The Celtic Brigid as Lilith ***(credit indiadivine.org)***

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What is the connection between Lilith and Brigid? Sex and Fire, to name two...Lilith is the incarnation of the sexual power of the Feminine, and Brigid was definitely connected with sex, it is where we get the word "Breed", as in "breeding" animals, and Her rites were celebrated orgiastically. The Cross of Brigid is a fiery Wheel, and Lilith is connected with "the Flame of the Revolving Sword" that guards the Garden of Eden, and is said to be flaming fire
from the waist down. Brigid has a warrior aspect too, and Lilith is "the Womanon the Side of Din", or Mars, who is entitled to punish Mankind for its sins....

Lilith is connected with Da'ath on the Tree of Life (ie sephiroth), and is the one who lends the necessary help to those who wish to cross the Abyss over to Binah. This is why She is sometimes referred to as "the Handmaiden" of the Shekinah (Binah).
Those who fail to do so are trapped in the shadowy realm of Da'ath, hence Her title as "Queen of Demons", as Da'ath also leads to the Qliphoth as well.

***BRIGID***

In Britain She is shown as the warrior-maiden, Brigantia, and venerated not only as justice and authority in that country, but also as the personification of Britain as is seen on the coin of the realm. There is a story, coming from the 12th century, in which Merlin is inspired by a feminine figure who represents
the sovereignty of the Land of Britain. She causes his visions to reach through British history, on, so it is said, to the end of the solar system. Taliesin also describes a traditional cosmology, inspired by Brigantia. She is central to many heroic myths, especially those concerned with underworld quests and sacred kingship.


Her important association with the cow, coupled with its critical necessity in Celtic culture and history, relates to the festival of Imbolc. This celebration, which is so completely Hers, involves itself with the lighting of fires, purification with well water and the ushering in of the new year (Spring) by a maiden known as the Queen of the Heavens. The significance of Imbolc is so deep that it deserves an entire section within any work relating to
Brigid.

***She possesses an unusual status as a Sun Goddess Who hangs Her Cloak upon the rays of the Sun and Whose dwelling-place radiates light as if on fire.***


Her stories retain remnants of other Goddesses from the ancient worlds and the worship at Her later convent at Kildare was said to resemble that of Minerva. Some of Her symbols are identical to the Egyptian Goddess, Isis. Her embroidery tools, which are also Minerva's symbols, were preserved at the chapel at Glastonbury, along with Her bag and Her bell, symbolic of healing. Her
colors - white, black and red - are those of Kali and show an ancientconnection there.


***Part of the ancient Mysteries of Brighid have to do with tending the fire of love. The art of Smithcraft, of which Brighid is Patroness - Goddess, is the outer and secular form of the ancient alchemical art. The Fire in the Mountain, see the Tarot card of the Princess of Wands.***

***Thus the 'sword', a life-blade in its literal sense, was 'forged' in the 'hearth' of the Goddess Herself. When considering an ancient Celtic custom, that the woman armed the young male with his weapons (an example being the tale of Arianrhod and the arming of Lleu in the fourth Branch of the Mabinogion); one
begins to detect perhaps, an ancient lore concealed
beneath: of an initiation into manhood of a far more inner kind, whereby the lore of life of the eternal flame of the Goddess passed from an older Druid-Priestess to a younger Initiate. It is not coincidental that thosethat those responsible for giving birth to each generation were also in charge of instructing the sons in how to defend that generation. Those who give life are more reluctant to take it. Perhaps this is also one reason why the
nineteen female Druids dedicated to Brighid lived in seclusion; to maintain the sanctity of their 'flames' and thereby potentise them. That Brighid's fire is ashless is significant in this regard. It is notable that amongst the 'fires' revered in contemporary Druidry is the 'fire of creativity' and anciently Brighid was also considered to be the Patroness of creative activities such as the Bardic Arts of poetry, music and song.

***This brings consideration of the role Brighid plays with regard to all the arts associated with language in general, including speech, the magick of invocations and words of evocation, spell-crafting and oath-taking. This is particularly important, for the satire of the ancient poets contained a baleful magick, much as their beneficent songs gave forth Magickal blessings. The
interlocking of the two areas of inner fire and outward expression are thus seen to be harmoniously balanced within the lore of Bride.***

Brigit was often identified with the new moon, which was viewed as the beginning of growth. She was the flame itself which ignited the creative thought withinmankind. In earlier times, people would carry an effigy of the goddess in chariots and then throw it into the sea or a lake to celebrate her festival, Feile Bhride or Oimlec. To many of her followers, she was the goddess of fire who was born at sunrise and whose breath could revive the dead to live again.

***Brigit is indeed one, like Hekate, represented as triple goddess - Maiden, Mother and Crone, as well as in the correspondant three aspects, white, red and
black, the synthesis/ASD.***

***The region from the Iberian Peninsula, Gallaecia, is a territory inhabited by the Celts and its patroness is Brigantia (as the capital of the region, Braganza (BrUH-gun-TZAH), this name stems from her).***

***Brigit and Lilith very much miror one another in their
triple aspect, as Maiden/bride waiting in the bedchamber, the Mother/Lover revealed in the ritual fire and blood, and the Crone who sheds her skin behind leaving it with the melting ice. As of shedding the skin, Brigit is also the Triple Mother graced by the snake, it being a predictor of the lenght of the remaining winter as it comes from the mound where it
hibernates. Her ally the serpent (symbol of Lilith) that rises from the hidden earth, and Brigit as the guardian of the wells gives her the whole Cthonian link to the Magna Mater Cthonia who dissolves ultimately the link between the solar and cthonian currents, the black earth begetting the (black) sun....***