She is the source of life giving, death and transformation, regeneration and renewing. She is the moon’s three phases, maiden, nymph and crone the moon, new, waxing and old. Her circles transmit energy by the increased powers of stone, water, and mound of circling motion. Her followers do energetic ring dances, dangerous to an intruder who tries to break in. Female figures lock to form circles, fairy rings, and circles de fees. Vultures and owls are associated with her spirals, crows and ravens lunar circles and snake coils. Figurines often pair sprouting seed and vulvas, fish in the ocean, and the female body as a passageway. She is the triple source of power needed to regenerate cycles, to take one from life to death and from death to life. She is the chevron and V, the inverted triangle, the earth element. Her signs appear on spindle whirls, altars, sacrificial vessels, vases, pebbles, and pendants. Within it are three stone cells, three stone basins, engravings of triple snake spirals, coils, arcs and brow ridges. In Newgrange, Ireland, is her grand megalithic tomb-shrine.
Her names are plentiful and sound like her original name. Very early she is under stood to be a triple goddess, a shape shifter, a three part person. Sometimes three lines are connected and depict a triple energy that flows from her body, as she is giver and sustainer of life. She has in these early Celtic representations, a bird’s head (often a crow, raven or vulture) and breasts, and on vessels depicting her there is a symbol for the number three. She is the Irish Morrigan, Goddess of Death and Guardian of the Dead. Her breasts were believed to form the hills in County Kerry called Da Chich Annan (the paps of Anu). She is a bird goddess, an earth goddess, and her breasts not only nourish the living, they also regenerate the dead.
Parts of her seem hidden, then appearing, so as one looks at the pottery artefacts there is more and more of her to piece together. In Spain, France, Portugal and England statues, menhirs and stone slabs frequently also display her eyes, her beak and sometimes her vulva. They date back to the Copper Age c.3000BC. Stone stelae with sculpted breasts have been discovered at Castelucio de Sauri, some with only breasts and a necklace as a marker.
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