Motif
supernatural woman associated with animal milk abundance
supernatural_woman_associated_with_animal_milk_abundance
A motif of the Sacred Feminine and Mother Goddess family, within the sub-family Crops, Animals, and Milk Abundance. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF REGAMON / LITERAL TRANSLATION / THE DRIVING OF THE CATTLE OF FLIDAIS / INTRODUCTION; lines 11573-11656 confidence: high
Flidais is identified as 'Flidais the Queen' and as 'one of the tribe of the god-folk (the Tuatha de Danaan),' with the name Buar Flidaise, the Cattle of Flidais, derived from her.
Flidais is described as a supernatural being or Tuatha de Danaan queen connected with cattle, fairy power, and milking wild deer or does like cows.
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