Dana Meadbh
Through the grasses covering the glade walked - no, not walked - floated a queen, radiant, golden-haired, fiery-eyed, ravishing. The Queen of the Fields, decorated with garlands of flowers, ears of corn, bunches of herbs. At her left-hand side a young stag pattered on stiff legs, at her right rustled an enormous hedgehog.Dana Meadbh is the elves' name for a goddess also known as the Eternal One, Queen of the Fields, Lyfia, and Bloemenmagde by the dwarves. She communicates telepathically with those she encounters.
Overview
Lyfia is a goddess worshipped in the area of Dol Blathanna, the Valley of Flowers, as well as in Kaedwen and Aedirn, venerated by peasants, beekeepers and pitch-burners, all of those who live off gifts of the soil and the forest.
She appears on fields and meadows from May to October. She looks like a beautiful young fair-haired maiden of radiant eyes wearing festoons of flowers, cereal ears and bunches of herbs and flower wreath on her head, surrounded by animals and plants bowing to her.
Folks do not build temples or chapels devoted to her. She is worshiped during Lammas when farmers sacrifice cereals, vegetables and fruits to her on the fields, in faith she would visit the very their village this year. There are also stories that one day Lyfia would settle down with the people who would stand out from the others. Why, however, an eternal being that existed, exists and will exist, loving all the earth and everything that is alive, would want to bend itself to merely one place and one folk?
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