Birdu  

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Birdu or Bubu'tu is a god of the underworld, worshipped by the Babylonians and Akkadians. He is the consort of Manungal and was syncretised with Nergal. Not much information exists on Birdu because most texts concerning him are found either damaged or incomplete.

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Goddess Cailleach Bheur  

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TO THE EARLY CELTS, DARKNESS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH NEW BEGINNINGS, THE POTENTIAL OF THE SEED BELOW THE GROUND, AND IN CELTIC MYTHOLOGY, THE WISDOM OF DARKNESS IS OFTEN EXPRESSED BY POWERFUL GODDESS FIGURES. A DARK GODDESS OF NATURE, PARTICULARLY IN SCOTLAND, IS THE" CAILLEACH". SHE IS THE ANCIENT EARTH HERSELF. THE BARE EARTH COVERED WITH SNOW AND FROST. SHE IS THE DEATH GODDESS, WHO LETS DIE WHAT IS NO LONGER NEEDED.

"SAMHAIN" USHERS IN THE REIGN OF THE "CAILLEACH BHEUR," THE BLUE-FACED HAG QUEEN WHO RULES OVER THE THREE MONTHS OF THE WINTER SEASON. HER NAME MEANS THE "VEILED ONE..."ONE WHO BELONGS TO THE HIDDEN WORLDS." BHEUR "MEANS "SHARP" OR "SHRILL"; HENCE,SHE PERSONIFIED THE CUTTING WINDS AND HARSHNESS OF THE NORTHERN WINTER. SHE IS REBORN ON EVERY "SAMHAIN WHEN" THE EARTH IS BEGINNING TO DIE; SHE IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF WINTER. IT IS THE "CAILLEACH" WHO RULES THE TIME BETWEEN THE LAST HARVEST AND THE BEGINNING OF SPRING WHEN HER REIGN IS BROKEN BY THE APPEARANCE OF BRIGID AND THE SACRED FIRES AT IMBOLC. SHE IS TYPICALLY DEPICTED AS A ONE-EYED OLD WOMAN WITH BAD TEETH AND MATTED HAIR.

SHE LIVES IN A CAVE BELOW THE 'MOUNTAIN OF SNOWS' AND CARRIES A MAGICAL STAFF, AND WHEN SHE STRIKES THE GRASS, IT TURNS INTO BLADES OF ICE; AND THEN, ON "BELTANE" EVE, SHE TOSSES HER STAFF UNDER A HOLLY TREE AND RETURNS TO EARTH IN THE FORM OF A GREY STONE. THE ANCESTORS SAY THAT THIS IS WHY GRASS DOES NOT GROW UNDER THE HOLLY TREES. SOME ACCOUNTS SAY THAT SHE TURNS INTO A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN INSTEAD. SHE WAS ALSO GUARDIAN TO ANIMALS THROUGHOUT THE WINTER. THE PROTECTOR OF WOLVES AND DEER, SHE IS HONORED BY HUNTERS LOOKING TO FEED ON FRESH MEAT DURING THE DARKNESS OF THE YEAR. HER SACRED TREES ARE THE HOLLY AND THE GORSE BUSH. IN CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND, THE HAG IS OFTEN EQUATED WITH THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE LAND. IN A FESTIVAL KNOWN AS "REIGN OF THE OLD WOMAN", THE "CAILLEACH" IS CELEBRATED ON THIS DAY.

"THE OLD WOMAN OF BEARE.

Ebb tide to me!

My life drifts downward with the drifting sea


Old age has caught and compassed me about,

The tides of time run out.

"THE " HAG OF BEARE!"

'Tis thus I hear the young girls jeer and mock

Yet I, who in these cast-off clouts appear,

Once donned a queenly smock.

"YE LOVE BUT SELF,"

Ye churls! to-day ye worship pelf!

But in the days I lived we sought for men,

We loved our lovers then!

"AH! SWIFTLY WHEN"

Their splendid chariots coursed upon the plain,

I checked their pace, for me they flew amain,

Held in by curb and rein.

"I ENVY NOT THE OLD,"

Whom gold adorns, whom richest robes enfold,

But ah! the girls, who pass my cell at morn,

While I am shorn!

"ON SWEET MAY-MORN"

Their ringing laughter on the breeze is borne,

While I, who shake with ague and with age,

In Litanies engage.

"AMEN! AND WOE IS ME!"

I lie here rotting like a broken tree


Each acorn has its day and needs must fall,

Time makes an end of all!

"I HAD MY DAY WITH KINGS!"

We drank the brimming mead, the ruddy wine,

Where now I drink whey-water; for company more fine

Than shrivelled hags, hag though I am, I pine.

"THE FLOOD-TIDE THINE!"

Mine but the low down-curling ebb-tide's flow,

My youth, my hope, are carried from my hand,

Thy flood-tide foams to land.

"MY BODY DROPS"

Slowly but sure towards the abode we know


When God's High Son takes from me all my props

It will be time to go!

"BONY MY ARMS AND BARE"

Could you but see them 'neath the mantle's flap.

Wizened and worn, that once were round and fair,

When kings lay in my lap.

"'TIS, "O MY GOD" WITH ME,"

Many prayers said, yet more prayers left undone

If I could spread my garment in the sun


I'd say them, every one.

"THE SEA-WAVE TALKS,"

Athwart the frozen earth grim winter stalks


Young Fermod, son of Mugh, ne'er said me nay,

Yet he comes not to-day.

"HOW STILL THEY ROW,"

Oar dipped by oar the wavering reeds among,

To Alma's shore they press, a ghostly throng,

Deeply they sleep and long.

"NO LIGHTSOME LAUGH"

Disturbs my fireside's stillness; shadows fall,

And quiet forms are gathering round my hearth,

Yet lies the hand of silence on them all.

"I DO NOT DEEM IT ILL"

That a nun's veil should rest upon my head


But finer far my feast-robe's various hue

To me, when all is said.

"MY VERY CLOAK GROWS OLD"

Grey its tint, its woof is frayed and thin

I seem to feel grey hairs within its fold,

Or are they on my skin


"O.HAPPY ISLE OF OCEAN,"

Thy flood-tide leaps to meet eddying wave


Lifting it up and onward. Till the grave

The sea-wave comes not after ebb for me.

"I FIND THEM NOT"

Those sunny sands I knew so well of yore


Only the surf's sad roar sounds up to me,

My tide will turn no more."--ELEANOR HULL-- "



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Deity Hemera  

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"HEMERA" IS A DEITY WHO COMES TO US FROM THE EARLIEST CREATION MYTHS. WAS THE GREEK GODDESS OF THE DAY, THE FEMALE PERSONIFICATION OF DAYLIGHT. "IT WAS HER JOB TO PULL AWAY NIGHT TIME VEILS OF HER FATHER. SHE WAS A DAUGHTER OF" NYX ", GODDESS OF THE NIGHT, AND "EREBUS", GOD OF DARKNESS AND SHADOW. SHE AND HER MOTHER SHARED A HOME BEYOND THE "HORIZON OF TARTARUS "(THE LOWEST REGION OF THE WORLD), BUT THEY RARELY SAW EACH OTHER IN IT. TWICE EACH DAY "HEMERA" AND "NYX "WOULD PASS AT BRASS GATES OF THE "OTHERWORLD," WAVING FROM THEIR CHARIOTS AS ONE WENT HOME AND THE OTHER ROSE TO THE SKY.

IN THE EVENING "NYX" DREW A VEIL OF DARKNESS BETWEEN THE SHINING ATMOSPHERE OF THE "AITHER" AND THE LOWER AIR OF EARTH, THUS BRINGING THE NIGHT TO MAN. THEN, WITH EACH MORN, "HEMERA" WOULD DISPERSE NIGHT'S MISTS, BATHING THE EARTH AGAIN IN THE SHINING LIGHT OF HEAVEN ("AITHER"). IN THE ANCIENT COSMOGONIES NIGHT AND DAY WERE SUBSTANCES DISTINCT AND QUITE INDEPENDENT FROM THE SUN. THE GREEK MAIDENS AND YOUTHS DANCE TOGETHER WHEN "HEMERA", THE "GODDESS" OF DAY, APPEARS BRINGING WITH HER THE HEAT OF NOON.

"HEMERA" SHARED A SHRINE WITH "HELIOS" AT "KOS", PERHAPS IN HELLENISTIC TIMES, BUT FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD ONWARD, THE ATTRIBUTES OF HEMERA WERE LATER ABSORBED BY EOS THE GODDESS OF THE DAWN.

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Britomartis  

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"BRITOMARTIS "WAS THE MINOAN GODDESS OF THE MOUNTAINS, SEAS, AND HUNTING. SHE IS ALSO THE GODDESS ASSOCIATED WITH ANIMALS, TRANSFORMATION, REGENERATION, AND BIRTH. HER NAME MEANS "SWEET MAIDEN." BRITOMARTIS IS A VERY ANCIENT GODDESS. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ZEUS AND CARME, A CRETAN DEMI-GODDESS OF THE HARVEST. BRITOMARTIS WAS A HUNTRESS AND A COMPANION OF ARTEMIS, AND, JUST AS ALL OF THE REST OF ARTEMIS' COMPANIONS, BRITOMARTIS WAS A VIRGIN. SHE HAD NO RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEN. SHE WAS NOT ALWAYS A GODDESS; AT ONE POINT, SHE WAS A NYMPH.

ONE DAY MINOS, THE KING OF CRETE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF THE BEAUTIFUL NYMPH AND FELL IN LOVE WITH HER, BUT BRITOMARTIS REFUSED HIM. HE THEN STARTED CHASING HER; HE PURSUED HER THROUGH THE FORESTS, THE MOUNTAINS, THE VALLEYS...FOR NINE MONTHS HE CHASED AFTER HER, BUT SHE ALWAYS MANAGED TO ELUDE HIS GRASP, BUT FINALLY, SHE TIRED AND MINOS HAD HER CORNERED ATOP A STEEP CLIFF WHICH OVERLOOKED THE OCEAN. SHE WAS TRAPPED. SHE KNEW IT AND MINOS KNEW IT, BUT, RATHER THAN GIVE HIM TO HIM, SHE THREW HERSELF OFF THE MOUNTAIN AND FELL INTO THE SEA.

SHE WAS SAVED BY SOME FISHERMEN WHO CAUGHT HER IN THEIR NETS...AND, BECAUSE OF HER DEDICATION TO PROTECTING HER CHASTITY, ARTEMIS GRANTED HER IMMORTALITY...AND WITH HER IMMORALITY, CAME A NEW NAME, DICTYNNA, GODDESS OF THE NETS.

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