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The ferocious, black-faced Scottish mother goddess, Cailleach Bheur, who appears to be identical with Mala Lith, "Grey Eyebrows" of Fingalian story, and the English "Black Annis", figures in Irish song and legend as "The Old Woman of Beare". This "old woman" (Cailleach) "had", says Professor Kuno Meyer, "seven periods of youth one after another, so that every man who had lived with her came to die of old age, and her grandsons and great-grandsons were tribes and races".When old age at length came upon her she sang her "swan song", from which the following lines are extracted:

Ebb tide to me as of the sea!
Old age causes me reproach ...
It is riches Ye love, it is not men:
In the time when we lived
It was men we loved ...
My arms when they are seen
Are bony and thin:
Once they would fondle,
They would be round glorious kings ...
I must take my garment even in the sun:
The time is at hand that shall renew me. MacKenzie, Donald A.(Alexande). Myths of Babylonia and Assyria . Kindle Edition.
MacKenzie, Donald A.(Alexande). Myths of Babylonia and Assyria