#MythologyMonday: There`s a pre-Celtic cosmic tale in which the winter sun’s daughter is born as an old woman and grows younger through the winter, ending as a lovely maid, which was adopted by the arriving #Celts and melded to their own myth of the bestowal of sovereignty on the chosen king, who typically had to kiss or have intercourse with the #Cailleach in her hag form before she revealed herself as a splendid young woman.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic Mythology & #Folklore`