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* Shamanic rituals of Celtic women “Roman men alluded to the shamanic rituals of Celtic women, but were unable to describe them in detail. Pliny wrote that British women attended their rites “in a state of nature,” their naked bodies painted blue-black with woad. [Natural History, xxii, in Webster, 146fn; Grimm]. Another Roman source refers to wild women soothsayers among the druids on the Welsh island of Mona (Anglesey, off the coast of Wales). [Spence, 61-2.] A couple of Celtic altar stones show shamanic priestesses dancing with snakes. A stela from Mavilly, France—another thermal fountain site—shows a robed woman with two snakes in her left hand and a ceremonial object in the right. An altar relief from Yorkshire, the goddess Verbeia—or her entranced priestess—grasps a huge snake in each hand. [Ross] Gaulish sculptures show the goddesses Sirona and Rosmerta with snakes. [Thevenot; Webster, 58]” Excerpted from The Secret History of the Witches, by Max Dashu
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:23:50 +0000

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