SACRED WATERS
  • Cwm Eleri
  • RIVERS
    • Rivers in a Landscape
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Relating to a River
    • The River Dee
  • MERERID -Guardian of the Well
    • MERERID
    • Mererid and the Deluge
    • Well Maidens & Cup Bearers
    • CANTRE'R GWAELOD
    • Fanahan's Well
    • The Waters of the Otherworld
  • roos
  • GODS
    • Dionysus
    • For Brigid
    • Matrona and Welsh Mermaids
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Sulis and Coventina
  • WATER SPIRITS
    • Greek Nymphs
    • Mermaid
    • The Asrai
    • Ursilla and the Selkie
    • Sulis and Coventina
    • Non’s Well
  • Sabrina and the River Severn
  • Amdanaf
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 These figures from the late Bronze Age excavated at Roos Carr in Yorkshire are carved from Yew wood and seem to represent a journey over water to the Otherworld or Afterworld





"A widespread symbol in burial  traditions - from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to the Viking ship burials - is the boat. In this world, it carries its passengers over water, and it can also be conceived as ferrying the soul of the deceased across the mythical river that separates the afterworld from this one."
Fred Hageneder  YEW - A History

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  • Cwm Eleri
  • RIVERS
    • Rivers in a Landscape
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Relating to a River
    • The River Dee
  • MERERID -Guardian of the Well
    • MERERID
    • Mererid and the Deluge
    • Well Maidens & Cup Bearers
    • CANTRE'R GWAELOD
    • Fanahan's Well
    • The Waters of the Otherworld
  • roos
  • GODS
    • Dionysus
    • For Brigid
    • Matrona and Welsh Mermaids
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Sulis and Coventina
  • WATER SPIRITS
    • Greek Nymphs
    • Mermaid
    • The Asrai
    • Ursilla and the Selkie
    • Sulis and Coventina
    • Non’s Well
  • Sabrina and the River Severn
  • Amdanaf