"The Mysterious Castle"
(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.
Time passes.
Pryderi has grown to be a man.
One day, while out hunting, he spies a magnificent white boar and pursues it.
During the chase, he comes upon a mysterious magical castle and enters to see what lays within.
Some
time later, Rhiannon, worrying why her son has not returned, makes to
find him and she too stumbles across the castle.
And is frozen, and . . . . . .
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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