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Happy Brigantia/Imbolc!

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Brighid by Brigid Ashwood and manufactured by Pacific Trading.

Happy Brigantia!  Happy Imbolc!  Here is one poem for the Goddess Brigantia from my book Divine Words, Divine Praise: Poetry for the Divine Powers.

 

Brigantia–Her name may mean “Exalted” or “Queenly”.  She is the tutelary deity of the Brigantes and is a Romano-British deity who has similarities to Athena/Minerva and Brighid.  Her only titles were left in Roman inscriptions on altars.  Her titles are Goddess, Heavenly, Nymph-Goddess, and Imperial Guardian.  Her symbols were the crown, spear, helmet and shield; a globe, wings of victory and the head of a Gorgon on her brooch.  She is a goddess of nature especially water and trees; a protective war deity; a goddess of artisans and their crafts, a lady of sovereignty, a goddess of knowledge, a healing goddess and a heavenly Queen.  She may have been a goddess associated with oracles.  Like Brighid, she is the goddess of the hearth and home.

Offerings to Her include milk, honey, wine, beer, mead and fruit.

Brigantia of Nothern England.

Celtic/Roman and English Epithets

Caelestis (Heavenly)

Dea (Goddess)

Nymph-Goddess (Goddess of nature associated with waters, trees; healing and oracles)

Tutela Augusta (Imperial Protector/Guardian)

Victoria (Victory)

Sources

MacGrath, Sheena.  Brigantia: Goddess of the North. Lulu, 2015.

The Lady Brigantia

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Lady of Wales

Ffraid is Her Name

Lady of the Distaff

and the Spindle;

Weaving is Her trade.

In Ireland, Brighid is Her name

Lady of Hearths and Wells,

Lady of the Hearth-fire, Temples

and Sacred Writing;

These are Her spells.

Brigantia is the Lady of Great Britain

Queen of Heaven,

Lady of the Distaff

Lady of Victory and the Royal Guardian

These are My names.

And this is Who I am.

Hearth and Home

Distaff and Spindle;

These are the implements

when I am Goddess of the Home and Domestic Duties;

This is Who I am.

Warrior Queen, Bearing Arms

when I wear the helmet

and hold the spear and shield.

Lady who dons the Gorgon Head

as a brooch,

when I am Lady of War.

And this is Who I am.

This is Who I am.

For all those who ask for Me.

This is who I am.

I am like Athena, yes.

And Minerva too.

She has a cognate in My name

which is shared with Brighid of Ireland and Wales.

Brig is Exalted.

Brig is Lady.

Brig is Queenly.

And this is Who I am as

the Queen of My People.

The Brigantes.

The People of Great Britain, Wales and Ireland.

And any people who call upon Me today.

This is Who I am.

Lady of the Distaff and Spindle

Lady of the Hearth and Home

Queen of Heaven

Lady of Victory in War

Lady of Victory in Life

Lady of Sovereignty and Sovereign Lady

Lady of Artisans and Crafts

Lady of Knowledge and Power.

And I am Lady of Poetry and Bards.

And I was called Nymph and Goddess

by the Romans.

and Heavenly Queen.

And I am the Sovereign Lady

of all natural forces;

including sacred springs and rivers

and healing wells.

Over trees that are sacred to Me.

I am a Goddess of oracles, yes,

but more of divination than of Divine command.

Sovereign Lady

This is Who I am

For all Who call upon Me.

And I will come to all those who call,

for I answer the prayers of all of My people.

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Epithets of Nut

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Epithets of Nut

  • At Whose Feet is Eternity
  • Brilliant One
  • Coffin
  • Coverer of Heaven
  • Daughter
  • Daughter of Shu
  • Dominates the Northern Sky
  • Effective One
  • Established One of Geb
  • Eye of Ra
  • Female Pig Who Eats Her Piglets
  • Goddess of the Sycamore Tree
  • Grand Horizon
  • Great
  • Great Being Who is in the World of the Dead
  • Great Divine Beloved Soul
  • Great Ihet-Cow Who Brings Ra into the Day
  • Great Lady
  • Great, Mother of God
  • Great One
  • Great Princess at the Birthplace
  • Great, Who Gave Birth to the Gods
  • Great Wild Cow
  • Heavenly Cow
  • In Whose Hand is the Always
  • Lady of Heaven
  • Lady of the Sycamore
  • Land of Your West
  • Lofty One
  • Mighty Goddess in the Womb of Your Mother Tefnut
  • Mighty One in Your Mother
  • Mistress of Big
  • Mistress of Heaven/the Sky
  • Mistress Over the Earth
  • Mother
  • Mother of All the Gods
  • Mother of God
  • Mother of God of the Gods and Goddesses
  • Mother of Heaven
  • Mother of Set
  • Mother of the Gods
  • Mother of the Stars
  • Mysterious One
  • One with a Thousand Souls
  • One Who Hears
  • Perfect Daughter
  • Powerful from Her Mother
  • Queen of All Gods and Goddesses
  • Sarcophagus
  • Scepter of the Sky
  • Sepulcher
  • She Who Bore the Gods
  • She Who Comes Out of the Arms of Aker
  • She Who Extends Her Arms
  • She Who Gives Birth to the Gods
  • She Who Gives Birth to Ra Everyday
  • Sky
  • Soul of the Brilliant One
  • Sovereign of All the Gods
  • She of the Braided Hair Who Bore the Gods
  • The Great
  • The Mighty
  • Uniter of the Two Lands of Geb
  • Uraeus Serpent
  • Veil of Heaven
  • Venerable One
  • Venerable and Powerful
  • Venerable in the Shrine-of-the-Venerable
  • Who Bore the Gods
  • Who Came into Being in the Sky
  • Who Counts the Days
  • Who Does Fill Every Place with Her Beauty
  • Who Gave Birth to the Gods
  • Who Gives Birth to the Gods
  • Who Gives Birth to the Rulers of the Country
  • Who Has Given Birth to All the Gods
  • Who is Crowned like the King of the North
  • Who is Mighty
  • Who is in the Mysterious Abyss
  • Who Protects the Son of Wesir
  • Who Rose in Splendor as the Bee
  • Who Shelters Him (Heru)
  • Who Spreadest Over Me
  • Whose Adornments are Among the Goddesses
  • You are Above Your Father Shu
  • You Have Encompassed the Earth, Everything is in Your Two Hands
  • You have United the Earth in Every Place

Sources

  • Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford. “Isis of Egypt: Queen of Heaven, Earth and the Underworld,” in The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, ed. New York: Penguin, 1993, pp. 225-272.
  • Budge, E. A. Wallis. An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Literature.  (Dover Publications, 1997), 18-19.   Reprint of Budge’s work from 1914.
  • Brier, Bob. Ancient Egyptian Magic. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
  • Cauville, Sylvie. Dendara XV: Traduction: Pronaos de Temple d’Hathor. Peeters, 2012.
  • Cauville, Sylvie. La Temple de Dendara: La Porte d’Isis. Institut Francais d’Archeologie Orientale, 1999.
  • Cauville, Sylvie. Dendara: Le Temple de Isis. Vol 1. Traduction. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Peeters, 2009.
  • David, Rosalie. Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt. Penguin Books, 2003. p. 348.
  • El-Sabban, Sherif. Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt. Wiltshire: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
  • Foster, John. Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry. Scholars Press, 1995.
  • Hornung, Erik. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: the One and the Many. Translated by John Baines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
  • Junker, Hermann. Der Grosse Pylon des Tempels der Isis in Phila. Wien: Kommission bei Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1958.
  • Junker, Hermann and Erich Winter. Das Geburtshaus des Tempels der Isis in Phila. Wien: Kommissionsverlag H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1965.
  • Lesko, Barbara. The Great Goddesses of Egypt. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
  • Lesko, Leonard H. “Nut.” in Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion.  Oxford University Press, 2002, 277-278.
  • Nicoll, Kiya. The Traveller’s Guide to the Duat. Megalithica Books, 2012.
  • Parker, Richard. The Calendars of Ancient Egypt. (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Studies in ancient oriental civilization). University of Chicago Press, 1950.
  • Piankoff, Alexandre. Mythological Papyri: Bollingen III Series. University of Princeton Press, 1957.
  • Piankoff, Alexandre. The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amun: Bollingen II. University of Princeton Press, 1955.
  • Piankoff, Alexandre. Tomb of Ramesses VI: Bollingen I. University of Princeton Press, 1954.
  • Pinch, Geraldine. Magic in Ancient Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
  • Pinch, Geraldine. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Pinch, Geraldine. “Offerings to Hathor,” Folklore Vol. 93, No. 2. (1982), pp. 138-150.
  • Roberts, Alison. Hathor Rising: The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt. Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 1997.
  • Roberts, Alison. My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt. England: Northgate Publishers, 2000.
  • Roberts, Alison. Goddess Shrine, Goddess Queen: Egypt’s Anointing Mysteries. Northgate Publishers, 2008.
  • Siuda-Legan, Tamara. The Neteru of Kemet. Eschaton Productions, 1994.
  • Siuda, Tamara. Nebt-Het: Lady of the House. Illinois: Stargazer Design, 2010.
  • Siuda, Tamara. The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook. Illinois: Stargazer Design, 2009.
  • Wells, R. A. “The Mythology of Nut and the Birth of Ra,” in Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. 19 (1992), pp. 305-321.
  • Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000.
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  • Wilkinson, Richard H. Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
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What is My Perfect Day?

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What is My Perfect Day?  This is the question that Molly Greene has asked on her blog and I feel the need to answer.  So I am.  (I know it is an old post…)

The perfect day.  The perfect life.  What is this flower above me and what is the work of this God? I would know myself in all my parts.  (A Feri prayer called the Flower Prayer).  This is asking for the God-soul to reveal your True Desire to you.  I find it very powerful.

So what do I desire?  What life do I want for myself?  I’d start off with not hating myself so much and that I’d love myself more.

I’d start off with being able to eat in the morning and not feel sick to my stomach.  I’ve been sick for awhile so these feel like luxuries.  I desire to surround myself with food that is both nutritious and food that I love to eat.

I’d also like to be able to afford things.  I would like a little more money so I’m not so strapped for cash.

I’d like to have all or most of my projects done in a reasonable amount of time.  I have many books to write.  And I’d like to publish them.

I’d like a more efficient way to clean my apartment, especially my floors.

I’d like to honor my Gods and Goddesses without getting exhausted or overwhelmed.

So I guess my goals from this are:

  • Working on my book projects
  • Efficient methods of cleaning my home
  • Spend money wisely and save when I can
  • Buy food that is healthy and something I will eat
  • Honor my deities in a respectful, elegant and yet simple way