Brighidís Jig
Associations---Irland earth candle couples
Tapes Found On---Camp 96
Origin---modern
Choreographer---Susan Kirsch
Song Name---A Christmas Jig
Notes
The dance is done in two circles, one for the most part facing
the other. A candle is held in both hands. The nature of the dance is at
once courtly and playful.
Brighid (often known in modern times as St. Brighid) was the mother
goddess of the Celts of the Isles. The early Celtic Christians, aware of
the gifts of spirit in both paths, easily merged the old way and the new
Christian way. Later, however, after the phase of Christianity began wherein
the doctrine was set by the emperors and general-bishops, the tolerance
of anything but the doctrine of centralized power made this amalgam of
ways intolerable. Try as they might, however, the politicized Christian
edifice (which is not to be confused with the beauty of the true inner
Christian faith) could not get rid of Brighid the Goddess ... so they made
her a saint.
The Dance lends itself easily to the facilitator who is cultivating
the honoring of oneís own inner beauty, light and purity, and the recognition
of these divine qualities in the other.
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