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- Herausgeber: BookRix
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
"Once, long before Buddha, long before Allah, long before the Christ, the peoples on either side of the Pentland Firth worshipped Mara, the Green Goddess of the sea. Mara gave them food, seals, birds, shellfish. She also gave them life; the tides of women’s courses that brought on the passion, and then the pain of birth. When angry she raged and swept away the sand and flooded inland: but none had ever seen her in the flesh except for the shamaness. In her conical stone hut she lived by a bay daily filled by the tide"
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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The Green Man of The Pentland Firth
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Once, long before Buddha, long before Allah, long before the Christ, the peoples on either side of the Pentland Firth worshipped Mara, the Green Goddess of the sea. Mara gave them food, seals, birds, shellfish. She also gave them life; the tides of women’s courses that brought on the passion, and then the pain of birth.
When angry she raged and swept away the sand and flooded inland: but none had ever seen her in the flesh except for the shamaness. In her conical stone hut she lived by a bay daily filled by the tide.
At each high and low tide she threw offerings on the surface and sensed the mood of the goddess; and each day she bathed to cleanse herself. She prayed to ask forgiveness of the goddess, ”Oh Mara, forgive me for entering your body, hold me safely.”
The way of death of the people was to soak the body in salt and leave it in a ledge of a high sea cave - there it did not decay but dried out, became mummified, preserved by the wind and salt.
When a baby was born it was washed straight away in seawater.
By tradition the shamaness never married as she devoted her whole life force to the goddess.
But Mara gave bounty.
One day the shamaness of the Kati was disturbed; the sea had risen and a great storm was building; the bay was filling with water pushed by the tide and wind.
She walked down to the shore. Around her neck she wore a necklace of white shells, across her back, a white sealskin cloak over a tunic of blue.
