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Legend

  • Gawain and the Green Knight

    The tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval one (14th century) written by an anonymous author.   The title was interestingly only given centuries later.   It has since been translated by many great poets and scholars!    This summer, the much awaited film (that was supposed to premiere last year…

  • Morgause: Mother of Mordred

    Morgause is one of the sisters of King Arthur in the Arthurian Legends.   It is her, instead of Morgan Le Fay, who is given to be the mother of Mordred in the earliest tellings.    I have discussed Morgan as Mordred’s mother previously.   Morgan and Morgause tended to get conflated as time went…

  • Morgan Le Fay as Morrigan

    Morgan Le Fay can be seen as an Arthurian take on the Irish Celtic goddess the Morrigan.   The Morrigan is a death goddess and a war goddess.    She was often associated with battlefields and warriors.    The Morrigan was a crow goddess who was deeply connected to this bird, which makes sense given…

  • The White Goddess

    The book The White Goddess by Robert Graves is considered one of the most influential books in modern Goddess worship.   It was even influential to men who created modern forms of paganism.    The book got its day in the sun in the 1960s among the counterculture.    It is also a very controversial…

  • Ogam Tree Oracle

    For today’s post I want to give a brief introduction to the Ogam (also spelled Ogham).   The Ogam Tree Oracle is similar to Norse Runes.    The Ogam utilizes a series of lines and dashes, usually etched onto wood.   They are then drawn in a similar manner to Runes.   The Ogam signs…

  • The Uses of 3 and 9 in Celtic Belief

    The Celtic beliefs placed a large amount of significance on the numbers three and nine.    Both numbers appear in many different myths and symbols within Celtic culture!    The number three is the triple goddess, maiden mother and crone, that is utilized in some variation by most ancient cultures.    The number nine is…

  • The Arthurian White Hart

    In Arthurian tales, and by extension, the Arthurian Tarot the White Hart is a symbol of magic, love, and lovers.   The white hart is also sometimes called the white stag, since the word hart is an archaic term for stag.   In this post I will use stag and hart interchangeably.    White animals…

  • Guinevere and Sovereignty

    Guinevere can be seen as representing a sovereignty goddess.   She married a king and cemented his reign.    In this vision of Guinevere as sovereignty incarnate we find an explanation for her romance with Lancelot.    She could never be more than lover of Lancelot because if she took him as a husband she…

  • Ancestral Mythology

    The concept of ancestral mythology is a very intriguing one.   This is the mythology that our physical ancestors would have believed in.   We each have a deeper connection to the myths and folktales of our own ancestors than to those of other cultures.   This makes for an innate feeling of interest (for…

  • Celtic Astrology

    Celtic astrology is always something I have been more intrigued by than the more widely used zodiac signs.    I feel that my Celtic astrology signs, both animal and tree, are more in line with my personality than Virgo is.    I am a Swan and a Vine in the Celtic astrological traditions.    It…