Trevor the Ostrich (by Herne the Hunter, god of the wilderness) Some folk keep insisting that the gods created everything; well in fact they keep insisting that one particular very young and rather immature god created everything. The truth is he only ever created bad feeling between his followers and everybody else. Now I am a very old God, not as old as my old buddy The Ancient of Days who woke up one morning and said "I AM" and has never said anything else since. He really so very very old even he does not remember how old he is, listen Hey Ancient old chap, are you the oldest thing in the Universe? AoD: I AM See what I mean, all he ever says is I am, that's because when he was at school there was no knowledge, there was actually nothing to know. By the time I came along, about the same time as Dana, Great Mother of All Things there was stuff it was essential to know like how to hit a wolf with a stick or that hitting a woolly rhinoceros with a stick is pointless so... Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:13:42 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Divine-Will-and-Trevor-the-Ostrich/23/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Divine-Will-and-Trevor-the-Ostrich/23/ War In The Hall Of The Gods: Dagda here. We are having some trouble in the hall of the Gods. We quite like the idea of having a blog but John, our mortal computer operator hates the Blogigo text editor. He's a smart lad at HTML you see and so he likes to insert preformatted item as he does at Blogger. So while we are sorting it out and deciding whether to move to another host or just destry the Uinverse here are a few snippets to amuse and provoke. This first item comes from the blog of Sara Coslett  at Authors Den. She writes: *** Please Spread This Poll All Over The Internet -- Especially to News Media so They can see that it is Now Alright to Tell The TRUTH About the Bush Crime Family. That they seemed to have started doing on Thursday about the Bush / Cheney Responsibility for the Plame leaks ! Follow this link to add your opinion to the poll: Poll: Should Bush be in jail On a lighter note, you can read some of those whacky Bushisms at Very Random Blog  We are always... Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:57:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/War-In-The-Hall-Of-The-Gods/22/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/War-In-The-Hall-Of-The-Gods/22/ Stupid Evolution - The Gulper Eel by Dylan, God of the Depths SFX: Sound of thunder and waves crashing against rocks. Music plays portentous chords. Voiceoverman: And now, direct from the abyssal plain we bring you the God of the Ocean depths. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeers Dylan. Music changes to "Times they are a changing." Cut! Cut the music! Alright, who stole my fish. I know it was a Christian because you guys use it for a car sticker. If you want to know I find that demeaning. For thousands of years the fish was a symbol of my awesome power and you use it for a car sticker. Would you take the cross of Trismegistos and use it to symbolise torture and death......? Oh, you do. Well keep the fish then but don't go crying to Dana if I decide to make the waters rise and flood your most valuable real estate. I'm Dylan by the way, God of the ocean depths. There are lots of sea gods of course; there's Mananaan, God of the waves. He deals with the surface, to be honest he's a bit flashy, all front and no... Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:42:01 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Stupid-Evolution/21/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Stupid-Evolution/21/ Ah, howyiz? Its Dana, Great Mother of All Things. I suppose its been a while for youse but ye see as de Bible (cough-spit) says in 2Peter3 verse 8 to a god a thousand years is as a day. So if youse have been hanging round waiting, tough. To be honest we have been having a bit of trouble. John who works the computer for us went down wit' the flu an' is only just back on his feet. So Dagda says what can be hard about workin' a computer and if a mortal can do it so can he. But being beings of pure energy, us gods don't have de fingers to work dat little mousie thing and press de buttons. So yer man Dagda, great lummox dat he is, hits it wit' a blast o' pure energy and fecked de seepeeoo t'ing. But I promised I would be back and talk to yez about the names of Gods. And so I will. Now youse have a problem wit' dis, because Jehovah tells his followers "my moniker is Jehova and ifn yez ever says dat out loud I will smite yez." Eejit. But you see what I mean, youse are all mucks tip about de rules now. ... Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:28:14 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Holy-and-Uspeakable-Name/20/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Holy-and-Uspeakable-Name/20/ Huh? Wha? Oh, howyiz? Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh my feckin' head. That was some party alright. Y'know sometimes I wish there was a higher deity than me, just so I could curse him from here to next year for creating hangovers. Ah, careful now before you jump in and tell me there is only one god and he's eternal. Well there are older gods of course, there's Dana, the Mammy for a start, but she did not invent hangovers, in fact she's suffering too at the moment having been at the rare ould stuff for the best part of a month. And even oulder than her is Himself, The Ancient of Days. Himself is so ould he was already senile in the heid when Mammy was a little girl. All she's ever heard him say in two billion years is "I am." Won't you look at him now, being spoonfed a bit of broth by Niamh* of the Golden Hair, a real little cutie (don't you think she looks a bit like Ghost Girl?) the ould looby is dribbling half of it down his ganzie. Hey, listen to this: Hey, ancient of days, are you alright there? (AoD) I am. ... Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:07:26 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/About-The-Ancient-of-Days-by-Dagda/19/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/About-The-Ancient-of-Days-by-Dagda/19/ Not feeling festive? Need a laugh? Visit the Boggart Or are you feeling guilty about stuffing yourself and getting rat-arsed drunk because of all those Christiany messages about the real meaning of Christmas. Pour a drink, get yoiurself some tasty snacks and read Machiavelli on the true meaning of Christmas. And have a really good New Year. Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:04:05 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Dagda-says/18/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/The-Dagda-says/18/ The Winter Solstice and all us pagan Gods are partying it up on our big night of the winter festival. We don't like to leave you out of course so can we suggest a celebration of Santa Lucia as they do in Sweden (very pagan place - we like Sweden) People walk around the streets carrying lanterns and singing seasonal songs and the folk who have stayed at home bring out cups of glugg or mulled wine. Its quite a night. Another Solstice tradition is telling ghost stories. You will find a good one, written in the style of Scotsman William McGonagall, the worst poet ever published in the English language by following this link The Headless Horseman Don't be put off by the fact that McGonagall is bad. Sometyimes bad is very good and the writer responsible for this pastiche has a nice touch with humour. SOLSTICE SOLICITATIONS TO YOU ALL (AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS IF YOU ARE THAT WAY INCLINED) Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:32:37 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Solstice-Night/17/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Solstice-Night/17/ . Good Morning class........ my name JAMRYN is Prof. Ogma, not "Hi Oggy." Now I know you were hoping Dana would be back today, well as one or two of you had problems with her accent Dagda asked me to take this class and help you out. GHOSTGIRL, are you chewing gum? Put it in the bin....oh well, it will pass through in a day or two. Now, older Irish people such as Dana who, you must always remember is seven hundred thousand years old; older Irish people as I said, and gods or goddesses too often have difficulty pronouncing the "th" sound. This is because the letter "h" was not used AS A CONSONANT in the ancient Irish alphabet. wHAT IS A CONSONANT ANYONE?????......no? a CONSONANT is any phoneme that does not form the peak of a syllable, con, together; son, sound; a letter that has to be used with something else, namely a vowel. Yeees Cathead, we know French Letters are most effective with a spermicide, but that does not make them consonants. Thank you for your input. WAKE UP APATHETIC,... Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:16:27 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/OGMA-the-god-of-learning/16/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/OGMA-the-god-of-learning/16/ Laydeez and Gennelmen - Dagda proudly presents his Mammy, Dana - Great Mothjer Of All Things and senior deity of the Celtic pantheon. Ah shutup ye little gobshite... Hello, I'm Dana, Great Mother of All T'ings and supreme deity in the Celtic pant'eon. No need te git down on yer knees, us Irish Gods don't stand on ceremony. Now I'm just filling in for my boy Dagda while he's so busy and all, see his wife, Boyne, - she's only a demigod, sort of like de Virgin Mary only married proper. I am a single mother meself, but I made my boy do the right t'ing, I sez if you've stuck one in the oven meladdie, you'll fecking well stand by that girl and do the right t'ing. But even if wer gave her immortality, she's not really part o' the family business. Anyways, I notice some of yez have been bad mout'in Dagda and sayin' he's not a proper God and all, bunch o' gobshites that ye are. Not you Jamiryn, even if you did call him pussy arse. (Now its true he has a bit of a hairy ould arse on him an' if you painted a... Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:27:57 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Great-Mother-Of-All-Things/15/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Great-Mother-Of-All-Things/15/ Just before I introduce the Mammy I want to mention something that's been bothering me. Perhaps some of you mortals can help me out. Why is it, do you think, that so many terrorsts, tyrants, barm pots, nutters, mass killers and raving maniacs think I'm their kind of guy. I mean, I'm all knowing etc. but that one really has me banjaxed. Its just not logical. Do you think maybe there's another God they are mistaking me for? best, Dagda Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:34:17 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/I-ve-been-wondering/14/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/I-ve-been-wondering/14/ I'm back. Things have really been getting quite hot while I have been busy with geophysical events. Anyway I hope the stitching I did on the seismic fault that runs from Kashmir down to New Guinea holds for a few thousand years because I have to stop youse guys doing things that are making the permafrost melt in Siberia, Alaska and Northern Canada. First of all thanks to Ghost Girl and Shellbug for their support, but please ladies, don't get involved. Critics of My blog might feel a need to defend their God because he's a wuss, but I can look after myself. You can both feel very good about yourselves for being such a pair of angels though. Yes that's a big thing we have over the Christians, my followers are allowed to give themselves a pat on the back - those poor buggers are guilty of something whatever they do. There's no self abasement with Dagda. Hey that's not bad, we could use it as a marketing slogan. Don't let the evangelicals grab ya, theres no self abasement with The Dagda. Ace! How do I feel... Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:20:32 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/A-message-for-all-readers/13/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/A-message-for-all-readers/13/ Oh dear what a kerfuffle. I'm sorry I have been away so long (in your terms that is) but when you are eternal its easy to lose track of time. I'll be back very soon to explain a few things and to introduce my family who have said they are willing to help me out (well except for Dylan who is sure the Christians stole something of his) Bye for now, may I be with you. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:37:30 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Calm-Down-Calm-Down/12/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Calm-Down-Calm-Down/12/ Hello. Now you will have to excuse me, I'm not used to this kind of thing. He asked me just to pop in and let you know that He has not forgotten you. He's been rushed off his feet this last few weeks poor lad. I sais to Him, you want to have a couple of days off, you're going to make yourself ill," I said. But will he listen. Course not, he's a man isn't he. I know his mother who used to run the family business before him would like to get involved again, but he's so stubborn. Thinks he has something to prove I suppose. Men, Doh! I think its time we had a goddess myself, at least she would be multi tasking. Well bye bye for now. Perhaps I'll have chance to talk to you again. best wishes Mrs God. Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:13:42 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/A-Message-From-Mrs.-God/11/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/A-Message-From-Mrs.-God/11/ People say there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over a lot of righteous souls. So how much rejoicing is there exactly. I'll tell you. Last week a sinner repented. I was so happy I did not know whether to shit or go blind! Now you know. Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:35:53 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Rejoicing/10/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/thedagda/Rejoicing/10/