Brigantia

(a.k.a. Brigga, Brigantia, Bekhantet, Jiqanta'ar, Burigantia, Wikanei'ha, Tlixantapetl)

Brigantia is the Aran goddess of Rivers and Agriculture. In the making of the world, she shaped the water running off the land into rivers. She discovered that where her waters flooded, the land stayed free of trees, but grew fertile and produced crops. In the The Creation of the Races, she is responsible for creating many of the sentient races to tend these areas and eat of their fruits - including humans, halflings and gnomes.

Divine Domains

Brigantia's divine domains include rivers, agriculture, crops, fruit, food and domesticated animals. As an extension of this, she is also associated with plenty, feasting and wine. As such, she is associated with the festival of High Harvest. Some cults of Brigantia take this aspect to the extreme, living lives of drunken debauchery. Through transference from the fertility of the land, Brigantia's domain has also encompassed that of romantic love, fecundity, fertility and pregnancy. Parents wishing to conceive will often make and offering to Brigantia - this is called the 'Baby Bread'. It is worth bearing in mind, though, that birth itself lies in the domain of Arawn and the physical act of sex with Narda.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Brigantia is represented with plentiful agricultural produce. This is most common a sheaf of wheat, but may also include cornucopias, grapes, hops or the local produce.