Chant for the Horse Goddess, Epona, in the Gaulish language
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2019
- This chant is derived from an inscription on a 1st century BCE lead tablet found at Rom, Deux-Sévres (Roman Rauranum), in Western France, describing a ceremony carried out in honour of the Gaulish horse goddess, Epona. It consists of a number of names and titles given to Epona in late Iron Age Gaul, some of which are also found in the British Isles:
Epona, Rigantona,
Atanta, Eponina,
Catona, Dibonia,
Epotia, Vovesia.
Translating the names into English, the chant reads as follows:
"Great Mare, Great Queen,
Horse Goddess, dear Epona,
Battle Queen, Good Goddess,
Powerful Mistress, to whom vows are made."
This chant is one of several that form part of the Winter Wolf Healing Ceremony recreated for the Druid course of the British Druid Order.
With thanks for inspiration: the Quileute people of the Olympic Peninsula; Kate Fletcher and Corwen Broch; Rhiannon, a.k.a. White Horse Woman.
The form of the chant and the drumming are (C) Greywolf, 2019.
The images and video clips are courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Pixabay and Videvo. 
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I work with wild and semi feral conservation ponies. I played this while I was out on the nature reserve with them. They stood to attention, listening and sniffing the air.
Even my own horses stopped what they were doing to stand tall and listen.
There is something magic here, the horses and ponies tell me so.
Both of my folks were Native and Celtic, so I naturally liked this!.
Suslantia etic subuta! Deūos ambi snus, deūos von snus
Many Thanks for this, valuable bit I needed for my next step. Thank you for sharing your story of the Quileute, I see, and can relate. Greetings.
magique merci pour ce partage , avez les paroles écrites en Gaulois ....
This is perfect to get in trance especially for me who saw the godess
It is so similar to the archaic italic language and archaic latin, and so distant to the Irish gaelic that breaks the imaginary...
Love this thank you ❤❤❤❤
Epona's Blessings
Could you please show the words in Gaulish that they are saying, besides the English translation? thank you for doing this and sharing it
Eponâ (great-mare)
Rigantonâ (great queen)
Atantâ (horse goddess)
Eponinâ ([dear] little-Eponâ)
Catonâ (battle-lady/goddess)
Diboniâ (good-lady/goddess)
Potiâ/Epotiâ (powerful-lady/goddess?)
Uouesiâ/Vovesiâ (?)
@@joecato1138 THANK YOU
@@francescahedrick8268 you're very welcome! Glad I could help.
Hi Francesca,
I've now added the Gaulish names to the video description, followed by the translation :-)
Blessings,
Greywolf /|\
@@joecato1138
Thank you for this post.
Many blessings,
Greywolf /|\
Mesmerizing. What a beautiful
Thank you for your kind words. Very briefly, a Wolf came to me in a vision many years ago. A few years later, I found myself on the Quileute Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State on the night of the weekly Potlatch feast and Drum Circle. I was asked to speak in the ceremony, couldn't think what to say, so sang a Wolf chant I'd been given among the stone circles at Avebury. I didn't know at the time that the Quileute trace their ancestry from shape-shifting Wolves, nor that one of the village Elders had a premonition of my coming 5 days before I got there. After some discussion among the Elders, I was made a member of the Drum Circle. I've kept up the connection since. Making ceremony with the Drum Circle there deepened my understanding of Druidry in ways I'm still working out! Wolf spirit calls to Wolf spirit, even across great oceans...
@@philipshallcrass2951 that's a really amazing story! You may know this already, but Uailogenos means "wolf-born"!
@@joecato1138
Thank you, Joe :-) I did not know that, but I like it a lot! I downloaded a Gaulish Dictionary a while back, but haven't had time to look into it much yet. It's on my to-do list ... /|\
@@philipshallcrass2951 I have a few downloaded if you're interested. Also a few Proto-Celtic dictionaries.
Anyone have this in the modern Gaulish orthography?
Are the lyrics original from the tablet or you wrote them?
Hi!! 😜
@@joecato1138 Hiiiii!
The tablet contains details of a ceremonial sacrifice carried out by a devotee of the Horse goddess. All I did was extract the various names of the goddess she gives in the inscription in the order in which she gives them. I did it just because I wanted to translate them, but as soon as I saw them on the page, I knew they would work as a chant for the goddess and the Horse spirit.
@@philipshallcrass2951 Ok! Thank you for answer!
Please post lyrics
Done! See the video description above :-)
I wish there was a version without the horse whinnies in the background. To someone familiar with horses it's very distracting as those are distressed and upset horse noises .
Time stamp to a full loop without screams: 2:07 - 2:29
Gaulish ?
Are you asking if it is Gaulish or what Gaulish is?