Lomography

Book of Epona by Jonathan Polkest

EPONA in Gallo -Roman/Celtic Mythology Epona was a protector of horses, Donkeys and mules.She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, and the presence of foals in some sculptures (Reinach, 1895) And H Huber suggested that the goddess and her horses were leaders of the soull in the after life ride, with parallels in RHIANNON of the MABINOGION. Unusually for a Celtic deity most of whom were associated with specific localities the Celtic deity most of whom were associated with specific localities the worship of epona, the sole Celtic divinity ultimately worshipped in Rome itself, was widespread in the Roman Empire between the first and third centuries. Her feast day was on December 18, the supposed autonomy of Celtic civilization in Gaul is not recognized by the colonial imperial ideaologies in Britain or FRance. who wish to see a particularly federated type of evidence, however the funeral symbolism of the horseman with a serpent tailed daemon, which he established as theme of victory over death and Epona both found to be late manifestations of mediterranean influenced symbolism which had influenced gaul through contacts with ETRURIA and MAGNA GRAECIA. Perceptions of native Celtic goddesses had changed under Roman hegemony;only the names remained the same,A bizarre euhemeristic account of the birth of Epona that does not reflect cELTIC BEliefs can be found in PLUTARCH's Life of Solon;Giambattista Della Porta's edition of MAGIA NATURALIS (1589), a collection of the sensible and not so sensible remarks etc in the context of unseemly man-beast coupling, Plutarch's Life of Solon in which he 'reports out of Agesilaus, his third book of Italian matters, that Fulvius Stella loathing the company of women, coupled himself with a mare, of whome he begot a very beautiful maiden-child, and she was called by a fit name ; EP