#celticedit

"Brigid or Brigit (/ˈbrɪdʒɪd, ˈbriːɪd/ BRIJ-id, BREE-id, Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲiːdʲ]; meaning 'exalted one'), also Bríd, is a goddess of pre-Christian Ireland. She appears in Irish mythology as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres, with whom she had a son named Ruadán. She is associated with wisdom, poetry, healing, protection, smithing and domesticated animals."

@when-life-was-easy requested → cernunnos celtic god of fertility, life, animals, wealth, and the underworld.

The Seelie faeries are generally honorable and loving. They believe in the idea of love as a transcendent quality, oftentimes matching themselves with humans they deem beautiful. For the Seelie, beauty and youth are the necessary elements that determine their interactions with mortals.

"Peppered throughout Celtic folklore are stories about seal people, also called selkies who are said to be cursed with a constant longing for what they do not have: when they are swimming in the water as seals, they yearn to be on land, and when they walk on two legs as a human, they long to be in the sea. They can transform from one creature to another by shedding their sealskin, and alternatively, putting it on again."

"Come away oh human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

→ Artio was the goddess of bears. Evidence of her worship has been found in Bern, where a statue of shows a large bear facing a woman seated in a chair with a small tree behind her.

brigid was the goddess of spring, poetry, fertility, healing & smithcraft

the goddess of the sun & inspiration