Sunwise

Deisel [' deʃel ] ( Old Irish; neuirisch deiseal ) means in insular Celtic Customs in the direction of the solar cycle or the clockwise direction. The opposite direction is called tuaithbel [' tuaθbel ] ( neuirisch Tuathal ).

A movement in the deisel is considered auspicious, as in tuaithbel unheilbringend. Ritual processions, as described in the Old Irish heroic legends were always run in the direction of the solar cycle when they should produce a beneficial effect. In order to achieve a negative " success " as a curse, the opposite direction was pursue. It often also " curse stones " on a Bullaun ( " stone base ' ) were also turned against the sun's path. The curse of stone was Conversely rotated for desired stone.

In a story from the Mythological Cycle of Celtic mythology, the river nymph Boand desecrated the secret source of her husband Nechtan in Síd Nechtain by walking around in tuaithbel, and she drowns. The source goes on and as the river Boand ( Boyne ) to have originated.

When patterns ( pilgrimages ) of Baile Bhuirne ( Ballyvourney, County Cork), the Turas in Gleann Cholm Cille and elsewhere, the stations are bullauns still encircled with the clockwise.

Similar customs are still to see the Scottish Hogmanay, where participants walk around a fire in a clockwise direction and beat with a stick or tongs on a goatskin.