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"Penance at The Gate"(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.Having been wrongly
accused of infanticide, Rhiannon is mad the stand at the
gate and tell of her wrongdoing, and carry visitors on
her back as a penance, but the truth will out,
eventually, and in a spectacular manner . . . .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
