January 2020

Known variously as Brid, Brighid, Brigit, Brigantia, Brigdu, (and many other forms), this Irish goddess was one of the most revered deities of the ancient Celtic people.  Her tenacity and popularity enabled her to maintain power and status, even through Christianization … eventually becoming St. Brigid of Kildare, the patron saint of Ireland.  Brigid’s storyRead more

Pandora (“All-Gift” or “All-Gifted”), the bringer of misery and evil, the Greek Eve, the first woman…and one of the best examples of how the Divine Feminine has been maligned and degraded in patriarchal culture. Pandora’s best known story is how she opened her jar (commonly described as a box) and let loose disease, suffering, misery,Read more

The Cailleach (“kye-luhkh”) is one of the oldest deities in Ireland and Scotland, perhaps even the oldest.  Though often described as Celtic, Cailleach does not actually appear in any written myths of Ireland or Scotland, and does not appear in Wales at all.  She is a Gaelic Goddess whose origins may have been with theRead more

While she is most commonly known as the mother of Zeus and the Olympian deities, Rhea is actually a much older Goddess.  Originally Cretan, Rhea was worshipped as an Earth Goddess and embodiment of the mountains.  With the movement of the ancient peoples, Rhea became assimilated with Cybele, an Anatolian Mother Goddess (“Mountain Mother”), andRead more