The Celtic Games.
Six v2 ALIVE experiences that teach Irish mythology through interaction. Every page breathes. Every rhythm is φ. The stories are four thousand years old and the interfaces are thirty-four days.
Read the myth. Play the myth. Then read it again.
The Celtic Games are not quizzes. They are interactive renditions of four Irish mythological narratives — Salmon of Knowledge, Mag Tuired, Cessair-to-Milesian wave genealogy, and the Death of Balor. Each one puts you inside the story with enough agency to feel the choice, and enough constraint to respect the myth.
Every surface is ALIVE — the page breathes in φ-derived rhythms, the hover states track your attention, the wrong answers sink past your cursor like nuts into the Boyne. The physics are not decoration. The physics are the teaching.
Filed as LUND-INV-201 through 205 plus 208 with Rich Turpin at Lyda Law as distinct interactive surfaces under the Lund Surface trade-secret designations.
The Salmon of Knowledge
Nine trials, one thumb. The River Boyne runs down the page and remembers your cursor. Each correct answer is a taste of the salmon’s flesh; each wrong answer is a nut that sinks past you. Finish all nine and you inherit the wisdom of Finnegas.
The Second Battle of Mag Tuired
You are Lugh Lámhfhada arriving at Tara on the eve of war against Balor and the Fomorians. Four passages. Your choices shape the Tuath´s standing, the warriors’ honor, and your own fate at the ford. The Morrigán’s ravens cross at random.
Find Your Tuath
The five waves of Irish settlement — Cessair, Partholon, Nemed, Fir Bolg, Tuatha De Danann, Milesians. Answer five questions of temperament, not history. The síde beneath the page recognize who you were. Type “lugh” at any point to wake the Long Arm.
Balor’s Eye
The eye is an organism. It has a heartbeat. The heart accelerates each wave. The lid-lifters strain. The iris constricts as it nears opening. Miss, and the field convulses. Land a perfect, and the sky burns gold. Three waves. One stone. The cast that killed the Fomorians.
The Wicker Man
The figure Caesar recorded in Book VI of the Gallic Wars. An immense humanoid woven from willow branches, filled with living creatures of six species, set alight at Beltane or Samhain. Three pages — the What, the How, the Why. The fire breathes.
The Cailleach
The winter goddess of the Gaels. Rules Samhainn to Bealltainn in partnership with Brighde who rules the summer half. Turns to stone at Bealltainn; walks out of the landscape at Samhainn. Two interpretations, three transfer days, one wheel. The year as a handshake between two goddesses.
Five surfaces. One proportion.
Each of the first four games is a single React functional component, approximately 900-1,400 lines of JSX, useState/useEffect/useRef/useCallback. No external libraries except React itself.
Every timing is a Fibonacci number or a rational multiple of φ = 1.618. The heartbeat on Balor’s page is 42 BPM (wave I), 60 BPM (wave II), 89 BPM (wave III). The Boyne’s current speed is 1618ms per breath cycle. The Morrigán’s ravens cross the sky at intervals of 1.618 seconds.
The source JSX files are available in the theme assets under balors-eye.jsx, mag-tuired.jsx, find-your-tuath.jsx, salmon-of-knowledge.jsx — the same files that the Hydrogen scaffold mounts natively. On Liquid, they run through in-browser Babel with a controlled React-CDN fallback.
The myth is not on the page. The myth is the page.— LUND-SURFACE-CELTIC-ALIVE · Lund Studio 2026