The Morrighan - Sacred symbols and associations
Altars/ Shrines to the Morrigan
This is my alater ansd Shrine to my Matron the Morrighan Her pic also sits above ,
Above a pic oThe Morrigna as the warrior is Dark Faery pent as She is assoicated with the fae. I do have a sword I use but od need another for it really is a dragon sword.
She is also the warrior o n yor left / Hecate for space reasons has a place a shrine for Her on your right.
Her altar/ Shrine
Use black cloth, red cloth layed over front like below symbol of washer of the ford
A statue , pic other symbols
The triple Goddess canldes- Silver Red Black for Morrighan although I only had white you can use white. Faery ther element candles, stones Athame, I have a Crows feather cauldron crow candle also Dragon fae oracle deck On right Hecate is associated with the dragosn I have a black dragonm pent abover Her a dragon purplish color and dragon incense. Her stoes pearls as well Black silver and purple are Hecates colors. Your altar or shrine does not have to be large but it must be from you Also Morrighan likes old fashione jewerly like from the reinasaance :)
Sorry all for some reason my altar will not show I guess its not supposed to thats ok Ill try something else later LOL
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What is sacred to the Morrighan?
| Sacred animal: Cow and Mare, Raven and Crow | wolf black dog bear |
| Ford of a river, rivers streams forests battlefields and grave yards | |
| The Colors red and blsck, and silvery / grey but primary is red and black | |
| Weapons like spears,swords and shields. and the sickle. | |
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Blood Rivers streams esp a ford battle fields grave yards I hope I got it all LOL. |
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| Blackthorn mugwart yew, Osidan, Garnet, Moonstone Jet |
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Ale
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crow's feather
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blood, especially menstrual blood
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I myself use some red meat (raw) and red wine.at times yes menstal blood
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To Her belong all the powers of Magick, She is a SHapeshifiter, She is a diviner, She is Matron to Priestesses and witches She is very powerful.
Goddess of: Battle, prophecy, fertility, and sovereignty
Usual Image: A shape shifter she appears in many
forms, beautiful maiden, mature woman, ancient hag, crow, bear others.
Relatives: Ernmas (mother,) Cailitin, a Druid Or Delbaeth or Dagda (father,) Anu, Badb, and Macha or Badb The Crow, Nemain the Venomous,
Fea the Hateful. (Sisters or other aspects of her or goddesses she presided over.) Eriu, Fotla, and Banba (other sisters and goddesses of the land, not other aspects of her,) Mechi (Son, father
unknown) who had three hearts, in which were three serpents. The serpents, it was foretold, would destroy Ireland, so MacCecht killed him and burnt the hearts, throwing the ash into the river
Berba, even then the ash of his hearts boiled the waters of the river away and killed all the fish in the river.At her most basic Morrigan was a goddess of battle, who did not take part in battle itself, but instead stirred up strife, then flying over the
battle in the form of a crow picked who would die by casting confusion on them, afterwards feasting on their remains.
Not your warm and affectionate sort of goddess, and yet she was also a goddess of
fertility and sovereignty, without whom the king would be powerless.
Going deeper into Morrigan (or The Morrigan as this may have at some time been a title) we find that she is also a triple goddess, who
along with ether her sisters Badb, and Macha or in some accounts Nemain the Venomous, and Fea the Hateful, play a shifting role in
scores of myths and legends.
What is it that brings this goddess back in so many forms and guises and age after age returns in another form even if this means
mixing aspects that are both grand and horrific?
