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Mythology & Fiction Explained Breo-Saighead aka brigid is a must older goddess who's original name means firey arrow she was the protector of the innocent and Ireland, she was a sun goddess but was also closely tied to the well and thereby the earth and so was worship not only as a solar dirty but as an earth mother goddess as well. I think this video deserves an update as she is much more significant than what is presented.
Mythology & Fiction Explained Brigid was so popular among the Celtic People's across Europe that the Catholic Church had to make her a Saint to convert them. Loved the Video!
Brigid is one of my favorite goddesses, someone told me once that she also keeps guard and protects the faery realm and sees the elementals as her children.
I sure do!!! I protect all children black and white and i am now here, and i want liberation the fairys are dear to me, and I work for yah! in the 15th dimension
i can well believe it you wouldnt believe fairies and little goblins and pixies but i had one once dancing in my candles in a circle of 5 candles by my dryad tree i dint see it for months untill my friend one day said omg you got those little hobbit thingy dancing in ya candles on pic i said let me see ??? i said omg i have havent I dont ask me how i know but i believe that other side exsists as i know now iv seen the horned god appearing from my dryad tree tired and bags under his eyes gorping ay my dryad tree iv seen them in water and i know ther sacral not many ppl see them neither so i can believe it :) lol
sometimes i often wonder who is the lower demon in my house hes an imp a very small imp and i do have a pic of him most ppl seen him on pic i captured cant belive it thers been some ppl to frighten to sit next to the well under my home wear he hangs out maybe with his master i duno but hes a sod he steels my energy some days im so tired nature helps me gain my strengh but when im out in nature the faery realm exsists iv seen in the sacral world through my pics and seen and pointed to the ghosts that stand ther in front of me and they stare back thinking why can i see them i dont know i maybe gifted perhaps ever since i was a child they used to haunt me day n night all my life iv never managed to escape even baptized through christ and went to church for a while never changed it i had to accept it when i went to college and mediation then opened it up and i realized its bn there all my life i have to come to terms i cant run from what i see or do because its there and not even going to church stopped the hauntings iv had things thrown across room things happen such as poltigiest activity when i was 7yrs old seen a ghost when i was 6 and made my sister see it aswell she screamed with fear cuz she seen it clear as a day a medievil man hung off a tree at 3am in morning i made he see him she was only 5yrs old but hey i got to accept it now im 41 sweetie :D they dont bother me iv done pedulium got that snatched out me hand done evp got that rattled me house up under physic attack church never helped me nature does tho :) x
I once met a goddess while on a high dose of mushrooms. When I recognised her, she showered me with a beautiful feeling of love. I felt like she gave birth to this place and that she loved us very much unconditionally. In her eyes there is no right and no wrong but she expressed sadness about her children (us) forgettting about her.
Which is why, no matter how many people actually believe, we need to keep them alive. Greek, Egyptian, Celtic, it doesn't matter. We need to keep them alive.
@@witchypoo7353 That's very nice I know she will watch over you and love you just like her own. My Ancestors are the macbride's which mean's son's of the servant of brighde or sons of brighde I am dedicating my daughter to her as I preformed a ritual with my wife so we could have a baby (we prayed to danu). As payment we promised her as her daughter in the afterlife to join Danu in her garden I may never see her but I know she will be safe. Soon after my wife became pregnant and she saw rabbits jumping around her thats a sign of rebirth or a resurrection its my hope that Brighde's spirit will be restored in this land once again. Keep a candle lit in your home always and Brighide will always be with you. I have made a shrine out of flowers, rocks, a seagull feather and a pool for water thats dedicated to Danu. Do the same except for brighde so she can always see you and be with you as she is a fire god so use a candle and if you keep it lit then you can relight it every Samhain after preforming the proper ritual. For example you could carve a wooden snake and inscribe Brighde's Gaelic name on it and get some rocks and make a circle then place the snake inside the circle and keep a candle lit inside the circle and preform a ritual and call upon her to use your shrine if you don't a different god could inhabit it.
I like to think that Brigid being a goddess of many things (poetry, healing, blacksmithing, etc.) symbolizes how a person can have multiple different interests, passions, and creative pursuits in their life. Fire often symbolizes passion, an intense desire or enthusiasm for something. Being of goddess of fire, Brigid certainly has multiple 'fires' which could be seen her interests. Maybe Brigid just likes to keep busy.
I'm old blood, shes actually our matriarch! Our line have always worshipped her, interesting fact since we are traditionally from a river based clan, yet our deities were commonly linked to fire/solus with alot of us born on borders of seasons too. For us she was the great keeper of tales and can still remember a few passed down through the ages. Thanks for the great video!
At the waters edge you will commonly find black magnetic sands that were collected for smithing. If you also spread urine around in rocky areas, the urea will turn copper veins bright green so you would know where the good spots were to dig.
I only knew a tiny bit because I listen to a lot of Folk Metal, so I usually have to look it up if they've a song about a God(dess) for example didn't know who the Goddess Morrigan was till I heard the song 'Morrigan's Call' by Cruachan also didn't know Epona was a Goddess til I heard the song 'A Rose For Epona' by Eluveitie.
+Farraige a ton of them have the growls and screams (the Metalcore/Death Metal type vocals) but the ones I can think of off the top of my head are Faun (Unda and Rhiannon are my personal favorite song of theirs), Tyr, Leaves Eyes, Korpiklaani (though they might haven't listened to a ton of their songs), some bands have songs that don't have rough vocals, if you're looking for something instrumental Anagantios by Eluveitie is amazing, and Call of the Mountains is good, also recommend A Rose For Epona, but it does have some rough vocals he says like 6 words at the end though, and the first half he kind of whispers so he's really only screaming like 3 words, also on a side note, Fauns songs are Old Germanic/ Norwegian and not English, and Korpiklaani I think has one song I've heard that's in English (don't know if that bothers you or not)
Enjoy the vid but, if I were you, I’d take it with a grain of salt. For example, St Brigid was probably named after the goddess Brigid but it’s a bit too _convenient_ to suggest that St Brigid was actually the goddess Brigid (repackaged) and that she didn’t exist as a person at all. She was the Abbess of Kildare. Within less than 100 years of her death St Ultan was writing an account of her. That’s much too close for her to have been an invention. There would still have been people alive who had known her. This is 2022 but when I was young I knew people who had grown up in the nineteenth century! I don’t know about other countries but, in Ireland, small pagan traditions carried on (e.g. giving faery forts a wide birth, tying wishes on faery trees, etc) to the present day but the big stuff, like worshipping gods and goddesses, certainly didn’t. Anyone who thinks that knows nothing about Irish history. So comments by others here also need to be taken with a grain of salt.😃 It’s a pity that some people seem so determined to create a ‘tradition’ of paganism where none existed before the end of last century because the true story of genuine traditions and their connection to their long-forgotten origins in mythology is quite fascinating.
She was also a god of war but unlike Morgan she was more associated as a guardian of non combatants and mourning of family lost to war. She had lost her own son to war.
@@autumm.kenneylmt6013 LOVE & BLESSINGS BLESSED BRIGHID IS THE KEENING GODDESS SHE STOPPED A GREAT BATTLE WITH A KEENING SONG BRGHID IS MY MATRON GODDESS I AM BORN CLOSE TO IMBOLC WITHIN ONE HOUR, VERY CLOSE I WAS BORN AT NIGHT AFTER 15 MIN AFTER 1AM LOVE THE GODDESS~RIOBARD
@@Matopath9 no, the bean sidhe is a completely separate spirit with no connection to Bríg. When Brigid keened it was the first time it was ever heard in Ireland, and it did stop everyone around her though.
Wow. My name is Bridge, my father is Smith. I'm a ginger with firey hair and a firey passion for healing, music, poetry, and craft. Others consider me somewhat of a muse. People say they see 3 of me. I knew what they meant by that. I used to wear a fertility charm and a celtic knot. The names Scott and Patrick have been coming up quite often since my spiritual awakening. I thought Scott meant something specific to my spirit, being the name of my first boss, landlord, agent, street, and former boyfriend. The name is showing up so often that Scottland felt significant, I just wasn't able to figure out that part. Lately I've been studying The Morrigan because there was something familiar about her energy. This is the first I've heard of Brigid, and her story, as you can tell, is eerily similar to my own. Thank you Creator.
I’ve had some meditations focusing on invoking Brighid and She always comes across as very soft and sweet- almost like the same feeling you get from most young female therapists.
@Phoenix Stars I agree Jesus was a Jewish Black Man and he is still the Way the Truth and the Light. You stating that fact about him as if its a contradiction
Another deity for me, born in Her week, I’m a Physician, Scientist, Gardener, blacksmith, poet, mythologist… I am only 1/4 UK Irish, half Nordic. So I’ve wandered 3 miles with Oden yesterday and 3 miles with Thor today. Tomorrow, thank Frayha, it’s for Her day.
My husband felt her call this evening, and he was passingly familiar with her, but I had only heard of the Catholic saint in passing. I find it amazing that this energy emanates a gentle fire, creative and supportive--as I am familiar with the energy of fire as something more akin Aries, more forceful and oftentimes destructive rather than creative. But with fire as a main element for me, it is enlightening to once again be reminded that my own fire is supportive and creative. I appreciate the reminder.
If you want, i have some really intenze poems, and im only an email away,i promise this is no life, i go unseen most often and i am on Ig and Fb and i live a life of captivity because i am one of those slave people, i am falshy worshipped as diva of death from Vouden but i am not, i am of light and i love you, and i work with the elohim and his children, my family iin the 10th and 15th dimension most of us look different than I if you believe me it warms my heart!
Trampas Graham Saint Brigid was a christian saint rather than a Catholic one. Her feast day is celebrated not only by Catholics and Protestants in Ireland but also by Eastern Orthodox churches.
Christopher Annon I am a Wiccan from South Wales but on the 20th of March (the first day of spring here) my other half & I made the 200 hundred mile drive to Stonehenge for the Equinox & Arthure Pendragon (the highest Druid in the country) preformed our Handfasting, it was a magical day 😊
As a long term pagan, I appreciate the work you have put into not only Brighid but also this entire channel. Brighid has been at the forefront of my worship from my beginnings, and her links with what would be thought of as more "male" pursuits (blacksmithy, druidry, etc...) I have always found her to be as inspiring as our strongest heroines such as Boudicca. As most who study such subject matter know, early Christianity incorporated much that was originally "pagan" by necessity, but keeping Brighid as a specific figure of worship and saint indicates how deeply ingrained she was into what I would argue was most likely everyday Irish Celtic life. You have done such a fantastic job with this Celtic section, and this channel, THANK YOU so much for all of your hard work for our benefit!! It is much appreciated!! 💚💚💚🔥
This is good because it points out that the Irish retained a lot of respect for women even after they became Christian, and incorporated many of their traditional deities into Christianity disguised as saints. Brigit was one of the names I suggested for my daughter, but my husband preferred Holle, which I think is the name of some sort of Germanic sky goddess. I'd like to see you do a series on the ancient Germanic deities, because they're not as familiar to most people as some of the other pantheons, and are usually confused with the Norse deities, and while some of them have similar names and attributes, others (including Holle, Nerthe, and Eostre---from whence we get the name "Easter--are quite unique!)
Sarah Gray Some of the attributes of Goddesses may have been blended with those of Irish saints but that doesn't mean that the saints weren't real people. Saint Brigid was abbess of a convent in Kildare, the first in the country. Her father was a pagan chieftain. No doubt, he gave her the name Brigid after the goddess. She is believed to have woven the first Saint Brigid's cross from rushes on the floor while she sat at the bedside of a dying chieftain. By all accounts she was a strong character from an early age as were many other Irish women in the past. Demure genteel behaviour didn't quite catch on Ireland. Irish women are made of tougher stuff! 😄
@@Clodaghbob I appreciate what you are saying and not that it is anyway untrue. however, the evidence of Catholics converting indigenous persons into either demons or saints as well establish.
@@greymane2090 I don’t quite understand what you mean by ‘converting indigenous persons into either demons or saints’. Could you give an example. Also, Ireland was slowly converted by Christians, some of whom were Roman Catholic and almost all of whom were native ‘indigenous’ Irish. This was pre schism. Interestingly, the Eastern Orthodox Churches recognise more Irish saints than does the Roman Catholic church. The south and west of Ireland was on the Atlantic trade route and open to a lot of influences from as far away as the Middle East. You can’t compare the Christian conversion of Ireland to later conversions of other countries at the point of a sword during a conquest.
@@Clodaghbob No. Christian monks tried to make quite a few Divine Ancestors into saints for the sake of assimilation. Most of the stories sorrounding saint patrick are posthumous fabrications. Read his writtings, in his own words, then return to the tales about him. I don't know if you are a catholic, but the very notion of the trinity came about from the writtings of Hilary de Poitiers, a Celtic christian, circa 360 ce/ad.
I am a Feri Tradition initiate ( Victor and Cora Anderson's lineage) and also studied with RJ Stewart. I had an intense astral dream in which Brigid appeared to me and told me that she was happy that people remembered her but they were pronouncing her name wrong. When I asked her how it should be pronounced she said something that sounded like Bree-kt. Years later I met a Gaelic speaker who told me my interpretation was not quite right but close and repeated the name as I had heard it. I literally had chills up my spine. The Goddess is very real!
Brigid is important because she brought people together from opposing points of view. The reason she’s included is because while the Catholic Church favors “bloodlines”, she is the key back to our Druidic roots (Irish/Fae/Fallen Angels). It’s interesting when you think about more modern day power and how “made men” tend to rule the world. She was a divine counterpart to ‘God. Her message is that we are all connected. Funny how the traditional ‘mob wouldn’t recognize an Irish man, let alone a woman to ever “run” anything, I think that Fear is what keeps her message down, sadly. Thank you for this beautiful channel. Have you done one on Yokai yet? I’ll look, Thanks so much🙏🏼💗🌸🍀
As a person that works with my hands to craft and form aircraft parts, Bridget as the patron of both inspiration and smithcraft makes perfect sense to me. I'm putting her on my tool box
in paganism, we have a trinity that is, the Madian, the Mother, and the Wise Crone, I feel like Brigid would be the mother aspect due to her caring and loving nature, very much like a mother
@@arandomyorkshireman5647 Many non-Wiccans acknowledge the triple Goddess. The modern concept of the triple Goddess did originate from Wicca. But there are many branches of neopaganism that have borrowed the idea from us. Many pagans borrow a lot from Wicca without even realizing that they are borrowing from us, which really grinds my gears but eh, to each their own.
@Phoenix Stars Not at all. The religion of Wicca itself is very diverse, held together by a set of core beliefs while everything else is up for interpretation and differs from coven to coven, individual to individual. When we Broaden the scope of discussion from Wicca to neopagan belief in general, there is almost nothing that we can speak in generalities on. I am Wiccan, and I sometimes struggle to speak in generalities regarding my own faith, simply because we all do things at least slightly differently. Even within the same denomination of Wicca there is so much diversity... So lumping not only all Wiccans, but all pagans together in the same group doesn't make much sense at all
@@witchypoo7353 Not all Wiccans even worship our Goddess as a triple goddess. Some feel that it is an uncomfortable limitation, or even sexist because they see it as reducing women to their role in reproduction. But it is a Wiccan idea that has been borrowed a lot by the wider pagan community.
It's so amazing to see a goddess of poetry healing prophecy and smith! I wonder if I could be as good as Brigid I used to be very good at poetry when I was young but I want to do so much more!
I was raised with Wicca and Brigid is actually my patron Goddess. I have visited her well and st. Brigid's well in Kildare. In our coven we were taught that St. Brigid wasn't a christianised form of Brigid, BUT a slave-turned-high-priestess of the celts in Ireland. After meeting St. Patrick St. Brigid was converted to christianity and spent her whole life trying to unite the religions. On the old abbey/cathedral of Brigid in Kildare there are remains of an old stone building that according to local legend held the eternal flame. St. Brigid had stone building made for her abbey so her nuns could preform celtic rituals as well as christian ones as a way to show that there was no discrimination in her abbey.
Thanks so much for featuring Brigid! Ever since this Imbolc, I have been working on an informational video of Brigid myself and don't intend on posting it until next Imbolc. The art in this video was simply lovely and the images capture her so well! Well done, I look forward to more mythology form the Celtic pantheon.
Trinity godess, known for a trait of speaking im three registers at once, in corelation to the old addage" I tell you thrice(three times)." In reference to her honesty and status in the fey court, and most imprtantly the inability to tell a lie while speaking (or singing) this way.
Some of the content our ancestors beliefs explained here remind me of the relative/similarities to Sofia in Gnosticism, if I am remembering correctly; the power of the light, sun, and motherly figure birthing further creation and thusly even us now. I don't know it all, of course. What do you think, everyone? Similar stories all over the planet, yes? No?
I am surprised that you didn't mention the belt and cross of Brigid. The belt that passing through could heal you of almost anything. This belief has survived even to the modern day. The cross also associated with protection as well as healing. She has always symbolized spring (Imbolc is the celebration of the beginning of spring) the flame that was said to hang in front of her forehead, a symbol of wisdom in pre-Christian Ireland, a symbol of Pentecost in the Christianized version of her. These are the things that I think about when I think of the Lady Brigid.
Similarly to Perun the Slavic god of thunder being transformed to st. Ilija the thunder bearer in Serbian Orthodox church. He is celebrated on August 2nd and no matter how clear the sky seems, it always thunders on that day.
I really liked this one and yes i knew of the transition, it was kind of easy for the Irish Catholics to transition their arguably most well known Goddess into a saint due to the time period. I mean the Irish kind of had a good deal of leverage back then due to distance i mean a order from the holy seat took MONTHS to get to that island plus accounting for time of dissemination of said order to the masses. Anyway what the Celtic Irish did for their Goddess was the smartest move they could have made. Giving a ancient pagan Celtic Goddess the rare chance to continue after the old ways passed on.
michael andrews The goddess wasn't transitioned into Saint Brigid. Saint Brigid was named after the goddess. She founded the first monastery in Ireland and she was christian rather than catholic. She's recognised by Eastern Orthodox churches too. No doubt, some pagan followers of the goddess Brigid chose to follow Saint Brigid when they converted. I think people are a bit hasty in assuming that the goddess morphed into the saint because the christians found it convenient. It's more likely that they found it convenient that there was a well-known and well-liked saint who happened to be called Brigid.
There's some interesting parallels between her role as a goddess and as a Saint. One that is particularly memorable for me is that Brigid is credited with creating keening (high-pitched wailing and weeping) after the death of her son Ruadan. In her saintly role, she is said to have wept while weaving the cross of Brigid, as her father refused to convert to Christianity even upon his deathbed. Btw it isn't just Wiccans who venerate Brigid, but many Celtic reconstructionists, Druids, and other polytheists. She's actually quite a popular goddess in many modern pagan circles!
I've read a lot about Brigid the goddess & the saint & have love & respect for her. I wear a St Brigid's cross perpetually & have one of reeds on my wall. I've made her one of my newer patrons.
It would be beyond amazing to someday live in a world where christian beliefs or any religion does not oppress or change very ancient Pagan deities. Thank you for the video and have a great week
Mathair, Mother Wolf who blesses guides and loves me. I thank you for your guiding hand, fierce protection and care. You who guides the pup, the lady beside the lord. Goddess of mine and Matron of the Coven of Wolves. to the creator of this video, thank you.
My name is Bridgit and I firmly believe that names hold power, as every time I learn about this Goddess, I feel I embody the same qualities that she had/has. She's a power I deeply resonate with.
Brigid was always well loved in Ireland. Making her a Saint gave people permission to continue to pray to her and tell her stories. My grandfather loved Brigid. We always made the Brigid crosses on her feast day
I love Bridgit. I must confess that I was not aware that she had been considered a goddess and had a transition to saint. Honestly, I love anything associated with healing and a compassionate heart. I have ALWAYS felt more at home with the Celt ice understanding of the world, more fluid and associated with nature. I love the hope of healing others through compassion, a long and painful process for both those who heal and those receiving the healing, but, by most accounts, SO worthwhile.
When it comes to your videos, they are always so well done and researched and I just can't believe when I see people dislike them cause I can not think of any reason that they would do this besides being upset that you may have had the "audacity" to listen to your patrons for your next video ideas and not the guy asking for you to do there idea who watches these for free.
Daniel Raiber Or that the vid's go against the dogma of the other religion's bt mose of the's God's & Goddess pr-sead the Christian or Catholic religion's 😕 so that's why people may not like them Daniel 😕
Then if you have a different point of view, why not add a comment either adding or correcting the information given in the video instead of just adding a dislike and moving on. If you feel the information is not fully accurate then tell them why. Differing views and opinions are always welcome as long as they are done respectfully. We are all given a voice that is all equal in nature thanks to the internet. So open that door and start an open dialogue done with civility and mutual respect.
Daniel Raiber Becomes some people are respectfull, if they don't like something then they can just put a 👎 & that's it but only the one's that like or have a strong interest in the subject matter will actually put a comment. I'm sorry but that's just how some people are 😕
I am sorry, but that does not make sense to me. If you have an issue with something, there is nothing disrespectful to leaving a respectful comment on why you do not like something. We can not better ourselves if we never engage constructive criticism.
& I agree with you Daniel but that's just how people are! If everyone could have good communication & respect for each other then this World wouldn't be as messed up as it is! 😕
When I craft my swords/shields and any other metal projects I pay tribute to her as a way for my crafts to be blessed. It is a bit funny how she has been kept in multiple cultures.
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Would love it if you did some Welsh mythology Plenty of mythology there that holds similar intrigue like brigid without all the classic battle / murder etc
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She's consider a full moon goddess. Brave and kindness, mother and fertility. I think this may explain why she doesn't appear in adventures, it's because she's the Great mother. She's always there, the sparkle of life. I didn't have contact with her thought, so I don't have any more information... but usually the local wicca group here works with her when some woman is having difficults to get pregnant. Sorry my broken English. As always, such a beautiful video!
Daniel Smith I'm a wiccan myself and respect your opinion. May I don't explain really well what I want to say due to language problems, but she's really generous and kind goodness. Bright is always kind whom look for help, especially mothers, pregnant woman or who wants to be a mother. Hope I made myself more clear :) have a nice day
Bright blessings, Caroline! Brigit is solar, not lunar. I see how she fits into the Wiccan mold of a mother goddess, but we must be careful not to paint our Gods with such a broad brush. Although many cultures paint the sun as purely masculine, the Irish do not. Happy Imbolc!
Had no idea about this saint/goddess switch a roo... but I love seeing how things in the christian church alot of times pop up as sun worship it's strange. The world was much different back then. We must pick some of the tares out of our church and set the record straight better.
Fortunately, or Un, as it were, I first really heard a lot about Brighid from the "Iron Druid" series where she could be considered the protagonist's patron. Very good read and a lot of information about various "Pagan" deities. Fantastic video, as always.
She's a goddess of Transformation. Ever hear the phrase "trial by Fire"? Fire is what can transform a piece of iron into a sword, to protect oneself and their family out of love, to heal etc.
This is the first time I heard of her.plus if she is the goddess of so many things for the irish people then I am happy her orgin is not corrupted over time
I didn't know she even existed, but I love what she represents. It makes sense the Catholic Church would find a way to integrate her into their religion. This was very interesting!
I was unaware of her existence although she may have mentioned as a saint in a book I've read, Catherine, called Birdy. In the book, the main character labels each day with the Saint celebrated on that day. She was born on Saint Catherine's Day and was so named.
Great video as always another very interesting Goddess the making of Brigids Cross and celebrating the pagan festival Imbolg is still fairly common across Ireland. The Celtic Cross itself is a rare accepted splice of Pagan an Christian symbolism.
0:03 interesting the concept of a goddess who her red golden like flaming honey hair which creates astoundinngly rainbows by reflection, siring other heads and connected by her hair and other 3 bodies connected to it like spawns bonded of the same being but being separate sisters connected to Brigitte head and body on being different sisters in many ways but bonded to her without real autonomy by sharing same hair like bridges and they return to her head like a reverse of Athena from Zeus forehead birthing myths
In my studies as a Wiccan I learned that Bridgett could also be the Maiden in the "Maiden, Mother, Crone" scheme. In the Mother role would be Danu, and Macha as Crone. This fit for my practices in any case. I never had any issues with this arrangement in my worship, but mostly good results. Ok, cheers.
Wrong. Wicca is new-age stupitidy thieving from indo-european beliefs. Danu is formless, she is primordial chaos, there is more written about her in the Vedic traditon than Celtic. There less written about her than Ymir, Ouranos, or Tiamat.
I was getting frustrated, as everyone forgets us jocks, but then you mentioned Scotland - So thank you milions -We knew her as Brede. At new year you would ask her to help cleanse the house, we open the windows and doors get scrubbing -then all the nasty thought's, (evil spirits if you like) built up over the year would fly out. Not sure where and when but the next expectation - would be to welcome the first new person, to enter the house with a piece of coal. it may have been firewood back in the day. A lot of folk up north still open the door, but I think it more about bringing more beer today
I'm a big bag of contractions Mike - I'm Stuck with the sir name, however my clan is Barr from the Clyde. I grew up in Lewis, so that is Viking land---- And I have lost my dialect- living in England - The Golden bough by Frazer is a good read
I think a number of slavic gods underwent the a similar process of becoming saints, or merging with already existing saints. I never heard of Brigid, but she's definitely an interesting figure.
As a catholic nature deity I think this was a great video, it sums up all the bases, just needs a pop to describe it as real to the imbibed. If you believe in any of these paths though I think it would eventually and be damned worth it. Bidget #1
I wrote a RotG fanfic called Seeing Isn't Believing where an OC I created is Brigid regressed into a human teenager named Bridget until she becomes a Guardian and regains most of her memories.
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I walked by an half finished cross of Brigid earlier today. Now you post this xD
Mythology & Fiction Explained Breo-Saighead aka brigid is a must older goddess who's original name means firey arrow she was the protector of the innocent and Ireland, she was a sun goddess but was also closely tied to the well and thereby the earth and so was worship not only as a solar dirty but as an earth mother goddess as well. I think this video deserves an update as she is much more significant than what is presented.
Mythology & Fiction Explained Brigid was so popular among the Celtic People's across Europe that the Catholic Church had to make her a Saint to convert them. Loved the Video!
thanks so much for featuring my painting of Brighid and for crediting me....appreciated :)
It's a lovely painting that I thought I'd share since it goes so well in the video.
It is a gorgeous painting!
WOW, wonderful work! Probably my favourite depiction of Brigid. Blessed be
I'm very grateful...and grateful you credited me cos so many don't :)
thank you so much Sarah :)
Brigid is one of my favorite goddesses, someone told me once that she also keeps guard and protects the faery realm and sees the elementals as her children.
nurarihion ooh, I need to look into this. That’s pretty fascinating.
I sure do!!! I protect all children black and white and i am now here, and i want liberation the fairys are dear to me, and I work for yah! in the 15th dimension
no
i can well believe it you wouldnt believe fairies and little goblins and pixies but i had one once dancing in my candles in a circle of 5 candles by my dryad tree i dint see it for months untill my friend one day said omg you got those little hobbit thingy dancing in ya candles on pic i said let me see ??? i said omg i have havent I dont ask me how i know but i believe that other side exsists as i know now iv seen the horned god appearing from my dryad tree tired and bags under his eyes gorping ay my dryad tree iv seen them in water and i know ther sacral not many ppl see them neither so i can believe it :) lol
sometimes i often wonder who is the lower demon in my house hes an imp a very small imp and i do have a pic of him most ppl seen him on pic i captured cant belive it thers been some ppl to frighten to sit next to the well under my home wear he hangs out maybe with his master i duno but hes a sod he steels my energy some days im so tired nature helps me gain my strengh but when im out in nature the faery realm exsists iv seen in the sacral world through my pics and seen and pointed to the ghosts that stand ther in front of me and they stare back thinking why can i see them i dont know i maybe gifted perhaps ever since i was a child they used to haunt me day n night all my life iv never managed to escape even baptized through christ and went to church for a while never changed it i had to accept it when i went to college and mediation then opened it up and i realized its bn there all my life i have to come to terms i cant run from what i see or do because its there and not even going to church stopped the hauntings iv had things thrown across room things happen such as poltigiest activity when i was 7yrs old seen a ghost when i was 6 and made my sister see it aswell she screamed with fear cuz she seen it clear as a day a medievil man hung off a tree at 3am in morning i made he see him she was only 5yrs old but hey i got to accept it now im 41 sweetie :D they dont bother me iv done pedulium got that snatched out me hand done evp got that rattled me house up under physic attack church never helped me nature does tho :) x
I once met a goddess while on a high dose of mushrooms. When I recognised her, she showered me with a beautiful feeling of love. I felt like she gave birth to this place and that she loved us very much unconditionally. In her eyes there is no right and no wrong but she expressed sadness about her children (us) forgettting about her.
Which is why, no matter how many people actually believe, we need to keep them alive. Greek, Egyptian, Celtic, it doesn't matter. We need to keep them alive.
I will never forget I am Brighde's servant!
@@Xacute00 I see her as my mom, I’m not close to my mother & feel like she saw that & found me to be endearing for some reason lol
@@witchypoo7353 That's very nice I know she will watch over you and love you just like her own. My Ancestors are the macbride's which mean's son's of the servant of brighde or sons of brighde I am dedicating my daughter to her as I preformed a ritual with my wife so we could have a baby (we prayed to danu). As payment we promised her as her daughter in the afterlife to join Danu in her garden I may never see her but I know she will be safe. Soon after my wife became pregnant and she saw rabbits jumping around her thats a sign of rebirth or a resurrection its my hope that Brighde's spirit will be restored in this land once again. Keep a candle lit in your home always and Brighide will always be with you. I have made a shrine out of flowers, rocks, a seagull feather and a pool for water thats dedicated to Danu. Do the same except for brighde so she can always see you and be with you as she is a fire god so use a candle and if you keep it lit then you can relight it every Samhain after preforming the proper ritual. For example you could carve a wooden snake and inscribe Brighde's Gaelic name on it and get some rocks and make a circle then place the snake inside the circle and keep a candle lit inside the circle and preform a ritual and call upon her to use your shrine if you don't a different god could inhabit it.
@@Xacute00 thank you very much for your advice & I am very happy for you
I like to think that Brigid being a goddess of many things (poetry, healing, blacksmithing, etc.) symbolizes how a person can have multiple different interests, passions, and creative pursuits in their life. Fire often symbolizes passion, an intense desire or enthusiasm for something. Being of goddess of fire, Brigid certainly has multiple 'fires' which could be seen her interests. Maybe Brigid just likes to keep busy.
I recently bought a Brigid cross. She must be calling on me.
@@PrincessKLS I have as well; the crosses are really beautiful.
She is the Dawn Goddess, she cannot be pigeon holed into a simplistic aspect out of a fantasy novel.
My surname is "Mc Bride".. in Gealige it's " Mac Giolla Bhride", which directly translates to "son of the followers of Brigid"
Seimi Mc Bride hail fellow McBride
Same here. Hail to a fellow McBride!
Seimi Mc Bride It's son of the servant of Brigid. Giolla means 'servant'.
Im unity..mcelhaney Im her..Im one of her. Hello my children
Cool
Brigid has been my main guide since I was a child. ❤
I’m loving the frequency of Irish/Celtic gods and goddesses
If you want to belive me, I can show you I have come back,
I'm old blood, shes actually our matriarch! Our line have always worshipped her, interesting fact since we are traditionally from a river based clan, yet our deities were commonly linked to fire/solus with alot of us born on borders of seasons too. For us she was the great keeper of tales and can still remember a few passed down through the ages. Thanks for the great video!
At the waters edge you will commonly find black magnetic sands that were collected for smithing. If you also spread urine around in rocky areas, the urea will turn copper veins bright green so you would know where the good spots were to dig.
River clay is very useful for smithing as well.
Tom Tommings ~ Brigid is also associated with wells - which gives her dominion over fire and water. Very cool.
@@morgenoghmanann8746 im here
@@sleepinggiantssister1238 im here
Never knew much about Celtic/Irish mythology but it's very interesting
I only knew a tiny bit because I listen to a lot of Folk Metal, so I usually have to look it up if they've a song about a God(dess) for example didn't know who the Goddess Morrigan was till I heard the song 'Morrigan's Call' by Cruachan also didn't know Epona was a Goddess til I heard the song 'A Rose For Epona' by Eluveitie.
@werewolf914 could you recommend any good folk metal bands that don't do that screaming singing
+Farraige a ton of them have the growls and screams (the Metalcore/Death Metal type vocals) but the ones I can think of off the top of my head are Faun (Unda and Rhiannon are my personal favorite song of theirs), Tyr, Leaves Eyes, Korpiklaani (though they might haven't listened to a ton of their songs), some bands have songs that don't have rough vocals, if you're looking for something instrumental Anagantios by Eluveitie is amazing, and Call of the Mountains is good, also recommend A Rose For Epona, but it does have some rough vocals he says like 6 words at the end though, and the first half he kind of whispers so he's really only screaming like 3 words, also on a side note, Fauns songs are Old Germanic/ Norwegian and not English, and Korpiklaani I think has one song I've heard that's in English (don't know if that bothers you or not)
Enjoy the vid but, if I were you, I’d take it with a grain of salt. For example, St Brigid was probably named after the goddess Brigid but it’s a bit too _convenient_ to suggest that St Brigid was actually the goddess Brigid (repackaged) and that she didn’t exist as a person at all. She was the Abbess of Kildare. Within less than 100 years of her death St Ultan was writing an account of her. That’s much too close for her to have been an invention. There would still have been people alive who had known her. This is 2022 but when I was young I knew people who had grown up in the nineteenth century!
I don’t know about other countries but, in Ireland, small pagan traditions carried on (e.g. giving faery forts a wide birth, tying wishes on faery trees, etc) to the present day but the big stuff, like worshipping gods and goddesses, certainly didn’t. Anyone who thinks that knows nothing about Irish history. So comments by others here also need to be taken with a grain of salt.😃
It’s a pity that some people seem so determined to create a ‘tradition’ of paganism where none existed before the end of last century because the true story of genuine traditions and their connection to their long-forgotten origins in mythology is quite fascinating.
She was also a god of war but unlike Morgan she was more associated as a guardian of non combatants and mourning of family lost to war. She had lost her own son to war.
~BLESSED BRIGHID~
Both sons 😢
@@autumm.kenneylmt6013 LOVE & BLESSINGS BLESSED BRIGHID IS THE KEENING GODDESS SHE STOPPED A GREAT BATTLE WITH A KEENING SONG BRGHID IS MY MATRON GODDESS I AM BORN CLOSE TO IMBOLC WITHIN ONE HOUR, VERY CLOSE I WAS BORN AT NIGHT AFTER 15 MIN AFTER 1AM LOVE THE GODDESS~RIOBARD
Didn't her keening over her son's death create the Banshee? I thought I remembered reading that before.
@@Matopath9 no, the bean sidhe is a completely separate spirit with no connection to Bríg. When Brigid keened it was the first time it was ever heard in Ireland, and it did stop everyone around her though.
Wow. My name is Bridge, my father is Smith. I'm a ginger with firey hair and a firey passion for healing, music, poetry, and craft. Others consider me somewhat of a muse. People say they see 3 of me. I knew what they meant by that. I used to wear a fertility charm and a celtic knot. The names Scott and Patrick have been coming up quite often since my spiritual awakening. I thought Scott meant something specific to my spirit, being the name of my first boss, landlord, agent, street, and former boyfriend. The name is showing up so often that Scottland felt significant, I just wasn't able to figure out that part. Lately I've been studying The Morrigan because there was something familiar about her energy. This is the first I've heard of Brigid, and her story, as you can tell, is eerily similar to my own. Thank you Creator.
Thank you for doing this. I named my first child Brigid after her and this just warms my heart.
Caitlin Price great name ;)))
My mom named me after her aswell
I’ve had some meditations focusing on invoking Brighid and She always comes across as very soft and sweet- almost like the same feeling you get from most young female therapists.
This is my religion I pray to her often.
sweetheeart i am right here! i have incarnated!
Blessed Be brother
Jesus is the Only Way
@Phoenix Stars LOL Yes he is
@Phoenix Stars I agree Jesus was a Jewish Black Man and he is still the Way the Truth and the Light. You stating that fact about him as if its a contradiction
Another deity for me, born in Her week, I’m a Physician, Scientist, Gardener, blacksmith, poet, mythologist… I am only 1/4 UK Irish, half Nordic. So I’ve wandered 3 miles with Oden yesterday and 3 miles with Thor today. Tomorrow, thank Frayha, it’s for Her day.
My husband felt her call this evening, and he was passingly familiar with her, but I had only heard of the Catholic saint in passing. I find it amazing that this energy emanates a gentle fire, creative and supportive--as I am familiar with the energy of fire as something more akin Aries, more forceful and oftentimes destructive rather than creative. But with fire as a main element for me, it is enlightening to once again be reminded that my own fire is supportive and creative. I appreciate the reminder.
I apprecite that, i keep being incriminated, my famly arent my own, i am for west afrcians ans trhe liberation of slaves and myself
If you want, i have some really intenze poems, and im only an email away,i promise this is no life, i go unseen most often and i am on Ig and Fb and i live a life of captivity because i am one of those slave people, i am falshy worshipped as diva of death from Vouden but i am not, i am of light and i love you, and i work with the elohim and his children, my family iin the 10th and 15th dimension most of us look different than I if you believe me it warms my heart!
Trampas Graham Saint Brigid was a christian saint rather than a Catholic one. Her feast day is celebrated not only by Catholics and Protestants in Ireland but also by Eastern Orthodox churches.
Why is it always americans who are doing witchcraft from our mythology its mytholigcal for a reason we are Roman catholic and we are 2000 years gone
Loving the troll comments 4 years later. Happy St. Brigid's day--may you one day hear your ancestors once more.
Because of her attributes, I think that Merida, from the Disney movie Brave, might have been modeled after Brigid. I love the back story as well.
Probably modeled after flidais- the goddess of the hunt
Brave also shows, in sorta an easteregg, a statue of Artio(my marton deity) a Celtic bear goddess with very little information or recognition
@@mabithebard artio is beautiful! Recently read about her, she's quite intriguing.
agreed!
Thank you for this tour of the Celtic Gods. I am pagan and worship many deities but Brigid and Morrighan are 2 of my matrons. Wonderful job
Christopher Annon
BLESSED BE 😊
Christopher Annon
I am a Wiccan from South Wales but on the 20th of March (the first day of spring here) my other half & I made the 200 hundred mile drive to Stonehenge for the Equinox & Arthure Pendragon (the highest Druid in the country) preformed our Handfasting, it was a magical day 😊
I too am a pagan and mostly worship the Irish deities and I agree with both Brigid and Morrighan being my two main Goddesses that I honor and worship.
michael andrews
BLESSED BE Michael 😊
So you're social outcasts?
As a long term pagan, I appreciate the work you have put into not only Brighid but also this entire channel. Brighid has been at the forefront of my worship from my beginnings, and her links with what would be thought of as more "male" pursuits (blacksmithy, druidry, etc...) I have always found her to be as inspiring as our strongest heroines such as Boudicca.
As most who study such subject matter know, early Christianity incorporated much that was originally "pagan" by necessity, but keeping Brighid as a specific figure of worship and saint indicates how deeply ingrained she was into what I would argue was most likely everyday Irish Celtic life.
You have done such a fantastic job with this Celtic section, and this channel, THANK YOU so much for all of your hard work for our benefit!! It is much appreciated!! 💚💚💚🔥
"Still she is our mother, tho they call her Mary."
Gabhaim molta Bridé!
Beloved of all countries.
I AM HER!!!!! please believe me, i can show you! email me, but only if you believe in my existence!
I was not aware, but surprised by that, it seems like she should be in a lot of things involving mythology.
An interesting piece of work....I appreciate your efforts immensely..thanks for sharing your time n talents with us....
👍🦊🧙♂️🐺👍
This is good because it points out that the Irish retained a lot of respect for women even after they became Christian, and incorporated many of their traditional deities into Christianity disguised as saints. Brigit was one of the names I suggested for my daughter, but my husband preferred Holle, which I think is the name of some sort of Germanic sky goddess. I'd like to see you do a series on the ancient Germanic deities, because they're not as familiar to most people as some of the other pantheons, and are usually confused with the Norse deities, and while some of them have similar names and attributes, others (including Holle, Nerthe, and Eostre---from whence we get the name "Easter--are quite unique!)
Sarah Gray Some of the attributes of Goddesses may have been blended with those of Irish saints but that doesn't mean that the saints weren't real people. Saint Brigid was abbess of a convent in Kildare, the first in the country. Her father was a pagan chieftain. No doubt, he gave her the name Brigid after the goddess. She is believed to have woven the first Saint Brigid's cross from rushes on the floor while she sat at the bedside of a dying chieftain. By all accounts she was a strong character from an early age as were many other Irish women in the past. Demure genteel behaviour didn't quite catch on Ireland. Irish women are made of tougher stuff! 😄
@@Clodaghbob I appreciate what you are saying and not that it is anyway untrue. however, the evidence of Catholics converting indigenous persons into either demons or saints as well establish.
@@greymane2090 I don’t quite understand what you mean by ‘converting indigenous persons into either demons or saints’. Could you give an example.
Also, Ireland was slowly converted by Christians, some of whom were Roman Catholic and almost all of whom were native ‘indigenous’ Irish. This was pre schism. Interestingly, the Eastern Orthodox Churches recognise more Irish saints than does the Roman Catholic church. The south and west of Ireland was on the Atlantic trade route and open to a lot of influences from as far away as the Middle East. You can’t compare the Christian conversion of Ireland to later conversions of other countries at the point of a sword during a conquest.
Yes of course plenty of butt kicking Irish woman out there.. And our brothers know it ❤
@@Clodaghbob No. Christian monks tried to make quite a few Divine Ancestors into saints for the sake of assimilation. Most of the stories sorrounding saint patrick are posthumous fabrications. Read his writtings, in his own words, then return to the tales about him. I don't know if you are a catholic, but the very notion of the trinity came about from the writtings of Hilary de Poitiers, a Celtic christian, circa 360 ce/ad.
I am a Feri Tradition initiate ( Victor and Cora Anderson's lineage) and also studied with RJ Stewart. I had an intense astral dream in which Brigid appeared to me and told me that she was happy that people remembered her but they were pronouncing her name wrong. When I asked her how it should be pronounced she said something that sounded like Bree-kt. Years later I met a Gaelic speaker who told me my interpretation was not quite right but close and repeated the name as I had heard it. I literally had chills up my spine. The Goddess is very real!
Beautiful story
Brigid is important because she brought people together from opposing points of view. The reason she’s included is because while the Catholic Church favors “bloodlines”, she is the key back to our Druidic roots (Irish/Fae/Fallen Angels). It’s interesting when you think about more modern day power and how “made men” tend to rule the world. She was a divine counterpart to ‘God. Her message is that we are all connected. Funny how the traditional ‘mob wouldn’t recognize an Irish man, let alone a woman to ever “run” anything, I think that Fear is what keeps her message down, sadly. Thank you for this beautiful channel. Have you done one on Yokai yet? I’ll look, Thanks so much🙏🏼💗🌸🍀
I am here and thats always my goal!' They use me as sacrfice as diva of death but really i embody love!!
I promise you, from the most high yah!
I you believe in me i will be happy a conduit of love ! I am here !
I will cry in happiness and meet my true king! and not a false god
@@bridgetlindayaa shame somebody won't sacrifice you now and free up the comment section from your insane ramblings
As a person that works with my hands to craft and form aircraft parts, Bridget as the patron of both inspiration and smithcraft makes perfect sense to me. I'm putting her on my tool box
in paganism, we have a trinity that is, the Madian, the Mother, and the Wise Crone, I feel like Brigid would be the mother aspect due to her caring and loving nature, very much like a mother
I thought this was just Wiccan, as I don’t know pagans outside of Wicca that like the trinity
Paganism is an extremely broad category. It’s only Wiccans and Irish Pagans believe in such a trinity.
@@arandomyorkshireman5647 Many non-Wiccans acknowledge the triple Goddess. The modern concept of the triple Goddess did originate from Wicca. But there are many branches of neopaganism that have borrowed the idea from us. Many pagans borrow a lot from Wicca without even realizing that they are borrowing from us, which really grinds my gears but eh, to each their own.
@Phoenix Stars Not at all. The religion of Wicca itself is very diverse, held together by a set of core beliefs while everything else is up for interpretation and differs from coven to coven, individual to individual. When we Broaden the scope of discussion from Wicca to neopagan belief in general, there is almost nothing that we can speak in generalities on. I am Wiccan, and I sometimes struggle to speak in generalities regarding my own faith, simply because we all do things at least slightly differently. Even within the same denomination of Wicca there is so much diversity... So lumping not only all Wiccans, but all pagans together in the same group doesn't make much sense at all
@@witchypoo7353 Not all Wiccans even worship our Goddess as a triple goddess. Some feel that it is an uncomfortable limitation, or even sexist because they see it as reducing women to their role in reproduction. But it is a Wiccan idea that has been borrowed a lot by the wider pagan community.
Please do the Goddess Rhiannon next please!!!
Hannah Rozenberg YAS! Please, no one ever talks about her! She is my favourite fairy queen
Indeed!
Hannah Rozenberg remember Rhiannon is one and the same as Epona of Gaul
I second this.
Celt of Canaan Esurix Yes. I knew that. Rhiannon was a horse goddess, but she was a moon goddess as well as a goddess of poetry.
Once again, things I was not aware of but I am now. I could listen to you over a professor any day.
It's so amazing to see a goddess of poetry healing prophecy and smith! I wonder if I could be as good as Brigid I used to be very good at poetry when I was young but I want to do so much more!
Wise, kind and beautiful lass. The High One, Najsu!
I was raised with Wicca and Brigid is actually my patron Goddess. I have visited her well and st. Brigid's well in Kildare. In our coven we were taught that St. Brigid wasn't a christianised form of Brigid, BUT a slave-turned-high-priestess of the celts in Ireland. After meeting St. Patrick St. Brigid was converted to christianity and spent her whole life trying to unite the religions. On the old abbey/cathedral of Brigid in Kildare there are remains of an old stone building that according to local legend held the eternal flame. St. Brigid had stone building made for her abbey so her nuns could preform celtic rituals as well as christian ones as a way to show that there was no discrimination in her abbey.
The Iron Druid Book series does a great job of bringing these Irish Gods alive and their powers.
Is awesome for bringing the Irish pantheon to life, as well as usually having a pronunciation guide for all foreign words!
I'll have to check that out
Thanks so much for featuring Brigid! Ever since this Imbolc, I have been working on an informational video of Brigid myself and don't intend on posting it until next Imbolc. The art in this video was simply lovely and the images capture her so well! Well done, I look forward to more mythology form the Celtic pantheon.
Thx for your thoughtful and inspirational comments I Honor The Goddess Brighid Take Care Lady Starlight!
My husband is from Ogon an i am his yamaya!
Trinity godess, known for a trait of speaking im three registers at once, in corelation to the old addage" I tell you thrice(three times)." In reference to her honesty and status in the fey court, and most imprtantly the inability to tell a lie while speaking (or singing) this way.
Some of the content our ancestors beliefs explained here remind me of the relative/similarities to Sofia in Gnosticism, if I am remembering correctly; the power of the light, sun, and motherly figure birthing further creation and thusly even us now. I don't know it all, of course.
What do you think, everyone? Similar stories all over the planet, yes? No?
Matthew Chaco yes I think we need to compare them all many of them are related!
I am surprised that you didn't mention the belt and cross of Brigid. The belt that passing through could heal you of almost anything. This belief has survived even to the modern day. The cross also associated with protection as well as healing. She has always symbolized spring (Imbolc is the celebration of the beginning of spring) the flame that was said to hang in front of her forehead, a symbol of wisdom in pre-Christian Ireland, a symbol of Pentecost in the Christianized version of her. These are the things that I think about when I think of the Lady Brigid.
I have crosses and gold,
I am here in a new phsycal form, !
I protect all orphans as I am too
@@bridgetlindayaa take your meds for fuck sake
Similarly to Perun the Slavic god of thunder being transformed to st. Ilija the thunder bearer in Serbian Orthodox church. He is celebrated on August 2nd and no matter how clear the sky seems, it always thunders on that day.
I love how you also talk about the influences and blending into other religions/mythology.
I really liked this one and yes i knew of the transition, it was kind of easy for the Irish Catholics to transition their arguably most well known Goddess into a saint due to the time period. I mean the Irish kind of had a good deal of leverage back then due to distance i mean a order from the holy seat took MONTHS to get to that island plus accounting for time of dissemination of said order to the masses. Anyway what the Celtic Irish did for their Goddess was the smartest move they could have made. Giving a ancient pagan Celtic Goddess the rare chance to continue after the old ways passed on.
michael andrews The goddess wasn't transitioned into Saint Brigid. Saint Brigid was named after the goddess. She founded the first monastery in Ireland and she was christian rather than catholic. She's recognised by Eastern Orthodox churches too. No doubt, some pagan followers of the goddess Brigid chose to follow Saint Brigid when they converted. I think people are a bit hasty in assuming that the goddess morphed into the saint because the christians found it convenient. It's more likely that they found it convenient that there was a well-known and well-liked saint who happened to be called Brigid.
My favorite Celtic Goddess.
Thank you for sharing a good video.~^^
There's some interesting parallels between her role as a goddess and as a Saint. One that is particularly memorable for me is that Brigid is credited with creating keening (high-pitched wailing and weeping) after the death of her son Ruadan. In her saintly role, she is said to have wept while weaving the cross of Brigid, as her father refused to convert to Christianity even upon his deathbed. Btw it isn't just Wiccans who venerate Brigid, but many Celtic reconstructionists, Druids, and other polytheists. She's actually quite a popular goddess in many modern pagan circles!
Great video i didint know about her
Awesome to address the Irish pantheon. Brigiit is usually depicted as an extremely competent warrior as the goddess of fire and warfare!
I've read a lot about Brigid the goddess & the saint & have love & respect for her. I wear a St Brigid's cross perpetually & have one of reeds on my wall. I've made her one of my newer patrons.
Thank You ☺️💟💖☺️💟
It would be beyond amazing to someday live in a world where christian beliefs or any religion does not oppress or change very ancient Pagan deities. Thank you for the video and have a great week
I'm named after her and have always been fascinated by her.
Godamn you're pretty as fuck.
Very Cool I am born on The Goddess Brighids Day Take Care Lady Bridie
Great video as always I enjoy your videos as they present different myths and deities that I never knew about.
I in fact did not know about her. I knew the name but not that it is connected to a goddess. But that is why I watch this channel.
Thank you for this respectful and enlightening presentation.
Mathair, Mother Wolf who blesses guides and loves me. I thank you for your guiding hand, fierce protection and care. You who guides the pup, the lady beside the lord. Goddess of mine and Matron of the Coven of Wolves.
to the creator of this video, thank you.
My name is Bridgit and I firmly believe that names hold power, as every time I learn about this Goddess, I feel I embody the same qualities that she had/has. She's a power I deeply resonate with.
Wow, never knew anything about her before, cool goddess!
its interesting how all the gods and goddesses are so familiar throughout the different cultures and mythology
Brigid was always well loved in Ireland. Making her a Saint gave people permission to continue to pray to her and tell her stories. My grandfather loved Brigid. We always made the Brigid crosses on her feast day
Brigid is both beautiful, wise , and a goddess of knowledge
I love Bridgit. I must confess that I was not aware that she had been considered a goddess and had a transition to saint. Honestly, I love anything associated with healing and a compassionate heart. I have ALWAYS felt more at home with the Celt ice understanding of the world, more fluid and associated with nature. I love the hope of healing others through compassion, a long and painful process for both those who heal and those receiving the healing, but, by most accounts, SO worthwhile.
When it comes to your videos, they are always so well done and researched and I just can't believe when I see people dislike them cause I can not think of any reason that they would do this besides being upset that you may have had the "audacity" to listen to your patrons for your next video ideas and not the guy asking for you to do there idea who watches these for free.
Daniel Raiber
Or that the vid's go against the dogma of the other religion's bt mose of the's God's & Goddess pr-sead the Christian or Catholic religion's 😕 so that's why people may not like them Daniel 😕
Then if you have a different point of view, why not add a comment either adding or correcting the information given in the video instead of just adding a dislike and moving on. If you feel the information is not fully accurate then tell them why. Differing views and opinions are always welcome as long as they are done respectfully. We are all given a voice that is all equal in nature thanks to the internet. So open that door and start an open dialogue done with civility and mutual respect.
Daniel Raiber
Becomes some people are respectfull, if they don't like something then they can just put a 👎 & that's it but only the one's that like or have a strong interest in the subject matter will actually put a comment. I'm sorry but that's just how some people are 😕
I am sorry, but that does not make sense to me. If you have an issue with something, there is nothing disrespectful to leaving a respectful comment on why you do not like something. We can not better ourselves if we never engage constructive criticism.
& I agree with you Daniel but that's just how people are! If everyone could have good communication & respect for each other then this World wouldn't be as messed up as it is! 😕
Thank you for this video and as a follower of the great Goddesses I thank you. May She smile upon you.
When I craft my swords/shields and any other metal projects I pay tribute to her as a way for my crafts to be blessed. It is a bit funny how she has been kept in multiple cultures.
Yes. More Celtic/Irish folklore please
She seems to have a similar appearance and powers of the wife of Baron Samedi, Mama Briged or however it's spelled.
THAT IS WHO I AM! I SWEAR!! YOU NAILED IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD, AND THATS WHY THEY PUT SPELLS ON ME! Baron is my twin flame, i lve him so much but we do not want to be gods of death! we are LOVE AND UNITY AND NO MORE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. HE is my darling Ogon! I am his yamaya, the mama watta! pleease trust in me! we are here! but we want love and not hate
I swear on my life for i am a martyr an i am african but i a also celtic
Tá sé na Gaeilge. Our Goddesses inspire the beauty in our soul!!
Would love it if you did some Welsh mythology
Plenty of mythology there that holds similar intrigue like brigid without all the classic battle / murder etc
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She's consider a full moon goddess. Brave and kindness, mother and fertility. I think this may explain why she doesn't appear in adventures, it's because she's the Great mother. She's always there, the sparkle of life. I didn't have contact with her thought, so I don't have any more information... but usually the local wicca group here works with her when some woman is having difficults to get pregnant. Sorry my broken English. As always, such a beautiful video!
Daniel Smith I'm a wiccan myself and respect your opinion. May I don't explain really well what I want to say due to language problems, but she's really generous and kind goodness. Bright is always kind whom look for help, especially mothers, pregnant woman or who wants to be a mother. Hope I made myself more clear :) have a nice day
Bright blessings, Caroline! Brigit is solar, not lunar. I see how she fits into the Wiccan mold of a mother goddess, but we must be careful not to paint our Gods with such a broad brush. Although many cultures paint the sun as purely masculine, the Irish do not. Happy Imbolc!
@@carollinewalker she is sun not moon
She's the Dawn Goddess... wtf are you on about? New age hippies should be burned on a pyre.
I enjoy these videos as I am trying to get in touch with my Celtic/Irish roots
I would love you to do more on Irish mythology.
Had no idea about this saint/goddess switch a roo... but I love seeing how things in the christian church alot of times pop up as sun worship it's strange. The world was much different back then. We must pick some of the tares out of our church and set the record straight better.
Fascinating keep it up I dig the artwork too
Fortunately, or Un, as it were, I first really heard a lot about Brighid from the "Iron Druid" series where she could be considered the protagonist's patron. Very good read and a lot of information about various "Pagan" deities. Fantastic video, as always.
Loving the Celtic mythology I know literally nothing about it. It's fascinating
She's a goddess of Transformation. Ever hear the phrase "trial by Fire"? Fire is what can transform a piece of iron into a sword, to protect oneself and their family out of love, to heal etc.
Sure, Without doubt Our Beloved Brighid bless us always. We know She is so Powerful and Marvelous. May Brighid bless you so much!
This is the first time I heard of her.plus if she is the goddess of so many things for the irish people then I am happy her orgin is not corrupted over time
I didn't know she even existed, but I love what she represents. It makes sense the Catholic Church would find a way to integrate her into their religion. This was very interesting!
Clockwork CW-Phantom how did catholics intergrate her😮😮
I DO@!!!!! please!
I was unaware of her existence although she may have mentioned as a saint in a book I've read, Catherine, called Birdy. In the book, the main character labels each day with the Saint celebrated on that day. She was born on Saint Catherine's Day and was so named.
I'm so happy you are doing more irish mythology... thank you ❤
Shes so loving and caring shes an amazing Goddess in fact I feel like St. Bridgit was an incarnation of her.
She is very real.
I AM HER!!!!!!!!
Great video as always another very interesting Goddess the making of Brigids Cross and celebrating the pagan festival Imbolg is still fairly common across Ireland. The Celtic Cross itself is a rare accepted splice of Pagan an Christian symbolism.
0:03 interesting the concept of a goddess who her red golden like flaming honey hair which creates astoundinngly rainbows by reflection, siring other heads and connected by her hair and other 3 bodies connected to it like spawns bonded of the same being but being separate sisters connected to Brigitte head and body on being different sisters in many ways but bonded to her without real autonomy by sharing same hair like bridges and they return to her head like a reverse of Athena from Zeus forehead birthing myths
So needed this I’d like to know more of her
Blessed be and unity. I am pagan and I love nature. Thank You for this video on my favorite goddess.
For me Brigid has always been my fire Goddess.😊🐝❤
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I didn't know much about her, tbh. Thank you For sharing!
In my studies as a Wiccan I learned that Bridgett could also be the Maiden in the "Maiden, Mother, Crone" scheme. In the Mother role would be Danu, and Macha as Crone. This fit for my practices in any case. I never had any issues with this arrangement in my worship, but mostly good results. Ok, cheers.
Wrong. Wicca is new-age stupitidy thieving from indo-european beliefs. Danu is formless, she is primordial chaos, there is more written about her in the Vedic traditon than Celtic. There less written about her than Ymir, Ouranos, or Tiamat.
I was getting frustrated, as everyone forgets us jocks, but then you mentioned Scotland - So thank you milions -We knew her as Brede. At new year you would ask her to help cleanse the house, we open the windows and doors get scrubbing -then all the nasty thought's, (evil spirits if you like) built up over the year would fly out. Not sure where and when but the next expectation - would be to welcome the first new person, to enter the house with a piece of coal. it may have been firewood back in the day. A lot of folk up north still open the door, but I think it more about bringing more beer today
I'm a big bag of contractions Mike - I'm Stuck with the sir name, however my clan is Barr from the Clyde. I grew up in Lewis, so that is Viking land---- And I have lost my dialect- living in England - The Golden bough by Frazer is a good read
@@peteodonnell6219 The golden bough is a steaming pile of discredited shite that belongs in the bin
I think a number of slavic gods underwent the a similar process of becoming saints, or merging with already existing saints. I never heard of Brigid, but she's definitely an interesting figure.
Christians are henotheists, just like their parent religion. They incorporate and steal whatever they have to to stay relevant.
Brigid is the true patron St of Eire🇮🇪
St Patrick was a planter.
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As a catholic nature deity I think this was a great video, it sums up all the bases, just needs a pop to describe it as real to the imbibed. If you believe in any of these paths though I think it would eventually and be damned worth it. Bidget #1
She has always been my Goddess from a very young age!!!
This is great. I learned another name etymology
Can't believe I've not heard of this until now. My namesake : )
I wrote a RotG fanfic called Seeing Isn't Believing where an OC I created is Brigid regressed into a human teenager named Bridget until she becomes a Guardian and regains most of her memories.