The Origins of Saint Brigid
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- The origins of St. Brigid go back to pagan times.
She was the goddess of the land ensuring fertile land, healthy people and regeneration. They say there were three Brigids; the mother, the maiden and the crone or ancient one. In early Ireland she was a powerful force in the ancient Irish psyche. She awakens us after the winter and was all about the balancing of human life and the spiritual world.
The tradition of weaving a cross from reeds on St Brigid’s Day, 1st February, as a way of protecting the home is one that continues in rural Ireland to this day.
Another strong tradition around Brigid is the holy well. In early symbolism the holy well was the entrance to the earth; the great mother and a place of great wisdom.
Brigid is a fascinating example of the fusion of the old pagan beliefs and Christianity.
Brighid always bless us and Our Planet!!! 😗💖👍☘🌏☘🌎☘🌍☘👍🌟🌟🌟
Happy Imbolc 2023 😊
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Brighid is an ancient role model that makes me proud to be irish and a woman
This is an ancient symbol used in cultures all over the world. Convaying it as a symbol of pain and suffering is an abomination and we should not be continuing with these teachings to undeveloped minds. It's true meaning is the complete opposite in every culture. Knowing and understanding its true meaning would benefit in developing a healthy respect for the world around us. Bastardising it to represent the suffering and murder of a human is disgustung.
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The goddess is not a fusion, no reality. The human Brigid was nothing but an ordinary woman, not any goddess. Sorry but time to face it. She was among the Christian saints, born in a place with faults and weakness like us all. Obviously, the truth: she's not a BIZARRE hybrid, not a very odd minestrone beyond solid reality, either she was a human or she was not... if you think anyone is wandering round now who was once a divinity, i think you need a good shake ! i also think that's extremely vain, against scientific truth, common sense and conventional theological revelation as tested by the greatest minds. If you choose to be a gnostic, then create your own stories, but don't steal this ordinary woman, who with God's merciful grace made her a saint like other saints who were subject to ordinary limits and mortality and weaknesses, etc. The saint may have been named after a goddess because that name was common and used for tons of young girls, but she was no more some actual divinity as is yours or my sister.... back to reality. She was not Christianised - simply: there was a real girl given that name, and she became a Christian saint, connection ? zero. Tons of kids in europe may have had a pagan name, then, became a Christian saint, nobody was dishonest enough later to try and claim that saint as a psuedo, hybrid. Rubbish.