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Goddess Cailleach. Submitted by: swampy “Bha da shleagha chaola chatha air an taobh eile dh’an chaillich Bha ‘h-aodann dubh-ghorm air dreach a ‘ghuail ‘S a deud cnabadach cnamh-ruadh.

Goddess Cailleach

Bha aon suil ghlumach ‘na ceann Bu luaithe na rionnag gheamhraidh; Craobh mhineach chas air a ceann Mar choill inich de ‘n t-seana chrithinn. Craignish Cruises. Information on The Cailleach kindly provided by Stuart McHardy [pictured right].

Craignish Cruises

For more information about this writer, storyteller, folklorist, historian lecturer, musician and poet, please see Stuart's Website atwww.stuartmchardy.wordpress.com. The Coming of the Cailleach. I write as Scotland and the North-East of England prepare for freezing weather and snow this week. Darkness has made gains on the wheel of the year since the equinox. Michaelmas has come and gone. Cailleach and Bride. My patron Goddess is The Cailleach, I work with her all the time, she is with me always.

Cailleach and Bride

But...according to legend and myth her reign is Samhain to Imbolc. So what do I do between Imbolc and Samhain? I know she is always with me whatever, and I have heard lots of stories of her transforming into the goddess Bride (or Brigid) in Spring. This troubled me because I have never felt a connection to Bride. Time for some research! Cailleach. In Irish and Scottish mythology, the Cailleach (Irish plural cailleacha, Scottish Gaelic plural cailleachan) is a powerful hag often identified to a deity or the elemental powers of nature.

Cailleach

Etymology The word simply means 'old woman' in modern Scottish Gaelic, and has been applied to numerous mythological figures in both Scotland and Ireland. Goddess - Cailleach. As I started working with Brighid at the beginning of the Celtic Year at Hallowmas, the first aspect I encountered was her shadow side.

Goddess - Cailleach

Not exactly a comforting place to start. Cailleach. Carly Griffith January, 2011 Winter has come. Bringing along its snowflakes, whistling winds, and darker nights. Causing all living things to feel the need to hibernate against this bitter cold, only to return again in the spring refreshed and new. Cailleach governs all of this. She is a Celtic winter goddess, as well as creation and transformation deity. She is a death goddess, who lets die out what is no longer needed (in nature and within ourselves) but she also plants the seeds for new life to grow. Cailleach: Death goddess & ancient ancestress « Celtic Soul Craft. The Cailleach, Celtic Crone Goddess of Winter.

Cailleach. The White Moon Goddess Gallery Presents The Cailleach © Silver WolfWinds All original material in this site is under copyright protection and is the intellectual property of the author.

Cailleach

This website created as a level two final project. The Blue Roebuck. I am Cailleach, the meager blue hag.

The Blue Roebuck

A very ancient Hag-aspect of the Goddess who was known by many names throughout the Celtic countries. In the Irish Triads, the Cailleach is considered one of the three great ages: (the age of the Yew Tree, the age of the Eagle, and the age of the Hag of Baere) Illustration by Jill Smith www.jill-smith.co.uk/.../ pages/cailleach_jpg.htm The Cailleach Bheara, meaning "Old Woman" or "Old Wife," is found widespread throughout both Ireland and Scotland. The tale of Cailleach Uragaig, Colonsay. After Pig's Paradise, we came to a grim grey headland on Colonsay's NW coast called Cailleach Uragaig.

The tale of Cailleach Uragaig, Colonsay

The Cailleach is a Celtic Goddess who has powers to shape shift herself so that she can appear as a hag, a mother or a virgin. She is a winter spirit who ushers in winter by washing her plaid in the Corryvreckan and she can often keep the arrival of spring at bay. On Colonsay she kept a young girl captive and hid herself from the girl's angry lover by transforming into this grey headland. Although we slowed in respect, there were no damsels in distress requiring of our assistance. The long interval swell had increased to about 2m and we now searched for somewhere safe to land before the impending nightfall. Sanctuaire virtuel dédié à cette déesse. La Cailleach « Claire des Bruyères. Pp196-197 Mona Miscellany No2 ,Manx Soc vol 21 - 'Caillagh ny Gueshag' [From Mona Miscellany second series Manx Soc vol 21] There has ever been, from all time, persons who presume to foresee and tell of future events, and what was to happen before the end of the world, and whether true or false, as they may turn out, there will always be found people who believe in them.

pp196-197 Mona Miscellany No2 ,Manx Soc vol 21 - 'Caillagh ny Gueshag'

Such a person is said to have lived in the Isle of Man, and, like Mother Shipton of old, was held in great veneration in her day. Some of her sayings have come down and been cherished amongst the country people to the present day; but who the prophet was, and where she lived, appears to have been forgotten, unless some record of her doings is to be found in the ecclesiastical archives, where it was most likely she would appear. Mr. "Tra vees Cabbal-cheeill-Vout ersooyll lesh y thooilley, Cha bee cleIn Quirk Slieau-whallin veg sodjey. " Which may be rendered thus in English— The Cailleach - Celtic Wisdom. Another of the goddesses of sovereignty was Cailleach.

The Cailleach - Celtic Wisdom

Cailleach in Gaelic means “veiled,” a reference to the habitual garb of an old woman. There are numerous appellations to the name Cailleach, such as Cailleach Bheara (Cailleach of Bheare, Scotland). This suggests that the name “Cailleach” may have been a nickname of sorts applied to local sovereignty goddesses.