 Brigantia is the British Goddess of wisdom and war. Her Roman name is Minerva. Her Greek name is Athena. Her Celtic name is Bride. Her Christian name is St. Bridget.
Dumfriesshire stone relief, Roman |
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 Cirencester Triple Matronae, Mother, Virgin, Crone sit with trays on their laps filled with bread or cakes. They represent the nurturing aspects of three stages of womanhood. Cirencester stone relief |
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 Coventina is the Goddess of water, the substance of life. Goddesses preside over the water world. Coventina is fierce, pouring the waters of life from her womb jar.
Coventina Northumberland well, 2-3rd CE |
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 Epona / Macha / Morrigan is a horse goddess, represented in the British Isles as chalk horse figures in the landscape. The Celts were strong horse people roaming from Anatolia to the Isles.
Wiltshire bronze, Roman |
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 Hereford Sheela-Na-Gig is a Romanesque magical image of transformation. The gateway to life and death is the vulva.
Hereford Romanesque Church, 14th CE |
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 OUR LADY OF DUBLIN See Black Madonnas |
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 OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM
See Black Madonnas |
 Scottish Sheela-na-gig symbolizes the myriad winding pathways of transformation through the feminine. She holds snakes in her upraised arms. Meigle Perthshire Stone |
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 Sophia Wisdom from Oxfordshire, sits on her lion throne with new life represented by her son on her lap. She is surrounded by circles of contracting and expanding energies. Illunimnated manuscript Eynsham Abbery, Oxfordshire, c.1150 CE |
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 Virgin in Majesty from The Book of Kells sits majestically on her wisdom throne guarded by a lion. Her son carries new life and the word as her gift to the world. Book of Kells, 8th CE |
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 Wallford Venus / RhianON
is the maiden aspect of womanhood, one in herself. Her cornucopia basket represents all the possible choices the world presents to a young woman. Walbrook Sanctuary, London, clay, 1-2nd CE |