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From: "Graham Mallaghan" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Black Dogs
> This could work the other way, too. If a practice is ubiquitous and
carried out with >rationalisation now, then one must ask if it was ever
special, or religious, or ritualised, and not just >about the fact that
humans seem to get some innate pleasure for throwing things into water.
The archaeology from the Celtic lands seems to support a religious context
for offerings made into water, both running and standing. Though commonly
the objects thrown in were deliberately damaged before they were deposited,
something which isn't done today!
gwyn eich byd
Ffred
O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
Gwret dy Cymry yghymeiri
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