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jeudi 2 mars 2006

La fontaine a Guern


La fontaine a Guern, originally uploaded by Rhian vK.

with a statue of St Pierre in the nche, and the scallop, an emblem of

pilgrimage.

Our churh is dedicated to St-Pierre

1 Comments:

At jeudi, mars 02, 2006 7:40:00 PM, Anonymous Anonyme said...

I just read a Wikipedia article about the Naiads of ancient Greece, "a type of nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, and brooks".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad concludes:

"The Naiads were either daughters of Zeus or various Oceanids, but a genealogy for such ancient, ageless creatures is easily overstated. The water nymph associated with particular springs was known all through Europe in places with no direct connection with Greece, surviving in the Celtic wells of northwest Europe that have been rededicated to Saints, and in the medieval Melusine."

And then I saw this post! Perhaps la fontaine a Guern et fontaine de Quelven are remnants of water nymph infested Celtic wells. What do you think?

 

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