In issues 88, 2015 and 89, 2016 of Meyn Mamvro, a journal devoted to Cornish Earth Mysteries, I wrote two articles concerning the Hieros Gamos, or sacred marriage of King Arthur and Guinevere at Morvah in the far west of Cornwall.
This occurred at the god Lleu or Lugh's feast day on August 1st each year, which in Ireland was known as Lughnasad. This date, which has moved over time to about August 15th, due to the Procession of the Equinoxes, was considered a very important time of celebration and ancient rites in Ireland. more especially with the complex mythology of the Mother Goddess Aine of Cnoc Aine south of Limerick, the harvest first fruits and bent or crooked dark god known as Crom Ddu, who is a dark version of Lugh the Light Bringer himself. Lugh, otherwise known as Lucifer, was the Morning Star of Venus and Venus was a goddess born from the ocean.
Morvah faces the Atlantic Ocean on the far west of Cornwall and the two aforementioned articles revealed how the mythology of this place involved Arthur's twin sister, Morgana as a crow, Arthur himself as a crow or raven as the dark side death preceding the light of birth of this sacred marriage.
The fact that it occurred at Morvah, raises several questions. Sunset is the key visible time at this western facing viewpoint, the realm of death preceding the sunrise of rebirth. Arthur and Guinevere here are given alternative names; Jack the Hammer and Genevra, which evidently reminds one of Arthur's Norse counterpart, Thor and his cosmological thunder hammer, who in one adventure attempts to drain the worlds ocean while drinking from a vessel.
Although the myth has only survived in partial form, it would appear that it involved some ancient rites concerning the ocean. The word Mor in Morvah, means ocean or sea and Morgana herself was a goddess of Morgans, who are mermaids. The fact that some kind of marriage between a man and a mermaid occurs a little up the same western facing coastal village of Zennor, speaks volumes. This is similar to the western facing tribal origin myths in Southern California, which are explored in my articles.
So what strange power is invoked at Morvah first fruits ? It is evidently linked to the Goddess of Sovereignty because the ocean is the source of the origins of life itself. Recent work has shown that life first emerged on Mother Earth in deep volcanic vents in the guise of single cell creatures which lived on hydrogen or carbon. This is replicated in the womb, where the darkness of the crow is the cradle for the single cell egg, before it meets the sperm.
This makes this place very special as the first incarnation of life on the land and therefore with birthing.
