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	More info about Brigid
		Brighid is often symbolized by fire, flames, and the hearth; she is also symbolized by water (cauldrons), grain (Brigid wheels, Brigid's Bed), creatures (a white cow with red ears and swan) and also by talismans (spinning wheel).
		Brighid is the goddess of all arts and crafts, and as such she is the feminine principle of the Ildanach, the counterpart of Lugh Lamhfada.
		Brighid was the goddess of poetry and inspiration; why is she the inspiration to male poetry.
	members.aol.com /Branwenn/page2.html (2310 words)

	Owldaughter - Brighid
		To Saint Brighid are ascribed several legends and miracles involving mainly cattle, an interesting connection to the spring phenomenon of calving and lambing, subtly connecting the saint to fertility and the seasonal turn while maintaining her sanctity.
		Brighid is generally identified as an Irish goddess associated with fire, although in Roman Britain she was known as Brigantina, the deity associated with free warriors known as brigands.
		Brighid is the Celtic equivalent of the Greek goddess Hestia (and the Roman goddess Vesta), a deity concerned with the domestic sphere.
	www.owldaughter.org /articles/brighid.html (1092 words)

	Brigid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She had two sisters, also named Brighid, and is considered a classic Celtic Triple Goddess.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brighid (447 words)

	Brighid Guardian Of Wells \| Gothinia Chronicle \| Angelus Gothinia \| Simon Seamount
		Brighid sits beside her daughter on Apple Throne in Castle of Gritton listen daughter and I will tell you why you must respect power of water wells for long ago none of this process was real like you I was a child bored with life.
		Brighid faints from a vision of blood rivers of blood flowing from mouths of men and girls snagged with hands of silver iron so she struggles gasping in a nightmare wriggling to escape and falling off a cliff tumbling head over heels through berry vines.
		Brighid turns sharp to see a tall fl stone standing near bubbling fountain at her feet its flat smooth polished surface carved with image of a tall woman with braided hair standing on top bubbling fountain of water and holding a long sharp sword in her hand.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/gothinia/Brighid_Guardian_Of_Wells.htm (900 words)

	Ireland's OWN Myths and Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She is thought to be the Goddess of the Sun; she was born at sunrise and it is said that a tower of flame burst from the her forehead that reached from Earth to Heaven.
		Brighid is thought to represent poetry and inspiration, healing and midwifery, hearth fire, smithies and other crafts.
		As a warrior Goddess, Brighid favoured the use of the spear or the arrow.
	irelandsown.net /brighid.htm (815 words)

	Brigid
		Known by many names, Brighid's three aspects are (1) Fire of Inspiration as patroness of poetry, (2) Fire of the Hearth, as patroness of healing and fertility, and (3) Fire of the Forge, as patroness of smithcraft and martial arts.
		Excalibur, King Arthur's sword, was forged by the Lady of the Lake, a figure sometimes associated with Brighid because of her fire and forgery aspect.
		Brighid's festival is Imbolc, celebrated on or around February 1 when she ushers Spring to the land after The Cailleach's Winter reign.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/brigid.html (401 words)

	God & Goddess Pendants - Brighid - The Celtic Goddess - PEPI-412-676
		The Christians "converted" Bridget to St. Brighid, calling her the human daughter of a druid, and claiming she was baptized by St. Patrick.
		The ancient Brighid had three manifestations, the goddess of smithcraft, the goddess of poetry and inspiration, and the goddess of healing and medicine.
		Brighid is identified with the Earth herself and the fertility of the soil.
	www.wiccanglade.com /brighid.html (183 words)

	Brighid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This links Brighid to the great mother goddesses of the eastern Mediterranean, and like them, she was identified with fertility of the soil, and with the earth itself.
		Some rituals and legends suggest that Brighid may date back even beyond the era of the Celts - that she may very well be a more ancient seasonal goddess of the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Britain.
		In modern Britain today, as the warrior-maiden, Brigantia, she is a symbol of justice and authority, and portrayed as the personification of Britain on the coin of the realm.
	myths.allinfoabout.com /deity2.html (693 words)

	Sanctuary of Brighid
		In her three-fold role, Brighid embodies the Flame of Healing sought by Physicians and Healers of all kinds; the Flame of Poetry and Inspiration, and the Flame of the Hearth and the Smithy.
		Anciently, a shrine to Brighid was kept at Cille Dara (Cell of the Oak), now Kildare, Ireland, where 19 women cared for Her sacred flame, each tending it a full day from sundown to sundown.
		The Goddess Brighid is revered as the Catholic Saint Brigid of Kildare.
	www.webcoves.com /circles/brighid.html (564 words)

	Brighid or St. Brigit?
		As a warrior goddess, Brighid favored the use of the spear or arrow.
		The oak was sacred to the druids, and in the inner sanctuary of the Church 20 nuns maintained a perpetual flame, a religious symbol of the druid faith, as well as the Christian.
		She also may be depicted with a flame over her head, or with geese or a cow near her, or near a barn or letting wax from a candle drip onto her arm, or in the act of restoring a man's hand.
	sxws.com /charis/brigit.htm (2810 words)

	Brighid - MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Pagan Forums
		Brighid is the Daughter of the Dagda, one of the more universal deities of the pagan Gaelic world.
		She did not come into the Gaelic heart with the Cross and Mary, but was there long before as Bride, Brighid or Brighid of the Dedannans, those not immortal but for long ages deathless folk who to the Gael were as the Olympians to the Greeks.
		That earlier Brighid was goddess of poetry and music, one of the three great divinities of love, goddess of women, the keeper of prophecies and dreams, the watcher of the greater destinies, the guardian of the future.
	www.mysticwicks.com /showthread.php?t=8449 (1155 words)

	EARTHSONGS: The Journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans, Volume 6, Issue 1, Imbolc 2002, Copyright (c) 2002
		Brighid's fire is symbolic of the transformation of healing and the wisdom of the soul.
		Brighid dolls would be crafted and dressed in white then placed in honor by the hearth.
		Brighid's crosses were and still are made and hung from the rafters of the roof or on the back of the front door.
	www.faeryshaman.org /es61/es61arc3.htm (692 words)

	Brighid's Fires Burn High (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brighid is also a midwife and protector, a war-goddess and a teacher of the arts of battle.
		To make the holy name of the foster mother (Brighid), she placed three turfs of peat between the three heaps, each one touching the center, and covered it all with ash.
		Brighid is also a seer; the Matthewses describe her as "the central figure of the Celtic vision world." She presided over a special type of augury, called a "frith," performed on the first Monday in a year's quarter to predict what that quarter would bring.
	www.widdershins.org /vol2iss7/i9704.htm (1832 words)

	Brighid
		Brighid is symbolized by fire, flames, and the hearth; she is also symbolized by water (cauldrons), grain (Brigid wheels, Brigid's Bed), creatures (a white cow with red ears and swan) and also by talismans (spinning wheel).
		Brighid is the goddess of inspiration, smithcraft, and healing.
		Brighid oversees poets, poetry, creativity, prophecy, and the arts; in smithcraft she oversees flsmiths, goldsmiths, and household crafts; and in healing, Brighid looks after healers, medicine, spiritual healing, and fertility (crops, land, cattle).
	www.blueroebuck.com /brighid.htm (501 words)

	Imbolg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brighid is an Irish Goddess who is described as Brighid and her two sisters named Brighid.
		As the Goddess of healing Brighid was the patroness of the midwife, called upon to insure fertility of barren women, called upon to insure the safety of pregnant women as well as the health of the people in general.
		This is a term that means "milk of the ewes" and is clearly associated with Brighid bringing forth the lambs in spring and the milk of their mothers.
	home1.gte.net /res19x79/imbolg.htm (1050 words)

	Brighid. The old religion of Wales.
		Brighid, or Bride, is the tutelary goddess of the Gaelic peoples of the Western Isles, where she is still well loved and worshipped under the guise of the Christian Saint Bride.
		Hence she is often known as 'Brighid of the Green Mantle'.
		As goddess of bards, smiths and physicians she is the flame of poetical inspiration and of healing, and the fire of the divine forge.
	www.tylwythteg.com /Entrance/Brigid-1.html (1146 words)

	Clarence Sterling: 1132 AD & SAINT BRIGHID &
		Brighid was born herself by manifesting from a bucket of milk being carried out the door by her mother, a milkmaid.
		By freebutter, we are implied Saint Brighid's dairymaid attributes, and reminded of her primary passage and annual re-origins from the butter-bag (or womb) each Imbolc, but more directly, Mr Joyce's agglutinate, freebutter, acknowledges folkloric testimony to the effect that no one ever went without butter in Kildare when Saint Brighid was there.
		Most of the lore of Saint Brighid must be followed as a thread wound in and out of works in which she makes all too brief appearances, but the tales are legion once a personal collectanea is assembled.
	www.kirbymountain.com /rosenlake/fw/Sterling-1132.html (2353 words)

	CaringBridge - Brighid History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brighid has showed signs of getting stronger: The ventilator pressure has been decreased which shows her lungs are doing more work themselves; she was on the maximum blood pressure medicine and that also has been decreased; and her infection has cleared up.
		Brighid has moved back to the regular ventilator and is doing good.
		Brighid is still in a very critcal period.
	www.caringbridge.org /examples/brighid/history.html (983 words)

	Brighid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brighid was the first Goddess who I came across who possesses both the warrior and the healer aspects that I was looking for.
		One aspect of Brighid's fire is the fire of the forge.
		The third aspect of Brighid's fire is the fire in the head.
	www.treesong.org /brighid/keeper (857 words)

	BRIGHID MARION KORNDORFFER-GLANCEY 1994-2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brighid is the beautiful dalmation of my niece Sharon and her fiance Ron or Pukie as he is nicknamed.
		Brighid passed away this morning at 9:10 A.M. She went into cardiac arrest at the veterinary hospital where she had been taken the nite before.
		Sharon and Ron had just made the decision to have her put to sleep and it seems that Brighid had spared them the burden of that decision.
	home.earthlink.net /~chiewie/id5.html (542 words)

	Brighid, Bright Goddess of the Gael
		She is also called Brighid of the Harp, Brighid of the Sorrowful, Brighid of Prophecy, Brighid of Pure Love, St. Bride of the Isles, Bride of Joy and other names.
		According to the Irish Text "The Book of Dunn Cow," Brighid's sacred number was nineteen, representing the nineteen year cycle of the Celtic Great Year, the time it took from one new moon to the next to coincide with the Winter Solstice.
		Of this fire, it was said, during the time of the Norman conquest, that although it was fed the sacred wood of the hawthorn over a long period of time, "yet the ashes have never increased." The area was said to be twenty feet square with a roof.
	inanna.virtualave.net /brighid.html (2540 words)

	Welcome to Brighid's Hearth -- Cat and Aislinn McEarchern's Home!
		Such was her popularity that when Christianity became the dominant religion in Ireland, she was made into a saint, and her worship continues today as St. Brighid of Kildare.
		As the hearth symbolized the center of the home and family, these are the pages we created to do just that.
		Brighid, both as goddess and saint, is associated with many sacred wells in Ireland.
	www.brighidshearth.com /home.html (387 words)

	treesong.org / Brighid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I have felt the touch of her Threefold Flame, and it is my pleasure and honor to carry this fire of inspiration, transformation, and healing into the world.
		Lore Circle = This is where you can learn more about the Lore of Brighid -- her stories, her history, her place in the world today, and beyond.
		Keeper Circle = This is where you can learn more about my journey with Brighid and why she is a Goddess who has a special place in my heart and life.
	www.treesong.org /brighid (298 words)

	Brighid Gaelic Goddess of Smith Craft - anvilfire Story Page
		Brighid, Gaelic goddess of smith craft, metal work, poetic inspiration, and therapy.
		The triple goddess Brighid, for example, was patroness of inspiration, therapy and smithing, and the craft of the smith or metal worker was developed to a high degree by the Celts.
		HE SMITH was always associated with magical powers, for he, or she in the case of Brighid, mastered the primal element of fire and moulded the metals of the Underworld through skill and strength.
	www.anvilfire.com /21centbs/stories/Brighid_1.htm (1316 words)

	Entrance to the shrine of Brigit Celtic Gaelic Irish Mother Goddess Brighid Birde Brighit
		It was said that when the saint died, on 1 February 525 (eg on Imbolc: the festival sacred to the Goddess Brighid) the number of nuns who tended the fire remained the same -- 19 -- and that on the 20th day the saint herself kept it alive.
		On Imbolc, 1993, the Daughters of the Flame lit a fire in honour of the Goddess Brighid, modelled after the perpetual fire which once burned in Kildare.
		We share the task of tending the flame, on a twenty day rotation; each woman tends the fire in her own way, so that it is a solitary devotion linked to the devotions of a larger group.
	inanna.virtualave.net /brigit.html (1509 words)

	Brighid Aura - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With “Between Two Worlds” the band Brighid Aura has managed to produce an album that encompasses several emotions, as well as musical genres.
		It is the band’s unique ability of incorporating essences of rock, electronica, and new age that makes this album such a rare artistic find.
		In this debut album, Brighid Aura allows us to follow the trials and tribulations of one soul.
	www.brighidaura.com /music.htm (259 words)

	Brighid's Fire - Merry Meet! Welcome to Brighid's Fire, The Home of Goddess Inspired Creativity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brighid is the ancient Celtic Goddess of fire.
		May the blessing of Brighid's fire burn brightly in your hearth and in your heart.
		If you'd rather view Brighid's Fire without frames, click here, though you'll loose the table of contents and be forced to navigate the site according to my own design.
	www.brighidsfire.com /brisfire.html (298 words)

	Brighid's Fir Grove
		You have entered a fir grove sacred to the Goddess Brighid.
		(The author is a member of the Fir Cell.) Nineteen is a number traditional to Brighid's worship (see below) and corresponds to the Celtic "great year" or the number of years it takes for the lunar and solar calendars to coincide.
		On the twentieth day, it is said that Brighid herself keeps the flame alight...
	bhaktiwicca.org /fir_grove.html (799 words)

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