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"Birds to Wake The Dead"(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.The following day Pwyll returns to the mound but this time takes his own fleet steed.
As soon as the maiden
appears he gives chase, but cannot catch her. Eventually he calls
out to her, imploring her to stay.This she does and
eventually tells Pwyll that her true errand was to seek
him. She then informs him that she is Rhiannon, daughter
of Hefydd Hen, and that she is to be given to another,
but is actually in love with Pwyll. As a result, Pwyll
promises to meet her a year hence at Hefydd's
palace. 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
