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Whether as the mothers of the Norse God Heimdall, Morgan and her sisters on Avalon, the nine sisters at the heart of the founding myth of the Gikuyu of Kenya, or witches battling with the Irish St Patrick, stories of nine women, often attending a goddess or linked to a heroic or divine male, exist across much of our world. Triggered by a local story still told in his native Dundee, Stuart McHardy has traced what seems to be memories of groups of nine women, most likely some kind of priestesses, across much of Europe and as far as Siberia, Korea, India and Africa. Whether as Pictish saints, Muses, Valkyries, Druidesses or witches, the tales of these groups of nine women transcend a vast range of cultural and linguistic boundaries. The painting of nine women dancing round a priapic male in a Catalonian cave painting over fifteen thousand years old suggests these groups may well have been one of the oldest cultural institutions humanity has known.Â
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Nine Maidens – Approximate Timeline
- Nine Maidens Perspective – Significant Sites
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Dragonslayer
- Chapter 2 The Goddess Bride
- Chapter 3 The Nine Maidens in Welsh Tradition
- Chapter 4 The Nine Maidens in Irish Tradition
- Chapter 5 Sisters of Avalon
- Chapter 6 Islands of Women
- Chapter 7 Sagas and Sea Spirits
- Chapter 8 Muses, Maenads and beyond
- Chapter 9 The Number Nine in Folklore, Literature and Ritual
- Chapter 10 The Nine Maidens
- Chapter 11 Mythical and Legendary Figures Associated with Nine Maidens
- Bibliography
- Back Cover