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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.'
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Rhiannon is also the name of one of celtic pantheo's-- she is the godess of horses, (and poetry, and other things)
the horse was held to be an 'familiar'--a shape a god would take when visiting earth, and all of the people of the british isle dislike the idea of eating horse meat (you don't eat gods)--a cultural remnant of old believes.
ancient irish lore, has it the that the O'Connor king's had to have sex with a mare before assending to the throne. (i don't know if queens had to undergo a similar, but more grizzly encounter with a stallion.)
in the book A Man in Full there is a very graphic description of a stallion being put to stud. the mare in question didn't have an easy time of it.
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Rhiannon is also the name of one of celtic pantheo's-- she is the godess of horses, (and poetry, and other things)
Well in the tale Rhiannon's punishment is to serve essentially the role of a horse as she is confined to the horse post and forced to carry people on her back if they so chosoe.
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