Who is the goddess Morrigan?
In Celtic mythology, Morrigan is the goddess of Death and Destruction. Her name means «Great Queen» or «Spectral Queen». She stalked the battlefields, inspiring courage and fury in the warriors who worshipped her. She scavenged among the corpses of the defeated in the form of a raven or a rook.
This goddess of death forms a trio together with Badbh and the Morrigan. The three divinities together are called the «Morrigna». The myth tells that, when a warrior was about to meet his death, the Morrigan appeared in the middle of the current of a river transformed into a beautiful maiden, so that the mortal was ready for the journey to «The Other World».
