Ghana's "Myths and Legends" silver program has issued numerous entries pairing West African iconography with Celtic and Norse subjects — an unusual commercial strategy driven entirely by the European collector market rather than any domestic monetary or cultural agenda. Brigid, the Irish goddess of fire, healing, and craft, appears here under that framework.
The Irish cult of Brigid survived Christianization by merging the goddess directly into Saint Brigid of Kildare, whose feast day on February 1st preserved the pre-Christian festival of Imbolc nearly intact.
Ghana's "Myths and Legends" silver program has issued numerous entries pairing West African iconography with Celtic and Norse subjects — an unusual commercial strategy driven entirely by the European collector market rather than any domestic monetary or cultural agenda. Brigid, the Irish goddess of fire, healing, and craft, appears here under that framework.
The Irish cult of Brigid survived Christianization by merging the goddess directly into Saint Brigid of Kildare, whose feast day on February 1st preserved the pre-Christian festival of Imbolc nearly intact.