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Kozmik_Ken
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Re: A pedant writes
Oct 10, 2003, 14:09
>Bridget (or Brigit) is the saint's name Brigid is the goddess :-)

Yes, you're right. My mythology got inna tangle! Around Wharfedale, it is thought that Verbia (thought at first to be a roman diety, but more likely came with the Gaulish Celts garrisoned there) is the local incarnation of Brigid, also known as Bride, Bridey, Brighid, Brigit, Briggidda, Brigantia... so she seems to have evolved in a number of forms as either a lone deity or as an aspect of the tripple-goddess.

It's possible that much of the burial chamber and rock art traditions of the UK spread from Ireland anyway. Christianity did, so it's possible earlier beliefs and traditions did so too.
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