Name | Origin | Description |
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Goddess name "Bean Sidhe" |
Celtic | A Banshee an goddess of death.Celtic |
God name "Anextiomarus" |
Roman / British | A Celtic epithet of the Sun-god Apollo recorded in a Romano-British inscription from South Shields, England. The form is a variant of Anextlomarus 'Great protector', a Divine style or name attested in a fragmentary Gallo-Roman dedication from Le Mans, France. Anextlomarus is also attested as a Gaulish man's father's name at Langres, and a feminine Divine form, Anextlomara, appears in two other Gallo-Roman dedications from Avenches, Switzerland. Roman / British |
Goddess name "Ucuetis" |
Celtic | A Celtic god who, along with his consort Bergusia, was venerated at Alesia in Burgundy. The Divine couple are named on inscriptions of the Romano-Celtic period, and an image of a Divine couple has been found on the same site, the male figure bearing a hammer, the female appearing as a goddess of prosperity. |
God name "Mogounos" |
Britain | A Celtic god worshipped in Roman Britain and in Gaul. The main evidence is from altars dedicated to the god by Roman soldiers, but the deity is not a native Italic one. |
Goddess name "Madb" |
Celtic | A Celtic goddess of war. |
"Ganna" |
Celtic | A Celtic prophetess, who succeeded Velleda. She went to Rome, and was received by Domitian with great honours. |
"Gwyn fab Nudd" |
Celtic | A Celtic soothsayer. Brittonic Arthurian legend |
Goddess name "Eostre" |
Celtic | A Goddess of animal reproduction. Easter is derived from her name. Celtic |
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Goddess name "Sul" |
Celtic | A Goddess of hot springs who came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul. |
Goddess name "Aufaniae" |
Celtic | A collective name for a group of Celtic mother goddesses worshipped throughout Celtic Europe. They are known only from symbolical inscriptions and they appear to have been found mainly in the German Rhineland. Celtic |
Goddess name "Andarta" |
Celtic / Gallic | A fertility goddess most likely |
God name "Creidhne" |
Celtic | A god Metal working |
God name "Amaethon" |
Celtic | A god of Agriculture |
God name "Ogma/ Ogmius/ Ogmios" |
Celtic | A god of education, genius, eloquence, language & magic |
God name "Du'uzu Dunatis" |
Celtic | A god of fortifications |
God name "Grannos" |
Celtic | A god of healing & springs |
God name "Dwyn/ Dwynwen" |
Celtic | A god of love |
God name "Rigisamus" |
Roman / Celtic | A god of war |
Goddess name "Druantia" |
Celtic | A goddess |
Goddess name "Noctiluca" |
Gaul | A goddess of Magic from Celtic Gaul |
Goddess name "Brighid" |
Celtic | A goddess of education, healing, sore eyes |
Goddess name "Aveta" |
Celtic | A goddess of female-fertility, childbirth and midwives, also associated with all fresh water. Celtic |
Goddess name "Fand" |
Celtic | A goddess of happiness & pleasure |
Goddess name "Coventina" |
Celtic | A goddess of healing & wells |
Goddess name "Murigen" |
Celtic | A goddess of lakes, and associated with flooding. Celtic |
Goddess name "Aeval" |
Celtic | A goddess of sexual relations & small size |
Goddess name "Habetrot" |
Celtic | A goddess of spell casting on the wheel of the year |
Goddess name "Nemain" |
Celtic | A goddess of war, and possibly an aspect of the Morrigan. Her name means 'panic' or 'frenzy', and causing it among warriors was her specialty. Celtic |
Goddess name "Flidais (Watch-Out-Dear)" |
Ireland | A huntress and archer fond of the chase. A Celtic Artemis except, whereas Artemis was a virgin goddess, Flidais was very fond of jolly bonking. Ireland |
King name "Elathan" |
Celtic | A king of the Fomors, father of Bress. Celtic |
Goddess name "Sirona" |
Celtic / Roman | A local goddess of healing from the Moselle basin of Germany |
"Carne" |
Celtic | A magic swan from the Lohengrin myth. Celtic |
"Mab" |
Celtic | A miniature creature who drives her chariot across the faces of sleeping people and compels them to dream dreams of wish-fulfillment. Celtic Fairy tale |
Deity name "Magog" |
Celtic | A mountain deity |
"Biasd na Srogaig" |
Celtic | A mythical animal that had one horn on its forehead and dwelt in lochs. Celtic. Isle of skye |
"Alisanos" |
Celtic / France | A personification of "alder-tree Forestation. Celtic / France |
Goddess name "Arito" |
Celtic | A random winged goddess character |
"Cirein Croin" |
Caithness | A sea-serpent and the largest animal in the world. Celtic. Caithness |
"Coinchend" |
Celtic | A semi-divine warrioress whose home was in the Otherworld. Celtic |
Goddess name "Sirona" |
European / Celtic | A sky Goddess and a deity of the Sun. European / Celtic |
Goddess name "Gilfaethwy" |
Celtic | A son of the goddess Don and brother of Gwydion and Arianrhod in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. His uncle Math ap Mathonwy, king of Gwynedd, must keep his feet in the lap of a young virgin at all times unless he is going to war. Celtic |
"Bogan aka Bauchan" |
Celtic | A type of Hobgoblin. Celtic |
God name "Segomo/ Cocidius" |
Celtic | A war god |
Demon name "Addanc aka adanc" |
Welsh | Addane, afanc, avanc, abhac, abac, a lake monster that also appears in Celtic and British folklore. It is described alternately as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf, and is sometimes said to be a demon. The lake in which it dwells also varies; it is variously said to live in Llyn Llion, Llyn Barfog, near Brynberian Bridge or in Llyn yr Afanc, a lake in Betws-y-Coed that was named after the creature. Welsh |
Goddess name "Aeval .Aibell Aoibhell" |
Celtic | Aeval aka Aibell Aoibhell, was a goddess or fairy queen of Munster. She determined if husbands were sexually satsifying their wives. Celtic |
Deity name "Amaethon / Amathaon" |
Celtic | Amaethon aka Amathaon great ploughman', was a son of Don and an agricultural deity. Celtic |
Goddess name "Oanuava" |
Celtic | An ancient earth Goddess from Celtic Gaul |
God name "Abandinus" |
Celtic | An obscure Celtic deity, possibly a river-god. He is currently known only from a single inscription from Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England: a bronze votive feather is dedicated to him with the fragmentary text "to the god Abandinus, Vatiaucus gave this from his own resources" inscribed on a plaque. |
"Killmoulis" |
Celtic | An ugly Brownie, with an enormous nose and no mouth, who haunts mills. He is characterized by To eat he presumably stuffs the food up his nose. Although they often help the miller, they are fond of practical jokes. Celtic |
God name "Aericura" |
Celtic / Roman | An underworld god known only from inscription |
"Annis . Black Anna, Black Anny, Black Agnes, Cat Anna" |
Britain / Celtic | Annis aka Black Anna, Black Anny, Black Agnes, Cat Anna, Leicester witch with very sharp nails who wore a skirt made from the skins of her human prey. Britain / Celtic |
Angel name "Granozin" |
Celtic | Another angel of the 2nd hour of the night, this time serving under Farris. |
God name "Boibhniu" |
Celtic | Blacksmith god Celtic |
Goddess name "Brigit aka Brigid" |
Ireland | Brighit, Bridget ("exalted one") was the daughter of Dagda and wife of Bres of the Fomorians. She had two sisters, also named Brighid, and is considered a classic Celtic Triple Goddess. Ireland |
God name "Tarvos Trigaranos" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Bull god. Known chiefly from a four-sided monument erected near Paris by boatmen of the Seine during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. It depicts ESUS, VulcanUS, JUPITER and Tarvos. As Tarvos Trigaranos, he is drawn as a bull with three cranes on its back and can be seen at such places as Dorchester in England. The bull may alternatively bear three horns.... |
"Sun" |
Celtic | Called in Celtic mythology Sunna, lives in constant dread of being devoured by the wolf Fenris. It is this contest with the wolf to which eclipses are due. According to this mythology, the Sun has a beautiful daughter who will one day reign in place of her mother, and the world will be wholly renovated. |
Goddess name "Ardwinna" |
British | Celtic Goddess of the wildwood. Ardwinna demands a fine of money for every animal killed in her wood British |
Goddess name "Echraidhe" |
Celtic | Celtic horse Goddess |
Goddess name "Arianrhod" |
Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic earth goddess. Responsible for initiation of souls in the otherworld in the tower of Caer Sidi. Mentioned in the Mabinogion texts as the possible daughter of Beli, consort of DON and mother of LLEW LLAW GYFFES and Dylan.... |
God name "Midir" |
Celtic / Irish | Chthonic god. Appears in polymorphic form. According to legend the consort of Etain and ruler of the land of Mag Mor. He lost an eye when hit by a hazel wand; the eye was replaced by DIANCECHT, the physician god. In Roman times he became more of an underworld deity. Also Mider.... |
God name "Pwyll" |
Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The so-called Lord of Dyfed who, according to tradition, brought the pig to Wales having received it as a gift from ARAWN, the underworld god. He earned the reward by substituting for Arawn and fighting his enemy Hafgan, in payment for an unintended slight to Arawn, whom he met one day while out hunting. His consort is RHIANNON and his son is PRYDERI.... |
God name "Pryderi" |
Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The son of PWYLL and RHIANNON. According to tradition, he was abducted as an infant from his cradle by a huge talon or claw, with the implication that the abduction was instigated by an adversary from the underworld, perhaps the family of Gwawl, a rejected suitor of Rhiannon. Pryderi was found in a stable and rescued by Teirnyon, who brought the child up as his son. Eventually the true parents of Pryderi were identified and he was returned to his family. His consort is Cigfa and he succeeded Pwyll to the title Lord of Dyfed.'... |
Goddess name "Rhiannon" |
Celtic / Irish | Chthonic horse goddess. The daughter of Hefaidd Hen and consort of PWYLL, she rides upon a white mare and is associated with the underworld and with fertility. May be virtually synonymous with the Romano-Celtic goddess Rigantona whose name means great queen. Authors suggest she is modeled on the goddess MODRON and she partly equates with EPONA.... |
Goddess name "Arm (2)" |
Celtic / Irish | Chthonic mother goddess. Closely associated with fertility and the primordial mother of the TUATHA DE DANANN. Twin hills near Killarney in Munster are called The Paps of Anu. Also Ana.... |
God name "Donn" |
Celtic / Irish | Chthonic underworld god. According to legend, he lives on an island to the southwest of Munster and is responsible for the passage of the dead toward the otherworld.... |
God name "Picullus" |
Roman / Celtic / Prussian | Chthonic underworld god. He becomes syncretized with the devil in Christian times.... |
God name "Aed" |
Celtic / Irish | Chthonic underworld god. Known from inscriptions. Aed mac Lir, son of LIR and Aobh was, according to tradition, turned into a swan by his stepmother, Aoife.... |
God name "Gwynn Ap Nudd" |
Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic underworld god. Known locally from South Wales. The leader of the phantom hunt which chases a white stag. He equates with HERNE in England and ARAWN in more northern parts of Wales.... |
Deities name "Herne" |
Celtic / British / or Anglo - Saxon | Chthonic underworld god. Known locally from windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England, he equates with the Welsh deities GWYNN AP NUDD and ARAWN and is, according to legend, the leader of the phantom hunt. Depicted with stag-like antlers.... |
God name "Aericura" |
Roman / Celtic | Chthonic underworld god. Known only from inscriptions.... |
God name "Arawn" |
Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic underworld god. The leader of the phantom hunt seen chasing a white stag with a pack of red-eared hounds. He equates with GWYNN AP NUDD, a similar deity known in South Wales. His chief underworld opponent is Hafgan and he bribes PWYLL, prince of Dyfed, to challenge Hafgan in exchange for a gift of pigs.... |
Goddess name "Sulis" |
Roman / Celtic | Chthonic underworld goddess. Also a deity concerned with knowledge and prophecy. The tutelary goddess of the thermal waters at Bath, England, she is closely linked with the Roman goddess MINERVA.... |
Goddess name "Aufaiiae" |
Celtic / Continental / European | Collective name for a group of mother goddesses. Known only from votive inscriptions and largely restricted to the Rhineland.... |
God name "Dis Pater / Dispater" |
Celtic | Dis Pater aka Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld. |
Goddess name "Epona" |
Celtic | Divine horse. Mother Goddess and goddess of horses. Celtic |
Goddess name "Modron" |
Welsh | Divine Mother, one of the most powerful of the Celtic mother goddesses. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend. Welsh |
"White Lady" |
Celtic | Dryad of death Celtic |
Goddess name "Bidhgoe" |
Celtic | Female of Illusion, Goddess of love and of sexuality Celtic |
Spirit name "CERNUNNOS" |
Celtic, Gallic | Fertility and chthonic god. Cernunnos appears to have been recognized in the region of Gaul which is now central France. He is typically drawn as a man bearing the antlers of a stag, not necessarily representing an animal spirit but a deity closely involved with animals and one which can transform instantly into animal shape. In the Celtic world, horns and antlers were generally regarded as symbols of virility and fertility.... |
Goddess name "Andarta" |
Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess (probable). Patron goddess of the Vocontii tribe. Her name seems to have derived either from artos (bear) or ar (ploughed land).See also ANDRASTA.... |
Goddess name "Artio of Muri" |
Roman / Celtic / European | Fertility goddess and guardian spirit of bears. Known only from inscriptions and sculptures in the Berne region of Switzerland, she is linked with bears. A bronze depicts her offering fruit to a bear. She seems also to be a goddess of prosperity and harvest. She became syncretized with the... |
Goddess name "BRIGIT (exalted one)" |
Celtic / Continental / European / Irish | Fertility goddess. A major Celtic pastoral deity, described as a wise woman, the daughter of the DAGDA, Brigit became Christianized as St. Brigit of Kildare, who lived from AD 450-523 and founded the first female Christian community in Ireland. She was originally celebrated on February 1 in the festival of Imbolc.... |
Goddess name "Eriu" |
Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. An aspect of the MORRIGAN. One of the deities who were known as the Sovereignty of Ireland and wedded sym bolically to a mortal king. Also a warrior goddess, capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals. She is patroness of the royal seat of Uisnech in County Meath. Eire and Erin are corruptions of her name. See also BADB.... |
Goddess name "Onuava" |
Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Associated with the earth and known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Divona" |
Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Associated with water and known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Rosmerta (great provider)" |
Roman / Celtic / British / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Consort to the god Mercury. Probably locally worshiped and often depicted carrying a basket of fruit, purse or cornucopia. She and Mercury frequently appear together. In addition to her purse, she may bear a twin-headed ax or, alternatively, she may carry Mercury's caduceus (snake-entwined wand).See also MERCURIUS.... |
Goddess name "Macha" |
Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN (a trio of warrior goddesses with strong sexual connotations), she appears as the consort of Nemed and of Crunnchu. She is also a warrior goddess who influences the outcome of battle by magical devices. She can change shape from girl to hag and is generally dressed in red. She is depicted with red hair. She appears thus to the Irish hero, Cu Chulainn, before the Battle of Moytura when she suddenly changes herself into a crow, the harbinger of death. heads of slaughtered soldiers were fixed on the so-called Pole of Macha, and the ancient religious center of Emain Macha in Ulster is named after her.See also Banbha, ERIU and Fodla.... |
Goddess name "Bariba" |
Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN. A name of the Sovereignty of Ireland to whom the king was married in symbolic ceremony. Also a goddess of war capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals.See also BADB, ERIU, Fodla, Medb and MAEVE.... |
Goddess name "Abnoba" |
Roman / Celtic / European | Forest and river goddess. Known locally from the Black Forest region of Germany. The name Avon, associated with many rivers, derives from her name.... |
God name "Belenus" |
Celtic | God charged with the welfare of sheep and cattle, he also was God of the Sun and healer in some regions and associated with Beltane Pan-Celtic |
God name "Bile" |
Celtic | God of Hell. Celtic |
God name "Amaethon" |
Celtic / Welsh | God of Agriculture. A son of DON and brother of GWYDION, he is known from a limited number of Welsh texts and was engaged in a mythical battle against the ARAWN. Associated with ploughing and husbandry. The modern Welsh name for a farmer is amaetbwr.... |
God name "Dunatis" |
Celtic | God of fortifications Celtic |
God name "Lenus" |
Celtic | God of healing Celtic |
God name "Grannus aka Grannos" |
Celtic | God of healing affiliated with hot springs and mineral waters. Celtic |
God name "LENUS" |
Celtic / Continental / European | God of healing. A god of healing worshiped by the Celtic tribe of Treveri but later adopted by the Romans. The Trier sanctuary was a place of pilgrimage where large numbers of offerings were deposited, and carvings suggest that child patients were often present. Lenus's sanctuaries were usually associated with springs and some, if not all, had an abaton or room for recuperation.... |
God name "Ocelus" |
Roman / Celtic / British | God of healing. He becomes largely syncretized with the Roman god MARS, thus there is an inscription to Mars Ocelus at Carlisle.... |
God name "Borvo" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | God of healing. Identified with several therapeutic springs and mineral baths.... |
God name "Grannus" |
Roman / Celtic / Continental / Europe | God of healing. The name appears across a wide area generally associated with medicinal springs and hot mineral waters, including sites at Aix-laChapelle, Grand (Vosges), Trier, Brittany, and as far distant as the Danube basin. Grannus became syncretized with the Roman god APOLLO as Apollo Grannus, and baths were sometimes called Aquae Granni.... |
God name "Bormanus" |
Briton | God of hot springs Celtic / Briton |
God name "Dwyn" |
Celtic | God of love. Celtic |
God name "Ialonus" |
Celtic / Continental / European / British | God of meadows. Known from inscriptions at Lancaster (Ialonus Contrebis) and Nimes.... |
Goddess name "Ogmius ( Ogma, Ogmios )" |
Celtic / Irish | God of poetry and speech. Very little is known of him, but the Roman writer Lucian mentions a Romano-Celtic god of wisdom, Ogmios, apparently assimilated with HERCULES and described as an old man with lion's skin holding a crowd of people chained to his tongue by their ears. NOTE: a goddess Ogma is also mentioned; she may have been a mother goddess in the original Irish pantheon.... |
God name "Artaius" |
Celtic | God of sheep and cattle herders from Celtic Gaul. Later, the Romans identified him with Mercury. |
Goddess name "Govannon" |
Celtic / Welsh | God of skills. Son of the goddess DON.See also GOBNIU.... |
God name "Bussumarus" |
Celtic | God of storm and mist and fog and lightning and thunder. Celtic |
God name "Ludd" |
Celtic / British | God of the ocean, war and light. Celtic / British |
Goddess name "AEGIR (water)" |
Icelandic / Nordic | God of the ocean. A lesser known AESIR god of Asgard concerned with the moods of the sea and their implications for mariners. The river Eider was known to the Vikings as Aegir's Door. Aegir is also depicted in some poetry as the ale brewer, perhaps an allusion to the caldrons of mead which were thought to come from under the sea (see also the Celtic deities DAGDA and GOBNIU). There are references in literature to Saxons sacrificing captives, probably to Aegir, before setting sail for home. Linked in uncertain manner to the goddess RAN he was believed to have sired nine children, the waves of the sea, who were possibly giantesses.... |
God name "Teutates" |
Celtic | God of the tribe Celtic |
God name "Abandinus" |
Roman / Celtic / British | God of unknown affinities. The name appears in an inscription at Godmanchester, Cambridge, England.... |
God name "Smertrios" |
Celtic | God of war and tutelary deity of the Treveri. Celtic |
God name "Rigisamus or Rigonmetis" |
Celtic | God of war assimilated with the Mars. Celtic |
Goddess name "Neit" |
Celtic / Irish | God of war. A minor deity identified as the consort of the goddess MORRIGAN in her aspect as Nemain. Also the grandfather of Balor, he was killed at the second legendary Battle of Moytura.... |
God name "Rigisamus" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | God of war. Assimilated with MARS.... |
God name "Brenos" |
Celtic | God of war. Celtic |
God name "Segomo" |
Celtic | God of war. Celtic |
God name "Tuetates" |
Celtic | God of war. Celtic |
Goddess name "Gwydion" |
Celtic / Welsh | God of war. His mother is DON the Welsh mother goddess. He allegedly caused a war between Gwynedd and Dyfed. He visited the court of PRYDERI, son of RHIANNON, in Dyfed, and stole his pigs. In the ensuing combat Gwydion used magic powers and slew Pryderi. He seems to have underworld links, hence the route taken by the dead, the milky Way, was named Caer Gwydion.... |
God name "Esus" |
Celtic / Continental / European | God of war. Mentioned by the Roman writer Lucan but otherwise virtually unknown. He may have originated as a tree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esus felling a tree with birds in the branches (see also INANA). Elsewhere he is associated with three cranes and a bull.... |
God name "Smertrios" |
Celtic / Gallic | God of war. The tutelary deity of the Treveri. Allegedly the subject of a votive monument which depicts a bearded god holding a snake.... |
God name "Cu Chulain" |
Celtic | God of warriors and chivalry. Celtic |
God name "Nemausius" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | God of water. Associated locally with a sacred spring at Nimes in France.... |
God name "Mabon (son)" |
Celtic / Welsh | God of youth. The son of an earthly mother, MODRON. According to legend he was abducted when three days old. Also a god of hunters and fishermen. He is known particularly from northwestern Britain and his cult extends along the region of Hadrian's Wall. Known from many Romano-Celtic inscriptions and syncretized with the Romano-Greek god APOLLO.... |
God name "Yspaddaden Pencawr" |
Celtic / Welsh | God. Possibly the counterpart of the Irish deity Balor and the Icelandic Balder. In the legend of Culhwch and Olwen, Olwen is identified as his daughter. He sets Culhwch several difficult tasks before he can obtain Olwen's hand. Culhwch retaliates by wounding him severely, but he cannot be killed until Olwen marries. This is presumably a distorted fertility legend, the original meaning of which is lost.... |
God name "Liew Liaw Gyffes" |
Celtic / Welsh | God. The counterpart of the Irish god LUG. The son of ARIANRHOD, he was raised by GWYDION. The heroic figure of Lancelot may be derived from him.... |
God name "Lir" |
Celtic / Irish | God. The father of the sea god MANANNAN, the consort of Aobh and later of her sister Aoife. He had four children by Aobh: AED, Conn, Fiachra and Fionnuala. Out of jealousy Aoife turned the four into swans and set father and children against one another.... |
Goddess name "Banbha" |
Celtic | Goddess of Sovereignty, war and fertility. Celtic |
Goddess name "Aveta" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Goddess of birth and midwifery. Known mainly from clay figurines found at Toulon-sur-Allier, France. The models show the goddess with infants at the breast and apparently she is concerned especially with nursing mothers. The figure is often accompanied by a small lapdog.... |
Goddess name "Queen of Elphame" |
Celtic | Goddess of death and disease often equated with Hecate. Celtic |
Goddess name "Onuava" |
Celtic | Goddess of earth and fertility, known only from inscriptions Celtic / Gaelic |
Goddess name "Brighid" |
Celtic | Goddess of education, healing, sore eyes Celtic |
Goddess name "Aerten" |
Welsh / Cornish | Goddess of fate who presided over the battles of several Celtic clans. She is often equated to the Three Fates of Greco-Roman mythology. Welsh / cornish |
Goddess name "Divonia" |
Celtic / Gaelic | Goddess of fertility associated with water. Celtic / Gaelic |
Goddess name "Arduinna" |
Roman / Celtic / European | Goddess of Forests and hunting. Known only from inscriptions and figurines in the Ardennes region. Depicted riding on the back of a wild boar and presumed to be a guardian deity of boars. Identified by the Romans with the goddess DIANA.... |
Goddess name "Gwen" |
Celtic | Goddess of happiness who was so beautiful that no one could live if they looked at her to long. Celtic |
Goddess name "Sulis" |
Roman / Celtic | Goddess of healing who presided over sacred, healing springs. Roman / Celtic |
Goddess name "Ceridwen" |
Celtic / Welsh | Goddess of inspiration. Depicted as the hag-aspect of the mother goddess, she is the consort of TEGID FOEL. Her children are Creirwy (daughter) and Afagddu (son). She allegedly prepares the caldron of knowledge.... |
Goddess name "Marcia Proba" |
Celtic | Goddess of justice Celtic |
Goddess name "Aidin" |
Celtic | Goddess of love and sexuality Celtic |
Goddess name "Conchenn" |
Celtic | Goddess of love. Celtic |
Goddess name "Gwenn Teir Bronn" |
Celtic | Goddess of motherhood. Celtic |
Goddess name "Saitada" |
Celtic | Goddess of mourning and grief. Celtic |
Goddess name "Dornoll" |
Celtic | Goddess of physical prowess Celtic |
Goddess name "Ritona" |
Celtic | Goddess of river fords. Celtic |
Goddess name "Ritona" |
Roman / Celtic | Goddess of river fords. Known from inscriptions and associated with the Treveri tribe.... |
Goddess name "Sinann" |
Celtic | Goddess of rivers. Celtic |
Goddess name "Nemetona" |
Roman / Celtic | Goddess of sacred groves. Consort to the Roman deity MARS. Evidenced at places such as Bath (England) and Mainz (Germany); but also in place names which include the etymological base nemeton (a shrine).... |
Goddess name "Neharennia" |
Roman / Celtic | Goddess of seafarers. Worshiped extensively between the second and thirteenth centuries AD, particularly in the Netherlands with sanctuaries at Domberg at the mouth of the Rhine and Colijnsplaat on the Scheldt. Probably began as a tribal deity of the Morini tribe. She is generally depicted with the attributes of fertilitya basket of fruit or cornucopia. She may also often have a small lapdog. Alternatively, she stands with one foot on the prow of a boat and grasps an oar or the rope.... |
Goddess name "Medb" |
Celtic | Goddess of sexuality, jolly bonking, intoxication and war. Celtic |
Goddess name "Arduinna" |
Roman / Celtic | Goddess of the Ardennes Forest. Her cult thus originated in the Ardennes, which derived its name from her. She was assimilated to the Roman Diana. Roman / Celtic |
Goddess name "Ratis" |
Celtic | Goddess of the Fortress and strong walls. Celtic |
Goddess name "Matrona" |
Celtic | Goddess of the Marne River Celtic |
Goddess name "Abnoba" |
Celtic | Goddess of the hunt, similar to the Roman Diana. Celtic |
Goddess name "Brigantis" |
Celtic | Goddess of the moon Celtic |
Goddess name "Wachilt" |
Celtic | Goddess of the sea who rose from the depths and halted the ship of king Vilkinus of Norway, proclaiming that she was pregnant with his child. Celtic |
Goddess name "Fata-Morgana" |
Celtic | Goddess of the sea, illusion, enchantment, fate and death and queen of the Fortunate Isles. Celtic |
Goddess name "Brigantia" |
Celtic | Goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, and women in childbirth Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Bodua" |
Celtic | Goddess of war Celtic |
Goddess name "Andrasta" |
Roman / Celtic / British | Goddess of war. The patron goddess of the Iceni tribe. The warrior queen Boudicca is reported to have prayed to her before battle and she was the recipient of human sacrifice. Andrasta does not appear in Celtic Gaul, though a deity called Andraste is mentioned by the... |
Goddess name "Iccovellauna" |
Celtic | Goddess of water. Celtic |
Goddess name "Nantosuelta (winding river)" |
Celtic / Gallic | Goddess of water. Identified as a possible consort of the god SUCELLOS. She frequently holds a pole surmounted by a dove-cote. In addition she carries the cornucopia of a fertility or mother goddess, but is also a domestic guardian deity and is often depicted with ravens, which may suggest further links with the underworld.... |
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 "Emer" |
Celtic | Goddess of wisdom Celtic |
Goddess name "Achtland" |
Celtic | Goddess queen who no mortal man could sexually satisfy, so she took a giant from the faery realm as her mate. Celtic |
Goddess name "Dana" |
Ireland / Welsh | Goddess, ancestor of mortal celtic people. Ireland / Welsh |
Goddess name "Tailtiu" |
Celtic / Irish | Goddess. By tradition the consort of Eochaid of the TUATHA DE DANANN, she is the foster mother of the god LUG and associated with the Lugbnasad festival on August 1.... |
Goddess name "Suleviae" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Goddesses of passage. Collective name for female deities associated with crossroads.... |
"Mama Brigitte" |
Celtic | Guardian of the Cemetary and of the Dead. Celtic |
"Suleviae" |
Celtic | Guardians of the Well. Also associated with crossroads. Celtic |
"Diarmaid" |
Celtic | Had a beauty spot which, any woman chanced to see it, would make her instantly fall in love with him. Celtic |
God name "Branab Llyr" |
Celtic | He is a god of the dead & can restore him is to life |
God name "Goibnui/ Govannon" |
Celtic | He is the god of the forge who's beer was so good, that the drinker gained immortality |
Goddess name "Aericura aka Erecura" |
Roman / Celtic | Herecura, Eracura, was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater. Roman / Celtic |
God name "Epos Olloatir" |
Celtic | horse God often seen as either a male or male representation and masculine aspect of Epona. Celtic |
Goddess name "Cocidius" |
Celtic / British | Hunting goddess. Northern British deity depicted in stone relief at Risingham (Yorkshire).... |
Goddess name "AENGUS" |
Celtic / Irish | KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 500 BC . The son of the DAGDA by the wife of Elcmar (one of the kings of Tara) who may have been the goddess BOANN, Aengus lived in the Valley of the Boyne and was closely linked with the ancient funerary tumuli in the region. According to legend, Aengus fell in love with a maiden whose identity he sought in vain. As he wasted away, his father and mother made enquiries until they located Caer, daughter of the king of Cannaught, who lived on Loch Bel dragon in the shape of a swan with 150 attendant swans. Aengus eventually found her and he also changed into a bird.... |
"Kerridwen" |
Celtic | Kerridwen, Wise Crone Mother, Mother of bone and stone, Cutter of Ties, join me and watch over my rites this Samhain night. Celtic |
King name "Gwythelyn Gorr" |
Celtic | king of the Dwarfs whose magical bottles are required for the marriage feast of Kulhwch and Olwen. Celtic |
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 |
God name "Alisanos" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local chthonic earth god. Known only from inscription in the region of the Cote d'Or and associated with the land. Also Alisonus, Alisanus.... |
Demon name "Morvran (sea crow)" |
Celtic / Welsh | Local god of war. The son of CERIDWEN and TEGID FOEL. Legend has it that he was extremely ugly and that his mother tried to imbue him with wisdom by preparing a special brew of inspiration. It was drunk by Gwion. Morvran was invincible in battle because his enemies thought him a demon.... |
God name "Contrebis" |
Roman / Celtic / British | Local god. Identified from an inscription at Lancaster in conjunction with another deity, IALONUS.... |
God name "Alaunus" |
Roman / Celtic / European | Local god. Known from areas around Mannheim and Salzburg. The Romans syncretized him with MERCURIUS.... |
Goddess name "Sirona" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local goddess of healing. Known from limited inscriptions in which she is usually associated with the god GRANNUS or with the Celtic APOLLO. A sculpture from Hochscheid in the Moselle basin in Germany describes her with a snake round her wrist reaching toward a bowl of three eggs in her left hand. She may also have a small lapdog. Some authors suggest she has sky associations.See also DIVONA and ONUAVA.... |
God name "Moccus" |
Roman / Celtic / European | Local swine god. Assimilated with Mercury.See also MERCURIUS.... |
Deity name "Mogounos" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local tribal deity. Assimilated with APOLLO.... |
God name "Arvernus" |
Celtic / Gallic | Local tribal deity. God of the Arverni.... |
God name "Anextiomarus" |
Roman / Celtic / British | Local tribal deity. God of uncertain affinities but linked with APOLLO.... |
God name "Teutates" |
Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local tribal deity. Known only from limited inscriptions. Teutates may be less the name of a deity than an epithet meaning great. According to the Roman writer Lucan, he is one of three Celtic gods encountered by Caesar's army in Gaul and the object of savage rites in which victims were drowned in sacrificial lakes. He may equate with a British god, Totatis. He becomes assimilated variously to Mercury or MARS. Also Teutatis.... |
King name "Lud" |
Celtic / British | London; so called from Lud, a mythical king of Britain. Ludgate is, by a similar tradition, said to be the gate where Lud was buried. Celtic / British |
Deities name "Silvanus" |
Roman | Minor god of woodlands and Forests. Worship of Silvanus seems largely to have been limited to northern Italy. He became incorporated into the Celtic pantheon where his symbolism includes a bill-hook, pots and hammers. His sacred animal is the stag. The name was extended to embrace groups of woodland deities, the Silvani or Silvanae.... |
God name "Trograin" |
Celtic / Irish | Minor god. Tsai Shen... |
Goddess name "Alaisiagae" |
Roman / Celtic / British | Minor goddesses. They are identified at houseteads (Northumberland) in a shrine to Mars Thincsus.... |
God name "Cronos" |
Celtic | Minor harvest & Sun god with Greek roots |
"Gwyrthur" |
Celtic | Minor solar who brings the summer Sunshine. Celtic |
God name "Mabon" |
Celtic | Minor Sun god who also ironically represses. & of freedom, harmony & unity |
Goddess name "Morrigan" |
Celtic | Morrigan, Morrighan, Goddesses of war of death and destruction from prehistoric origins Celtic / Ireland |
Goddess name "Don" |
Celtic / Welsh | Mother goddess. Described in the Mabinogion as the progenitress of the Welsh pantheon. Equates with the Irish goddess DANU.... |
Goddess name "Modron (another)" |
Celtic / Welsh | Mother goddess. The mother of MABON, whom she subsequently loses. Her cult is closely linked with that of Mabon and she may originally have been one of the aspects of the goddess(es) MORRIGAN. In Christian times some authors believe that she became St. Madrun.... |
Goddess name "Maeye" |
Celtic / Irish | Mother goddess. The mythical queen of Connaught. According to tradition her consort is Ailill and she represents the Sovereignty of Ireland at Connaught. She is thus the apotheosis of the land which is sacred.... |