Anu Celtic Goddess of Fertility

Written by Judi Singleton


Anu

Celtic Goddess of Fertility

Anu, pronounced an-oo, (aka Anann, Dana, Dana-Ana) isrepparttar Irish Goddess of plenty and isrepparttar 130708 maiden aspect ofrepparttar 130709 Morrigu. She isrepparttar 130710 Mother-Earth Goddess andrepparttar 130711 flowering fertility Goddess. Ireland - Mother Earth; Goddess of plenty, another aspect ofrepparttar 130712 Morrigu; Great Goddess; greatest of all goddesses. The flowering fertility goddess, sometimes she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. Her priestesses comforted and taughtrepparttar 130713 dying. Fires were lit for her at Midsummer. Two hills in Kerry are calledrepparttar 130714 Paps of Anu. Maiden aspect ofrepparttar 130715 Triple Goddess in Ireland. Guardian of cattle and health. Goddess of fertility, prosperity, and comfort. Anu is associated withrepparttar 130716 Celts asrepparttar 130717 mother Goddess ofrepparttar 130718 ancestors, reaching so far back into time there is very little record of her... externally at least. She is identified withrepparttar 130719 Goddess Danu andrepparttar 130720 Children of Danu (Tuatha De Danaan) andrepparttar 130721 four great cities Falias, Gorias, Finias and Murias. Inrepparttar 130722 beginning it was Anu who wateredrepparttar 130723 first Oak tree Bile fromrepparttar 130724 heavens and granted life torepparttar 130725 earth, fromrepparttar 130726 tree fell two acorns which Anu nurtured as her own and in turn they becamerepparttar 130727 God Dagda andrepparttar 130728 Goddess Brighid. Anu has been known to appear inrepparttar 130729 form of a swan, representingrepparttar 130730 purity ofrepparttar 130731 female and gracefulness in motherhood.

Cailleach The Goddess of Life and Death

Written by Judi Singleton


Cailleach [COY-lck or CALL-y'ach] Author: Judi Singleton Cailleach [COY-lck or CALL-y'ach] Author: Judi Singleton Subject: A Light inrepparttar Window Published: March 14th 2004

Cailleach was an ugly, crone and hag. She hadrepparttar 130706 teeth ofrepparttar 130707 wild bear and tusks like a boar The meaning ofrepparttar 130708 word "cailleach", is old woman or veiled one. She only has one eye. see beyondrepparttar 130709 duality of things to Sherepparttar 130710 oneness of life. She is a weather Goddess controllingrepparttar 130711 winds,repparttar 130712 Winter cold. She isrepparttar 130713 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 130714 frozen earthrepparttar 130715 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 130716 'other' face ofrepparttar 130717 Goddess Brighid. In this legend, onrepparttar 130718 eve of Latha Fheill Bride,repparttar 130719 Cailleach goes torepparttar 130720 Well of Youth. There atrepparttar 130721 Well she drinks ofrepparttar 130722 water and emerges asrepparttar 130723 youthful fair Brighid, whose touch turnsrepparttar 130724 grass to green once more. In Scottish folklore, An Cailleach is born old and ugly and grows younger asrepparttar 130725 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 130726 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 130727 next. We are inrepparttar 130728 time of letting go and making room forrepparttar 130729 new. Wee cannot create that which we want without room in our lives to do that. So we must let go ofrepparttar 130730 old to have room forrepparttar 130731 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 130732 Goddess: Celtic Wisdom & Ritual for Women By C. C. Brondwin The Red-Haired Girl fromrepparttar 130733 Bog: Celtic Spirituality &repparttar 130734 Goddess in Ireland By Patricia Monaghan The Celtic Goddess: Great Queen or Demon Witch? By Claire French

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