|
Cycle
III Goddesses
|
| Goddess |
Origins
|
Attributes
|
Governance
|
Aspect
|
| Bebhionn |
Isle
of Women (off Ireland's west coast) |
underworld
goddess; as huge as she was beautiful |
pleasure
and healing; independence; authenticity |
maiden
|
Bride
Brigit
Brigantia
Brgiandu
|
Scots
Irish
England
Celtic France
|
music,
healer, undying fire (Bright Arrow), sun, cauldron, whistling, keening,
soil's fertility, separatism (no men or priests allowed in her precincts) |
smithcraft,
poetry and inspiration; healing and medicine |
triple
|
|
Cailleach
|
pre-
(and pan-) Celtic
|
everlasting,
self-renewing crone
|
earth
& sky, moon & sun, seasons & weather
|
crone
|
|
Cerridwen
|
Wales
|
poetry
muse (acknowledges that both death & rebirth are necessary sources
of inspiration, according to the sources: my experience says we're
also talking about sex as part of the cycle of life and as a source
of poetic inspiration)
|
the
cauldron; shape-shifting
|
mother
|
|
Deirdre
|
Ireland
|
fate,
sorrow that follows female beauty: freedom, choice, courage (chose
death not captivity)
|
psychic
dreaming; the consequences of not following your "goddess voice"
|
maiden
|
| Don |
Wales |
ancestral
goddess of the Welsh people; prosperity, abundance |
mother
of all divinities; "same as" Irish Danu |
mother
|
|
Grainne
ni Malley
|
|
pirate
queen; independence; fuck you/in your face attitude in the face
of anyone's trying to dictate where her allegiance should lie
|
herself
and all that was hers (she refused to acknowledge the sovereignty
of England even though she was greatly gifted in hopes that she
would do so)
|
maiden;
virgin unto herself
|
| Habetrot |
England |
spinning
and healing goddess |
the
wearers of her handmade garments never suffer from illness |
mother
|
|
Habondia
|
Celtic?
Germanic?
|
abundance
|
the
witch's goddess
|
mother?
|
|
Blodeuwedd
|
Wales
|
shapeshifting,
healing
|
the
9 sacred flowers; the night
|
maiden
|
|
Luath
Lurgann
|
Ireland
|
midwife,
aunt; she raised her nephew in the woods to keep him from harm
|
athletics,
especially foot races; her name means "speedy foot"
|
mother
|
| Sequana |
France |
bounty
of the land; tribal tutelary deity |
the
Seine river and its watershed; the Paris Basin |
mother
|
Translating
my studies and experiences into a report format is a challenge -- like
crafting a crossword or jigsaw puzzle, or a quilt. The Goddesses are the
Fates, the Muses, the Maiden-Mother-Queen-Crone-Hag of 10,000 names. They
are also the living trees, fruits, grasses, broad-leafed plants, animals,
lakes, rivers, springs, caves, mountains, volcanoes, and all variety of
earthforms. Goddess is the source of my work and the object and/or objective
of my devotion, my studies, my priestessing. I am devoted to She Who Touches
and Changes.
