Hi, everyone! How was your week, pornies? I finished reading an amazing book I wanted to get my hands on for a while, and man it was worth the wait! Celtic mythology is filled with appealing legends and myths, but I think few are just as interesting and present in the modern world as these Queens. I’m talking about Pagan Portals – The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens, by Morgan Daimler. Thanks to the publisher for the review copy!
- Series: Pagan Portals
- Print Length: 92 pages
- Publisher: Moon Books (December 12, 2014)
- Publication Date: December 12, 2014
- ISBN-10: 1782798331
- ISBN-13: 978-1782798330
- Rating: 4/5 stars
On shadowed wings and in raven's call, meet the ancient Irish goddess of war, battle, prophecy, death, sovereignty, and magic. This book is an introduction to the Morrigan and several related goddesses who share the title, including Badb and Macha. It combines solid academic information with personal experience in a way that is intended to dispel the confusion that often surrounds who this goddess was and is. The Morrigan is as active in the world today as she ever was in the past but answering her call means answering the challenge of finding her history and myth in a sea of misinformation, supposition, and hard-to-find ancient texts. Here in one place, all of her basic information has been collected along with personal experiences and advice from a long-time priestess dedicated to a goddess who bears the title Morrigan.
This was an incredible first approach on The Morrigan and what She represent in the myths She is part of. No matter how complex and wide the subject is, Morgan Daimler knows how to explain it clearly, give her point of view but also let there be enough space for the reader to draw their own conclusions.
Although short, this book offers a big help in matters of theory for those interested in learning about The Morrigan. You discover who Morrigu, Macha and Badb, the main three sisters are, but also discover other legendary figures that at some point had the same title. I found Nemain specially interesting, and pretty close to the description of what the Morrigan is.
Being mostly a theoretical approach on the subject, there is not too much information on how to approach these Goddesses. However, you will find several prayers, incantations, invocations and calling for all of them, and the book itself gives you material to develop either your own, change those presented or create one from scratch, all of which both the author and I encourage you to if inclined to.
Pagan Portals – The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens is a must read for those who want to develop their sovereignty, their prophesy skills and survive every kind of war. The myths of the Morrigan gave me hope, strength and faith during these difficult time, they made me smile and look at a brighter future. Sometimes war is not about carnage and death, but about hard, challenging times, about surviving the tides of fear and uncertainty, just what we must do now. Morgan Daimler gives you the weapons in this book, but it is up to each one of us to choose and make a stand.
About Morgan Daimler:
Morgan Daimler is a witch who has been a polytheist since the early ’90′s. Following a path inspired by the Irish Fairy Faith blended with neopagan witchcraft, Morgan teaches classes on Irish myth and magical practices, fairies, and related subjects in the United States and internationally. Morgan has been published in multiple anthologies as well as in Witches and Pagans magazine, Pagan Dawn magazine and the CR journal Air n-Aithesc, and they are one of the world's foremost experts on all things Fairy. Besides the titles available through Moon Books Morgan has self-published a book of Old and Middle Irish language translations called The Treasure of the Tuatha De Danann, and an urban fantasy/paranormal romance series called Between the Worlds.Have you read this book? Would you recommend it or not? Let me know in the comments! Kinky regards, K!
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