Whether as the mothers of the Norse God Heimdall, Morgan and her
sisters on Avalon, the nine sisters at the heart of the founding
myth of the Gikuyu of Kenya, or witches battling with the Irish St
Patrick, stories of nine women, often attending a goddess or linked
to a heroic or divine male, exist across much of our world.
Triggered by a local story still told in his native Dundee, Stuart
McHardy has traced what seems to be memories of groups of nine
women, most likely some kind of priestesses, across much of Europe
and as far as Siberia, Korea, India and Africa. Whether as Pictish
saints, Muses, Valkyries, Druidesses or witches, the tales of these
groups of nine women transcend a vast range of cultural and
linguistic boundaries. The painting of nine women dancing round a
priapic male in a Catalonian cave painting over fifteen thousand
years old suggests these groups may well have been one of the
oldest cultural institutions humanity has known.Â
General
Imprint: |
Luath Press Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Stuart McHardy
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Pages: |
203 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80425-091-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80425-091-0 |
Barcode: |
9781804250914 |
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