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Epona-Shapeshifter, horse, and Earth Goddess worshipped by the ancient Belgae of Northeaster Gaul, depicted holding an apple while seated on a white horse. The only Celtic Goddess included in the Roman pantheon. Nicknamed Regina, her name means Divine Horse as she is the offspring of a mare and a human man. Associated with mares and fertilization

Epona was indeed associated with death and rebirth beyond the grave. She is often depicted in Gaulish cemeteries.

Epona, a great goddess of the Celts whose very name means “horse.” I had not thought of her until now as a Death Goddess.

Their horses were strong and of proud bearing, but rough-haired; and one stood there without a rider, Aragorn’s own horse that they had brought from the North; Roheryn was his name. There was no gleam of stone or gold, nor any fair thing in all their gear and harness; nor did their riders bear any badge or token, save only that each cloak was

Faithful servant yet master’s bane, Lightfoot’s foal, swift Snowmane.

The Welsh hero Pryderi, in the Mabinogion, is the son of Pwyll, lord of Llys Arbeth, and Rhiannon, a horse-goddess. Pryderi’s parentage is at once noble, divine and intimately connected with that animal so beloved by the Celts: the horse. His connection with horses is emphasized again when he is abducted as a newborn baby and then turns up lying on