Anu Celtic Goddess of Fertility

Written by Judi Singleton


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Anu is considered to berepparttar ancestor of allrepparttar 130708 Gods,repparttar 130709 Tuatha dé Danann, who found themselves obliged to reside inrepparttar 130710 Otherworld when Miled broughtrepparttar 130711 Celts torepparttar 130712 British Isles. She still looks down on us fromrepparttar 130713 night's sky where she appears as Llys Don, better known asrepparttar 130714 constellation of Casseopeia. Anu was especially popular in Munster, though her most lasting memorial is a mountain in County Kerry calledrepparttar 130715 Dá Chích Anann or "Breast of Anu". The Dane Hills in Leicestershire are also named after her and this area, perhaps a major centre for her cult, is where her memory lives on as Black Annis. This hideous old crone's habit of eating young children was, no doubt, invented by incoming Christians to blackenrepparttar 130716 name ofrepparttar 130717 Celtic Goddess. In Christendom,repparttar 130718 lady usually took onrepparttar 130719 guise of St. Anne, however, in order to smoothrepparttar 130720 path of conversion. This saint's popularity in Brittany probably stems fromrepparttar 130721 previous worship ofrepparttar 130722 Celtic Goddess there. Anu was alsorepparttar 130723 patroness of springs and fountains, hencerepparttar 130724 numerous St. Anne's Wells throughout Britain today. Symbols: Emeralds, Blood, Moonstones

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Cailleach The Goddess of Life and Death

Written by Judi Singleton


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Cailleach was an ugly, crone and hag. She hadrepparttar teeth ofrepparttar 130706 wild bear and tusks like a boar The meaning ofrepparttar 130707 word "cailleach", is old woman or veiled one. She only has one eye. see beyondrepparttar 130708 duality of things to Sherepparttar 130709 oneness of life. She is a weather Goddess controllingrepparttar 130710 winds,repparttar 130711 Winter cold. She isrepparttar 130712 winter Goddess. . Cailleach is a dark Goddess. She represents winter and a going within. She kills all that s no longer needed, But she holds inrepparttar 130713 frozen earthrepparttar 130714 seeds of a new beginning. For all things are born in darkness into light. Cailleach is about transformation in some stories just before Spring appears she washes in a stream and becomes young again. Cailleach to be repparttar 130715 'other' face ofrepparttar 130716 Goddess Brighid. In this legend, onrepparttar 130717 eve of Latha Fheill Bride,repparttar 130718 Cailleach goes torepparttar 130719 Well of Youth. There atrepparttar 130720 Well she drinks ofrepparttar 130721 water and emerges asrepparttar 130722 youthful fair Brighid, whose touch turnsrepparttar 130723 grass to green once more. In Scottish folklore, An Cailleach is born old and ugly and grows younger asrepparttar 130724 year turns to Spring and Summer Cailleach teaches us that there is a time to let go and let die even our most cherished. We must look atrepparttar 130725 things we are most attached to and let them go. Cailleach prunes that which is no longer beneficial to each of us. Ultimately, we must let go of all.

Every culture has an underworld, dark, hag goddess, whose primary fnction is to facilitate transformation from one state of being torepparttar 130726 next. We are inrepparttar 130727 time of letting go and making room forrepparttar 130728 new. Wee cannot create that which we want without room in our lives to do that. So we must let go ofrepparttar 130729 old to have room forrepparttar 130730 new. Goddess I am experiencing a time of transformation help me to know what to let go of and how to be reborn. gleaned from: Celtic Goddesses: Warriors,Virgins and Mothers Miranda Aldhouse Green Clan ofrepparttar 130731 Goddess: Celtic Wisdom & Ritual for Women By C. C. Brondwin The Red-Haired Girl fromrepparttar 130732 Bog: Celtic Spirituality &repparttar 130733 Goddess in Ireland By Patricia Monaghan The Celtic Goddess: Great Queen or Demon Witch? By Claire French



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