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  1. Once the sound of a gigantic voice issuing from the tiny opening of the cave called #Oweynagat, the cave of cats, frightened away the heroine or goddess Erne and a group of maidens from Cruachan, the great capital of the province of #Connacht. `Taking with her the comb (symbol of feminine potency) of her mistress, the great queen #Medb, Erne took her party northward to a lake in which they all drowned.` This is how the river Erne (an Γ‰irne in Modern #Irish) and the lake from which it rises gained their names.
    Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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    RT @NeuKelte
    #Celtic #WyrdWednesday: #Odras was the wife of a cattle lord. She refused to let one of her cows mate with the bull of the MΓ³rrΓ­gan. The goddess…
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