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Subject: Re: [M-R] St. Michael Wotan
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We had a long discussion of hilltop Michael sites a while ago and I felt constrained to mention a few Welsh valley bottom examples including the archetype, Michaelston-le-Pit!
Over to you, Graham ....
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray
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Subject: Re: [M-R] St. Michael Wotan
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Can anyone provide bibliography for the following extract from the saint of the day post? I know I have also read of a mediterranean mountain cult of the saint, (and of course would like bibliography for that too!) and always thought of Mont St. Michel and Skellig Micheal as mountainous or rocky rather than assocated with hillsides. Of course Wotan is out in the case of Skellig Michael (as well as mediterranean dedications, if any). If there is literature associating Wotan (or Thor, who is the snake-slayer in the Norse tradition) specifically with hill sites I'd like that, too.
"In northern Europe in the middle ages, churches were often built in his honor on hillsides, apparently substituting his worship for that of Wotan."
By the by: anyone doing work on pagan sites (as indicated by archaeology or placenames) I'm interested in mapping them, as well as saint's dedications,
on an electronic map. Please get in touch!
Meg Cormack
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