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  • Berengaria of Navarre: The Absent Queen

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    She was Richard the Lionheart's queen for eight years, and never once set foot in England.In 1191, in the middle of the Third Crusade, Berengaria of Navarre married the most celebrated soldier of the age. She had crossed the Alps in winter and half the Mediterranean to reach him, and was crowned Queen of England on the island of Cyprus, a thousand miles from the kingdom she would never see. Within ... Leer más

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  • Blodeuwedd: The Woman Made of Flowers

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    She was made from flowers to love a man she never chose. When she chose another, they turned her into an owl.In the medieval Welsh Mabinogi, two magicians gather the blossom of oak, broom and meadowsweet and conjure a woman: the loveliest bride ever seen, made for a hero his own mother had cursed to have no earthly wife. They give her no kin, no childhood, no choice. And when she loves a man of ... Leer más

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  • Ériu: Ireland's Divine Namesake

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    A woman waits on a hill at the centre of an island, watching an army come to take her country. She will lose, and she knows it. She asks the invaders for one thing only: that whatever else they do, the land will keep her name.They give their word. The island is called Éire to this day, after the goddess Ériu who bargained for it, and her name is written into its constitution and printed inside ... Leer más

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  • Amaterasu: Light of the Heavens

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    Almost every sun god in human history has been male. Japan's is a woman.Amaterasu Ōmikami, the sun goddess at the heart of Shinto, is one of the very few female suns in world mythology, and the one whose worship still endures today. For more than a thousand years she has been honored as the divine ancestress of the Japanese imperial line, the world's oldest continuous monarchy.Her story runs from ... Leer más

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  • Enchanted Britain and Ireland: A Complete History of Magic in the British Isles

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    A Bronze Age sword is dropped into the Thames as an offering to powers beneath the water. A Roman citizen scratches a curse onto lead and casts it into a sacred spring. A medieval monk copies a spell for summoning angels into the margins of a psalter. A seventeenth-century farmer buries a bottle of nails and urine beneath his hearth to break a witch's curse. A modern Druid raises her arms to greet ... Leer más

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  • Kuan Yin: The Eternal Goddess of Compassion

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    How a god became a goddess.She is called upon in storms at sea and in the silence of grief, in temples from Hangzhou to Los Angeles. Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy, is one of the most worshipped figures on earth. Few of her devotees know that she began as a man: Avalokiteśvara, a male bodhisattva from India, whose transformation into a Chinese goddess has puzzled scholars for centuries.Kuan Yin: ... Leer más

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  • Borderlands and Bloodlines: Marcher Lords, Welsh Lords, and the Making of the Medieval Frontier (c. 1066–1300)

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    In 1210, King John had Maud de St Valéry and her eldest son walled up in a royal castle and left to starve. Offered the chance to buy her family's peace by surrendering her son as a hostage, she had refused, sending word that she would not entrust her child to a king who had murdered his own nephew. Her husband William de Braose — once the most powerful Marcher lord in Wales — died in exile in ... Leer más

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  • Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Moon

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    In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries.Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "Bells-Her-Cheeks." She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, and the ... Leer más

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  • Holes in the Head: Medicine, Violence, and Survival in Early Medieval Britain and Brittany

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    When archaeologists opened an early Anglo-Saxon grave at Oxborough in Norfolk, one skull stopped them. It belonged to a woman who had reached old age, and someone had cut a clean opening into the left side of her head. The bone had healed around it. She lived for years with a hole in her skull, and no one wrote down why it was made.Holes in the Head is about wounds like hers, found across early ... Leer más

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  • Roman Wales and the End of Roman Britain (43 - 410 CE)

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    Why did Wales stay Welsh?Rome conquered the region in brutal campaigns that lasted decades. Rome occupied it with more soldiers per square mile than almost anywhere else in the empire. Rome ruled it for more than three hundred years.And yet Wales never became Roman.No villas. No towns. No Latin. Just forts, roads, and a population that outlasted the empire by staying exactly who they'd always been ... Leer más

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  • Seven Stars in the North: Seers, Sovereignty and the Celestial Bear in Indo-European Myth

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    A claim has circulated for years: that ancient Celtic tradition preserved an unbroken inheritance stretching back to Vedic India — seven sacred seers, seven ruling planets, a celestial bear watching over a queen's throne in the North. It's been cited and repeated across popular Celtic mythology and Indo-European studies alike. It has rarely been checked against the primary sources.Seven Stars in ... Leer más

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  • Tara: The Eternal Star of Compassion

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    Tara is the busiest goddess in Buddhism. She was born, so the story goes, from a god's tears, and she's been rushing to the rescue ever since.Her name means star. It also means the one who gets you across the river, which tells you the kind of trouble she was made for: the crossing you might not survive. For a thousand years she's been the deity you call when there's no time for the slow road to ... Leer más

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