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- InCeltic religion: The impact of Christianity
…and persistent concept of the hierogamy (sacred marriage) of the king with the goddess of sovereignty: the sexual union, orbanais ríghi (“wedding of kingship”), that constituted the core of the royal inauguration seems to have been purged from the ritual at an early date through ecclesiastical influence, but it…
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