Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Cailleach Bheur" | Celtic / Scottish | Goddess of Winter. Depicted as a blue-faced hag who is reborn on October 31 (Samhain). She brings the snow until the goddess BRIGIT deposes her and she eventually turns to stone on April 30 (Beltine). In later times the mythical, witch-like figure of Black Annis probably derived from her.... |
Goddess name "Campestres aka Matres Campestris" | Britain | Campestres aka Matres Campestris, the Three Mothers, triple goddess of fertility and abundance usually depicted as holding bread and fruits and personifying the ancestor mothers of a family. Britain |
God name "Camulos" | Britain | war God from the region of Colchester. Britain |
God name "Camulos" | Britain | 'the powerful one' God of war. Also worshipped in Germany. Britain |
God name "Camulos" | Celtic / British | war god. Probably the deity from which the name of Camulodunum [Colchester, England] derives. Known from inscriptions and coinage bearing the symbol of a boar.... |
Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | She Roman is a mother goddess responsible for bringing in the child into the light |
Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CARMENTES.... |
"Carme" | Greek | A daughter of Eubulus, who became by Zeus the mother of Britomartis. Antoninus Liberalis describes her as a grand-daughter of Agenor, and daughter of Phoenix Greek |
Goddess name "Carmenta aka Carmentis" | Roman | Goddess of childbirth, prophecy, charms and spells. Her soothing words ease the pains of women in labour, heal the ills of childhood, foretell the futures of brides and that of their children. Roman |
Goddess name "Carmentes" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CANDELIFERA.... |
Goddess name "Carravogue" | British / Ireland | Local Crone Goddess from County Meath who was transformed into a huge snake for eating forbidden berries. Her original purpose is basically lost in modern times because her stories became so absorbed by Christian legends which attempt to make her a Celtic Eve. British / Ireland |
"Caspar" | German | A huntsman who sold himself to Zamiel, the Black Huntsman. The night before the expiration of his lease of life he bargained for three years' respite on condition of bringing Max into the power of the evil one. Zamiel replied, "To-morrow either he or you." On the day appointed for the trial-shot, Caspar places himself in a tree. Max is told by the prince to aim at a dove. The dove flies to the tree where Caspar is concealed. Max shoots at the dove, but kills Caspar, and Zamiel comes to carry off his victim. German |
Goddess name "Cathubodia" | Britain / Pan-Celtic | Breton version of the Ireland goddess of the earth Banbha. Britain / Pan-Celtic |
"Cauld Lad" | Britain | The Brownie of Hilton Hall. Britain |
Goddess name "Cerridwen" | British | Goddess of mountains British |
God name "Chaob (carrying off)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | wind god(s). They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition, will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified, Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the West.... |
King name "Charopus" | Greek | Or Charops, bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. Greek |
Goddess name "Cinxia" | Roman | A minor goddess of marriage[ She worries over the attire of the bride] |