Descent into Darkness with the Cailleach
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8 min readNov 7, 2018
The Dark Goddess who brings the Light of Winter.
Dark Goddess
She has many names: the hag of winter, the bone mother, the goddess of death, the dark mother, the harvest goddess. The Cailleach is the one who brings the frost, the one who sends the world into winter, but this is indicative of a bigger theme. She rules over transformation, the cycles of death and…
