MAY DAY CHANT

Here we come apiping,
In Springtime and in May;
Green fruit aripening,
And Winter fled away.
The Queen she sits upon the strand,
Fair as lily, white as wand;
Seven billows on the sea,
Horses riding fast and free,
And bells beyond the sand.

Candra

1. Planet god. Hindu (Epic and Puranic). Personified by the moon and also seen as a dikpala or guardian of the northern  direction. Consorts include KAUMUDI, TARA and the NAKSATRAS or astral goddesses. His son is BUDHA. He drives in a chariot drawn by ten white horses. Color: white. Attributes: club, lotus, sacred rope and prayer wheel. The term candra usually refers to the cup containing the sacrificial yellow beverage SOMA, often a synonym for the deity. Candra is also the apotheosis of the pale yellow moon disc.

Erinys

Chthonic goddess of wrath. Greek. According to legend she was a consort of POSEIDON by whom she bore the fabulous horse Areon. By implication she may also have been a grim maternal figure who engendered all horses. She may be equated with a wrathful DEMETER who is sometimes given the epithet Erinys. Erinys appears in the collective form of three Erinyes, their heads covered with snake-locks and bearing torches from the underworld. In the Iliad they are described as those “who beneath the earth punish dead men, whoever has sworn a false oath.” In Roman mythology they are the Furies.

The Goddess Epona by Dawn Firewolf

Lately, it seems that Epona is coming back into Her own with the growing popularity of the internet. Most people identify with Her through Her connection with horses – She is the protector of them, after all – but most people don’t seem to be aware of all Her aspects.

Alfrodull

by Alex Pacheco, Clarksville Middle School

 
Alfrodull is the sun in Norse mythology. “Glory of elfs” is the meaning of the name. Other names were also used. A chariot driven by a girl was thought to be the sun. Two horses pulled the chariot; their names were Arvak and Alsvid. Because she was being persued by the wolf, Skoll, she drove very fast. Before the world ends, she will have a daughter.

Dewing Uschinge

by Aldis Putelis

 
The Latvian god of horses. One of the deities called by name by Joannis Stribingius in his account of travel to forgotten lands of eastern Latvia. A somewhat corrupted form of better known Usins. Stribingius describes him as a god of horses exclusively, while there have been attempts to explain Usins as a deity of bees or light (e.g., Biezais, Haralds. Lichtgott der alten Letten. Uppsala, 1976).