I’m a Celtic geek, ok? Just take that as a given. I’ve been fascinated with the region and the culture since grade school, read everything I can get my hands on. So it is that inconsistencies and popular misconceptions tend to jump out and bite my nose.
I can deal when one author claims Rhiannon is the Welsh goddess of the moon and of inspiration, reigning over song-birds, and another that she is the equivalent of Epona, the Irish goddess of horses. But when the same author, in the same sentence, talks about “Epona the horse goddess (Rhiannon of the Birds in Wales) and doesn’t see the basic inconsistency in that, it does make me pause.
How do the birds get into the whales in the first place?