Geography/Culture: Celtic: Irish.
Linguistic Note: Related English word: bright.
Description: Originally She was a Triple Goddess: Brigit of hearth, fire, metallurgy and smithcraft; Brigit of poetry (which the Celts deemed an immaterial, supersensual form of flame), inspiration and learning; Brigit of healing and medicine; She Who inspired the skills of whistling and keening.
With the advent of Christianity She was mortalised and sainted.
To Whom Sacred: oak; fire; brass-shoe; cauldron; the number nineteen; Her priestesses were called "Daughters of the flame".
Festival: February 1st -- Feile Brighde, Brigit's fire festival.
Male Associates: sons, Ruadan and Dagda (but She is also called his Daughter). Consort, Bress.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• the Swedish form of Her name is Birgit.
• Minerva, qv, was often called: Belisama, B]LYS*M1, `Exalted', `Most-Brilliant', or `Bright-one', a name which at least in meaning relates Her to Brigit, with Whom She was perhaps also identified by the Romans. {I have a statement that this was a title of Minerva in Britain -- try and check that. Linguistic note: is there any connection between this bel- syllable, and that in the name of Bellona?
• Scottish form of Her name Bride, BrIDY.
• She was Christianized as Saint-Bridget, below.
• Variant Bridgit.
• As Mother Goddess of the Brigantes, She is Brigantia, ----, below.
• Variant Briggidda.
• Variant Brighde.
• Variant Brighid.
• Variant Brigid.
• In Eastern France She was known as Brignandu, ----. below.
• Is it possible that Brixia, ----, below, is a Gaulish form of Brigit, Bright-Arrow?
• Her prototype may have been the Agean Goddess Brizo, Enchantress, Who is linked with Leto, Lady.
• Danu, She-of-Knowledge, became known as Brigit, Bright-Arrow, in middle Irish times.
• Her brass shoe suggests a relationship with Hecate, She-Who-Works-From-Afar, to Whom a brazen sandal was sacred.
• Celtic Romano-British Sulis, She-Who-Brings-Forth, has some similar attributes -- the perpetual flame maintained at Brigit's shrine was maintained at Sulis' shrine also.

Geography/Culture: Christianized Celtic: Irish.
Description: The Goddess Bridgit Christianized as:
Queen of the South; Mother of Jesus; Prophetess of Christ; She Who was born at sun-rise; from Whose head rose a pillar of fire when She took the veil; She Whose breath gives new life to the dead; She Who hangs Her cloak on the beams of the sun; She Who brings the first light of spring.
She is associated with many Holy Wells and therapy.
To Whom Sacred: Brigit's cross; sacred flame (in Her shrine at Kildare, tended on nineteen nights by Her nuns, but left on the twentieth night to be kept alight by Bridget Herself); the number nineteen.
Festival:
Male Associates: Her priests had to be master-crafts-men.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant Saint-Brigit.
• Also called Mary-of-the-Goidels, Who is linked with Mary.
• Christian forename Saint, Sacred, which is linked to the glossary.

Geography/Culture: North British: Brigantes.
Description: Mother Goddess and tribal Deity of the Brigantes; Eponym of the british Rivers Braint and Brent.
Probably the origin of the widespread Goddess Brigit.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A classical style relief of Her, from Birrens, Yorkshire, shows She was equated with Minerva, Full-of-Thought, by the Romans.

Geography/Culture: Celtic: Eastern France.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant Brigindo.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• {Any chance She'd be related to Brigit?}