Eponalia : 18 December'XV Kalendas Ianuarius Eponae'
Fifteen days [before] the beginning of January - Epona's Day (a stone inscription from northern Italy) Earthlight glistens on the ivy leaf Sunlight falls on the holly bough The red fire stirs in the kindling We count three days to the longest night Three more till the glimmer of a longer day Then seven to the eve of New Year Calends These days we count from the feast of Epona First festival of the year's turning. |
Resources:
C. M Johns British Museum Quarterly 36 (1971) Katheryn M Linduff ‘EPONA : A Celt Among the Romans’ Latomus 38 (1979) Apuleius The Golden Ass Trans. Robert Graves (Penguin, 1950) p.92 Laura S Oaks ‘Epona’ in Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire ed. M Henning & A King (1986) Miranda Green Celtic Goddesses British Museum p. 185 (1995) |