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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Aine of Knockaine

Ireland.� Moon Goddess; patroness of crops and cattle.� Connected with the Summer Solstice.

Amu/Annan/Dana/Dana-Ana

Ireland.� Goddess of plenty, another aspect of the Morrigu; Mother Earth; Great Goddess; greatest of all goddesses.� The flowering fertility Goddess, sometimes she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha.� Her priestesses comforted and taught the dying.� Fires were lit for her at Midsummer.� Two hills in Kerry are called the Paps of Anu.� Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess in Ireland.� Guardian of cattle and health.� Goddess of fertility, prosperity, comfort.

Arianrhod

Wales.� "Silver Wheel"; "High fruitful mohter"; star Goddess; sky Goddess; virgin; Goddess of reincarnation; Full Moon Goddess.� Her palace was called Caer Arianrhod (Aurora Borealis).� Keeper of the circling Silver Wheel of Stars, a symbol of time or karma.� This wheel was also known as the Oar Wheel, a ship which carried dead warriors to the Moon-land (Emania).� Mother of Lleu Llaw Gyffes and Dylan by her brother Gwydion.� Her original consort was Nwyvre (Sky or Firmament).� Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Wales.� Honored at the Full Moon.� Beauty, fertility, reincarnation.

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Badb/Badhbh/Badb Catha

Ireland.� "Boiling"; "Battle Raven"; "Scald-crow"; the cauldron of ever-producing life; known in Gaul as Cauth Bodva.� War Goddess and wife of Net, a war God.� Sister of Macha, the , and Anu.� Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Ireland.� Associated with the cauldron, crows, and ravens.� Life, wisdom, inspiration, enlightenment.

Banba

Ireland.� Goddess; part of a triad with Fotia and Eriu.� They used magick to repel invaders.

Blodeuwedd/Wlodwin/Blancheflor

Wales.� "Flower Face"; "White Flower." Lily maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies.� Also known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise.� Created by Math and Gwydion as a wife for Lleu.� She was changed into an owl for her adultery and plotting Lleu's death.� The Maiden form of the Triple Goddess; her symbol was the owl; Goddess of the Earth in bloom.� Flowers, wisdom, lunar mysteries, initiations.

Boann/Boannan/Boyne

Ireland.� Goddess of the river Boyne; mother of Angus Mac Og by the Dagda.� Once there was a well shaded by nine magick hazel trees.� These trees bore crimson nuts which gave knowledge of everything in the world.� Divine salmon lived in the well and ate the nuts.� No one, not even the high gods, were allowed to go near the well.� But Boann went anyway.� The well waters rose to drive her away, but they never returned to the well.� Instead they became the River Boyne and the salmon became inhabitants of the river.� Other Celtic river goddesses: Siannan (Shannon), Sabrina (Severn), Sequana (Seine), Deva (Dee), Clota (Clyde), Verbeia (Wharfe), Briganta (Braint, Brent).� Healing.

Branwen

Manx, Wales.� Sister of Bran the Blessed and wife of the Irish king Matholwch.� Venus of the Northern Seas; daughter of Llyr (Lir); one of the three matriarchs of Britain; Lady of the Lake (cauldron).� Goddess of love and beauty.

Brigit/Brid/Brig/Brigid/Brighid

Ireland, Wales, Spain, France.� "Power"; "Renown"; "fiery arrow or Power" (Breo-saighead).� Daughter of the Dagda; called the poetess.� Often called The Triple Brigids, Three Blessed Ladies of Britain, The Three Mothers.� Another aspect of Danu; associated with Imbolc.� She had an exclusive female priesthood at Kildare and an ever-burning sacred fire.� The number of her priestesses was 19 representing the 10-year cycle of the Celtic "Great Year."� Her kelles were sacred prostitutes and her soldiers brigands.� Goddess of fire, fertility, the hearth and all feminine arts and crafts, and martial arts.� Healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, witchcraft, occult knowledge.
Note:Saint Brigit of the Catholic Church is actually this goddess.� One of the few saints not to have been a real person, she was sainted because of her popularity amongst the common people.

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Caillech

Great Goddess in her Destroyer aspect; called the "Veilled One." Disease, plague, cursing.� The Crone.

Cerridwen/Caridwen/Ceridwen

Wales.� Moon Goddess; Great Mother; grain Goddess; Goddess of Nature.� The white corpse-eating sow representing the Moon.� Welsh Bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen).� The Bard Taliesin, founder of their craft, was said to be born of Cerridwen and to have tasted a potent form of her magick cauldron of inspiration.� Wife of the giant Tegid and mother of a beautiful girl Ceirwy and an ugly boy Avadu.� In her magickal cauldron, she made a potion called greal (from which the word Grail probably came).� The potion was made from six plants for inspiration and knowledge.� Her symbol was a white sow.� Death, fertility, regeneration, inspiration, magick, astrology, herbs, science, poetry, spells, knowledge.

Clota

River goddess.� See Boann

Creiddylad/Creudylad/Cordelia

Wales.� Daughter of the sea God Llyr.� Connected with Beltane and often called the May Queen.� Goddess of summer flowers.� Love and flowers.

The Crone

One aspect of the Triple Goddess.� She represents old age or death, winter, the end of all things, the waning Moon, post-menstrual phases of women's lives, all destruction that precedes regeneration through her cauldron of rebirth.� Crows and other black creatures are sacred to her.� Dogs often accompanied her and guarded the gates of her after-world, helping her to receive the dead.� In Celtic myth,m the gatekeeper-dog was named Dormarth (Death's Door).� The Irish Celts maintained that true curses could be cast with a dog's help.� Therefore, they used the word cainte (dog) for satiric Bard with the magick power to speak curses that came true.

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Danu/Danann/Dana

Ireland.� Probably the same as Anu.� Major mother Goddess; ancestress of the Tuatha De Danann; Mother of the gods; Great Mother; Moon Goddess.� She gave her name to the Tuatha De Danann (People of the Goddess Danu).� Another aspect of the Morrigu.� Patroness of wizards, rivers, water, wells, prosperity and plenty, magick, wisdom.

Deva

River Goddess.� See Boann.

Don/Domnu/Donn

Ireland, Wales. "Deep sea"; "Abyss." Queen of the Heavens; Goddess of sea and air.� Sometimes called a Goddess sometimes a God.� The equivalent of the Irish Danu.� In Ireland, Don ruled over the Land of the Dead.� Entrances to this Otherworld were always in a sidhe(she) or burial mound.� Control of the elements, eloquence.

Druantia

"Queen of the Druids"; Mother of the tree calendar; Fir Goddess.� Fertility, passion, sexual activities, trees, protection, knowledge, creativity.

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Elaine

Wales, Britain.� Maiden aspect of the Goddess.

Epona

Britain, Gaul.� "Divine Horse"; "The Great Mare"; goddess of horses; Mother Goddess.� Fertility, maternity, protectress of horses, horse-breeding, prosperity, dogs, healing springs, crops.

Eriu/Erin

Ireland.� One of the three queens of the Tuatha Da Danann and a daughter of the Dagda.

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Fea

(Hateful).� Works with Morrigu.

Flidais

Ireland.� Goddess of forests, woodlands, and wild things; ruler of wild beasts.� She rode a chariot drawn by deer.� Shape-shifter.

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Great Mother

The Lady; female priniple of creation. �Goddess of fertility, the Moon, summer, flowers, love, healing, the seas, water. �"mother" finger was considered the index finger, the most magickal which guided, beckoned, blessed and cursed.

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Macha

Ireland.� "Crow"; "Battle"; "Great Queen of Phantoms"; Mother of Life and Death; a war Goddess; Mother Death; originally a Mother Goddess; one of the aspects of the tripple Morrigu. Also called Mania, Mana, Mene, Minne.� Associated with ravens and crows. She was honored at Lugnassadh. After a battle, the Irish cut off the heads of the losers and called them Macha's acorn crop. �Protectress in war as in peace; Goddess of war and death. �Cunnin, sheer physical force, sexuality, fertility, dominance over males.

Margawse

Wales, Britain. �Mother aspect of the Goddess.

The Morrigu/Morrigan/Morrighan/Morgan

Ireland, Wales, and Britain.� "Great Queen"; "Supreme War Goddess"; "Queen of Phantoms or Deamons"; "Specter Queen"; shape-shifter (There are stories of Morrigu being first in the form of a bird and then as a beautiful women.� She often spoke in a mysterious language).� Reigned over the battlefield, helping with er magick, but did not join in battles.� Associated with crows and ravens.� The Crone aspect of the Goddess; Great mother; Moon Goddess; Great White Goddess; Queen of the Fairies.� In her Dark Aspect (the symbol is then the raven or crow) she is the Goddess of war, fate, and death, she went fully armed and carried two spears.� The carrion crow is her favorite disguise.� With her, Fea (hateful), Nemon (Venomous), Badb (Fury), and Macha (Battle) encouraged fighters to battle maddness.� Goddess of rivers, lakes, and fresh water.� Patroness of priestesses and witches.� Revenge, night, magick, prophecy.

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Nemon

(Venomous).� Works with Morrigu.

Niamh

Ireland.� "Beauty"; "Brightness."� A form of Badb who helps heroes at death.

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Rhiannon

Wales.� "The Great Queen."� Goddess of birds and horses.� Enchantments, fertility, and the Underworld.� She rides a swift white horse.

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Scathach/Scota/Scatha/Scath

Ireland, Scotland.� "Shadow, shade"; "The Shadowy One"; "She Who Strikes Fear."� Underworld Goddess of the Land of Scath; Dark Goddess; Goddess in the Destroyer aspect.� Also a warrior woman and prophetess who lived in Albion (Scotland), probably on the Isle of Skye, and taught the martial arts.� Patroness of blacksmiths, healing, magick, prophecy, martial arts.

Siannan, Sabrina, Sequana

River goddesses. See Boann

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Verbeia

River goddess. See Boann

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White Lady

Known to all Celtic countries.� Dryad of Death; identified with Macha; Queen of the Dead; the Crone form of the Goddess.� Death, destruction, annihilation.

Wlodwin

See Blodeuwedd

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