@hedgerow_healing: 🌱 Brigid/Bride 🌱 There are many names for this goddess, including Bride, Brigid, Brighid and Brigatania. Brigid is a well-known Goddess throughout Britain and Ireland, and her myths and legends are woven into the landscape and culture. Brigid was part of the Tuatha de danann, which is the name for the race of faeries that inhabit Ireland. She was the daughter of one of its chieftains, and there are many myths and legends that speak of her journey as part of the faery folk. Brigid is a spring goddess who was not just associated with fertility, but also animals, healing, smiting, poetry, the sun, and the hearth. She would be invoked by both farmers and midwives alike to ask for protection during a birth. Today, there are many sacred springs and wells dedicated to the Goddess, with one of the most famous sites situated in Kildere, Ireland. In Kildere, there is also a site of a sacred eternal flame, legend of which says that it was a Druidic place of worship and guarded by 9 priestesses. Brigid is still strongly celebrated all across Britain and Ireland, with festivals made in her honour and shrines created at Imbokc to invoke the Goddess. She is also known as the patroness St or Ireland, as during the turning point from pagan religion to Christianity, the church realised that Brigids worship could not so easily be eradicated and so instead adopted her as a Saint. Brigids day is still widely celebrated on the 1st of Feburary, forming a major part of Imbolc celebrations and a day which welcomes back the spring. . . . . #brigid #bride #Goddess #celticgoddess #goddessbrigid #imbolc #spring #springfestivals #paganism #paganreligions #pagangoddess #sacredsites #paganireland #paganbritain #springgoddess #faeryfolk #faery #brigidscross #hedgerowhealing

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