Morgan Daimler > Quotes

“Our ancestors have a vested interest in our wellbeing and so are more easily motivated to intercede for us and also are more closely connected to us.”
― Morgan Daimler, Irish Paganism: Reconstructing Irish Polytheism

“We hear her voice in the pounding of our own pulse, in the cry of the raven, and in the wild wind.”
― Morgan Daimler, The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens

“Guide my feet on my path, as I honor the old wisdom
Guide my hands in offering, as I honor the old Gods Guide my heart in strength, as I honor the old ways.”
― Morgan Daimler, Fairy Witchcraft: A Neopagan's Guide to the Celtic Fairy Faith

“The concept itself likely grew out of the depiction of angels and devils in artwork, as well as human souls, that showed them winged. This would have naturally lent itself to the need for a visual aid to help an audience identify a character as Otherworldly. And while angels had bird wings and demons had bat wings fairies took on insect like wings, paralleling the wider associations growing between fairies and insects across this period”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - 21st Century Fairy: The Good Folk in the New Millennium

“And also, more people forget that we and our survival are actually inconsequential to most things that aren't us”
― Morgan Daimler, Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk

“The Vanir are widely viewed as deities of fertility and beings who are more strongly connected to the natural world. Njorð is a deity with sway over the harbour, Freyr over crops and weather, and Freya may represent a principle of propagation or reproduction. As Simek describes it the Vanir are gods associated with good weather, sunshine, rain, helpful winds, successful harvest, and favourable seas, all purviews that pertain to fertility and would be appealing to followers who relied on these things to survive.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic

“Fae – also spelled fay2 – is from the 12th century old French, likely from the older Latin Fata, meaning spirits of fate, and Williams suggests it entered French as a term for Celtic goddesses later shifting to women of supernatural power, then to an adjective meaning roughly enchanting, and finally to the place of Fairyland itself (Williams, 1991).”
― Morgan Daimler, Fairy: The Otherworld by Many Names

“There is, ultimately, no light without darkness, and no darkness without light, and all things need their opposite for balance.”
― Morgan Daimler, Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk

“Gort na Morrigna, field of the Morrigan, in county Louth is hers as is Fulacht na Morrigna, Morrigan’s Hearth, in county Tipperary”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“Four Druids were in the four cities there. Morfesae was in Falias. Esras was in Gorias. Uiscias was in Findias. Semais was in Murias. These here were the four poets who taught the Túatha Dé knowledge and wisdom.”
― Morgan Daimler, Cath Maige Tuired: A Full English Translation

“The cave of Cruachan, also called Uaimh na gCait or Oweynagat (cave of cats), is especially associated with her and is the site of another of her cattle stealing episodes.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“Dumezil’s trifunctional hypothesis, which divided society into three segments, clergy, warriors, and producers, and related that to three functions: sovereignty, battle, and fertility. It is also argued that the three Morrigans fit this concept as well with Morrigu representing sovereignty, Badb battle, and Macha fertility. As”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“Others reject the idea that the events are pseudohistorical and instead see them entirely as mythic in nature, representing the battle between the agrarian Vanir and the war-like Aesir or between the Vanir as symbols of nature and the Aesir as civilization. And, of course, some choose to simply take the story for what it is, the tale of two groups of gods interacting.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic

“Or isn’t it just that we can feel more comfortable with a Goddess of healing than a Goddess of battle, even though both deserve equal respect?”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“The river ford known as the “Bed of the Couple” is named for her Samhain tryst with the Dagda.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“Freya is not a goddess to be taken in pieces or sanitized into acceptability; she is the full scope of life and death, the beautiful and the terrifying.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic

“Several locations are named for the Morrigan including the whirlpool of Corryveckan, which is sometimes called the Morrigan’s Cauldron.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“Redefining “Dark” Gods”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“To this day the spot of the race and the twin’s birth carries her name, Emain Macha, where for a long time festivals and assemblies were held, especially at Lughnasa (McNeill,”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan

“In the Bóyne valley Mur na Morrigna, mound of the Morrigan, is also hers as well as Da Chich na Morrigna, the Paps of the Morrigan (Smyth,”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan