The flame we use and “keep” has been obtained through pilgrimage to Kildare, Ireland. Three members of our Grove are Oath sworn Flame Keepers in this tradition. Sacred Fires were kept burning perpetually by her priestesses throughout history and this tradition has been “re-ignited” in the present times. It is thought that our current traditions of Groundhogs Day stem from traditions surrounding Brigid’s weather seership. Her feast day is February 1 st, and she figures prominently in the Three Cranes Grove liturgy for the Holy day of Imolg. She is patroness of healers, seers, hearth fires, poetry, smithcraft and forge fires among many other things. She contains aspects of fire, well and oak tree goddesses. She can appear in many guises including the Maiden, the Sister, the Mother, the Foster Mother and the Crone/Calliech/Hag. The first keening heard in Ireland was when she mourned after he was killed at the Second Battle of Moytura. The daughter of the Dagda, Brigid is a tripleformed Celtic Hearth-Culture Goddess. I see Belonos as the God of clear starry nights where you can look up and see the universe dancing before your eyes.Īlso known as Brigid, Brighid, Brigantia, Brigit and Bride. The God of afternoon thunderstorms and evenings filled with fireflies. I see Belenos as the God of summer and blue skys. His symbols were the horse (as shown, for example, by the clay horse figurine offerings at Belenos’ Sainte-Sabine shrine in Burgundy), and also the Wheel (as illustrated on the famous Gundestrup Cauldron).” From: His festival of Beltane, when bonfires were lit to welcome in the Summer and encourage the Sun’s warmth, was held on May 1st, and is remembered in today’s May Day festivities. “Belenos, later known as Beli Mawr (the Great), was the Celtic God of the Sun, representing the curative powers of the Sun’s heat.
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