[Christine’s Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Queens: D

Damona, Dawen (Great, Divine Cow)
Healer Goddess of Gaule. She is depicted with a crown of corn ears and a serpent curled around her hand. Inscriptions link her with the practice of incubation, wherein pilgrims sleep at healing shrines and receive cures through dreams. Her consorts are: Borvo: Boiling, Moritsagus: Masses of Sea Water, and Abilus: Tree. In Ireland she is a sacred cow related to dawn. She guards the clouds. (59, 77)
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