Titania and Oberon
Thanks to a Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Oberon are the fairy king and queen known today, Like The Faerie King Puck they too have roots in the folklore before Shakespeare popularized them. Though unlike Puck it is less blatant or even British. Titania is often thought to have her name derived from Diana, who became the fairy queen and a witch goddess in European folklore. With the name being contorted with time and translation by the time of Shakespeare. Oberon however is often thought to come from French folklore and originated from the dwarf/elf Alberich most well known from Wagner's operas though he originated in folklore long before than. While neither of these origins are definitive, both Titania and Oberon are not originally members of British Faerie Lore and have been added from other nearby cultures and popular literature over time. Of the well known Fey, Puck would be the King to know, as "The Oldest Old Thing in Britain"- TLK
Thanks to a Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Oberon are the fairy king and queen known today, Like The Faerie King Puck they too have roots in the folklore before Shakespeare popularized them. Though unlike Puck it is less blatant or even British. Titania is often thought to have her name derived from Diana, who became the fairy queen and a witch goddess in European folklore. With the name being contorted with time and translation by the time of Shakespeare. Oberon however is often thought to come from French folklore and originated from the dwarf/elf Alberich most well known from Wagner's operas though he originated in folklore long before than. While neither of these origins are definitive, both Titania and Oberon are not originally members of British Faerie Lore and have been added from other nearby cultures and popular literature over time. Of the well known Fey, Puck would be the King to know, as "The Oldest Old Thing in Britain"- TLK
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The Pagan Saint George
Saint George is an "Originally" Turkish or Greek Saint, and his older myths have long been overshadowed by the English myth of his slaying of the Dragon. Saint George like many Saints functioned as a means to "cover up" older pagan gods. With Saint George he was largely a means to cover up Pagan Fertility gods. With his battle with the dragon being a battle of Summer vs Winter. While his name which means "Ploughman" or "To work the Earth" is more indicative of his function as a fertility figure. Other names for Saint George include "Green George" or "The Spirit of Spring", both seem to function as a callback to the Green Man of British Myth. His holiday functions as a Fertility festival and he appears in Mummers Plays in the role of a Fertility god next to other figures such as the Green Man. With numerous holidays being conjoined into his including the blessing of the plough. His fertility features and dragon slaying also call back to figures such as Ing, Beowulf, and Siegfried.-TLK
Saint George is an "Originally" Turkish or Greek Saint, and his older myths have long been overshadowed by the English myth of his slaying of the Dragon. Saint George like many Saints functioned as a means to "cover up" older pagan gods. With Saint George he was largely a means to cover up Pagan Fertility gods. With his battle with the dragon being a battle of Summer vs Winter. While his name which means "Ploughman" or "To work the Earth" is more indicative of his function as a fertility figure. Other names for Saint George include "Green George" or "The Spirit of Spring", both seem to function as a callback to the Green Man of British Myth. His holiday functions as a Fertility festival and he appears in Mummers Plays in the role of a Fertility god next to other figures such as the Green Man. With numerous holidays being conjoined into his including the blessing of the plough. His fertility features and dragon slaying also call back to figures such as Ing, Beowulf, and Siegfried.-TLK
Ireland, the land of Eire. Not the land of Jahova or the land of Krisha nor even the land of Odin! Eire be her name, though her name means “Plentiful” or “abundant”, remember she condemned Donn mac Miled to death with a calmness and certainty that reflects its finality.
Eire goddess of the clann Tuatha De Danann said upon gifting the land to the mortals “Warriors, welcome to you. It is long since your coming was foreseen. Yours is this land forever more until you or the land ceases to be. Than this, there is no better land in all of the world! No force shall you lay upon this land; you shall have no gain nor will your children of that which the land does not give freely. Gift to me this boon, that my name may be always upon this land of mine and yours.”.
For this reason is the land call Eire. The Land of Eire. Irelann. Ireland. This boon and curse is held so true that the High Kings of the long ago would marry to him Eire placing her above even himself for the benefit of both the land and her people!
Eire goddess of the clann Tuatha De Danann said upon gifting the land to the mortals “Warriors, welcome to you. It is long since your coming was foreseen. Yours is this land forever more until you or the land ceases to be. Than this, there is no better land in all of the world! No force shall you lay upon this land; you shall have no gain nor will your children of that which the land does not give freely. Gift to me this boon, that my name may be always upon this land of mine and yours.”.
For this reason is the land call Eire. The Land of Eire. Irelann. Ireland. This boon and curse is held so true that the High Kings of the long ago would marry to him Eire placing her above even himself for the benefit of both the land and her people!
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The Witch Goddess, Joan of Arc
While nowadays one of the most beloved Saints, especially of young girls Joan of Arc was actually one of the most famous pagans of the last 1000 years. She was raised in the Rural Fertility cults or "Witch Cults" and the voices she heard came from the local "Faerie Tree" she then cut her hair and wore men's clothes symbolically taking on her deity. She became the Godhead for her cult and led the French against the British until the Church captured her and tried her for witchcraft, deciphering her provincial upbringing and pagan traditions as "Witchcraft". As such she was burned and then reviled by the church for decades after, being cited in Witch Hunt journals as an example of a horrid witch. Though at the same time her bravery and sacrifice led to her being venerated as a goddess by the people. The Church only canonized her in the 1920's after nearly five centuries of trying to snuff out her Pagan cult.-TLK
While nowadays one of the most beloved Saints, especially of young girls Joan of Arc was actually one of the most famous pagans of the last 1000 years. She was raised in the Rural Fertility cults or "Witch Cults" and the voices she heard came from the local "Faerie Tree" she then cut her hair and wore men's clothes symbolically taking on her deity. She became the Godhead for her cult and led the French against the British until the Church captured her and tried her for witchcraft, deciphering her provincial upbringing and pagan traditions as "Witchcraft". As such she was burned and then reviled by the church for decades after, being cited in Witch Hunt journals as an example of a horrid witch. Though at the same time her bravery and sacrifice led to her being venerated as a goddess by the people. The Church only canonized her in the 1920's after nearly five centuries of trying to snuff out her Pagan cult.-TLK
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