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Loading... Pagan Portals - The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens (edition 2014)by Morgan Daimler (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A wealth of information for such a small book. Anecdotes about the Morrigan in Daimler's own life were particularly interesting. That being said, I didn't find it as accessible as it claims to be, unless you're already more familiar with Irish mythology than the average non-Irish person is likely to be. Some quick explanations of the many stories/people/things referenced would've been useful. Also, a bit of editing was needed in terms of punctuation and typos. no reviews | add a review
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On shadowed wings and in raven's call, meet the ancient Irish goddess of war, battle, prophecy, death, sovereignty, and magic. This book is an introduction to the Morrigan and several related goddesses who share the title, including Badb and Macha. It combines solid academic information with personal experience in a way that is, intended to dispel the confusion that often surrounds, who this goddess was and is. The Morrigan is as active in the world today as she ever was in the past but answering her call means answering the challenge of finding her history and myth in a sea of misinformation, supposition, and hard-to-find ancient texts. Here in one place, all of her basic information has been, collected along with personal experiences and advice from a long-time priestess dedicated to a goddess, who bears the title Morrigan. No library descriptions found. |
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As for Morgan, the author: I’m trying not to go into “callously dismissing offended-brainiac Recons, and giggling with Hermes”, although I feel a little justified with that, sometimes, although it is true that she’s just the “classically good brainiac reporting the views of others” (barfing gesture behind her back) and isn’t really that bad…. I guess I’ll even buy another Pagan Portals/Morgan book (she didn’t write all of them, but she wrote Many! of them), because she provides good information—it is useful to know the intuitions of others—and a different perspective, right. And I don’t know as much about the Celts/Northerners, and I think that the whole Greek/Southern thing can get quite stereotypical/vanilla, even a bit colonial, if you’re not careful—as cool as they can be, as individuals.
…. So yeah.
…. Hopefully it’s a truism by now to say that Morgues isn’t just-a-bee, but also a queen, and also Hermie of course can be the ‘dark god’ when he has a serious need for respect, or is Straight Outta Patience, right. It’s like with masculine and feminine: I don’t think there’s been a culture where each hasn’t had a family of meaning, but they’re not just-separate, right; they interpenetrate. It’s like that with the ‘dark god’. Of course, one wouldn’t want to go off the tracks with inappropriate anger, like Florinda Donner (the Castaneda girl) when she was uninitiated, but that could be equally Morgues or Hermie, in their mask as the god sleeping in the madman. Which is I suppose what they are in most of us.