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~ MORGAN LE FAYE ~

Let us say for me,
it began with Her . . .
She was the one I held before all others.
Morgan the Goddess is Her name,
and there is never a beast
so high and proud
but She can humble
and tame him!

As a Celtic diety,
Morgan
(morgue?)
was the crone aspect
of the Triple Goddess incarnate.

She was The Queen of the Fortunate Isles
in the Far West,
a final resting place for many heroes of legend,
where apple trees forever bloomed
and fruited.

Paradise!

She is The Lady of the Lake,
associated with mermaids,
shape shifting
to move through the waters
surrounding
Avalon,
and claiming
those that wander too far
from their native shores
to ever return home,
again!

Her favored lovers were granted immortality.

A powerful healer,
it was She
who tended to King Arthur's wounds
after the Battle of Camlan,
and it is with her
that he resides,
until he is called to this world,
again!

Queen of a ninefold sisterhood,
Morgan was the nurturer
and initiator of ancient knowledge.

Amoung the Celtic races
it was customary for women warriors
to train the boys
in the arts of combat,
thus stabilizing tribes
and establishing stronger bonds
of love
and mutual obligation.

Prior to written texts,
which state that Arthur's boyhood
was spent in the care of
Sir Ector of the Sauvage,
it may have been,
instead,
with The Lady of the Lake,
or one of Her many
other forms
and names
used in oral tradition.

It is from Morgan
that the sword
Excaliber
came,
and to Her island of Avalon,
that Arthur is later borne
to be healed of his lethal battle wounds.

Even the French have stories that tell of
Lancelot
being raised by
The Lady of the Lake,
in accordance with
the code of the
Otherworld.

He is both named
and armed
in Celtic tradition,
wherein a hero has to earn his name
by his actions.

It was yore told
that She presided over the death
and resurrection
of the annual rival gods,
in "The Castle of The Green Knight",
as they decapitated one another
according to season.

Gawain bore "The Pentacle of Morgan",
a heraldic protection symbol
mounted on a blood red shield,
while She took her place
at the head of the table.

After Christian invasion of her native lands,
the stories began to depict Morgan
as merely
a woman,
whose greatest influence on humanity
was her half-sister association to King Arthur,
and that she was a study of
necromancy.

Some writings
have bonded her to a husband,
King Uriens of Gore,
a mutated man of the mythical
castrated even
heavanly body,
Uranus!

She became the prototypical
Witch.

Magickal, Miraculous, Misleading,
all were traits of
Fata Morgana.

Even "glamorous",
is a bewitching spell,
orginating from Glamorgan,
sacred terrain of the Goddess
in Wales.

Even in more recent times of yore,
"The Fortunate Isles",
nine islands off the coast of Galway,
have been claimed to be seen rising out of the ocean,
every seventh year.

Legend claims
that those attempting to reach it by boat,
unilluminated by wisdom,
vanish . . . . . . . . .