Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - Epona's Feast Day (Premium)

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

This is a preview episode. Get the full episode, and many more, ad free, on our supporter's feed: https://getsleepy.com/support. Epona's Feast Day Tonight, we'll follow the story of the majestic Celtic goddess, Epona. Known as the 'protector of horses', she travelled across Europe bringing food, sustenance, and hope to all she met. 😴  Sound design: leafy breeze, distant birdsong 🍃🐦 Narrator: Elizabeth Grace 🇬🇧 About Get Sleepy Premium: Help support the podcast, and get: Monday and Wednesday night episodes (with zero ads) The exclusive Thursday night bonus episode Access to the entire back catalog (also ad-free) Premium sleep meditations, extra-long episodes and more! We'll love you forever. ❤️ Get a 7 day free trial, and join the Get Sleepy community here https://getsleepy.com/support. And thank you so, so much.  Tom, and the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story tonight by subscribing to our supporters' feed. There you'll get access to the entire back catalogue, bonus episodes, and more, and it's all completely ad-free. Click the link below to learn more. And thank you so so much. Me and the team really appreciate your support. In ancient times, the Celts lived throughout what is now known as Western Europe. The tribes each had their own lands and customs. The Galatians lived in northern Hispania making their homes in what is now Spain and Portugal. The Gauls lived in what is now known as France.

Their villages spread across rolling grassy hills and high mountains. The Britons lived in Britannia and the mighty River Thames ran through the country, providing food and water for the people who resided there. While the counts were spread far and wide and had many different cultures, there was one thing that brought them all together, the goddess Eppona. Riding on a tall white horse with a corner copier of food tied to her back, a pona explored the continent, bringing hope, sustenance, and help to the people she met. While much information about her has been lost over the centuries, she was revered across the continent as a protector of animals, fertility and agriculture. Some of the Gauls lived very close to the mighty Roman Empire in the east.

They had heard that a Pona's worship went so far as Rome itself. This is what imagining of how that came to be. On a crisp and sunny December morning, the wind rustles through the leafy trees of the pasture where a powness man lived. The gentle hills of the Cornish countryside in the southwest of Britannia were dotted with thick green trees and small cottages. The round houses with thatched roofs kept families toastasty warm in the colder months. Winter flowers bloomed in the fields and close to the homes, farmers cultivated the land. Today was a powness feast day and she planned to travel all around Gaul and Britannia to visit her followers and sit at the tables laid in her honour. Epona pulled her purple robe around her, feeling snug and warm as her open hair blew back with the wind.

The white hair of the horse also glistened in the sun. The mares thick, tail-swished back and forth at the thought of adventure. Epona had hired of an Eastern Empire who had very different cultures and customs to the counts. So this year, on her feast day, she decided that she would go to visit the Romans too. But first, she would attend each and every one of the celebrations held in her honour in the Celtic lands. in the Celtic lands. It was rumoured that it was impossible to catch a pona because she rode so fast. This year her speed would be tested as she travelled farther than ever before. Eppona mounted her beautiful horse. She felt more comfortable on horseback than anywhere else in the world.

When she was on her mare, she knew she was strong, safe and protected.