I've just started reading "Barbarians" by Terry Jones. I've just finished the first section, which is on the Celts. It's incredibly interesting how the Roman paterfamilias became such an honored ideal among christians that has continued to today. The freedom, magic and power of Celtic woman scared the crap out of the Romans. Obviously, they're still scared.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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I've just started reading "Barbarians" by Terry Jones. I've just finished the first section, which is on the Celts. It's incredibly interesting how the Roman paterfamilias became such an honored ideal among christians that has continued to today. The freedom, magic and power of Celtic woman scared the crap out of the Romans. Obviously, they're still scared.
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