Thursday, March 9, 2017

UPDATE on Aerfen, goddess of the River Dee

In an earlier post (http://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2017/01/st-aaron-goddess-aeruen-and-city-of.html), I suggested that St. Aaron of the City of the Legion was a Christian substitute for the goddess Aerfen/Aeruen of the River Dee.

I've since had confirmation back from the National Library of Wales regarding false claims made concerning this goddess by neopagan writers:


Thus while she is mentioned in early Welsh sources, it is patently untrue that a shrine to her was known of, and that sacrifices were regularly offered to her.  These are stories made up by modern authors which have infiltrated some other more respectable sources and are, therefore, all too often interpreted as facts.

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