Badb
Irish · deity · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
The corpus held the Mórrígan and Ernmas — the most famous of the trio and their mother — and neither of the other two. The crow on the battlefield that the Mórrígan is best known as is properly this figure's, and the tradition itself blurs them, sometimes treating 'the Morrígna' as one shifting three-in-one; the record states the trio the source states and does not attempt the identification.
Parentage
- parent: Ernmas
Domains
- war and slaughter
Relations
- sibling: MachaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the Badb, Macha and the Mórrígan as the trinity of war goddesses, daughters of Ernmas. (secondary)
- one of the three with: The MorríganNon-symmetric, for the same reason as on the sovereignty trio: the Mórrígan is a pre-existing record and a symmetric `sibling` would mutate her. The sisterhood is in this note and in the lifecycle.Reference treatment of the trinity of war goddesses. (secondary)
Sources
- The Badb is one of the three war goddesses who are daughters of Ernmas, with Macha and the Mórrígan.: Reference treatment of Ernmas and her daughters in the Lebor Gabála. (secondary)