The Nine Maidens -- priestesses of the ancient Mother Goddess religion. For 25 years Stuart McHardy has been tracking the enigmatic Nine Maidens group to mountaintops and Dark Age citadels; artificial islands; and lonely wells. He has traced a network of pagan priestess groups across the Celtic; Germanic; romance; and Classical societies of Europe with striking evidence for fertility rites and possible sacrifice. In a non-traditional (i.e. non-militaristic; -aristocratic; and -male) interpretation of history using oral and informal written sources; McHardy demonstrates how the nine maidens lived on -- through the Christian era -- in ritual and belief.
#971194 in Books 1997PDF # 1 #File Name: 0941072282374 pages
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