So, there is a lecture coming up online by Professor Ronald Hutton, which looks in part at why the saint and the goddess seem so dissimilar. It is hosted by The Viktor Wynd Museum & The Last Tuesday Society, and will happen on the 23rd of February, so lots of lead time.
From the website:
This talk is designed to look at the evidence for both
goddess and saint, and the possible relationships between them.
About this event:
a recording of this lecture will be available to ticket
holders for two weeks after the event
Brigid (or Bridget, or Bride) is the most popular Irish
goddess in the modern world. This is partly because of her bountiful and gentle
nature, as a patroness of handicrafts (especially smithwork), poetry and
healing, and partly because she is also revered as a major Christian saint, the
patroness of Ireland, with a rich heritage of stories attached to her. She thus
acts a a connecting point between the religions. The general supposition is
that the goddess had an equal importance in pre-Christian times, and evolved
into the saint. If that is so, however, why are the pagan and Christian figures
so different, and why are there so few actual references to the goddess in
medieval texts? This talk is designed to look at the evidence for both goddess
and saint, and the possible relationships between them.
Speaker:
Professor Ronald Hutton is a Professor of History at the
University of Bristol. He is a leading authority on history of the British
Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on ancient and medieval
paganism and magic, and on the global context of witchcraft beliefs.
Date and time:
Wed, February 23, 2022
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM GMT (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PST)
Tickets:
£5.82 – £11.04
Tickets may be purchased here.
Image: Uncredited, from the website.
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