Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess (2015)

I’ve had this book in my library since 2016. I only picked it up to read yesterday. The passage I came across is a quote from another source:

BRIGID: MOTHER OF CREATION

At the beginning of time, when the world was dark and quiet, a great tree grew from the new soil. It was the tallest and the strongest tree that ever was, called Bile: The Sacred Oak. The sacred waters from above nurtured and cherished this great tree. The waters were called Dana. Through the conjunction of Dana and Bile, there dropped two great acorns. From the first acorn sprang the Dagda, “The Good God.” From the second emerged Brigantu, or Brigid, “the Excellent One.” The Dagda and Brigid gazed upon their new world in awe. They chose to create order in the world, and to propagate the beautiful place with the children of Dana, the Divine Goddess who had nourished them from the beginning.

Brigid and the Dagda took to a fertile valley, one that faced outward to the eastern sea, where the waters of the divine Mother Dana would nourish the land on which they lived. They named these waters Danavius, known forever after as the mighty Danube. Brigid and the Dagda built the four greatest cities the world had ever seen: Falias, Gorias, Finias, and Marias. In these cities, the children of Dana would thrive for all time. These children named the Dagda as their father and the “Father of All Gods.” Brigid was the wise Mother, having taken the great knowledge of the world from the Sacred Oak called Bile.

Brigid was hailed for teaching the children of Dana healing, craftsmanship, and poetry, but most of all, she showed her children that true wisdom was first garnered from the feet of Dana, the Mother Goddess, and only where the water meets the land.

Inspired by “The Ever Living Ones” in The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis

It’s a creation myth, for sure, and the two acorns could be considered Adam and Eve, but the story takes on a Gnostic theme when the two are thought of as Christ and Sophia. I think I’ll stop here, for now.