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The Goddess Brigid and Imbolc

Il primo di febbraio è un giorno dedicato a Brigid, (Conosciuta anche come Brighid, Brigit, Bride) la Dea celtica che, in tempi più recenti, venne venerata come santa cristiana, Santa Brigida. L'antico nome della festa è Imbolc o Oimelc, due nomi che si riferiscono alla lattazione delle pecore, il flusso di latte che annuncia il ritorno delle forze vitali spring. Later, the Catholic Church tried to replace this festival with feast of Candlemas, February 2, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and features candlelight processions. The powerful figure of Brigid, the bringer of light, remains unchanged in both pagan and the Christian celebrations. In agricultural and pastoral reality across Europe, particularly in the British Isles, February is month in hard and bitter. Old Scotland In the month of February falls in the middle of a period called Faoilleach, the Month of the Wolf, also known by the nickname of the left A'Marbh Mhiòs, Month of Death. Although this is the hardest time of the winter, cold and gloomy, signals the rebirth of nature seem loud and clear: the lambs are born, grow new and fresh grass fed by rain, the crows begin to nest and the larks singing.

In Ireland, the land is prepared to receive the new seed with spade and plow, the calves are born fishermen and finally see the end of storms and rough seas. You return to Life. In Scottish folklore, the Vecchiaccia Winter, the Cailleach, dies and is reborn as Bride, the young maiden of spring, delicate and petite, but stronger and more prosperous with each passing day, turning scarcity into abundance. It is tempting to portray this powerful deity with its most innocent, a young man with golden hair, big eyes dreamy and always surrounded by children. But behind the seemingly innocuous form, lurks the figure of one of the largest Ancestral deity, Brigid, whose name translates as "The Sublime", the Mother Goddess and Queen of many ancient European tribes.
As already mentioned, was also known as Bridget, Brighid, Brighde, Brig or Bride and some scholars argue that its name derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word "BRIHI," an epithet of the divine.
The "Glossary of Cormac", a work of the 10th century, described her as the daughter of Daghda, the "Great God of the Tuatha de Danaan. In that work is called "Woman of wisdom ... a goddess worshiped by the poets, for his protection to them is great and powerful
Since the discipline of poetry, filidhect in Gaelic, often interwoven with that of clairvoyance, Brigid was often seen as the great inspiration behind the oracles and divination. She's said to have two sisters: Brigid Brigid The healer and a blacksmith, but we assume that these figures are no more than three aspects of the Goddess: poetry / divination, healing and knowledge of metalworking. In other sources is described as the patron saint of some key activities in ancient Celtic society, like weaving and brewing.
As personification of Spring Rebirth of the Goddess of Abundance and, Brigid was much loved by the people, who assured the gifts of the natural world. He was also connected with the practices of domestication of animals and usually with livestock. Brigid had two splendid oxen called Fea and Feimheam, cha gave their name to human flat in County Carlow and one in County Tipperary. It was also the guardian of Torc Triath, the King of the Wild, who gave his name to another flat in the West Tipperary. These three totem animals served to raise the alarm if some danger had threatened Ireland. Some rivers
Irish bear his name, as well as distant places Ireland as the Breconshire Wales Brechin in Scotland and Bregenz in Austria, which was once the capital from the tribe of Brigantes. This tribe was under the protection of the goddess divine robber, who apparently was a further aspect of the goddess Brigid. Subsequently become one of the most powerful political units of the Celtic languages \u200b\u200bof Britain, the Brigantes settled mainly in northern England, where many rock carvings and many place names echo the cult of their Mother Goddess and protectress. Brigid the Shining.