There`s a pre-#Celtic tale in which the winter sun’s daughter is born as an old woman and grows younger through the winter, ending as a lovely maid. This cosmic tale was adopted by the arriving #Celts and melded to their own myth of the bestowal of sovereignty on the chosen king, who typically had to kiss or have intercourse with the #Cailleach in her hag form before she revealed herself as a splendid young woman.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#MythologyMonday The goddess Cailleach in Celtic legend embodies the image of dark mother, wild goddess & crone. She is the personification of winter & wild storms being born old at Samhain & growing ever younger until she is a beautiful maiden at Beltane.
Img: #CherylRoseHall

There`s a pre-#Celtic tale in which the winter sun’s daughter is born as an old woman and grows younger through the winter, ending as a lovely maid. This cosmic tale was adopted by the arriving #Celts and melded to their own myth of the bestowal of sovereignty on the chosen king, who typically had to kiss or have intercourse with the #Cailleach in her hag form before she revealed herself as a splendid young woman.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @ElsaMc1878@twitter.com
#MythologyMonday The goddess Cailleach in Celtic legend embodies the image of dark mother, wild goddess & crone. She is the personification of winter & wild storms being born old at Samhain & growing ever younger until she is a beautiful maiden at Beltane.
Img: #CherylRoseHall