Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Neit Irish A Tuatha" | De | Danann war god |
Goddess name "Nemain" | Irish | She is one of the triune crone goddesses of battle |
God name "Net" | Irish | A god of war |
God name "Nuada" | Irish | Silver Arm a king of the Tuatha De Danann. He is cognate with the Gaulish and British god Nodens. His Welsh equivalent is Nudd or Lludd Llaw Eraint. Irish |
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 åśśimilated 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.... |
Supreme god name "Ollathair aka Dagda" | Irish | The supreme god in Irish mythology. |
Goddess name "Queen Maeve/ Medb/ Medhbh/ Madb" | Irish | She was once a powerful goddess |
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 åśśociated 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 "Sheela Na Gig" | Celtic / Irish | Mother goddess. The primal earth mother closely åśśociated with life and death. One of the rare depictions of Irish Celtic deities that have survived into the Christian era. She is shown naked, with large breasts, with her legs apart and holding open her vag***. The image frequently adorns walls of Irish churches. Also Sheila na Cioch.... |
Goddess name "Sin" | Irish | Patron goddess of warriors |
Goddess name "Taillte/ Taultiu/ Tailitu/ Telta" | Irish | A goddess of Lughnasadh & August |
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 åśśociated with the Lugbnasad festival on August 1.... |
Goddess name "Telta" | Irish | earth goddesses who lived on a magical Hill. Irish |
God name "Trograin" | Celtic / Irish | Minor god. Tsai Shen... |
God name "Trograin/ Lug" | Irish | A minor god |
Goddess name "Turrean" | Ireland | Goddess who was transformed into the first large, shaggy Irish Wolfhound by Uchtdealbh, a jealous faery queen. Ireland |
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.... |