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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Cailleach Winter Goddess

Cailleach Winter Goddess
"I survive in each welcoming embodiment."

Pantheon: - Irish/Scottish

Moon Phase: - Triple

Energies: - Divination, prophecies, wisdom, God of Winter

Symbol: Mountains, hills, bang, deer, staff

**Cailleach is referred to as the "Close relative of All" in parts of Scotland. Likewise open as Scotia, she is depicted as an old hag with the teeth of a rebellious get to your feet and boar's tusks. She is imaginary to be a overweight sorceress.

One superstition on the road to Calliach is that the farmer who is on its last legs to harvest his backbone would be the chart to "arrive after" Caileach for the rest of the meeting, until the appearance harvest. The initial farmer who finishes harvesting would make a corn-dolly from the backbone he has harvested. He would, furthermore, ride it on to the appearance farmer who finishes. It would keep hold of leave-taking until the corn-dolly ends up with the on its last legs farmer. That on its last legs farmer would be duty-bound to meddle the "old man".

She is to boot open to accept created the earth. "Amid her bang she alternately splinters mountains, prevents the outward show of coworker, or raises storms. Scores of rebellious natural world routine her..."

- Calendar of the Occult, 1920

Resourceshttp://www.thaliatook.com/AMGG/cailleach.html

http://www.ancientrails.com/?page id=686