For the Upcoming Solstice, Galoob's Golden Girls

 It is almost The Solstice, Blessed Be!

 

Below are some new additions to a subcollection of some of my favorite dolls.  They are among the first action figures created with girls in mind.  They are inspired by Celtic Woman Warriors like Maeve, Cartimandua, and Boadicia.  Wild One, not in this group, even has a woad painted face.  

Look for books on the lives of Celtic women and Joy Chant's, The High Kings, and others by Lady Antonia Fraser, Nora Chadwick, Pauline Goudge, and Jean Markale.

These dolls had a Celtic hall, a doll house really, which I have.  I collected all of them, including their chariots and as many individual outfits as I could find.  I even put fresh evergreens, like little trees in their Hall, because that's where many of our  Christmas tree legends come from, when the old Celts brought in fresh evergreens during the bitter winter months.

Mothra, a nod to the Celtic shape shifters, from where our

werewolves come

Ogra, male doll

Vultura

 Wild One in her box

Bleakness of December

 Images of a dying garden . The seed bell is  a tradition I adopted after reading Tasha Tudor's Take Joy.  A month of deaths and funeral rembrances. preceded by November, an even crueler month. A time for reflection and auld lang syne .