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[awinterrosesstuff]

Irish mythology : Morrigan - Goddess of war, battle and death

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[yoga-onion]

Legends and myths about trees

Celtic beliefs in trees (11)

L for Luis (Rowan) - January 21st - February 17th

“Lady of the Mountains - Second month of the Celtic tree calendar”

Star: Sun; Gender: female; Gemstone: tourmaline; Patron: Brigantia, Brigid, St. Brigid; Symbols: living vigour + holy fervour, life force + spiritual power

Slender tree with smooth grey bark and graceful branches reaching towards the sky. In May, it produces an abundance of plump white flowers, which cluster together to form clusters the size of an adult palm. The flowers are very small, with five petals and sepals, and the ripe berries turn from green to red as autumn progresses. The rowan nut has a small pentagonal star shape on the opposite side of the base, and the pentagram has been known as a symbol of protection against evil since prehistoric times.

The rowan tree is dedicated to the ancient Britons' goddess Brigantia and the Irish goddess of liberal arts, Brigid who is associated with wisdom, poetry, healing, protection, blacksmithing and domesticated animals. Both Brigid and Brigantia have an aspect as patron goddesses of farmers and their livestock, promising the arrival of spring and a bountiful harvest. Together they are said to keep shooting flaming arrows made of rowan, which follow the sun all year round.

Since they are the goddesses who spin the thread and weave the cloth, it is they who continue to weave the everlasting fabric of life, guide the sun through the stars that occupy positions in the sky and keep the wheels of the seasons turning.

The Celtic festival of Imbolc takes place on 1 February and is dedicated to Brigid. This is because Brigid brings inspiration and visions to us and awakens the spirit of the year from its sleep. Imbolc is also the first 'Seasonal Purification Day' that comes around in the year, and on this day, the witches celebrate the Sabbath.

Rowan was once thought to be protected by this tree, as was the earth energy contained in ley lines (straight lines connecting ancient sacred sites and ruins) and menhirs (standing stones). Druids planted these trees at their ritual sites and used the smoke from burning rowan trees to invoke the spirits of the dead and warriors. The smoke from burning rowan trees was also often used to predict the course of a love affair.

For the Celts, the rowan was a symbol of nature's abode and vigorous life activity. Sacred, yet magically powerful, the rowan tree protects us from temptation and disease and was therefore discouraged from being cut down.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

ケルト人の樹木の信仰 (11)

L は Luis (ﾅﾅｶﾏﾄﾞ) - 1月21日～2月17日

『山の淑女〜ケルトの木の暦の第2月』

星: 太陽、性: 女性; 宝石: トルマリン、守護神: ブリガンティア、ブリギッド、聖ブリギッド、シンボル: 生きる活力＋聖なる熱情、生命力＋霊力

なめらかな灰色の樹皮をもつ、すらりと細身の木で、優美な枝が天にむかって伸びている。5月になると白くふっくらとした花をふんだんに咲かせ、それらが群がって大人の手のひらほどの房を作る。花はとても小さく、5弁の花びらと萼ををもち、秋が深まるにつれ、熟した実は緑色から赤色に変色する。ナナカマドの実には柄の反対側に小さな五角形の星型がついているが、5線星型は太古の時代から魔除けのシンボルとして知られている。

ナナカマドの木は、古代ブリトン人たちの女神ブリガンティアや、アイルランドの学芸をつかさどる女神ブリギッドに捧げられている。彼女は知恵、詩、癒し、保護、鍛冶、家畜と関連している。ブリギッドもブリガンティアも、農牧の民とその家畜を守護する女神としての一面を持ち、春の到来を約束し、豊かな収穫をもたらすとされている。この二人は共にナナカマドでできた燃える矢を放ちつづけ、その矢は太陽の後を一年中追い続けるといわれている。糸を紡ぎ、布を織る女神であることから、とこしえに続く生命の布を織りつづけ、天空に位置を占める星の間を縫って太陽を導き、季節の歯車を回し続けるのもこの二人である。

ケルト人の祭りであるインボルクは2月1日に行われ、ブリギッドに捧げられる。ブリギッドが霊感や幻視を私たちにもたらし、一年の精霊を眠りから覚ましてくれるからである。インボルクは一年で最初にめぐってくる「季節祓いの日」にも当たり、この日、魔女たちはサバトを祝う。

かつてレイライン (古代の聖地や遺跡を結ぶ直線)やメンヒル (立石) に含まれる大地のエネルギーは、ナナカマドに守られていると信じられていた。ドルイドたちは祭壇の場にこの木を植え、ナナカマドを燃やした煙で死者の霊や戦士を呼び出していた。ナナカマドを燃やした煙はまた恋の行方を占う際にもよく使われた。

ケルト人にとって、ナナカマドは、自然が宿すシンボルであり、旺盛な生命活動の象徴でもあった。神聖で、しかも魔法の力をもつナナカマドは、誘惑や病気から私たちを守ってくれるので、伐採は慎むべきとされていた。

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[tarotbee]

Do you have any suggestions for offerings/ways to worship Brigid? Particularly Brigid as a pagan goddess, I know she was later included into Catholicism as a saint because pagans loved her so much! Also would love anything that focuses on low energy things as I’m chronically I’ll and disabled! This would mean a lot to me! I’ve done lots of research on my own but brain fog can be difficult to deal with! Thank you and no rush!

Hi my love! As a disabled babe also, I get what you mean and I'd love to help out!

Offerings and Worshipping Lady Brigid

First thing I found is actually that Brigid is associated with water and springs so water would be a perfect offering

Stay hydrated!

Light a candle for her! Brigid is associated with fire!

Bonfires or food related gatherings with friends/families/partners

She is associate with the Hearth/Home. The hearth is often immediately assumed to be the kitchen as wood stoves historically provided warmth for the families but now your hearth can be wherever you feel most comfortable and at home 🧡

Eat good meals!

Celebrate imbolc! Simmer pots are a great smelling, low energy way to do that!

Florals! Flowers flowers flowers everywhere! Brigid is associated with Spring!

Wear floral scented perfumes and floral dresses or shirts

Straw/hay was actually commonly used to welcome Brigid and her gifts into the home and would make a great offering!

Brigid is a goddess of protection and fertility so if you're trying for a baby! Do it to honour her

Alternatively! Take your birth control as an offering

Practice safe sex!

Brigid is revered as a healer, so take your meds babe!

Brigid is also associated with poetry and wisdom which means reading or writing poetry in her honour is a great offering for her

Domesticated animals are also sacred to her so take care of your furry, scaly and slimy friends

Dyeing your clothes, knitting or crocheting

Brewed drinks such as coffee, tea, beer or mead

Cow imagery (especially white cows)

Practice divination

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[survivethejive]

Europe's Last Goddess 🇫🇷

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[thesilicontribesman]

Later Iron Age Celtic Stone Head With Roman Influence, Birrens, Middlebie, Dumfries Museum, Dumfries and Galloway. The work may represent a goddess, possibly Briget or Rhiannon.

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[hazeliriswitch]

Art by Me #2

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[jenniferamourette]

My baby altar. I don’t have a ton of space or a ton of things to practice witchcraft with yet but I’m on my way I think!

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[doc-avalon]

The Morrigán

Name: The Morrigan (Great Queen, Phantom Queen,) Mor Rioghain, Morgain, Mórrígu, mór rígain, Morgan La Fay, The Bean-Nighe or The Washer At The Ford, The Wife of the Green Man, the Wyrd Sisters.

Symbols: Raven or Crow, spear.

Goddess of: Battle, prophecy, fertility, and sovereignty

Usual Image: A shapeshifter, she appears in many forms, a beautiful maiden, a mature woman, an ancient hag, a crow, a bear, and others.

Relatives: Ernmas (mother) Cailitin, a Druid or Delbaeth or Dagda (father) Anu, Badb, Macha or Badb the Crow, Nemain the Venomous, Fea the Hateful. (Sisters or other aspects of her or goddesses she presided over.) Eriu, Fotla, and Banba (other sisters and goddesses of the land, not other aspects of her) Mechi (Son, father unknown) had three hearts, which were three serpents. The serpents, it was foretold, would destroy Ireland, so MacCecht killed him and burnt the hearts, throwing the ash into the river Berba; even then, the ash of his hearts boiled the waters of the river away and killed all the fish in the river.

Holy Books: Book of Leinster, Book of Fermoy

Synodeities: Kali (Hinduism,) Cathbodva (Gaul.)

(The Watcher of the Ford, illustration from Cuchulain, The Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull 1904)

Details: Once you look into the myths about the Irish goddess Morrigan you begin to understand why the Celts developed the Celtic knot!

At her most basic, Morrigan was a goddess of battle, who did not take part in the battle itself, but instead stirred up strife, then flew over the battle in the form of a crow who picked who would die by casting confusion on them, afterward feasting on their remains.

Not your warm and affectionate sort of goddess, yet she was also a goddess of fertility and sovereignty, without whom the king would be powerless.

Going deeper into Morrigan (or The Morrigan as this may have at some time been a title) we find that she is also a triple goddess, who, along with either her sisters Badb and Macha or, in some accounts, Nemain the Venomous and Fea the Hateful, play a shifting role in scores of myths and legends.

What brings this goddess back in so many forms and guises, and age after age, returns in another form, even if this means mixing aspects that are both grand and horrific?

An answer might be found in the theory put forth by Ralph Abraham, mathematician, historian & Chaos theorist, in the book Chaos, Gaia, & Eros (1994, Harper Collins.)

To oversimplify it for this page, his theory is that three main forces have driven human consciousness through the ages, which he calls.

Gaia: The physical existence and living spirit of the created world.

Eros: The spiritual medium connecting Chaos & Gaia, the creative impulse and

Chaos: The creative void, the source of all forms.

From the Paleolithic to the present, these three forces moved us forward, with at times one or more of them being suppressed only to resurface again and again.

Whoever the original goddess was who returned as the Morrigan, she was most likely first worshipped in a very different form sometime between 10,000 & 4,000 B.C.E. During what he called the Gaia span (agriculture/partnership.)

With the coming of the Eros span, 4,000 B.C.E. to +/- 1962 A.D. (the wheel, patriarchy & science), she was re-imagined by a new way of thinking that often feared Chaos and almost always had, as part of its dominant mythos, the conquest of Chaos by a hero or god representing Order.

In this way, Morrigan changed from life-giver to carrion eater, and yet the three forces she is a part of continue to bring her back in multi-triad forms.

So that as the Eros span grew, she was not undone or put away but continued to shapeshift.

Changing from setting as a raven on the shoulder of dead Cú Chulainn to reappearing as Morgain La Fey in the tales of King Author, or as the wife of the Green Man and tempting Sir Gawain, to stirring the cauldron for Macbeth as the Wyrd sisters, and later as part of the Celtic Fairy faith, becoming the Bean-Nighe who is seen washing the bloody clothing of those who are about to die.

The thing is, in this theory, the Eros span has now begun to be overtaken by the now-developing Chaos span (Neo-Pagan, Post Modern, Chaos Theory, and meta-modern), which offers the hope of the end of the suppression of these three forces so they can be understood with positive effect.

No doubt the form that Morrigan takes in this era, if his theory is correct, will be most interesting indeed!

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[theludicwitch]

With Imbolc around the Corner here's some quick information on the Goddess.

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[hecatesdelights]

Ceridwen

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[sapphic-nature-witch]

Diety Of The Week

Brigid - Celtic

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[tuatha-de-danann-blog]

The Morrigan: not a death goddess

Based off reading lore, my view is that it is unfair to say the Morrigan is a death goddess.

The other members of the Tuatha kill people in battle probably more so than she does.

The following list is compiled from the different goddeses that make up the Morrigan, namely Badb, Macha, and the singular Morrigan.

Features of the Morrigan according to what I've read in lore:

She does magic to thwart the tribe's enemies

She prophesizes the outcome of battle

Announces ones death

Incites the tribe to battle

Prophesizes the future through poetry

Instills fear in the enemy

Initiates the events that lead to Cu Chulainn's fate and death

Flies over the battle field in the form of a crow

Fights in war

Bestows sovereignty

Possibly grants success in battle.

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[jessgoulder]

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[hochgouez-nerzhus]

Statue of the celtic Goddess Maeve - Medb

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[15pantheons]

Cú Chulainn: *falls down the stairs*  Ferdiad: Are you okay?  Emer: Stop falling down the stairs!  Morrigan: How’d the ground taste? 

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[silverthornwitchery]

Druantia: A Modern Goddess (mostly UPG)

(Artwork by myself)

Druantia is a hypothetical goddess associated with trees proposed by Robert Graves in his book The White Goddess. He describes her as a tree goddess, and an archetypal earth mother. She rules over over fertility, sexual pleasure, and the natural world.

However, Robert Graves is not a reliable source in terms of history, as has work has been discredited by many scholars.

Though the name Druantia may not be historically fact, I do believe she is indeed a goddess. Druantia may not have always been her name, in fact I personally believe she has had many names, with Druantia being one she uses to reach out to many neo-pagans. Needless to say, information on her scarace, especially as she did not historically exist.

This where we'll be getting into the juicy UPG of this post:

To me, Druantia is A multitude of goddesses that are syncretic with one another. She comes to me primarily as Flidais, the Irish goddess of animals, fertility, and the hunt, as well as Elen of the Ways, a modern goddess associated with nature and mystery.

Worshipping and Working With Druantia:

Druantia is not a goddess who asks for much. If you have a love for nature and the wilds, she is more than happy to work alongside you.

I find that when I work with her during meditation, I find myself in a forest, with vibrant, earthy colors. She appears to me as a tall woman clad in foliage, with wild hair and antlers. Think of a similar vibe to Keyleth of Critical Role.

Druantia can help one learn to protect themselves, heal themselves, and embrace their own nature. For adults, she is a wonderful teacher of sex magic, and can help one learn to harness their own pleasure to manifest their desires.

Druantia can help those who are stuck in locations such as cities and urban areas maintain their connection to the wilds of nature. I live in the downtown area of a decently sized city, so feeling connected to nature has been difficult. Druantia however has been helping me see the beauty of the wilds, even within the city.

Druantia is an archetypal earth mother, so basically if it's associated with the earth mother archetype, it can be associated with her.

The Names of Druantia:

As I've mentioned, there is no reliable historical record of a goddess by the name Druantia. So this poses the question of who exactly is behind that name. In my own experiences, I have experienced her to be syncretic with a number of deities. I'll list the primary ones I view as her.

Flidais - The Irish Goddess of animals and the hunt. As an animal goddess, this lends to her connection with nature and the wilderness, and as goddess of the hunt, she nourishes us like a mother nourishes a child. Sacred to her are Cattle and Deer, both animals that are or were commonly used for food, once again, making her a nourishing goddess. This is the primary aspect of Druantia that I venerate and worship. She is equal parts regal as she is feral. Flidais is often syncretized with the Gaulish hunting goddess Arduinna. When I call upon Druantia, I also call upon Flidais, as I personally believe Flidais and any goddess syncretized with her to be the origin of Druantia's energy. Flidais is also often times equated to Elen of the Ways, and many depictions of Elen fit depictions of Flidais.

Elen of the Ways - like Druantia, Elen of the Ways is a modern goddess. She is attributed to celtic Britain as her origin, but there is little to no historical sources on her, aside from being equated to the Elen of the Welsh Mabinogion. Regardless, one cannot deny that there is an energy with Elen of the Ways. She is said to rule over magic and mystery, as well as nature itself. She is said to rule the Leys, as in Leylines. Leylines are energetic Hotspots of the earth. Most information on Elen of the Ways comes from the author Caroline Wise, as well as the blogger Judith Shaw of the blog Feminism and Religion.

Offerings:

Offerings for Druantia are between you and her first and foremost, however, some ideas on things to offer her are as follows: Woodsy Herbs and Incense, Tea, Cannabis (if legal to possess), malachite, pelts, and hearty foods.

Final Words.

Now obviously, as Druantia has no historical basis under that name, it may not be best to work with her in the context of Celtic Reconstructionism.

However, if you are eclectic or a revivalist, she is wonderful to worship. I've found her to be such a wonderful influence on my life and she's helped me break free of some old habits and practices that were holding me back.

Even though Druantia may be a modern goddess, there is much merit and blessings to be found walking her path. Whether you worship Druantia as a standalone being, or worship Flidais under her name, she will grant you blessing all the same.

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