A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In Celtic and, especially in Irish mythology, Tir na n’Og is a realm of the afterlife and one of the Happy Islands, known mostly from legends.
It was the ‘Land of the Forever Young’ often identified as an underground realm or a mysterious land beneath the sea.
Tir na nOg – mythical realm of the afterlife. source
The inhabitants of this magical place would remain forever young and happy. Nobody wanted food or drink, and illness, ugliness, and death did not have access to Tir na n’Og.
Floating Time On Magical Tir na nÓg Island
As on other Happy Islands also on Tír na nÓg, the time flows slower than in the land of mortals.
Legend says that “one year on earth equals one minute in Tir na nÓg. It would explain how the beings of similar otherworlds in other ancient traditions could have an almost unimaginable life span.
On Tír na nÓg, takes place the suspension of the aging process for all who dwell there, and it’s undoubtedly the most prominent quality of this realm of the afterlife.
In the early saga ‘The Adventure of Nera’ (Echtrae Nerai), about a warrior of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle, is written that: “it is within the world you have left, as an apple is within its skin, and all who die in your world come to this one. But within this world is another called the ‘Land of Wonders’, and those who die here, or who can wish to do so, go to the Land of Wonders.
Within the Land of Wonders there is yet a world called the ‘Land of Promise’, and those who die in the Land of Wonders are born into the Land of Promise, but they cannot die there until they can wish to do so…”
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