tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post5638398693076417661..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Heather Jephcott writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-15921472186540456082018-04-13T19:00:54.724-07:002018-04-13T19:00:54.724-07:00Lady Augusta Gregory called Brighid Brigit "a...Lady Augusta Gregory called Brighid Brigit "a woman of poetry, and poets worshipped her, for her sway was very great and very noble. And she was a woman of healing along with that, and a woman of smith's work, and it was she first made the whistle for calling one to another through the night." She was the Celtic goddess of all high things such as high-rising flames, highlands, hill-forts, and elevated states such as wisdom, excellence, perfection, high intelligence, poetic eloquence, craftsmanship, healing, druidic knowledge, and skill in warfare. She was associated with the home and hearth, early spring, fertility, livestock, sacred wells, and the dawn. Mourning the death of her son Ruadán, she invented keening (caoineadh), the singing form of weeping at a wake. Her name was derived from the Proto-Celtic "Briganti" (The High One).DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com