Badb

Badb [ baðv ] ("fighting rage"), also called Bodb [ boðv ] (not to be confused with the male god Bodb Derg ), Bodhb Chatha ("fighting Bodhb", "battle crow " [?]) Or Fea , is a figure the Celtic mythology of Ireland .

In the Lebor Gabala Eirenn she is mentioned as a member of the Tuatha de Danann , namely as the daughter of Aed Abrat and the Ernmas , as well as the granddaughter of Bresal , so she comes from both the Nuadas and the Dagda families . She is considered the sister of the Macha or Nemain and the Morrígan or Anand / Anu . Like her two sisters, Badb also appears as a threefold goddess or in a threefold form (" triad of war goddesses").

The Middle Irish Bodb Chatha probably goes back to an old Celtic deity named (C) athubodua Augusta, who was worshiped in Gallia Narbonensis .

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Myths and legends from Ireland
• Celtic otherworld

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• Matthias Egeler: Valkyries, Bodbs, Sirens. Thoughts on the religious-historical connection of northwest Europe to the Mediterranean region. (= Real Lexicon of Germanic Archeology - Supplementary Volumes 71), Berlin - New York: de Gruyter 2011.
• WM Hennessy: “The Ancient Irish Goddess of War,” in: Revue Celtique 1 (1870), pp. 32–55.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , pp. 545 and 653 f.