To a Celt, the answer to the question,
"Where is the Center of the World?," had three answers.
As an individual, his/her answer would have been,
"It is where I stand.". This referred to the "gorm a cli" or the center of the self, the "bosom or heart".
As a member of a household it would have been,
"It is the cleithe, the center pole of my home".
As a member of a tuath or clan it would have been the
B�le or sacred tree of the Gods.
Each of these centers was connected together through the Goddess Brighid. She was the Goddess of Fire: fire in the head and heart, fire in the home and hearth, the fires of smiths and poets. She controlled the serpents of the "need-fire" and the feis. Brighid was the "daughter of fire" of The Dagda. She was the Magical element that connected the Three Worlds. If the elemental aspects of each of these Three Worlds was Land, Sea and Sky (Earth, Water and Air),
then She was the Fire that transformed all three.
It was Fire that opened the ways into the Otherworld at the Feis. It was Fire that gave inspiration to poets. It was Fire that warmed the anam as well as the Cauldrons of Wisdom, Warmth and Knowledge.
To a Celt, the Center of the World was the interconnection of self, family and cosmos. It was fire that illuminated them all. Fire was at the center of Celtic and Druidic ritual.
