In the ancient Greek myth, Atalanta was abandoned by her father who wanted a son, nursed by a bear and raised by hunters who tought her to fight and hunt. She took an oath of virginity to Artemis, and later was famed for being in foot races in which no man could outrun her to earn her as a bride.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rev. Wendy Van Allen, author of the new Relighting the Cauldron.
Over the centuries when the Roman Catholic and later Christian churches supplanted the Pagan religions of Europe, we know that many...