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"The Gorsedd Mound"(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.After a feast at his
court in Arberth, Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed went to the
Gorsedd of Arberth where a man cannot sit without
'either receiving wounds or blows or seeing a wonder'.So he and his men made
their way to the Gorsedd mound and sat upon it and as he
sat he saw a lady clothed in a robe of shining gold and
mounted on a pure-white steed . . . . .Pwyll asks one of his
men to go and meet her.But no matter how many
times his men put spurs to their steeds, the further
away the lady and her horse seemed to be. An illusion is
suspected . . . . . 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
