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	British Deities
		Brigantia was a popular goddess, where she was worshipped and called Brigindo in Gaul (France), and Brigit in Ireland.
		Brigantia was the tribal goddess of the Brigantes, the British Celts living in the large region named after her, in northern England.
		Brigantia was the goddess of war, healing and water.
	www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/british.html (838 words)

	Brigantia Ancient Myth - Mythology gods at coolkidsusa.com
		Brigantia was also a pastoral goddess associated with flocks and cattle.
		During the Roman occupation she was associated with the Roman goddess Caelestis as Caelestis Brigantia.
		The Celtic (British) tutelary goddess of the Brigantes in Yorkshire and the goddess of the rivers Braint and Brent, which were named after her.
	www.coolkidsusa.com /brigantia_1293_47.html (210 words)

	Brighid: What Do We Really Know?
		Brigantia was the ancestor-goddess of the Brigantes, a powerful group of tribes who in Roman times occupied what are the now the six northernmost counties of England.
		The main difference is that Brigantia was pictured as a goddess who protected her people, whereas Bríg’s military association is limited to her ambue title.
		This statue combines Celtic motifs with those of the Roman goddess, Minerva, who performed a similar role in Roman worship.
	www.applewarrior.com /celticwell/ejournal/imbolc/brighid.htm (2393 words)

	essayb
		Brigantia, meaning "High One", was the tutelary goddess of the confederation of Brythonic tribes called the Brigantes who were based in the north of the British Isles (very approximately equating to the modern north of England).
		She is usually believed to be the same goddess as Brigantia for Brigit is cognate with that name (or its' pre-Roman form of Briganti).
		A Romano-British carving survives of Brigantia and was found at Birrens in southern Scotland.
	homepages.nildram.co.uk /~fealcen/essayb.htm (1079 words)

	IGN: Rome: Total War
		This Shrine is dedicated to Brigantia, the British tribal Goddess of the Brigantes, one of the important tribal kingdoms.
		This Sacred Grove is dedicated to Brigantia, the British tribal Goddess of the Brigantes, one of the important tribal kingdoms.
		This Sacred Circle is dedicated to Brigantia, the British tribal Goddess of the Brigantes, one of the important tribal kingdoms.
	pc.ign.com /articles/527/527507p4.html (693 words)

	Brigid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Proinsias Mac Cana, Minerva‘s closest parallel is the goddess Brigantis or Brigantia, who survives in Irish literature as Brighid, daughter of the divine king, Dagda.
		"Brigantia, Exaltedness of the Hearth" - patroness of healers, goddess of fertility
		She seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena (Encyclopedia Britannica: Celtic Religion), a goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of 'elevated state', whether physical or psychological.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brigit (447 words)

	Ancient Spirits: Celtic Jewellery Shop -- Brigantia Pendants
		Brigantia controls all aspects of fire and is the patron of smiths as well as the goddess of the hearth, the centre of the family.
		Brigantia means brightness or light and as such she represents healing, awakening and rebirth.
		Daughter of Dagda, the father of the gods, Brigantia is a major Celtic deity.
	www.aquarianage.org /arts/celts/myth11.html (216 words)

	The Heroic Age: Brigantia, Cartimandua and Gwenhwyfar
		Cartimandua was capable of such behavior because she was a living representative of the goddess of sovereignty, Brigantia (Koch 1995:39-40; Ross 1996:354-355).
		Brigantia was a goddess who manifested herself under three forms.
		Aldborough/Isurium Brigantia was occupied in the fifth century but the civitas capital of the Brigantes would likely have been relocated to Eboracum (York; Dark 1994:72-74).
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/1/habcg.htm (3425 words)

	Andrasta,, Arnemetia, Belatu Candus, Brigantia, Cocidus, Coventina, and Ocelus
		Brigantia ("High One") was the patron goddess of healing, smithcraft, and poetry, which represent the mysteries of renewal, transformation, and inspiration.
		Brigantia is more commonly revered in the British Isles as St. Brigid, whose legends borrow extensively from the goddess.
		She was considered the all embracing deity of the North Kingdom.
	unsolvedmysteries.com /usm287564.html (1542 words)

	Brigantia
		The insular Brythonic goddess, Brigantia, was the tutelary deity of the Brigantes tribe of northern Britain.
		At Brampton, Cumberland and Irthington Yorkshire she is invoked as deae Nymphae Brigantiae (the Nymph goddesses Brigantiae) indicating a clear association with water and the multiplicity of this deity.
		Again the Brigantii, like their insular equivalents the Brigantiae would seem to be 'the people of the goddess Brigantia'.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_b/brigantia.html (1323 words)

	A Druid Missal-Any, Oimelc 2004, RDNA
		The same root brg is found in the north-east British tribe the time before and during the Roman period the Brigantes ("high or noble people") as well as in their patron goddess Brigantia.
		Like Minerva she shares similar iconography, wearing on her breast Minerva's symbol of the Gorgon's head and carrying a spear and the globe of victory, showing a link between the Roman goddess and Brigantia.
		Like Bride Brigantia was associated with fertility and healing, and was a patroness of the arts.
	www.geocities.com /mikerdna/missalany27.html (6175 words)

	The Heroic Age: Brigantia, Cartimandua and Gwenhwyfar, N/B
		Brigantia is elsewhere described as a river goddess and the nymph Brigantia (Ross 1996:455, 469 [map 10]).
		Salway (1993:36) disputes the assumption that Brigantia was a federation of clans.
		He believes the administration of Brigantia was transferred to York after the conquest of the Brigantes.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/1/habcg2.htm (1961 words)

	Goddess - Brigantia
		Brigantia is closely related to Brighid as Goddess of the Land.
		Brigantia is the green shout of joy at the beginning of Summer.
		She was the Goddess of the Brigantes, a Celtic tribe whose homeland was the North of England, with the Pennines at its heart.
	www.firetree.net /wheel/Brighid/brigantia.html (571 words)

	About Bridget's name
		Their patron deity had been Brigantia; traditionally she was linked with both fire and solar imagery, as well as with water, and was often depicted in a robe of pure white.
		She was known as Brigit or Bridget to the Irish, Brigantia in Northern England, Bride in Scotland, and Brigandu in Brittany.
		Various interpretations of her name exist including, "Bright Arrow," "Bright One," "Powerful One," and "High One." Bridget was a Sun Goddess, and the legend of her birth is that she was born at sunrise, and a tower of bright flame burst from her forehead that reached from Earth to the Otherworld.
	www.bridgetcheri.com /bridget.htm (7354 words)

	Brigit the Goddess
		In yet another she is described as ‘Caelestis Brigantia’ or heavenly Brigantia which evokes images of her as both exalted and wonderfully pleasing, and suggests that she has a place in the heavens perhaps as the sun which is a heavenly body.
		There are seven inscriptions to Brigantia, in two of them she is referred to as ‘dea Victoria’ which possibly reflects her function as tribal protector.
		Modern scholars accept the link between Brigit and Brigantia who was the tribal protector of the Brigantes, a powerful tribe in the north of England.
	www.brigitsforge.co.uk /brigitgoddess.html (1551 words)

	WHY
		Brigantia is also often equated with the Gaelic goddess Bride, and her subsequent christianised form of St. Bridget, or Ffraid in Welsh.
		However central Brigantia must have been to the need for cultural and political cohesion within the Brigantian territories, she is far from the only deity worshipped within the Brigantian territories of West Yorkshire, as the case of Verbeia shows.
		In the early years of the occupation, Brigantia was not strictly within the Roman province of Britannia, but Cartimandua demonstrated a certain political nous in supporting the idea of an alliance with Rome.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /music/Info/CMJ/Conf/elfed.htm (7399 words)

	HTM Tiaras
		Brigantia is a British, Anglo-Celtic goddess whose name means "High One".
		She became identified with Caelestis, at Corbridge Northumberland, there is an altar inscribed to various deities, including Caelestic Brigantia.
		In carved stone relief at Birrens, on the Antonine Wall in Scotland, she is depicted with the attributes of Minerva.
	www.uktiaras.co.uk /products/silver/brigantia.html (187 words)

	About Brigantia - Celtic re-enactment
		The cult of Brigid is thought to be connected with the worship of the British Goddess Brigantia, who also gave her name to the northern tribe of the Brigantes, and of course to Brigantia - the Iron Age Celtic re-enactment society.
		Brigantia take part in the making of the first accurate video of BOUDICCA for WH Smith, and appear on Barrymore.
		BRIGANTIA, the iron-age Celtic re-enactment society, is formed.
	www.ironage.demon.co.uk /brigantia/celts.htm (2334 words)

	Wiccan Holidays
		"Brigantia" is the day of Brigit, an Irish goddess of smithcraft, healing, and poetry.
		More commonly known as Imbolc (the day when newborn lambs begin to nurse) or, to the Christians, Candlemas (the purification of the Virgin), Brigantia is usually celebrated Feb. 1 or 2.
		The popularity of these ancient holy occasions is linked to changes in the earth and sky, the seasons, and the natural year-round seasonal shifts that dramatically affect human beings, animals, and plants.
	pages.citenet.net /users/ctmx1108/webcalend/pagan.html (868 words)

	Brigit
		In the form of Brigantia, she is equated with the Roman goddesses Victoria, Caelestis, and on a relief found in Birrens (southern Scotland) with Minerva, though decked in the wings and crown of Victoria.
		Her worship was widespread, in Ireland, Britain, and Gaul, most likely due to being the tutulary goddess of the Brigantes federation of tribes, which lived in all three areas.
		The name Brigit probably derives from the older form Brigant&; meaning "Sublime One" or "Exhalted One"; Latinized as Brigantia* in Roman Britain, which gave name to the rivers Braint (Anglesey) and Brent (Middlesex), as well as possibly Bregenz in [Austria] and Brechin in Scotland.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/brigit.html (1275 words)

	Welcome to Willow's Grove
		But long before Brighid the saint there was another Brighid, one whose identity and feast day (February 2) were gradually subsumed by the later historical figure, a Goddess who was known as Brighid in Ireland, Bride in Scotland and Brigantia in Britain.
		As Brigantia she was especially concerned with the flocks and herds and with the produce of the earth.
		The Brigantes, a British Celtic tribe, honored Brigantia as "The High One" and "Mother of the Gods".
	saille333.home.mindspring.com /IMBOLC-OIMELC.html (2392 words)

	Product Detail (Porcelain Brigantia Necklace (Oval))
		As well, her association with fire makes her the goddess of the family, hearth, childbirth and domestic accord." Invite the energy of Brigantia in with an etched porcelain pendant with a black cord in a jewelry box and information card.
		Often portrayed with serpents who possess the healing powers of earth, she is closely associated with the curative energies of sacred wells and springs.
		As the muse of the creative arts, she provides light and inspiration to the bard, smith and other artisans.
	crystalrealm.com /cgibin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=965&p_catid= (131 words)

	Rebellion of the Queen (pre-Celtic Goddesses of Sovereignty and Power)
		A representative of the Goddess known as Brigantia, she had chosen Venutius as her consort.
		Cartimundua, or "sleek pony", was Queen of the Brigantia tribes in northern England in the first century CE, at the time of the Roman invasions.
		Cartimundua is significant because she may have been the prototype for Queen Guinevere of the Arthurian legends.
	www.matrifocus.com /IMB04/myturn-linde.htm (1277 words)

	Brigit: The Survival of a Goddess
		In modern Britain today She is shown as the warrior-maiden, Brigantia, and venerated not only as justice and authority in that country, but also as the personification of Britain as is seen on the coin of the realm.
		Taliesin also describes a traditional cosmology, inspired by Brigantia.
		She causes his visions to reach through British history, on, so it is said, to the end of the solar system.
	druidry.org /obod/deities/brigid.html (3359 words)

	Brigantia B223w celtic bangle watch
		Brigantia was a chief Goddess in Northern England around the time of the Roman occupation.
		She was concerned with river and water cults plus war, healing and prosperity.
		The centre hub is the spirit that joins all 6 parts into a peaceful unity and signifies the miracle of creation
	www.rovada.com /Gallery/celticFashion/pages/brigantia%20b223w%20celtic%20fashion.htm (129 words)

	Brigantia
		Brigantia was the tribal goddess who was honored by an eternal fire - harder to do in the days before natural gas was used as a fuel.
		Brigantia was known by many names including Brigid and, most interestingly, Bride in Scotland.
		Each page of jewelry includes a brief bio of the famous woman for whom the particular design collection is named plus interesting links for more info
	www.greenlightwrite.com /brigantia.htm (352 words)

	Senua: A modern Pagan offering to a rediscovered goddess
		While we are not scholars, members of the Temple of Brigantia value historical fact and seek to base our practices in history, without at all claiming that ancient peoples did what we do.
		Like many people, we were intrigued and pleased to read of this "new" Celto-Roman goddess.
		We are a group of modern Pagans in New England, part of a religious movement that finds divinity in nature and meaning in the pre-Christian deities of various cultures.
	www.janeraeburn.com /senua (612 words)

	Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Celtic Religion
		Morrigu is the tribal goddess of the Tuatha D� Danann, just as every tuath had its own local goddess: Sinand of the Shannon, Matrona of the Marne, Aine of Cnoc Aine (Knockany), Teamuir of Tara, Tailltiu of Teltown, Macha of Ard-Macha (Armagh), Sequana of the Seine, and Brigantia of Brigantes.
		Many neopagans have attempted to synchretize all of them into one single goddess they call "Mother Earth," but the Celtic tradition knows of no one single "Mother Earth"�nor is there any evidence that they conceived of the Earth as a deity.
		This local goddess was neither a maiden, matron, and crone of the moon (as a 20th-century theory would have it), and wasn�t necessarily remnant of "matriarchal" religion, for she was an ideal of male desire.
	www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /article/187 (612 words)

	completelest
		Triple Goddess of the great Celtic empire of Brigantia, which included parts of Spain, France and the British Isles.
		Goddess of Wisdom, totem the owl, Mother Goddess of the city of Athens, the Holy Virgin.
		This ancient Egyptian Snake Goddess was the protectress of the Pharaoh and Lower Egypt.
	www.mothergoddess.com /completelist.htm (5777 words)

	Flora & Fauna
		It can be argued from the symbolism seen on the Romanised statue of Brigantia found in Birrens (the Brythonic Brigid) that She, appropriately enough for a Great Goddess, has a sovereign aspect and acts as protectress: She bears a spear in one hand and a 'globe' in the other.
		These meanings firmly mark the hazel as a special tree of the Goddess as it was Brighid who was said to have started the practise of keening after the death of her son Ruadan and also Brighid who was the matron of the poets ( filid) in Ireland.
		This is derived from Cill Dara or "the church of the oak tree" and the saints' foundation is strongly believed to have been founded on (or converted from) a Pagan holy place of the Goddess.
	homepages.nildram.co.uk /~fealcen/florafau.htm (5777 words)

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