Just doing a bit of much-needed deletions from ages back: where's the Well
of the Three Nymphs, please, Rik? (When you come back from e-exile.)
Christine Buckley
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From: Rik NA <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 06 December 1999 16:04
Subject: Re: Pre-Christian Water Veneration
> Probably an aside, but:
>
> >Pre-Christian holy wells may have been used for divination, or as a
> >'recommended route' for communication with the deity/ies,
>
> Don' know about the divination side (although it is inferred from
> salmon/acorn/Segais link in Irish mythology), but communication is evident
> in Sequanna - Requests for healing, Bath - Requests for healing and
> vengeance, Llyn Fawr and Llyn Cerrig Bach - Requests for help in the face
of
> the Romans or another threat (perhaps), Coventina's Well - Cult worship,
> Well of the Three Nymphs - localised deity worship.
>
>
> Rik L.
>
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