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Totems
The People of the Horse. The People of the Hound. The People of the
Crane.
Sounds good, even without historical foundation…

By the way, I designed "Totems" long before I was aware of the Breton
group "Tri Yann"'s logo.
Not that they were the first: such a construction of three faces in
profile is not uncommon in Celtic art.
The number of three also meant birth-life-death for the Celts, and past-present-future,
beginning-middle-ending, air-earth-water.
And in the Irish and Welsh triads almost everything of importance was
arranged in threes. The Mother Goddess is often depicted as a trinity,
and the War Goddess Morrigan also has three aspects: the nice ladies
Danu, Badb and Macha. (Danu is the mother of the Tuatha de Danann, the
Tribe of the Gods. Badb - don't ask me how to pronounce her name - lusts
after men. She is often seen when washing cloths and weapons of warriors
who are bound to die. Macha likes to dominate her lovers by cunning,
and if that doesn't work by brutal force. She feeds upon fresh heads
of fallen enemies.)
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