"I Will Never Be His"
(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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