This is a closed Ritual for Coven Members and will celebrate the beginning of the dark season by retelling the myth of the Great Grain Mother and her daughter who travels to the Underworld to meet Keridwen, the Dark Mother, Crone Goddess at her Cauldron of Regeneration and Inspiration.
For the following Sabbat SAMHAIN on Wednesday 31st October we will be joined by guests from Australia. It is likely that we will hold this at Martlesham Creek and hire the buildings for our Feast.
New Moot
Officers of Carlford Coven can be contacted in person at the Felixstowe moot, the first meeting of which will be Tuesday 25th September at The Three Mariners pub, High Rd, Trimley.
Newsletter
Our next Issue 'An Gaoth Aniar' is out at the Equinox, copies can be obtained at the Moot or by writing to John Wragg, 28 Morgan Drive, Ipswich, IP1 5QG.
n Welsh mythology, Modron (divine mother) was a daughter of Avalloc, derived from the goddess known in Gaul as Dea Matrona. She may have led to Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend. She was the mother of Mabon, who bears her name as Mabon ap Modron (Mabon, Son of Modron) and who was stolen away from her when he was three days old and later rescued by King Arthur
In the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated by Urien and gives birth to Owain and Morvydd.
Often blended with the Roman Matrona, she is the Tutelary of the Marne in Gaul. In Britain, she appears as a washerwoman, and thus there would seem to be a connection with the Morrigan.
She is one of the most potent of the Celtic mother Goddess figures and is a fertility and harvest deity often linked to Greece's Demeter or Ireland's Danu.
These associations show how deep-rooted paganism is within all the communities of Europe. It's lights may have been dimmed as it's been overshadowed but it cannot be removed from the psyche of people.
