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	House Shadow Drake - Brigit - Part 1
		Brigit was transformed into a Catholic saint, who was the daughter of a druid by the name of Dubhthach.
		There are other such legends involving Brigit as a child helping her mother to make the woad dye, and finally getting the perfect mixture that her mother was not able to achieve.
		Brigit was concerned to be the goddess of new beginnings and birth, being represented by the lamb and the sheering of sheep in the spring.
	www.shadowdrake.com /brigit1.html (2522 words)

	Entrance to the shrine of Brigit Celtic Gaelic Irish Mother Goddess Brighid Birde Brighit
		Brigit (the Goddess and the Festival) represents the stirring of life again after the dead months of the winter, and her special blessings are called forth at this time.
		Some say that there are three Brigits : one sister in charge of poetry and inspiration who invented the Ogham alphabet, one in charge of healing and midwifery, and the third in charge of the hearth fire, smithies and other crafts.
		The Christian Brigit was said to have had the power to appoint the bishops of her area, a strange role for an abbess, made stranger by her requirement that her bishops also be practicing goldsmiths.
	inanna.virtualave.net /brigit.html (1509 words)

	Brigit - .hack//Wiki - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brigit (ブリギット) is a previous character used by the player Rena Kunisaki.
		Her torso and right arm and leg are armored, while her left arm and leg are bare, revealing a long snakelike wave tattoo that winds all the way down the left side of her body.
		Later on, Rena shows her Brigit avatar to Mireille and Ouka, and then logs back into her Rena avatar to begin playing The World with her brother, Shugo.
	dothack.wikia.com /wiki/Brigit (297 words)

	Brigit, Goddess and Saint - Daughters of the Flame
		In addition, scholarship differs on interpretations of evidence and Her relationship to St. Brigit of Kildare, and caution must be used in transferring the attributes of one to the other.
		She is Brigit of the Judgements, and the triple matron of crafts - - including smithcraft, brewing, weaving and dyeing - - of healers - - seers and doctors - - and of poets, those powerful women and men whose word held magic and who sat as equals to kings.
		So important was Brigit to the people who followed Her that when Christianity replaced the old religion, Her worship was absorbed into the cult of a saint, and endured.
	www.obsidianmagazine.com /DaughtersoftheFlame/Brigit.htm (649 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		Brigit (also called Brigid, Bridget, Bride) was abbess of a double abbey, for monks and nuns, in Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland.
		Brigit stayed behind out of humility, so that she might be the last to whom the veil should be given.
		For humbleness Brigit staid, so that she might be the last to whom the veil should be given.
	www.womenpriests.org /latin/brigit.asp (620 words)

	Brigit
		According to Cormac's Glossary, Brigit was a set of triplets, daughters of the Dagda, all of the same name: a goddess of poetry, a goddess of smithing, and a goddess of leechcraft.
		The saint was said to be daughter of Dubthach the Brown, who may have been a druid (the text is unclear--if not, then Brigit was fostered by a druid until she was old enough to work); the goddess was said to the the daughter of the Druid-god the Dagda.
		Both cults--that of Brigit and that of Vesta--may have a common origin, or the Celts may have borrowed from the cult of Vestia during their long contact with the Romans.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/brigit.html (1275 words)

	Biography of the Goddess Brigit
		Brigit is commonly regarded as a mistress of herbal lore and healing.
		Brigit is widely called upon to keep the hearth fire (yet more flame) and to insure the soul's safety.
		A Goddess of fecundity, sheep, and pastoral economy, it is meet that her holiday be at a yearly moment critical to the fortunes of a ruthlessly rural culture.
	home.twcny.rr.com /mobius024/Brigit/BrigitBio.html (6066 words)

	On the Life of St. Brigit (Leabhar Breac)
		Brigit (was the) daugther of Dubthach, son of Demre (or Dreimne), son of Bresal, son of Den, son of Conla, son of Artair(?), son of Art Corb, son of Cairpe the Champion, son of Cormac, son of Oengus the Dumb, son of Eochaid Find Fuathnart, son of Fedlimid the Lawgiver, etc.
		Brigit desired, through (her) charity, to brew ale for the many churches that were around her, and it was not usual to brew ale at that time.
		Brigit repeated a Paternoster with him, and he was pious thenceforward; and Brigit said that neither gallows nor punishment would be for him, and he it is that afterwards administered communion and sacrifice to Brigit.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/published/T201010/text001.html (6301 words)

	St. Brigit Critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The author focused on the blending of the facts, myths, and legends of St. Brigit as a result of passing history orally.
		Instead, it is a factual biography of St. Brigit and a collection of the myths and legends about her.
		Brigit was remembered for many things, as noted in the many endearing tales passed on to others.
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/ilv/crit/brigitcrit.htm (393 words)

	Brigit the Goddess
		Later on, as Saint Brigit, we shall see that she is particularly associated with cows and sheep, able to milk her cows three times and to generally create abundance, enough to feed all who came to her.
		We hear of Brigit again as one of the Tuatha De Danaan in the story of the Battle of Maigh Tuiredh (12th century but based on 9th century material) which tells of the conflict between the Tuatha De Danaan and the previous inhabitants of Ireland, the Fomorians.
		Certainly, as St Brigit, her presence is still felt and the new church of West Knockbride bears a statue of her enshrined in a niche high up, exalted, in the front of the building.
	www.brigitsforge.co.uk /brigitgoddess.html (1551 words)

	St. Brigit: Fact, Myth, Legend...?
		St. Brigit was born to a slave of Dubhtach, a chieftain and druid in Faughart Louth in Connacht during 450.
		Brigit settled at the bottom of Crogham Hill where St. Mel of Ardagh gave her abbatical powers in 468.
		When St. Brigit died on February 1, 525 (some texts cite her death as early as 523 and others as late as 528) her body and relics remained only a short time at Cell-Dara before they were exhumed and moved to Downpatrick in 878.
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/ilv/brigit.htm (1584 words)

	Collected Widom - Brigit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brigit was probably originally a Sun Goddess, and a charming story of her birth is that she was born at sunrise and a tower of flame burst from the forehead of the new born Goddess that reached from Earth to Heaven.
		In the 1960's, under Vatican II modernization, it was declared that there was insufficient proof of Brigit's sanctity or even of her historical existance, and so teh Church's gradual pogrom against Brigit was successful at last and She was thus decanonized.
		Here is an ancient rite to invite Brigit into your home at the time of her Holiday: Clean your hearth thoroughly in the morning and lay a fire without kindling it, then make yourself a "Bed for Brigid" and place it near the hearth.
	members.tripod.com /torann_2/gods/c_brigit.htm (1119 words)

	Commentaria
		When Brigit learned of her case she took the woman in but did not march out to argue or threaten the perpetrator; she deliberated until, by seeming chance, one of her fishermen hauled in a fish which, when cut open, proved to have swallowed the brooch.
		Brigit's church at Kildare was the finest, her tomb the most ornate, her congregation and city most populous, most worthy of admiration.
		Brigit's unusual birth on the threshold of a house, her connections with a prophetizing druid fosterer, her insistence on the milk of a red-and-white cow, and her head-gashing leap from the chariot all referred to secular tales and established Brigit as a hero in the Irish tradition.
	monasticmatrix.usc.edu /commentaria/article.php?textId=6 (7878 words)

	Brigit's Sparkling Flame
		We are finding and reclaiming spiritual direction in the stories and symbolism of Brigit in her many guises.
		Of special interest to us here is the Brigit Shrine, calming and beautiful and filled with quiet prayer.
		The Brigit below was born at the hand of the artist, Lisa Iris.
	brigitssparklingflame.blogspot.com (1063 words)

	Institute for Feminism and Religion
		Brigit, in her various forms as goddess, saint, and folklore figure, is the goddess of poetry, healing and smithcraft.
		There was lots of drumming and it culminated in a ritual where Brigit’s cloak of red flannel was carried /danced out into the night to lie on the grass near a blazing bonfire.
		Brigit’s red cloak had been brought in covered in dew and had been ritually cut.
	instituteforfeminismandreligion.org /brigitstory.html (815 words)

	Brigid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Irish mythology as it is presently constituted, Brigit or Brighit ("exalted one") was the daughter of Dagda (and therefore one of the Tuatha Dé Danann) and wife of Bres of the Fomorians.
		She had two sisters, also named Brighid, and is considered a classic Celtic Triple Goddess.
		Old Irish Brigit ['brɪʝɪdʲ] came to be spelled Brighid by the modern Irish period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brigit (693 words)

	Brigit of the Celts
		She appeared as Brigit to the Irish, Brigantia in Northern England, Bride in Scotland, and Brigandu in Brittany.
		This catually indicates the separate aspects of her Threefold nature and is a neat division of labor for a hard-working goddess.
		In the 1960's, under Vatican II modernization, it was declared that there was insufficient proof of Brigit's sanctity or even of her historical existance, and so the Church's gradual program against Brigit was successful at last and She was thus decanonized.
	wuzzle.org /cave/brigit.html (1177 words)

	Brigit Of The Celts
		Some say that there are three Brigits: one sister in charge of poetry and inspiration who invented the Ogham alphabet, one in charge of healing and midwifery, and the third in charge of the hearth fire, smithies and other crafts.
		She was canonized by the Catholic church as St. Brigit and various origins are given to this saint.
		In the 1960's, under Vatican II modernization, it was declared that there was insufficient proof of Brigit's sanctity or even of her historical existence, and so the Church's gradual pogrom against Brigit was successful at last and She was thus de-canonized.
	www.paganlibrary.com /reference/brigit_celts.php (1610 words)

	Brigit Statue
		Brigit is a Goddess of vision, justice, harmony and strength, bringing inspiration to poets, skill to healers and strength to warriors.
		Brigit, the -Exalted One-, Protectress of Mothers and children, is depicted sitting upon an anvil, symbol of the forge and smiths.
		Known as a powerful Fire Goddess, Brigit she is also a Water Goddess, She presides over fertility and childbirth as well as all forms of creation.
	www.abaxion.com /sz01.htm (449 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Brigit Pegeen Kelly
		Brigit Pegeen Kelly was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1951.
		She is the author of The Orchard (BOA Editions, 2004); Song (1995), which was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and To The Place of Trumpets (1987), which was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
		Brigit Pegeen Kelly is a professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/53 (126 words)

	brigit
		In those times, the most powerful goddess was Brigit and she was very much loved by the people.
		The goddesses were associated with fire but Brigit was also known as a sun goddess.
		These people loved Brigit so much, that they did not want to lose her as a goddess.
	www.eurotales.eril.net /brigit.htm (364 words)

	Women Celebrating the Festival of Brigit
		The theme is found through many ancient mythologies and we thought it appropriate for this year as the world faces the threat of all-out war.
		Brigit as Goddess, saint, and Abbess was opposed to war.
		Drawing on elements in old Irish traditions, participants will be invited to draw on Brigit’s inspiration and make their spiritual, personal, and political commitments for their journey in the year ahead.
	instituteforfeminismandreligion.org /brigit.html (877 words)

	The Goddess Bridgit
		Brigit was originally a Sun Goddess, and a charming story of Her birth is that She was born at sunrise and a tower of flame burst from the forehead of the new born Goddess that reached from Earth to Heaven.
		Brigit were cast into the well in the form of coins or, even more ancient, brass or gold rings.
		In the 1960's, under Vatican II modernization, it was declared that there was insufficient proof of Brigit's sanctity or even of her historical existence, and so the Church's gradual dismissal of Brigit was successful at last and She was thus de-Canonized.
	crystalsands.wiccan.net /articles/bridgit.html (1214 words)

	Krewe of St. Brigit
		Krewe of St. Brigit was chartered in July, 2003 and formed with community service endeavors in mind.
		We selected St. Brigit as our patron because of her fantastical legends and myths associated with both Brigit the Pagan Goddess and Brigid the Irish Saint.
		Brigit is known for being an inspiration to artists and writers, agricultural workers, scholars, sailors and healers.
	www.kreweofstbrigit.com (105 words)

	Tales of Brigit -- The Mary of the Gael
		Now as to Brigit she was born at sunrise on the first day of the spring,of a bondwoman of Connacht.
		After that Brigit went to visit her mother that was in bondage to a druid of Connacht.
		Brigit blessed water for him and it was what she said:" Bring that water into your house, and put it in
	www.jaguarmoon.org /public/Wheel/Imbolc/Celtic.html (3349 words)

	Brigit, the Goddess Who Would Not Die
		Brigit is a goddess who survived the onslaught of Christianity.
		Brigit is known by various names, Brigit being the most ancient form.
		Saint Brigit: The Mary of the Gael, taken from "The Saints of Ireland: The Life-Stories of SS.
	www.aztriad.com /brigit.html (772 words)

	Brigits Well
		The first album by Brigit’s Well features a haunting collection of Irish and Scottish traditional songs and melodies.
		Brigit is indeed well, and they have good reason to be proud of this CD.
		We are fortunate to be able to include Brigit’s Well into that category.
	www.barbarygrant.com /brigits_well.htm (202 words)

	Brigit Info Page / Page d'infos de Brigit
		Brigit's Notes is an electronic bulletin full of great women's health news.
		Le bloc-notes de Brigit est un bulletin électronique foisonant de nouvelles en santé des femmes.
		Abonnez-vous à Brigit en remplissant le formulaire suivant.
	list.web.net /lists/listinfo/brigit (647 words)

	Information on Brigit/Bride/Brigid
		Brigit is clearly the best example of the survival of a Goddess
		Brigit was said to have had the power to appoint the bishops of her
		Brigit's holiday was chiefly marked by the kindling of sacred
	www.jaguarmoon.org /public/Wheel/Imbolc/Brigid.html (2287 words)

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