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Medieval Irish Folklore (Live)
You're Dead to Me
The Sovereignty Goddess of Ireland
The sovereignty goddess of Ireland is a symbol of the land. Her union with a king ensures that he becomes a legitimate ruler in people's eyes. She often manifests as a hag, and then after she has sex with the king,. guess what happens? She becomes a beautiful young woman again. Much of the landscape of Ireland references goddesses. So, it places like the paps of Anu in Kerry, which are the breasts of the goddess Aunya. You're surrounded by it in the landscape all the time. The land itself is feminised as a goddess. Gerald of Wales, a 12th century monk, tells us that the right of a throne in medieval Ireland for a
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