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Meaning of mámoa




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

mámoa
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From Latin mmola, small breast, nipple. Neolithic burial mound, proper to the northwest peninsular. Accumulation of earth and stones with rounded shape on dolmens that would point, according to archaeologists, funeral or Druid cult places. These places hide numerous legends that emerge at night from San Juan and the Galicians also call them medogne, medorra, medela, mamoíña or mamoela.

  



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