Wiccans/pagans only please?

Question

can you tell me about Brigid please, i would like to know what she is about. i want to know her backround story :)

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Answer 1

I usually send everybody with questions like this to godchecker but their entry for Her is kind of minimal. Suffice it to say, you can get a good view on Her by reading the mythology. Lady Gregory's versions of the Irish tales, or the writings of Charles Squire are good choices for beginners.

Brighid is a goddess of fire. Her special duties related to healing, smithcraft, and poetry. She is not the supreme deity- She never ruled the pantheon. The mother of the Tuatha is Danu. She did and does to this day, however, hold a prominent place in the minds of Her admirers. To say every goddess who ever bore a child is a goddess of fertility, also, I think is a bit absurd. As a goddess of healing, though, She could certainly have been useful to mothers in labor back when death in childbirth was so very common.

In my experience, She likes red wine and any fire. Many of Her followers also attest to Her love for poetry you compose yourself.

Answer 2

Brigid, sometimes known as Brigit, was a goddess of healing and fertility who was believed to assist women in labor. She seems to have been widely worshiped in Ireland and Britain, where she was most likely known as Brigantia. In Irish mythology, she was the wife of Bres, the Half-Fomorii god who briefly led the Tuatha De Danann after the first battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Firbolg. Bres was handsome but also oppressive, like all Fomorii, so his reign was short. Brigid, however, bore him three sons. She often appears as an alternative for her mother Anu, which suggests that they were probably different aspects of the same mother goddess.

St. Brigit, or St. Bride, one of Ireland's patron saints, may have been a priestess of the goddess Brigid prior to her conversion to Christianity. It was said that she was able to feed animals without reducing the available food for the people, and this also links her with Brigid, who was celebrated at the Celtic festival of Imbolc on the first of February, at the same time as the ewes came into milk.

Answer 3

Brighid - or Brid, to use the Irish name - or Brigantia, as she was called in Britain - was the supreme and all-embracing deity of the northern English Kingdom. In the Gaelic areas, she was a Goddess of fire, inspiration, healing, craftsmanship and (in the Hebrides particularly) childbirth. She was the patroness of poets, of smiths and other craftsmen, of doctors, of the hearth and of priests. She was also a Goddess of sovereignty.

According to Lebor Gabala Erenn, Brighid was the daughter of the Dagda, 'the good God' of Tuatha. For dynastic reasons, she was married to Bres of the Fomors and bore him a son Ruadan.

Bridget still survives thanks to Pope Gregory I, known as "the Great". In the sixth century he instructed St Augustine, then evangelizing England, not to destroy pagan sites or customs but to take them over and Christianize them, so that the local people would take more easily to places and pattern to which they were accustomed. This is how the Goddess Bridgit became Saint Brighid.

Answer 4

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It's all available out there, you just have to use your search engine.

Answer 5

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brigid.html

Answer 6

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brigid.html