DeDanaan

Brón, bróin : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “brohn”
1. Sorrow
2. Grieve

Bromach : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “BRUH-muhk*”
1. Colt
2. Rough, rude person; boor

Brighid, Brigit, Brigid, Bride, Brigantia : pron. Brigit (g as in “get”) and Bride (breed)

1. Irish goddess; daughter of Dagda “The Good” : In her triple aspect she was patroness of poets, healers and smiths. One side of her face was ugly, but the other side was very comely. The meaning of her name was Breosaighit, “a fiery arrow.â€? Her primal function is that of fire and illumination. Her son by Bres, Ruadan, was slain by Goibnui, the Master Smith. For him she made the first keening (caoining) that was ever heard in Ireland. She was subsumed in the cult and person of…

2. Saint Brigit of Kildare (450-523 AD) who founded the first female religious community after Christianity had been established in Ireland. The sanctuary of the nunnery at Kildare had a perpetual fire, tended by the sisterhood, which was not extinguished until the Reformation. Saint Brigit is the secondary patron saint of Ireland. Within Scottish tradition Brigid (the saint and the goddess) is associated with the lambing season and the coming of spring, when she ousts the winter reign of the Cailleach Bheur (the Crone). The saint is further known as the ‘Mary of the Gaels’ and is credited with being the midwife to the Virgin. A folk-story tells how she played the fool by lighting a crown of candles and wearing it on her head to distract Herod’s soldiers from the Holy Infant. Traces of Brigit can be discerned in the name Brigantia.

3. Brigantia in Britain was a goddess of water and of pastoral activities.

Bres : The son of Ériu, begotten of her by an otherworld youth, Elatha who was of the Fomorians. Eriu herself was of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. Although he was a child of mixed parentage, he was elected leader on the understanding that he would relinquish sovereignty if any misdeed should give cause. But Bres treated his mother’s people poorly, inflicting grave insults upon the Danaans. He created a monopoly over the food supplies of Ireland, making the Danaans obliged to serve him in order to be fed. He was then satirized by the Tuatha’s poet. (A poet’s satire could cause personal disfigurement, in the case of Bres, he was considered maimed and therefore unfit to reign.) Eventually the Danaans rose against him and Bres joined the Fomorian side during the Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh. Here, he bargained with Lugh in a magical contest, which he lost. He was forced to drink 300 buckets of tainted milk and died.

Break Glass in Case of Emergency : Ancient Earth sign often found written or inscribed in bold red letters on the glass cases surrounding fire alarms, fire extinguishers, fire axes, and fire hoses that are protected by massive pieces of steel and glass to prevent accidental set off. In most cases this glass was actually quite unbreakable, bulletproof, tamper-proof, and prone to leaving the person attempting to break such glass in a state of utter headbanging frustration. So much so that in later centuries of Earth’s history, this glass was replaced with a rather large red button on which the words “Don’t Panicâ€? were inscribed.

Bóthar : (Gaeilge - Irish) pron. “BOH-uhr”
1. Road; path
2. Way; manner

Bob : If you live on Lamuella, Bob is your god.

Also see: Church of the Subgenius, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs, High Epopt, Living Slack Master

Bó, bó-aire : (Gaeilge-Irish) pron. “boh”
an bhó pron. “un vwoh”= the cow
1. Cow

bó-aire = cattle owner

Big Brother : From Earthling writer George Orwell’s book ‘1984.’ “Big Brother is watching” refers to a society where the ever-vigilant eyes of the governing entity, commonly known as ‘Big Brother,’ are the Thought Police, who monitor everyone, everywhere on Earth through the use of telescreens. Designed to broadcast party propaganda, telescreens also have a videocamera which transmits the activities of all those within sight of the screen to the Thought Police. Orwell’s two best-known books reflect his lifelong distrust of autocratic government, whether of the left or right: Animal Farm (1945), a modern beast-fable attacking Stalinism, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel setting forth his fears of an intrusively bureaucratized state of the future. The pair of novels brought him his first fame and almost his only remuneration as a writer. His wartime work for the BBC (published in the collections “George Orwell: The Lost Writings,â€? and “The War Commentariesâ€?) gave him a solid taste of bureaucratic hypocrisy and may have provided the inspiration for his invention of “newspeak,” the truth-denying language of Big Brother’s rule in Nineteen Eighty-Four.