Cailleach The Goddess of Life and Death
Cailleach [COY-lck or CALL-y'ach] Author: Judi Singleton
Cailleach [COY-lck or CALL-y'ach] Author: Judi Singleton
Subject: A Light in the Window Published: March 14th 2004
Cailleach was an ugly, crone and hag. She had the teeth of the
wild bear and tusks like a boar The meaning of the word
"cailleach", is old woman or veiled one. She only has one eye.
see beyond the duality of things to She the oneness of life. She
is a weather Goddess controlling the winds, the Winter cold. She
is the winter Goddess. . Cailleach is a dark Goddess. She
represents winter and a going within. She kills all that s no
longer needed, But she holds in the frozen earth the seeds of a
new beginning. For all things are born in darkness into light.
Cailleach is about transformation in some stories just before
Spring appears she washes in a stream and becomes young again.
Cailleach to be the 'other' face of the Goddess Brighid. In this
legend, on the eve of Latha Fheill Bride, the Cailleach goes to
the Well of Youth. There at the Well she drinks of the water and
emerges as the youthful fair Brighid, whose touch turns the
grass to green once more. In Scottish folklore, An Cailleach is
born old and ugly and grows younger as the year turns to Spring
and Summer Cailleach teaches us that there is a time to let go
and let die even our most cherished. We must look at the things
we are most attached to and let them go. Cailleach prunes that
which is no longer beneficial to each of us. Ultimately, we must
let go of all.
Every culture has an underworld, dark, hag goddess, whose
primary fnction is to facilitate transformation from one state
of being to the next. We are in the time of letting go and
making room for the new. Wee cannot create that which we want
without room in our lives to do that. So we must let go of the
old to have room for the new. Goddess I am experiencing a time
of transformation help me to know what to let go of and how to
be reborn. gleaned from: Celtic Goddesses: Warriors,Virgins and
Mothers Miranda Aldhouse Green Clan of the Goddess: Celtic
Wisdom & Ritual for Women By C. C. Brondwin The Red-Haired Girl
from the Bog: Celtic Spirituality & the Goddess in Ireland By
Patricia Monaghan The Celtic Goddess: Great Queen or Demon
Witch? By Claire French
Cailleach was an ugly, crone and hag. She had the teeth of the
wild bear and tusks like a boar The meaning of the word
"cailleach", is old woman or veiled one. She only has one eye.
see beyond the duality of things to She the oneness of life. She
is a weather Goddess controlling the winds, the Winter cold. She
is the winter Goddess. . Cailleach is a dark Goddess. She
represents winter and a going within. She kills all that s no
longer needed, But she holds in the frozen earth the seeds of a
new beginning. For all things are born in darkness into light.
Cailleach is about transformation in some stories just before
Spring appears she washes in a stream and becomes young again.
Cailleach to be the 'other' face of the Goddess Brighid. In this
legend, on the eve of Latha Fheill Bride, the Cailleach goes to
the Well of Youth. There at the Well she drinks of the water and
emerges as the youthful fair Brighid, whose touch turns the
grass to green once more. In Scottish folklore, An Cailleach is
born old and ugly and grows younger as the year turns to Spring
and Summer Cailleach teaches us that there is a time to let go
and let die even our most cherished. We must look at the things
we are most attached to and let them go. Cailleach prunes that
which is no longer beneficial to each of us. Ultimately, we must
let go of all.
Every culture has an underworld, dark, hag goddess, whose
primary fnction is to facilitate transformation from one state
of being to the next. We are in the time of letting go and
making room for the new. Wee cannot create that which we want
without room in our lives to do that. So we must let go of the
old to have room for the new. Goddess I am experiencing a time
of transformation help me to know what to let go of and how to
be reborn. gleaned from: Celtic Goddesses: Warriors,Virgins and
Mothers Miranda Aldhouse Green Clan of the Goddess: Celtic
Wisdom & Ritual for Women By C. C. Brondwin The Red-Haired Girl
from the Bog: Celtic Spirituality & the Goddess in Ireland By
Patricia Monaghan The Celtic Goddess: Great Queen or Demon
Witch? By Claire French