Queen Maeve, strong enough for a man but always a woman.

In all of Ireland, the was but one woman who held the keys to true power. A force of nature who made men tremble with both fear and desire.

Her name is Queen Maeve.

Queen Maeve is a woman who will be second to no man; she is drop dead gorgeous (literally), strong as a bull and said to have slain whole legions of men, both on the battlefield and in the bed chamber…

Queen Maeve is 100% Alpha-Female

Queen Maeve in Irish myth is not only a heroine, but also a goddess of sovereignty who all the kings of Ireland where symbolically married too. One of her names is the “King maker”, as she could elevate any
man, who is man enough, to his highest potential. Her skills and talents are great and many, she is a woman unto herself, a Queen who needs no King to be complete, but knows that Ireland is best ruled with a combined front of King and Queen.

Queen Maeve’s feminine charms and sexual prowess are legendary. It is said she could easily exhust 30-40 men a night, maybe all at the sametime ,and be ready for more.(Now THAT is cardio!) She is also known for her stubborn and “bullish” nature, knowing what she wants and letting nothing stand in her way to get it.

Her one time mate King Ailill once remarked to her that since he had brought the most wealth to their marriage that he technically ruled above her. Furious, Queen Maeve ordered each of their personal
accountants to compare all their wealth, coin for coin, gem for gem, bauble for bauble. It all came down to a question of cattle; King Ailill had in his possession a mighty stud bull that Maeve could not match. King Ailill had indeed brought more to the table.

Not to be out done, Queen Maeve sought out a bull that could match and even surpass her husband’s. She found such a beast, the great bull of Ulster.

To her credit Queen Maeve, at least tried to “borrow” the bull; however, when that failed she came to take the bull with force.

There are a great number of differing stories on what happened in the war that followed. Queen Maeve took to the battlefield in all her glory and dressed to kill (literally), riding her fantastic magical chariot. Queen Maeve, absolutely fearless and confident in her skills, she lays waste to many of Ireland’s heroes in that battle.

In some versions she even fights Ireland’s greatest hero Cuchulin to a stalemate. Cuchulin claimed he couldn’t strike a woman down to save face. Some other variations claim Queen Maeve begged Cuchulin to spare her life. I tend to believe that the strory of her begging for her life to be a Christianized version of Queen Maeve’s saga. As much as the Christian clergy of that time despised Cuchulin, they gained more if they could use his name to weaken the image of what they hated worse, a powerful and sexual woman who made her own choices and wasn’t ordered around by a man or men.

Regardless of which telling of the story the end is the same. Queen Maeve’s forces are finally driven back, but not before she secures the great bull of Ulster as her prize, along with the heads of numerous warriors she took in battle. For Queen Maeve this is victory.

When the great bulls of Ulster and Ailill met, they tore each other to shreds and died from their grievous injuries. This put Queen Maeve without a bull, but also denied her husband a bull coupled with a defeat
and lose of wealth in a war to take the Bull of Ulster placed Queen Maeve in the dominate position over him; which may have been Queen Maeve’s back up plan all along.

The battle between the two bulls signifies an older martial ritual of two men fighting each other to the death for the hand of Queen Maeve and the Kingship of Ireland. Perhaps it wasn’t uncommon for both men to sustain mortal wounds in the battle. Queen Maeve as the Sovereign goddess of Ireland is
eternal, she is also the lady of the lake ho gave Chieftain Arthur the sword Excalibur, Queen Maeve gives the King of Ireland the power to a successful warrior and leader.

Queen Maeve exemplifies the old saying, “behind every successful man is a strong woman”.

Queen Maeve demonstrates that you must learn to exert control over yourself, or someone else will do it for you.

The ancient Irish women held tremendous power in their clans. They ruled and fought alongside their men, and they did it with great skill, strength and valor. A weak woman was of no use to a wild and adventurous bunch that was the ancient Irish.

Those Celtic women owned property, ran businesses, kept various sexual partners without guilt and could marry and divorce at their choosing, in some ways their rights and freedoms exceed that of modern women
who in many ways are still help captive by the manipulative designs of fearful and insecure men who have been backstabbing and cutthroat enough to gain positions of authority in this culture and not leading from the front like Kings and heroes of the past; but, striking backroom deals and sending the poor to die for them like cowards to sustain their wars for profit.

The steely resolve of Queen Maeve might be exactly what women need to take back their power and freedom and help raise a generation of strong masculine men ready to lead the charge against tyranny. To lead other from the front, restoring rightful kings to the throne and good leaders elected to uphold the will and freedoms of the people who voted for them.

A seemingly tall order, but Queen Maeve is NEVER one to run from a challenge.

While Queen Maeve maybe not immediately appeal to the majority of women I get the distinct feeling that a select few very physically driven women would love to toss weights around usually reserved for men and be able to play as rough, if not rougher then the boys.

-Kevin Wikse