Beltane- Arthurian Legend- War Rape of Queen Igraine- Fairy Morgana 

The 99% moon told me that the real Beltane is only today, on the full moon, so to celebrate last night’s Walpurgis Night I watched the film “The Mists of Avalon” again. In it, several beautiful Beltane celebrations from ancient England are depicted, going back to the Stone Age. In England, a cult of the goddess associated with the forest god Cerunnos, probably of Celtic origin, was the foundation of an ancient mother goddess religion. The story tells of a mother goddess, Mother Earth, who is embodied by the sacred women of the island of Avalon and who practices her magic.

In the process, some dimensional gates from Avalon to Glastonbury are opened, and there seems to be a connection to Stonehenge, the sacred stone circle of the island of Great Britain. The priestesses of the Goddess were able to open these gates and communicate in this way. They practiced a lot of magic and used telepathy through water and clairvoyance through blood magic. The Beltane celebrations were used in a way in which a man was selected who was the best hunter and who was then allowed to celebrate the sacred marriage with a virgin among the priestesses. Here, as a follower of Artemis, I feel a little queasy. Artemis, as a holy virgin, was not forcibly married, not even to the best hunter, but the women themselves choose whether they want men or whether they want to become pregnant.

Artemis herself fiercely defended her virginity, and the man who secretly watched her bathing was Actaeon. As punishment, she transformed him into a stag, hunted him, and he was eaten by his own dogs. Actaeon is not Cernunnos. This is different in English mythology. Stories like these revere the goddess of Avalon and England, but they also cover up rapes, as always. It is told from the perspective of the fairy Morgana, and her reputation is meant to be restored, which was distorted by male authors, making her the evil witch and scapegoat. Morgana was the daughter of Gorlois.

He was king and husband of Igraine, the queen. King Uther conquered the land of Garlois and raped his wife. He married her, and she had a son, King Arthur, who was Morgana’s half-brother. All of this is glossed over because King Arthur is a hero of England and he applied some wisdom in politics. The fact is that Morgana, as his half-sister, had a child by him. Thus, the men of Uther’s family humiliated and abused the women of Garlois. The dead Garlois saw how his wife and daughter were impregnated by the Uther family, and his reincarnation must have been Mordred.

That makes sense. In revenge against the two women, Mordred ultimately kills Arthur. Anyone who sees the female perspective of the Arthurian legend slowly understands why things were so strange. Igraine did not voluntarily take Uther; such a thing is a classic war rape. Morgana did not voluntarily take Arthur, as here the enmity of Uther and Arthur was played out against the family of Igraine and Gorlois. Mordred avenged his mother and his grandmother and killed the resulting Arthur. He loses his heroic status here; Mordred is a victim of this tragedy. As a Beltane celebration, no holy virgin should be given to a man. In the sense of Artemis, something like that would never happen.
England’s feminism needs to start over again.

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