Start writing today. Use the button below to create your Substack and connect your publication with Revolutions Imaginarium Every year at the beginning of February, I honor both ancestral lines of my family. On my maternal side, February 1 and 2 marks the celebration of Brigid’s day or Imbolc or Candlmas to Catholics, who took Celtic goddess, Brigid, and syncretized her onto St. Brigid of Ireland as they historically are want to do. My maternal great great great grandmother, Bridget Varley, was born in County Mayo, Ireland near the very mountain that St. Patrick climbed in his pursuit to “cast out the snakes” from Ireland, which simply meant to rid the isle of the Celts and their pagan belief systems to make way for Catholicism.