Goddess of The Birth Moon
(From the book "Rhiannon - Goddess
of The Birth Moon")
By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor
An ancient Myth &
Legend . . . . . .
Great Queen Rhiannon, Cymric, Brythonic and a
Triple Goddess.
Associated with otherworldly birds, their
melody singing across the waters in the Happy Isles of
the Blessed, the sweetest sound ever heard by any mortal
ear and every other tune seemed unlovely beside it, a
wondrous song to wake the dead, and send the living to
sleep, and horses, both accompanying the dead on their
journey to the next world, known from the chief
prose literature of medieval Wales, the Mabinogi.
She is associated with horses and has
otherworldly birds in her possession.
The cult of the horse had deep meaning in the
Iron Age and Romano-British period. There are
suggestions that as a tribal ceremony, a royal figure
symbolically copulated with a horse which was then
sacrificed, dismembered and devoured by the ritual
revelers.
Deborah
Susan Jones

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