In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.
The Word was Goddess.
The Word was Witch.
Picture credit from W is for Wise Woman
The Cailleach is a primal force and a Dark Goddess of nature, deeply connected with the land. She is sometimes depicted with blue skin and one eye, symbolizing her ability to see beyond duality and into the Oneness of all Being. The Cailleach is the embodiment of winter, clothing the land with snow, and is associated with both creation and destruction. She is credited with shaping the landscape by leaping from mountaintop to mountaintop, dropping rocks to create hills, mountains, and islands. The Cailleach wields power over the seasons and weather, often carrying a Druidic rod or a hammer. She is the guardian of the life force, nourishing seeds and commanding the power of life and death, personifying death and the transformative power of darkness, leading through death to rebirth. Her sacred places include stones and landscapes throughout Scotland and Ireland, such as the Callanais Stones on the Isle of Lewis, which are considered gifts from her acts of Earth building. Her name means “the Veiled One,” but has come to mean “Old Woman or Wife,” and she is seen as all-powerful and ageless. The health and balance of the natural world are of utmost importance to her.
Do you equate age with power? with Wisdom? with Love?
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“We call the Great Mother. She of a thousand names. She before She had a name.” This song can be purchased at Triple Spiral of Dunna Sidhe.
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“The winds carried her [Cailleach] message – a glimmer of hope that we can find our way back to living in balance with her natural rhythms of creation, destruction and creation.”
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