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Seranne’s inscription, TIGONTIAS.SO.ADSAGSONA.SEUE, is at La sépulture du Larzac. The inscription, from the 1st century BC, has sixty lines and is written in gaulish cursive. It is at le Plomb du Larzac / Hospitalet-du-Larzac, Seranne-Larzac, a limestone cave in Aquitaine-Aquitània, Southern France. [le plomb means lead or fuse in French]

Ce document nous fait pénétrer dans un univers de femmes se livrant à des opérations de magie et de contre-magie, et nous fournit, sur les corporations de sorcières dans le vieux monde celtique, des lumières inattendues. Inattendu aussi, le degré d’évolution de la langue gauloise à cette date, tel qu’il ressort de ce précieux témoignage. – Michel Lejeune: Le plomb magique du Larzac et les sorcières gauloises

Note: The word Aix in French means river. It is pronounced X and handily corresponds to the ogham X at the top of the page. The ogham character is ifinn: sea.

Sisters: Aeb: Life & Aífe: Radiant, Fedelm: Nine Times Beautiful, Cliodna: Cherished, Ellén: Sun & Fínscoth: White Flower

Etain, speak!
What is the song the harper sings, what tongue
Is this he speaks? for in no Gaelic lands
Is speech like this upon the lips of men.
No word of all these honey-dripping words
Is known to me. Beware, beware the words
Brewed in the moonshine under ancient oaks
White with pale banners of the mistletoe
Twined round them in their slow and stately death.
It is the feast of Saveen (Samhain)

–-William Sharp ‘Fiona MacLeod’ The Immortal Hour

She also takes the form of: Bó Find, Bó Ruadh, Bó Dhu (White Cow, Red Cow, Black Cow), divinities of fertility. The giant Cú Chúlainn killed her three sons: Cire, Bire and Blaicne

In Ireland the god Midir: Wren of the underworld keeps her in a glass grianon: sun house sustained on flowers for part of the year. There she uses a silver-gold comb to arrange her hair into two braids strung with golden balls and plaited into four strands. She wears a hooded green silk tunic embroidered with gold, silver-fringed purple mantle & gold brooch. She washes in the underworld Brí Léith’s (pron. bree LAY) silver basin rimmed with carbuncles with four golden birds. At the end of the year she and Midir fly away in the form of two swans, linked by a chain of gold. She lives at the sacred hill of Eochaid Airem Mac Finn: Trout Fire the rest of the year. In the Underworld Fuamach: Sonorousness turned her into the shape of a butterfly for seven years to feed on flowers, she was blown to the Sun god &Oeacute;engus’ house. When she returned after seven years to her sleeping chamber, Fuamach changed her into a crimson dragonfly with a wand of rowan berries and had the winds blow her away. Étain fell through the roof of house near the Bay of Cichmany and was reborn from an old woman who swallowed a fly in a golden cup of milk as Etaín Echraidha: Blossoming One. It was 1,012 years between the first begetting of Etain by Ailill to the time when she was born the second time as the daughter of Etar. When Midir: Wren brought her again to the Underworld, Fumach changed her into a purple dragonfly and blew her away. She was reborn from a woman who swallowed a golden fly as Édaín Mes Búachalla: Cowherd’s Fosterchild who went with a hundred of every sort of cattle and lived with Midir for seven years. In crone form she is a hag at Scáthach’s Bridge of Leaps at who was decaptiated by Cú Chullain: Hazel Hound.

In Wales: Mabinogi: Intoxicating Tales of Youth, She drank a love potion made by the goddess Branwen: White Raven and fell in love with the god Tristam: Melt at Joyous Guard Castle. She enchanted Brían and was imprisoned by Myrddin: Sea Fortress. When she heard Tristram was dead, she flung herself on the body, and died also. The two were buried in one grave, on which a rose and vine were planted, which grew up and so intermingled their branches that no man could separate them – Malory: History of Prince Arthur, ii. (1470)

She has a magic fountain at Brocéliande, Brittany Later drowned in the Severn river with her daughter Sabrina: Sweet Goodness: Fate Egg of Gaule by her mother Guinevere-Jenny: White. The name of the common wren is called the Jenny Wren. (8, 45, 47, 60, 58, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 80, 89, 92, 93, 183, 210, 236, 252)