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Brigantia was associated with the initiation of fire and, like the Greek goddess Hestia or Roman Vesta, she was a guardian of the family hearth or home-fire. As an archetypal fertility goddess she can be identified with the Greek Earth goddesses Demeter, Persephone and Gaia, but above all else she was associated with protection. She was said to protect people and animals from fire, storms, lightning and disease.