Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Caillech aka Cailleach" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | Goddess of Winter and the goddess in her destroyer aspect. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
Goddess name "Caillech/ Cailleach/ Carlin/ Mala/ Liath" | Irish / Scotland / Manx | A goddess of Winter & the goddess in her destroyer aspect |
Goddess name "Caireen" | Ireland | Protective mother goddess and patron of children. Ireland |
"Cairn Maiden" | Scotland | A beautiful, golden haired girl who slices off the heads of harvesters. Scotland |
Goddess name "Cally Berry" | Ireland | Maiden goddess who, whilst her husband grew old and grey, she remained young and beautiful. Ireland |
Nymph name "Calypso" | Greek | Under this name we find in Hesiod (Theogony 359) a daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and in Apollodorus (Apollodorus i.) a daughter of Nereus, while the Homeric Calypso is described as a daughter of Atlas. This last Calypso was a nymph inhabiting the island of Ogygia, on the coast of which Odysseus was thrown when he was shipwrecked. Greek |
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.... |
Deities name "Canola" | Ireland | Believed to be one of the oldest of the Ireland deities. Ireland |
Deities name "Canola" | Ireland | One of the oldest of the Irish deities, invented the harp from the sinews of a gutted whale. Ireland |
Goddess name "Caolainn" | Origin | Goddess who was the guardian of a magical well in County Roscommon in western Ireland Her myth is the origin of the 'wishing well' |
Goddess name "Carlin" | Scotland | Goddess of Winter and the spirit of the eve of Samhain (Halloween), the night the ghosts of the dead roamed the world of the living. Scotland |
Goddess name "Carman" | Ireland | Goddess of County Wexford and black magic. Has roots in the Greek Goddess, Demeter. Ireland |
"Carpathian Wizard Proteus" | Roman | Carpathian Wizard Proteus who lived in the island of Carpathos, between Rhodes and Crete. He was a wizard and prophet, who could transform himself into any shape he pleased. He is represented as carrying a sort of crook in his hand. Carpathos, now called Scarpanto. Roman |
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 |
Goddess name "Cathubodia" | Britain / Pan-Celtic | Breton version of the Ireland goddess of the earth Banbha. Britain / Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Ceacht" | Ireland | Goddess of Medicine Ireland |
Goddess name "Cebhfhionn" | Ireland | Goddess of inspiration who was usually found next to the legendary Well of Knowledge from which she filled an endless vessel. Ireland |
Goddess name "Cerridwen" | Scotland | Goddess of fertility Wales / Scotland |