Female were equal to males and held just as much power.
The Priestesses were highly revered. Priestesses sang the dying to
sleep, did charms, enchantments, prophecies, healing, etc. They knew
the power of words, stones and herbs. One of the central features
of their Groves was a cauldron, bowl or pool. Curses were cast for
any mistreatment of women. Red-hair females were sacred to the war
Goddesses, as their hair was the color of blood.
The Gods and Goddesses
Abarta
Location: Ireland.
Description: A God of the Tuatha De Danann.
"Performer of feats."
Rules Over: Understanding the destructive nature
of jealousy, teamwork.
Accasbel
Location: Ireland.
Description: A Partholan who is credited with making
the first tavern (pub) in Ireland. Most likely was an early God of
wine or meade.
Rules Over: Mabon vine harvest, Beltane's blessing
of the meade.
Achtland
Description: Goddess queen who no mortal man could
sexually satisfy, so she took a giant from the faery realm as her mate.
Rules Over: Sex magick.
Addanc
Other Names: Affanc.
Location: Wales.
Description: Primordial Giant/God who created and
rode the crest of the flood near his home on the Lake of Waves. Was
once a deity worshipped by the people of the lake region but who is now
reduced to faery or evil demi-god. In modern times the word Addanc
is used to describe any evil fresh water-dwelling faery of Wales.
Rules Over: Erasing an event/person/etc from your
mind, erasing unwanted thoughts so you can have a fresh start.
Adsullata
Location: Britain.
Description: Goddess of hot springs who came to
Brittany from Celtic Gaul. A minor sun Goddess in her own right before
the time when the Cels relegated the majority of their sun images to male
deities and their moon images to female ones.
Rules Over: Purification, solar magick.
Aerten
Other Names: Aerfen, Aeron.
Location: Wales, Cornish.
Description: Goddess of Fate who presided over
the outcome of war between several Celtic clans. She had a shrine
at Glyndyfrdwy on the banks of the River Dee, where legend has it that
three human sacrifices had to be made every three years to ensure success
in future battles. Her symbol was the double-bladed axe.
Rules Over: Peace, overcoming enemies.
Aesun
Location: Ireland.
Description: Early Irish God whose name means "to
be." Most likely part of a lost creation myth. Aesun was also
known by the Persians and Umbria and Scandinavia.
Aeval
Other Names: Aebhel.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess who in popular legend is a
faery, who held a midnight court to hear the debate on whether the men
of her province were keeping their women sexually satisfied or not.
She commanded that the men bow to the women's sexual wishes.
Rules Over: Lust, sex magick, wisdom in making
judgements.
Agrona
Location: Wales.
Description: Slaughter goddess often equated with
the Morrigu.
Rules Over: War, slaughter.
Aibell
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of Munster whose legends were
almost lost until she was 'demoted' to a faery queen. She had in
her possession a magickal harp which did her bidding, but which human ears
could not hear or else the eavesdropper would soon die. She was associated
with stones and leaves.
Rules Over: Protection, music, earth magick, ecological
magick.
Aibheaog
Location: Ireland.
Description: Fire goddess who had a magick well
that contained mighty healing powers, especially effective against toothache
so long as the petitioner left a small white stone at the well to represent
the decayed tooth. She is associated with wells and the number 5.
Rules Over: Healing, Midsummer well rituals.
Aife
Other Names: Aoife.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Goddess and queen of the Isle of Shadow.
She ran a school for warriors, but her school was less successful than
her sister, Scathach's, school. Aife was not vulnerable to magick,
and commanded a legion of fierce horsewomen. She stole an alphabet
of knowledge from the deities to give to humankind. For that infraction,
she was transformed into a crane by the elder deities. Supposedly,
she was accidently killed by hunters but yet others say she still haunts
the countryside in this form today. She is associated with the three
fold law and the crane.
Rules Over: Protection, general knowledge, teaching,
pathworking, lessons of the threefold law.
Aimend
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Minor Sun Goddess who is thought to
be the daughter of the king of the region known as Corco Loidhe.
Aine of Knockaine
Location: Ireland.
Description: Moon Goddess who was connected with
the Summer Solstice.
Rules Over: Crops and cattle.
Airmid
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of medicine and all healing
arts to the Tuatha De Danann. She was looked upon as a magician and
herbalist of great reputation. She was also a craftswoman who, with
her brother, helped create the famed silver hand of Nuada.
Rules Over: Magick, healing, learning, herbalism,
understanding family loyalty, inspiration to craftspeople.
Albion
Description: Son of a forgotten Sea God who may
have been part of a lost creation myth. Was once said to rule the
Celtic world. His name became the poetic name for Britain.
Alisanos
Description: Gaulish God of stones about whom very
little is known. Probably a deity of the standing stones of Brittany.
Rules Over: Fertility.
Almha
Location: Ireland.
Description: Basically all her myths are lost to
us today. What is known about her is that she was a Goddess of the
Tuatha De Danann and that a hill in southern Ireland was named for her.
Ambisagrus
Other Names: Bussumarus.
Location: Britain.
Description: Originally from Gaul, where his Celtic
identity was lost during the Roman takeover where he took all the characteristics
of the Roman God Jupiter. Weather deity who controlled the rain,
wind, hail and fog.
Rules Over: Weather magick, leadership.
Ancasta
Description: A Goddess who survives only in her
name through an inscription on a stone in Hampshire. It is a possibility
she is related to Andraste.
Andraste
Location: Britain.
Description: War Goddess who was evoked on the
eve of the battle to bring favor, and possibly ritual sacrifices were given
to her. Queen Boadicea of the Iceni offered sacrifieces to Andraste
in a sacred grove before fighting the Romans on her many compaigns against
them.
Rules Over: Overcoming enemies.
Angus Mac Og
Other Names: Angus of the Brugh, Oengus of the
Bruig, Angus Mac Oc, Aengus MacOg.
Location: Ireland.
Description: One of the Tuatha De Dannan who had
a golden harp that could create incredibly sweet music. He had a
brugh (fairy palace) on the banks of the Boyne.
Rules Over: Youth, love, music magick, protection
of lovers, dream work, creativity and beauty.
Anu
Other Names: Anann, Dana, Dana-Ana, Catana.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Mother Earth, Great Goddess, Greatest
of all Goddesses. Another aspect of the Morrigu. The fertility
Goddess, sometimes she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. Her
priestesses comforted and taught the dying. Fires were lit for her
on Midsummer. Guardian of cattle and health.
Rules Over: Fertility, prosperity, comfort, health,
cattle.
Arawn
Other Names: Arawyn, Arrawn, Arawen.
Location: Wales.
Description: King of Hell, God of Annwn.
Ruled the underground kingdom of the dead.
Rules Over: Revenge, terror, war, spirit contact,
picking magickal names, strengthening friendships, reincarnation.
Ard Greimme
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Father of the famed warrioress sister
Aife and Scathach. Once a Sun God.
Rules Over: Fire magick.
Ardwinna
Other Names: Dea Arduinna.
Location: Britain.
Description: Woodland and animal Goddess who haunted
the forests of Ardennes riding a wild boar. She commanded a fine
for any animal killed on her land, yet asked for animal sacrifices on her
feast day.
Rules over: Animals, familiars, woodlands.
Ariadne
Description: The only Greek Goddess known to have been
worshipped in Celtic Gaul. Her name is derived from the word arachnid.
Ariadne spun the universe from the primordial darkness like a spider spins
her web, a theme with echoes in the creation myths of many other cultures.
She is thought to be very 'unceltic' and to have been brought with the
Celts on their long journey across the European continent. She is
associated with spider web, sulphur, thread, yarn.
Rules Over: Protection, magick, manifestation,
time.
Arianrhod
Location: Wales.
Description: Keeper of the circling Silver Wheel
of Stars, a symbol of time and karma. Mother aspect of the Triple
Goddess. Honored at the Full Moon.
Rules Over: Beauty, fertility, reincarnation.
Arnamentia
Description: Goddess of spring waters who was once
a minor solar deity.
Rules Over: Healing and purification.
Artaius
Description: God of sheep and cattle herders from
Celtic Gaul. Later, the Romans identified him with Mercury.
Rules Over: Sheep, cattle.
King Arthur
Location: Wales, Cornwall.
Description: Most likely based on a seventh-century
king named Artorius who led the fight to drive the Saxons from Britain,
and later his legend was merged with that of a now-forgotten father/sacrificial
God. Because of the strength of his legends, some consider him a
God (even if only archtypically), father figure, warrior, leader, sacrificial
king, protector and defender of justice and mercy. Son of King Uther
Pendragon and Igraine, the Duchess of Cornwall. Taught and protected
by the magician/Druid Merlin, married Guinevere, and was mortally wounded
in battle by his son Modred (Morgan LeFay's child). Arthur's body
was carried to Avalon to sleep and await the time when he is needed.
He is a sacrificial God/king in the purest sense. The oldest legends
surrounding him are found in The Black Book of Caermarthen.
Rules Over: Nearly anything is said to be able
to be helped by King Arthur.
Artio
Description: Bear Goddess whose shrine once stood
in what is now Berne, Switzerland. She is usually depicted as being
surrounded by full baskets and animals. Goddess of fertility and
wildlife. She is associated with the bear, claws and teeth, geode
stones.
Rules Over: Fertility, animals, strenght, courage.
Badb
Other Names: Badhbh, Badb Catha, Bellona, Cauth
Bodva.
Location: Ireland.
Description: The cauldron of ever-producing life.
War Goddess and wife of Net. Mother aspect of Triple Goddess.
Associated with the cauldron, crows and ravens.
Rules Over: Life, wisdom, inspiration, enlightenment.
Baile of the Honeyed Speech
Location: Ireland.
Description: God of Blarney, the speech valued
in Irish culture.
Rules Over: Quick and clear thinking, speeches,
ideas, impressing someone, mental activity, speaking, love magick, protection
for lovers, blessing magickal wands.
Ban-Chuideachaidh Moire
Location: Ireland.
Description: Old Goddess who appears in modern
Irish legends as the midwife who assisted the Christian Virgin Mary with
her birth, and was also a title applied to St. Bridget (very obviously
referring to the goddess Brigit). A once forgotten goddess of childbirth.
Rules Over: Childbirth.
Banba
Location: Ireland.
Description: Part of a triad with Fotia and Eriu.
They used magick to repel invaders.
Rules Over: Repulsion of invaders.
Barinthus
Location: Wales.
Description: Charioteer to the residents of the
Otherworld who was most likely once a Sea or Sun God.
Bechoil
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess whose legends have been lost.
Perhaps an early version of Dana.
Becuma
Location: Ireland.
Description: Tuatha Goddess who ruled over magickal
boats and had a weakness for sleeping with High Kings at Tara. At
that time, kings ruled by permission of their consorts and thus the act
of her sleeping with them gave these human men permission to rule over
the divine Tuatha De Danann. Becuma was an outcast among her own
people because of her behavior and eventually the Milesians took over Ireland,
supplanting the Tuatha altogether. She was also banished to the human
world for having a torrid romance with Gaiar, a son of Manann. She
married Conn of the Hundred Battles. She was fiercely jealous of
his pride in his son, Art, and sought to banish him from Conn's kingdom
but her plans failed and she left. She now resides in the Otherworld.
Rules Over: Overcoming jealousy.
Bel
Other Names: Belenus, Belinos, Beli Mawr, Beli,
Bile, Beltene.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Closely connected with the Druids.
His name was seen in festivals of Beltane/Beltain. Cattles were also
driven through the bonfires for purification and fertility.
Rules Over: Science, healing, hot springs, fire,
success, prosperity, purification, crops vegetation, fertility, cattle.
Belisama
Description: Goddess of the Mersey River.
Berecyntia
Description: An Earth Goddess, perhaps a Gaulish
version of Brid.
Rules Over: Elemental earth magick, fertility.
Bladud
Location: Wales.
Description: Sun God who is associated with the
sacred English hot spring known as Aquae Sulis. Depicted as a very
virile male figure with flaming hair.
Rules Over: Protection, employment, any endeavors
governed by the Sun.
Blai
Location: Ireland.
Description: A Faery Queen with a burgh of her
own Drumberg. Represents a personal or mascot deity to Ossian.
Rules Over: Faery contact.
Blathnat
Location: Ireland.
Description: Probably a form of the more popular
Welsh Goddess, Blodeuwedd. She traveled the island with three cows
tied to her cauldron and commanded that warriors perform feats of superhuman
proportions for her amusement. Associated with Roses, cauldron and
cow trinities.
Rules Over: Abundance, fertility.
Blodeuwedd
Other Names: Wlodwin, Blancheflor.
Location: Wales.
Description: Lily maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies.
Known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise. Created
by Math and Gwydion as a wife for Lleu. The Maiden form of the Triple
Goddess, her symbol was the owl.
Rules Over: Flowers, wisdom, lunar mysteries, initiations.
Bo Dhu
Location: Ireland.
Description: Black cow Goddess who helped bring
fertility to barren Ireland.
Rules Over: Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity.
Bo Find
Location: Ireland.
Description: "White cow." This is how she
manifested long long ago on the barren and fruitless mass that would become
green Ireland. She came from the Western Sea with her sisters, the
Red Cow Goddess (Bo Ruadh), and the black cow Goddess (Bo Dhu). These
colors are also those of the Celtic Triple Goddess, which they obviously
represent. The black cow went to the south of Ireland and the red
traveled to the north while Bo Find came to the center. When Bo Find
came to the site which is thought to be near modern-day Tara, she gave
birth to twin calves, a male and female who would feed her people forever
and ever. Then she and her sisters returned to the sea. They
are honored at Mabon.
Rules Over: Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity.
Bo Ruadh
Location: Ireland.
Description: Red cow Goddess who helped bring fertility
to barren Ireland.
Rules Over: Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity.
Boann
Other Names: Boannan, Boyne.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of the river Boyne.
Rules Over: Healing, fertility, water magick.
Bodua
Description: War Goddess much like the Irish Badb.
Rules Over: War.
Bormanus
Description: Thought to be one of the earliest
Celtic Gods. Nothing is known about him today though he may have
later surfaced as Borvo, a Breton God of hot springs. His name appears
in cameo in old manuscripts and carvings.
Borvo
Location: Britain.
Description: God of hot springs who replaced his
mother, Sirona, in this function when her story was patriarchalized.
The spring he ruled had great healing powers.
Rules Over: Healing.
Bran The Blessed
Other Names: Benedigeidfran, Bran, Bran MacFebal.
Location: Wales.
Description: A giant associated with ravens.
Rules Over: Prophecy, the arts, leaders, war, the
sun, music, writing.
Branwen
Other Names: Branwyn.
Location: Manx, Wales.
Description: Venus of the Northern Seas, of the
the three matriarchs of Britain. Lady of the Lake.
Rules Over: Love, beauty.
Breasal
Location: Wales, Cornwall.
Description: High King of the entire planet who
made his home in the Otherworld which is sometimes called Hy- or I-Breasal
in his honor. Some believe Breasal and his mystical western island
might not have been the legendary continent of Atlantis. His world
is visible to humans on only one night every seven years. When Portuguese
explorers reached South America they mistakenly thought they had landed
on Breasal's world and named the land they discovered "Brazil" in his honor.
Rules Over: Namespirit contact, guidance and protection
for travelers and explorers.
Bregon
Location: Ireland.
Description: Minor Celtic figure who plays a role as
either the human son of Milesius or the divine father of Bile and Ith.
Brenos
Description: War God to whom the victories at Allia
and Delphi were attributed.
Briant
Description: Goddess of the river which holds her
name.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Brigantia
Other Names: Britannia.
Location: Britain.
Description: A Goddess of sovereignty and often
thought of as the Brigit of England. In 1667 Charles I had her face
placed on the coinage where it remains today, reviving an old custom, first
instated by the Romans who adopted her as their own.
Rules Over: Sovereignty, self-control, leadership,
protection of your land, prosperity.
Brigit
Other Names: Brid, Brig, Brigid, Brighid, Brigindo.
Location: Ireland, Wales, Spain, France.
Description: Associated with Imbolc. She
had an exclusive female priesthood at Kildare and an ever-burning fire.
She had 19 priestesses representing the 19-year cycle of the Celtic "Great
Year."
Rules Over: Fire, fertility, the hearth, all feminine
arts and crafts, martial arts, healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration,
learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love,
witchcraft, occult knowledge.
Bronach
Location: Ireland.
Description: Crone Goddess linked to forgotten
Samhain rituals. Reclaim this forgotten Samhain Goddess at your own
seasonal rites.
Caer Ibormeith
Location: Ireland.
Description: Usually thought of as a Goddess of
sleep and dreams and a less violent version of Mare. She usually
took the form of a swan who lived on a lake called Dragon's Mouth and she
wore a golden chain with one hundred and thirty golden balls on a silver
chain worn around her neck. Aengus MacOg fell in love with her in
a dream and sought her when he awoke. When he found her he, too,
became a swan and they flew to Bruigh na Boinne to Aengus' megalithic
site north of Tara where they sang the most beautiful song which put all
of Ireland into a peaceful slumber for three days and three nights.
She is connected to the horse and the moon.
Rules Over: Dreams, prophetic dreams, falling asleep,
music magick.
Caillech
Other Names: Cailleach, Carlin, Mala Liath.
Location: Ireland, Scotland, Manx.
Description: Goddess in her Destroyer aspect.
Rules Over: Disease, plauge, cursing, wisdom, seasonal
rites, weather magick.
Caireen
Location: Ireland.
Description: Once a protective Mother Goddess,
a defender of you and patron of children. Associated with holly leaves.
Rules Over: Children, protection.
Cally Berry
Location: Ireland.
Description: Often equated with the Caillech Bheur
of Scotland althought in northern Irish legends she appears as a maiden
Goddess, representation of spring, the hunt and guardian of animals.
It is thought that she might be a derivative of Artemis/Diana and that
the crone images were later slapped onto her at a later date when the churchmen
were attempting to purge her image. She sometimes took the form of
a crane to fly about and predict storms. She is credited with being
the creatrix of the Irish mountains, traditionally seen as the crone's
earthly home.
Rules Over: Weather forecasting, animal magick,
ecological magick.
Campestres
Description: Campestres is the Roman name of a
lost Goddess of fields that was probably a fertility or harvest Goddess
in Celtic Gaul.
Rules Over: Fertility.
Camulos
Description: War God from the region of Colchester
which was once called by the Latin name Camulodunum in his honor.
Rules Over: War.
Canola
Location: Ireland.
Description: Believed to be one of the oldest of
the Irish deities, Canola was the inventor of Ireland's long loved symbol,
the harp. Lore has it that she fell asleep outdoors one day while
listening to beautiful music and that upon waking she realized the music
was being made by the wind beating upon the sinews of a gutted whale.
She was then inspired to craft the instrument and recreate that wonderous
sound.
Rules Over: Music magick, dream work, inspiration.
Caolainn
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess who was the guardian/queen
of a magickal well in County Roscommon in western Ireland. She helped
grant wishes, usually ones which taught the wishers that they didn't really
want what they thought they did. Her myth is the origin of the well
known 'wishing well' which is an image taken from the birth canal of the
great mother earth from which all existence is created. She is associated
with wishing wells and falling stars.
Rules Over: Wisdom, healing, fertility.
Carman
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of County Wexford and source
name for Loch Garman, who was once honored at Lughnasadh. It is believed
she has roots in the Greek grain Goddess, Demeter. Modern legend
portrays her as a Goddess of black magick, one who can destroy anything
by thrice chanting a spell. This is also the way that the Morrigu,
particularly Badb, can destroy. However, this is not a manifestation
of evil intent, but an end of the world prophecy common to many cultures.
Rules Over: Banishing magick.
Carne
Location: Britain, Cornwall.
Description: Most likely another version of Herne.
See Cernunnos.
Carravogue
Other Names: Garbhog, Gheareagain.
Location: Ireland, Britain.
Description: 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. It is believed St. Patrick tampered with her legends, which
show that St. Patrick killed her with holy water that melted her, but from
which she will arise from again. One of the many legends St. Patrick
tampered with was that she was originally a virgin Goddess of spring who
banished each year the crone she would eventually become in order to further
his own aims. She is associated with the number 9.
Rules Over: Self-responsibility, reincarnation,
earth magick.
Cathubodia
Description: Occasionally seen as a a Breton version
of the Irish earth Goddess Banbha, most likely with origins in Gaul.
Thought to be a war Goddess who shares Badb's energies.
Rules Over: War, earth magick.
Cebhfhionn
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of inspiration who was usually
found next to the legendary Well of Knowledge from which she filled an
endless vessel. She kept this sacred water from humans, feeling they
could not handle its power. To merely taste of the waters meant to
instantly possess great knowledge, wisdom and divine inspiration.
Rules Over: healing, mental powers, knowledge.
Cernunnos
Other Names: Cernowain, Cernenus, Herne The Hunter,
Hu Gadarn, Belatucadros, Vitiris.
Location: Known to all the Celtic areas in one
form or another.
Description: The Horned God, God of Nature, God
of the Underworld. The Druids knew him as Hu Gadarn, the Horned God
of Fertility. Usually depicted as sitting in a lotus position with
horns/antlers on his head, a beard, naked except for a neck torque and
sometimes holding a shield and spear. His symbols included the stag,
ram, bull and horned serpent.
Rules Over: Virility, fertility, animals, physical
love, Nature, woodlands, reincarnation, crossroads, wealth, commerce, warriors,
hunt, magick, sacrifice.
Cerridwen
Other Names: Caridwen, Ceridwen.
Location: Wales, Scotland.
Description: Moon Goddess, Grain Goddess.
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 from her magick cauldron of inspiration.
In her magickal cauldron, she made a potion called greal (from which the
word Grail most likely came from). The potion was made from six plants
for inspiration and knowledge. Her symbol was a white sow.
Rules Over: Death, fertility, regeneration, inspiration,
magick, astrology, herbs, science, poetry, spells, knowledge, wisdom, past
lives, divination.
Cessair
Location: Ireland.
Description: Of the race known as the Partholans
who were among the first to occupy Ireland, she is the first ruler of Ireland.
Well known pre-Celtic Mother Goddess figure much like Dana. She led
a journey of Partholans to the "western edge of the world" forty days before
the great flood. Among her were her husband and one hundred and fifty
mothers of the world. This legend shows how Pagans saw the
Mother Goddess as a source of regeneration and life renewel. Cessair's
"I was here first" image was so strong among Irish Pagans that when the
Christians could not eliminate her, they made her the granddaughter of
their flood savior, Noah. Because the native myths say Ireland was
spared by the ravages of the great flood, Cessair perhaps was once seen
as a water deity who had the power to save Ireland from the flood.
She is associated with the rising sun and the cauldron.
Rules Over: Strength, perseverance, leadership,
foresight, water magick, new beginnings.
Cethlion
Other Names: Cetnenn.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of the Formorians who was
called "crooked teeth." She prophesied the fall of her people to
the Tuatha De Danann.
Rules Over: Prophecy, divination.
Chlaus Haistic
Location: Ireland.
Description: Ancient Goddess of unknown function
who came down to earth as a powerful witch. Probably a crone Goddess.
Rules Over: Magick, druids.
Cian
Location: Ireland.
Description: God of medicine who went to retrieve
a cow which had been stolen by Balor. Father of Lugh. Son of
Diancecht. Husband of Ethne.
Rules Over: Love magick.
Cliodna
Other Names: Cleena, Cliodhna, Cliodna of the Fair
Hair.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Tuatha De Danann Sea and Otherworld
Goddess who usually took the form of a sea bird and therefore symbolized
the Celtic afterlife. As a Goddess of the waves, she was believed
to be embodied in every ninth wave that broke on the shore. This
wave was believed to break higher and stronger than any other.
Rules Over: Spirit contact, appreciation, beauty,
water magick.
Clota
Other Names: Clud, Cludoita, Clwyd.
Location: Scotland, England, Wales.
Description: Well known Goddess and namesake of
the River Clyde. The waters in which she governed were believed to
be especially useful in controlling seizures.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Coinchend
Description: A semi-divine warrioress whose home
was in the Otherworld.
Rules Over: Spirit contact.
Condatis
Description: God of confluence whose sacred places
were wherever two rivers or bodies of water met.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Condwiramur
Location: Wales.
Description: Goddess of sovereignty who appears
shortly in the Grail legends as the wife of Sir Percival in which she is
wedded and then bedded by Percival who then immediately sets off for the
Grail castle to which he is finally admitted.
Rules Over: Discovering your own feminine power,
help in discovering the ancient grail mysteries, sovereignty.
Corchen
Location: Ireland, Manx.
Description: Ancient snake Goddess in which very
little is known. She was probably once a regional mother earth Goddess,
or Goddess of rebirth. Others conceive that her lost legends were
once part of forgotten creation legends.
Rules Over: Past lives, earth magick, reincarnation.
Corra
Location: Scotland.
Description: Prophecy Goddess who regularly appeared
in the form of a crane. She symbolizes transcendent knowledge and
transitions to the Otherworld.
Rules Over: Divination, prophecy.
Coventina
Location: Scotland.
Description: One of the most potent of the Celtic
river Goddesses. Most likely Roman in origin. She was also
the Goddess of featherless flying creatures which may have symbolized some
type of blockage to passing into the Otherworld. There is evidence
she was worshipped in Celtic Gaul where reliefs have been found showing
her reclining on a floating leaf.
Rules Over: Time, new beginnings, life cycles,
wishes, protection of birds, divination, inspiration of self.
Cred
Other Names: Creide.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Faery Queen Goddess who is associated
with Dana's mountains, the Paps of Anu. She vowed never to sleep
until she found a man who could create for her the most majestic poem ever
penned. It not only had to be perfectly crafted, but describe in
vivid detail her home and all its contents. The catch 22 was that
no man was allowed within her dwelling's guarded walls (possibly a reference
to one of the Otherworld realms known as The Land of Women). Coll,
a warrior of the Fianna, succeeded and Cred married him. She is associated
with Yew, rose oil, the color pink.
Rules Over: Love magick, searching for the perfect
mate, keeping secrets, spirit contact.
Credne
Location: Ireland.
Description: God of metallurgy and smithing who
worked in bronze. He created all the Tuatha's weapons with the goldsmith
Goibniu and the woodworker Luchtain.
Rules Over: Self-defense, inspiration of artistic
endeavors, blessing tools.
Creiddylad
Other Names: Creudylad, Cordelia.
Location: Wales.
Description: Connected with Beltane and often called
the May Queen. Goddess of summer flowers.
Rules Over: Love, courage, strength of will and
flowers.
Crobh Dearg
Other Names: Crove Dairg.
Location: Ireland.
Description: "the red claw." War Goddess who is
possibly a form of the crone Goddess of battle Badb. A Leinster fortress
was named for her.
Cromm Cruaich
Location: Ireland.
Description: Ancient deity about which little is
known about today. Seen as a harvest, death and sacrificial God.
It is thought human sacrifices were once made to him at Samhain.
The Dinnshenchas tells that once at Meg Slecht, a standing stone
of pure gold was erected to him with twelve stone idols surrounding him
(13 is still the traditional number for members in a Celtic coven).
King Tigernmas led the worship at this stie.
Rules Over: Harvest, dark festivals, death, passing
over rituals, otherworld contact.
The Crone
Description: Third aspect of the Triple Goddess.
She signifies old age or death, winter, the end of all things, the waning
moon, post-mentrual phases of women's lives, all destruction that comes
before regeneration through her cauldron of rebirth. Crows and other
black creatures are sacred animals to her. Dogs accompanied her usually
and guarded the gates of her after-world, helping her to receive the dead.
It was thought that true curses could be cast with a dog's help.
Cronos
Description: Minor harvest and Sun God with Greek
roots who was imprisoned with his subordinate deities on a western island
which could have been a Land of the Dead. He seems to have no connection
to the Greek God of time who has the same name.
Cyhiraeth
Location: Wales.
Description: Goddess of streams who later became
thought of as a faery spirit who was a portent of death, very similar to
Ireland's Beansidhe or Cornwall's Washer at the Ford.
Rules Over: Water magick, passing over (death),
faery contact, inner-transformation.
Cymidei Cymeinfoll
Location: Wales.
Description: War Goddess who is always paired in
stories with her husband, Llasar Llaesyfnewid. They own a magickal
cauldron into which they would cast warriors killed in battle. From
the cauldron these deceased soldiers would come forth to life again, but
minus their power of speech. She is one half of the creative principle.
As Wales' prime War Goddess she gave birth to its warriors, one every six
weeks.
Rules Over: Strength, war, past-lives, creative magick.
Dahud-Ahes
Other Names: Dahut.
Location: Britain.
Description: Goddess of "debauchery" by her detractors,
while some recent legends go so far as to make her the destroyer of her
own realm through her excesses and her worship of "idols." By her
followers, she is hailed as a Goddess of earthly pleasure. Fishermen
of Britain claim to occasionally see her city beneath the French seas,
and believe that she will indeed return someday.
Rules Over: Pleasure, courage, water magick, sex
magick, sea faery contact.
The Dagda
Other Names: Daghdha, Eochaidh Ollathair.
Location: Ireland.
Description: High King of the Tuatha De Danann.
God of death and rebirth, master of all trades, lord of perfect knowledge.
He had a cauldron called the Undry which gave unlimited food. He
also had a living oak harp which caused the seasons to change in their
order. He was usually pictured wearing a brown, low-necked tunic
which just reached his hips and a hooded cape that barely covered his shoulders.
On his feet he wore horse-hide boots. Behind him he pulls his massive
8-pronged warclub on a wheel.
Rules Over: Protection, warriors, knowledge, magick,
fire, prophecy, weather, reincarnation, the arts, initiation, patron of
priests, the Sun, healing, regeneration, properity, plentymusc, harps,
magicians, artisans, all knowledge.
Damara
Location: England.
Description: Fertility Goddess associated with
Beltane.
Rules Over: Fertility.
Damona
Description: Cow Goddess which little is known
about.
Rules Over: Fertility, abundance.
Danu
Other Names: Danann, Dana.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Major Mother Goddess, ancestress of
the Tuatha De Danann. She gave her name to the Tuatha De Dannan (People
of the Goddess Danu). Another aspect of the Morrigu.
Rules Over: Wizards, rivers, water, wells, prosperity,
abundance, magick, wisdom.
Daronwy
Location: Wales.
Description: In The Book of Taliesin, The
"Song of Daronwy," relates adventures of this God who does not appear elsewhere
in Celtic mythology. Many think Daronwy is actually Ossian.
Deae Matres
Location: Britain.
Description: "mother Goddesses." A triune
of earth Goddesses given this singular Latin name on the continent.
None of the legends about her survive though there are many inscriptions
and scultpures which attest to the strength of her worship. It is
believed her following was destroyed by the Romans when they took Gaul.
The Trio are shown as robed figures bearing baskets of flowers, fruit,
and grain, items which represent the bounty of three non-winter seasons.
Rules Over: Harvest, fertility, prosperity.
Dechtere
Other Names: Dechtire.
Location: Ireland.
Description: A triplicity unto herself, this Goddess
throughout her myth say she alternately takes on the images of maiden,
mother and crone. She is one of three women in myth who is credited
with being the mother of Cuchulain, an honor usually only given to Taillte
by Celtic Pagans. A stray mayfly, containing the "soul" of Lugh,
fell into her wine glass. When she drank it she became impregnated
with Cuchulain. However, she birthed Cuchulain by throwing him up
and therefore always remaind a "maiden." Described as a woman of
"large proportions," a detail which reveals she had attributes of a mother,
fertility and abundance Goddess. She could shape-shift herself and
her followers into birds for swift travel and, predictably, they could
fly to the Otherworld and back in this form. However, wherever they
stopped to feed they nearly destroyed the land, and this links her to the
daker side of the Goddess of abundance, that of teh devourer.
Devona
Description: Goddess of the rivers of Devon.
Diancecht
Other Names: Dian Cecht.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Physician-magician of the Tuatha.
Rules Over: Healing, medicine, regeneration, magick,
silver-working.
Dil
Location: Ireland.
Description: Very old cattle Goddess about whom
nothing is known about today. She could possibly be a derivative
of the nearly forgotten Damona of Gaul.
Rules Over: Fertility.
Dispater
Other Names: Dis Pater.
Description: Gaulish God, whose name means "the
father," was a primordial God of creation who later merged with both Don
and Cernunnos. The Gauls all believed they themselves to be descended
from him.
Rules Over: Fertility magick, magick.
Domnu
Location: Ireland.
DescriptioN: Goddess of the Formorians, who are
sometimes referred to as the Fir Domnann (Men of Domnu) in her honor.
The Formorian race was one of the occupiers in the five-fold Invasion cycle
of Irish mythos. Her name means "the deep," making sense because
the Formorians were banished by the Tuatha De Danann to become grotesque
sea monsters off the Irish coast.
Rules Over: Leadership, sea faery contact.
Don
Other Names: Donn, Dhonn.
Location: Ireland, Wales.
Description: Sometimes called a Goddess and sometimes
called a God. Ruled over the land of the dead.
Rules Over: Control of the elements, eloquence.
Druantia
Description: "Queen of the Druids." Fir Goddess.
Rules Over: Fertility, passion, sexual activities,
trees, protection, knowledge, creativity.
Dubh Lacha
Location: Ireland.
Description: Early Irish Goddess of the sea which
little is known about. Possibly another version of the Druidess Dubh.
Dunatis
Description: Gaulish Celtic God of fortifications.
Protector of sacred spaces.
Rules Over: Protection of sacred places and hiding
places during rituals.
Dylan
Other Names: Dyonas.
Location: Wales, Britain.
Description: Guardian deity of the mouth of the
River Conway. Symbol was a silver fish, son of Gwydion and Arianrhod.
Eadon
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of poetry who may have also
been a bard.
Rules Over: Creativity.
Easal
Location: Ireland, Manx.
Description: God of abundance and prosperity who
came into legend as King of the Golden Pillars. He gave the sons
of Tuirrean seven magickal pigs, which would reappear the day after they
were eaten.
Rules Over: Prosperity, abundance.
Ebhlinne
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of Munster who was until recent
times honored at the Midsummer Sabbat in her mountain home in County Tipperary.
Since all her legends have been lost except for a few minor references,
she was probably once a sun or fire Goddess.
Rules Over: Fire magick.
Echtghe
Other Names: Aughty.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Believed to be another form of Dana
by some, the first Great Mother Goddess of Ireland. Her lover gave
her the hills which bear her name to this day: The Slaibh na Echtghe.
She was the daughter of Nuada of the Silver Hand.
Eibhir
Location: Ireland, Manx.
Description: First wife of Ossian who is described
as being a yellow-haired "stranger from another land." She is most
likely a forgotten Sun Goddess.
Eithne
Other Names: Ethleen, Ethlinn, Ethniu.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Old Goddess whose original form likely
traveled with the Celts across the continent over many generations from
the Middle East. It is said she lived off nothing but the milk of a sacred
Indian cow and was protected by a spirit who chased away all would-be suitors.
Some tend to think she is the same as the Goddess Ethne, who is one of
the several women credited with being the mother of Lugh. Her last
pregnancy was ended along with her life when she was drowned by her jealous
sister, Clothru. A minor fertility and moon Goddess.
Rules Over: Beauty, fertility, reincarnation.
Elaine
Location: Wales, Britain.
Description: Maiden aspect of the Goddess.
Queen of Elphame
Other Names: Elphlane, Elphane.
Location: Scotland.
Description: Goddess of death and disease who is
often equated with the Greek Goddess Hecate. More recently, in the
past few hundred years, she has been seen as a Faery Queen and assocaited
with Beltane. Thomas and Rhymer always maintained that she appeared
to him on a May Eve dressed in green silks and riding a white horse with
fifty-nine silver bells tied in its mane (odd association since Celtic
faeries have always been thought to shun the ringing of bells).
Rules Over: Death, destruction, plague, battle,
Otherworld, rebirth, faery contact.
Eostre
Description: Goddess for whom the Ostara Sabbat
is named for a.k.a. Easter. She is viewed as spring personified.
The word for animal menstruation, "estrus," meaning "fertile period," is
derived from her name, and therefore she is a Goddess of animal reproduction.
Rules Over: Ostara, Great Rite, Fertility of pets/livestock,
new ventures, reincarnation, new life.
Epona
Location: Britain, Gaul.
Description: "Divine Horse." Goddess of horses,
Mother Goddess, Mare.
Rules Over: Fertility, maternity, protectress of
horses, horse-breeding, prosperity, dogs, healing springs, crops.
Epos Olloatir
Description: Horse God often seen as either a male
form of Epona or as her consort.
Rules Over: Night, dream magick, horses.
Erce
Description: Earth Mother and Harvest Goddess represented
by a womb or over-flowing Horn of PLenty who is believed to be Basque in
origin.
Rules Over: Harvest festivals, earth magick.
Eri of the Golden Hair
Location: Ireland.
Description: Virgin Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann.
In one legend, Eri was at the bank of a river when a man in a silver boat
floated down to her on a beaming ray of the sun. She was so overcome
with emotion at the sight that the two of them fell into the boat and made
love right there and then. The man, most likely an unnamed sun God,
left Eri impregnated with Bres. He also left her a golden ring (a
sun symbol) to remember him by.
Rules over: Creation, moon.
Eriu
Other Names: Erin, Eire.
Location: Ireland.
Description: One of the three queens of the Tuatha
De Danann and daughter of the Dagda.
Essus
Other Names: Esus.
Location: Britain.
Description: Harvest God worshipped in Brittany
and in Gaul by the people known as the Essuvi. He died by being hung
on one of his sacred trees like the Norse God Odin with whome he is often
compared to. His own legends are lost.
Rules Over: Fertility, harvest, spirit contact,
passing over rites.
Fachea
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of poetry and patron of bards.
Rules Over: Creativity.
Fea
Location: Ireland.
Description: War Goddess whose root name means
"the hateful one." She is a subordinate deity of the Morrigu.
Daughter of Brugh and Elcmar.
Rules Over: War.
Finncaev
Location: Ireland.
Description: Minor Princess among the Tuatha De
Danann. Thought to be a Goddess of love and beauty.
Rules Over: Love and beauty.
Finvarra
Other Names: Fionnbharr.
Location: Ireland.
Description: A strong God who became known as a
faery king of the Tuatha De Danann.
Rules Over: Competitions, mental powers, faery
contact.
Fionn MacCumhal
Other Names: Finn MacCool, Finn McCual, Fin on
the Isle of Man, Fingal, Demna (original name).
Location: Ireland, Manx, Scotland.
Description: Legendary giant God/Warrior of ireland
who foresaw the coming of the Milesians and banished an invading giant
from Scotland.
Rules Over: Wisdom, overcoming enemies, creation,
protection, knowledge, divination.
Fland
Location: Ireland.
Description: Daughter of woodland Goddess Flidais.
A lake Goddess who is viewed in modern folklore as an evil water faery
who lures swimmers to their death.
Rules Over: Water magick, lakes.
Flidais
Location: Ireland.
Description: She rode in a chariot drawn by deer.
Ruler of wild beasts, forests, woodlands.
Rules Over: Forests, woodlands, wild things, wild
beasts, shape-shifting.
Garbh Ogh
Location: Ireland.
Description: Giantess and Goddess of the hunt whose
chariot was drawn by elks. This Goddess built herself a triple cairn
of stone and heather, and went inside to die. Her names means "rough
youth."
Rules Over: Ecological magick, seasonal rites involving
the sacrificial God.
Garmangabis
Location: Britain.
Description: Goddess who was brought to Britain
with the Romans and survives only through cryptic inscriptions. She
was worshipped in the Lancashire region of northwestern England, though
her function is now unknown.
Gavida
Location: Ireland.
Description: Minor God of the forge.
Goewin
Other Names: Goewyn.
Location: Wales.
Description: Goddess of sovereignty who held the
feet of Math while he reigned. She was only exempt from doing this
when he went to war. In old northern and western European cultures
kings were often seen as semi-divine beings having need to rest their feet
in the lap of a queen by whose grace they ruled. When Goewin was
kidnapped by Gilfaethwy, he also captured the means of stealing the throne.
A May Queen.
Rules Over: Sovereignty.
Gog
Description: Consort of Magog.
Rules Over: Fertility.
Goidniu
Other Names: Gofannon, Govannon.
Location: Ireland, Wales.
Description: One of a triad of crafsmen with Luchtaine
the wright and Creidne the brazier. He forged all of the Tuatha De
Danann's weapons which always hit their mark and every wound created by
the weapons were fatal. His ale gave the Tuatha invulnerability.
Rules Over: Blacksmiths, weapon-makers, jewelry
making, brewing, fire, metal-working.
Goleuddydd
Location: Wales.
Description: Sow Goddess, mother of Culwch who
ran in an insane rush to the deep woodlands to give him birth. Aunt
of King Arthur.
Rules Over: Family ties, independence.
Grainne
Location: Ireland, Manx, Scotland.
Description: Master herbalist and sun Goddess who
was the daughter of King Cormac and who married Fionn MacCumhal.
Rules Over: Herbs, knowledge, sun, fire magick.
Great Father
Description: The Horned God, The Lord. Lord of
the winter, harvest, land of the dead, the sky, animals, mountains, lust,
powers of destruction, regeneration. Represents the male principle
of creation.
Great Mother
Description: The Lady. Represents the female
principle of creation. Goddess of fertility, the Moon, summer, flowers,
love, healing, the seas, water.
The Green Man
Other Names: Arddhu (The Dark One), Atho, Horned
God.
Description: See Cernunnos.
Grian
Location: Ireland.
Description: Faery Goddess from County Tipperary
is still thought to live in a burgh beneath Pallas Green Hill. Her
name means "sunny" and was most assuredly at one time a long past potent
regional sun deity. Though her legends have been lost, some think
she is a twin of Aine who represented the waning year, while Grian was
queen of the waxing year.
Rules Over: Seasonal rites, sun.
Guaire
Other Names: Guary.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Guardian God/spirit of Bruigh na
Boinne and father of Ebhlinne.
Rules Over: Protection.
Gwawl Ap Clud
Other Names: Gwawn.
Location: Wales.
Description: Son of the Goddess Clug. Thought
to be a minor sun God.
Rules Over: Solar magick.
Gwen
Location: Wales.
Description: A young female who was so beautiful
that almost no one could live if they gazed upon her for long. She
was perhaps a minor sun or moon Goddess or a Goddess of light.
Gwydion
Other Names: Gwyddion.
Location: Wales.
Description: Druid of the mainland gods, son of
Don. Brother of Govannon, Arianrhod and Amaethon. Wizard and
Bard of North Wales. A many-skilled god. Prince of the Powers
of Air, a shape-shifter. His symbol was a white horse. Greatest
of the enchanters. A warrior-magician. Brought pigs to humankind.
Rules Over: Illusion, changes, magick, the sky,
healing, music magick, help, learning, mental powers.
Gwyddno
Location: Wales.
Description: At one time was a sea God. Came down
in legend as a monster or faery of the ocean.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Gwynn Ap Nudd
Location: Wales.
Description: King of the Fairies and the underworld.
Later became Plant Annwn (subterranean fairies).
Rules Over: Spirit contact, strength, passing over rituals,
seasonal rites.
Gwethyr
Other Names: Gwyrthur Ap Gwreidawl.
Location: Wales.
Description: Opposite of Gwynn Ap Nudd. King
of the Upperworld.
Habetrot
Description: A "spinning" Goddess who is thought
to either be a goddess of spell casting or the wheel of the year since
"spinning" refers to them both. She is best known for her powers
of healing which were linked to her skills with weaving fiber. All
who wore her clothes never became ill.
Rules Over: Healing, seasonal rites, commemoration.
Habondia
Other Names: Abondia, Abunciada, Habonde.
Description: Goddess of abundance and prosperity
who was later demoted to a mere witch in medieval English lore in order
to strip her of her great power in the minds of the rural folk who depended
upon her benevolence for their crops and herds. She is descended
from a Germanic Goddess of the Earth.
Rules Over: Seasonal harvest rites, fertility,
prosperity, earth magick.
Harimella
Other Names: Viradechthis.
Location: Scotland.
Description: Goddess of Tungrain origin who used
to be worshipped in Dunfriesshire. Most likely a Goddess of protection.
Rules Over: Protection.
Henwen
Description: Sow Goddess much like her Welsh counterpart,
Cerridwen. She is the deity who brought abundance to the land by
giving birth to an array of "litters" throughout England. For example
she left a litter of bees in one spot, wheat in another, barley in another,
etc. She produced everything except dogs, pigs or other animals thought
to be the sole possession of the Otherworld inhabitants.
Rules Over: Fertility, childbirth, prosperity.
Hevydd Hen
Location: Wales.
Description: Father of Rhiannon. Once part
of a very old oral tradition which has been lost.
Holly King and Oak King
Description: Two sacrifical Gods who, in the manner
of such deities, are two aspects of the same being. Holly King represents
the waning year, and battles the Oak King at Midsummer (probably at Beltane
sometime in the past) for rulership. The Oak King is the God of the
waxing year and fights the Holly King at Yule (perhaps at one time Samhain)
for the same honor. Today most celtic witches see these two as faeries
or spiritual energies rather than as divine beings since only pieces of
folklore and custom, rather than mythology, define them.
The Horned God
Description: Opener of the Gates of Life and Death.
Known by many names, herne the hunter, cernunnos, green man, lord of the
wild hunt. The masculine, active side of Nature. Earth Father.
Animals sacred to him were the stag, bull, goat, bear.
Rules Over: Growing things, the forest, Nature,
wild animals, alertness, annihilation, fertility, panic, desire, terror,
flocks, agriculture, beer and ale.
Ialonus
Description: Fertility God who governed over all
cultivated fields.
Rules Over: Fertility, gardens.
Ibath
Location: Ireland
Description: A Nemed who is belieoved to be a Tuatha
ancestor/father God.
Inghean Bhuidhe
Other Names: Crobh Dearg.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Her name means "yellow-haired girl."
Much of her story has been lost, however, we do know that she was the middle
girl of three sisters who made up a Triple Goddess. She represented
the coming of summer, or Beltane, and for many years was honored with rituals
involving a sacred well on May 6, the original date of the Sabbat.
Her younger sister was named Latiaran. Her elder sister is named
Lassair.
Rules Over: Beltane, flower festivals, spring planting.
Iubdan of the Faylinn
Location: Ireland.
Description: An Ulster God usually known in popular
legend as the king of the Ulster faeries.
Rules Over: Faery contact, wisdom.
Keevan of the Curling Hair
Other Names: Cebhain.
Description: Lover of Cliodna who may have been
a God of fertility and of the hunt. All myths aside the ones of Cliodna
have been lost.
Rules Over: Fertility, hunting.
Kele-De
Other Names: Ceile De.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Very old Goddess whose early all-female
following was allowed to flourish by the early church. They were
known as Kelles. Their High Priestess reserved the right to
take any and all lovers they chose. Strangly enough, she was probably
a crone image in Ireland and linked in popular mind as a counterpart to
the male creation concept. Some even believe she is a corruption
of the Indian Goddess, Kali. In an effort to destroy her memory,
an early sect of Irish and Scottish monks adopted her name.
Rules over: Feminine power and sex magick.
The Lady Of the Lake
Location: Wales, Britain
Description: To some she is a faery woman, to others
she is a potent deity of life, death and regeneration. She was the
possessor of the sword Excalibur (called Caliburn in Brittany), the magickal
blade given to King Arthur. A Sovereign Goddess, it is this act of
taking the offered sword which grants Arthur the right to rule, and it
is she who claims the blade again, when his role as sacrificial king must
be fulfilled. The Bretons claim she was a Breton addition to the
Arthurian legends and that she never appeared in the original Welsh versions
of the myths. Contradictory to the "sword in the churchyard stone"
stories, the Breton version tells us that Merlin and Arthur rowed out to
the center of the Dosmary Lake in Cornwall and that it was there that Excalibur
was presented to him, the sword embedded in a floating stone. When
he pulled it out, it was an act of reversal of the Great Rite, separating
the female and male concepts of creation which were not to be united again
until Arthur's death. The Lady of the Lake is also said to have been
the foster mother of Sir Lancelot, one of Arthurs knights, also a Breton
addition to the tale. She is pictured as sitting on a throne of reeds
in the center of the lake's depths. Among her MANY magickal credits
is that of a healer. She is associated with the crane, water lilies
and marble.
Rules Over: Purification, healing, Great Rite,
any other magickal acts associated with the feminine elements.
Lassair
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of Midsummer, part of a triune
with her sisters Latiaran and Inghean Bhuidhe. Her name means "flame."
Rules Over: Seasonal rites.
Latiaran
Location: Ireland.
Description: The youungest of the three sisters
who made up a Triune Goddess. Latiaran represented the first harvest
of Lughnasadh. The only surviving story about Latiaran tells us that
her apron caught fire and she melted into the ground, her place marked
by a heart-shaped stone.
Rules Over: Seasonal rites, fire magick.
Latis
Location: England.
Description: Lake Goddess who later became a Goddess
of ale and meade. Evidence of her worship still remains at Birdsowald,
England. Latis fell in love with a salmon, which represents knowledge,
and out of pity for her, the other deities turned him into a warrior.
However, each winter he must submit to becoming a salmon again until spring.
Rules Over: Understanding the wheel of the year,
samhain rites, mourning.
LeFay
Location: Wales.
Description: Goddess of the sea and of the Isle
of Avalon. She was an excellent healer and drinking water bles her
provided an instant cure for all illnesses.
Rules Over: Healing.
Leucetios
Description: Thunder and storm God.
Rules Over: Weather Magick
Litavis
Location: Britain.
Description: God of the forge.
Rules Over: See Goibniu.
Llasar Llaesgyfnewid
Location: Wales.
Description: Battle God who is always paired with
Cymidei Cymeinfoll, his wife.
Rules Over: Strength, past-lives, creativity.
Llyr
Other Names: Lear, Lir.
Location: Ireland, Wales.
Description: God of the sea and water.
Rules Over: Water, sea.
Logia
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of the Lagan River.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Lot
Location: Ireland.
Description: Hideous Formorian War Goddess.
She is said to have lips on her breasts and four eyes on her back.
She often led the Formorians into battle.
Luaths Lurgann
Description: Warrior Goddess whose name means "the
speedy-footed one," and she was known to be the fastest runner of all Ireland.
She is associated with the Thistle.
Rules Over: Overcoming enemies, family, loyalty,
teaching, physical fitness, astral projection.
Luchtain
Other Names: Luchtar.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Minor war and death god.
Rules Over: Creativity, spirit contact, energy,
magickal tools.
Lud
Other Names: Llud, Llud Llaw Ereint, Llud of the
Silver Hand, Nuada, Nudd, Nodons, Nodens, Lludd.
Location: Ireland, Wales.
Description: Chieftain God. He had an invincible
sword, one of the four great treasures of the Tuatha De Danann.
Rules Over: Healing, water, ocean, fishing, the
Sun, sailing, childbirth, dogs, youth, beauty, spears, slings, smiths,
carpenters, harpers, poets, historians, sorcerers, writing, magick, warfare,
incantations.
Lugh
Other Names: Lugh Lamhfada, Llew, Lug, Lugus, Lug
Samildananch, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Lleu, Lugos, Llew, Llew Llaw Gyffes, Lugus,
Ioldanach, Samhioldananach, Lamhfada.
Location: Ireland, Wales.
Description: A hero God. His feast is Lughnassadh,
a harvest festival. He is associated with ravens. His symbol
is a white stag in Wales. Lugh had a magick spear and rod-sling.
One of his magick hounds was obtained from the sons of Tuirenn as part
of the blood-fine for killing his father Cian. He was a carpenter,
mason, smith, harper, poet, Druid, physician and goldsmith.
Rules Over: War, magick, commerce, reincarnation,
lightning, water, arts and crafts, manual arts, journeys, martial arts,
blacksmiths, poets, harpers, musicians, historians, sorcerers, healing,
revenge, initiation, prophecy.
Mabb
Location: Wales.
Description: Warrioress believed to be a Welsh
version of Ireland's Queen Maeve. Today in Welsh folklore she is
a faery who brings nightmares and is a midwife to the Welsh faery folk,
the Twlwwyth Tegs.
Mabon
Other Names: Maponos, Maponus.
Description: Minor sun got who also ironically
represness. Some traditions view hiim as the original being, the
first God, first life carved out of the primal void of the divine womb.
Rules Over: Any endeavor, seasonal rites, fertility
rites, the hunt, death, spirit contact.
MacCecht
Location: Ireland.
Description: Son of Oghma. God of the plough
for the Tuatha.
Rules Over: Fertility, crops, protection magick.
MacCuill
Location: Ireland.
Description: Minor sea God of the Tuatha De Danann.
Rules Over: Water magick.
MacGreine
Location: Ireland.
Desscription: Son of Oghma, minor sun God of the
Tuatha De Danann and husband of Eire.
Rules Over: Sun, prosperity.
Macha
Other Names: Mania, Mana, Mene, Minne.
Location: Ireland.
Description: One of the aspects of the triple Morrigu.
Associated with ravens and crows. She is honored at Lughnassadh.
Protectress in war as in peace. Goddess of war and death.
Rules Over: Cunning, sheer physical force, sexuality,
fertility, dominance over males, childbirth, wisdom, overcoming enemies,
past-lives.
MacKay
Location: Scotland.
Description: MacKay's legend is possibly a reworking
of an old story about a fire God.
Rules Over: Faery contact, sun.
Queen Maeve
Other Names: Medb, Medhbh, Madb.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Queen of Connacht who personifies
the heights of feminine power. No doubt, she was once a powerful
Goddess who merged with a later historical figure. Her name means
"intoxicated woman," and she was known for her long golden hair, fiery
temper and strong will. She boasted that she could sexually exhaust
thirty men each night. As evidence of her feminine power, battles
would pause while she menstruated. Ancient peoples believed this
time to be the peak of a woman's power. She was not only a powerful
leader, but also an expert warrioress, huntress and horsewoman. Usually
animals, especially horses, are often depicted with her.
Rules Over: Sex magick, leadership, perseverance,
strength, warding off enemies, feminine power.
Magh Mor
Location: Ireland.
Description: A FirBolg princess/Goddess.
Grandmother of Lugh.
Magog
Description: Mountain Deity of which her consort
was Gog. She was the more important. Britain's Megg's Hills
are named for her, and several hillside chalk effigies portray her.
She is usually depicted as a four-breasted woman astride a horse.
It is thought her name may mean "mother deity," and that she was once a
fertility and motehr Goddess. In patriarchal times she became England's
St. Margaret.
Rules over: Fertility, couples, earth spells.
Mal
Location: Ireland.
Description: Hag's Headland is the most famous
of Ireland's jagged cliffs along the western coast. Mal was the Goddess
who ruled over them, deciding the fate of all who ventured there.
Manannan MacLir
Other Names: Manawydan Ap Llyr, Manawydden, Manann,
Oirbsen.
Location: Ireland, Wales.
Description: He dressed in a green cloak and gold
headband. He was a shape-shifter. Chief Irish sea God.
His swine magickally renewed themselves, were the chief food of the Tuatha
De Danann and kept them from aging. He had famous weapons that included
two spears called Yellow Shaft and Red Javelin; swords called the Retaliator,
Great Fury and Little Furty. He had magick armor that prevented wounds
and could make the Tuatha invisible at will.
Rules Over: Sea, navigators, storms, weather at
sea, fertility, sailing, weather-forecasting, magick, arts, merchants and
commerce, rebirth.
Marcia Proba
Location: England.
Description: Celtic Warrior queen Goddess who lived
around the third century B.C.E. Her laws, known as the Marcian Statutes
were similar to Ireland's Brehon Laws in that they were very fair and gave
equal status to women.
Rules Over: Judgment, justice, fairness, equality.
Margawse
Location: Wales, Britain.
Description: Mother aspect of the Goddess.
Math Mathonwy
Other Names: Mathu, Math Ap Mathonwy.
Location: Wales.
Rules Over: Sorcery, magick, enchantment.
Mathonwy
Location: Wales.
Description: Father God who became the single being from whom the
family of the great Welsh mother Goddess Don was descended.
Rules Over: Prosperity.
Matrona
Other Names: Modron.
Description: Goddess of the Marne River.
"Divine mother." Early name of Modron.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Melusine
Other Names: Melsuline.
Location: Britain, Scotland.
Description: Serpent Goddess brought to common
awareness though the writing of French author Rabelais. She and her
sisters, Melior and Palatina, are a triplicity.
Rules Over: Compassion, knowledge of when vengeance
is not right or just or just none of your business.
Melwas
Other Names: Meleagant.
Location: Cornwall.
Description: A Dark God who lay in wait for an
entire year to carry of Guinevere to his palace in Avalon. God of
the Summerland (Otherworld).
Rules Over: Spirit contact, passing over rituals.
Merlin
Other Names: Merddin, Myrddin, Merlyn, Emrys.
Location: Wales, Britain.
Description: Great sorcerer, druid, magician.
Associated with the fairy religion of the Goddess. A wild man of
the woods with prophetic skills, according to the Old Welsh traditions.
It is said he learned all his magick from the Goddess under her many names
of Morgan, Viviane, Nimue, Fairy Queen and Lady of the Lake. He is
thought to sleep in a hidden crystal cave.
Rules Over: Illusion, shape-shifting, herbs, healing,
woodlands, Nature, protection, counseling, prophecy, divination, psychic
abilities, foreseeing, crystal reading, tarot, magick, rituals, spells,
incantations, artisans and smiths.
King Midhir
Other Names: Mider, Midir, Midhir of Bri Leith.
Location: Otherworld/faery God/king, Son of the
Dagda and Boann. Owned 3 birds, the Cranes of Denial, Despair and
Churlishness, who refused hospitality to travelers, a definite breach of
the Celtic rules of social intercourse. He had a magick cauldron
which his daughter Blathnat helped Cuchulain steal from him. Today
is viewed as both an Otherworld God and a faery God compared to Pluto.
Rules Over: Faery contact, prosperity spells.
Moccus
Location: Britain.
Description: Pig God of the continental standing
stones who had his cloudy origins in Celtic Gaul. Perhaps a masculine
version of or consort to the popular goddess known as Cerridwen.
He had his own feast day in Celtic Gaul.
Rules Over: Sacred Spaces.
Modron
Location: Wales.
Description: "Great Mother," she is one of the
most powerful of the Celtic mother goddesses. She is also a fertility
and harvest deity. She was the Mother of Mabon who was stolen away
from her when he was three days old and rescued later by King Arthur.
Rules Over: Mother Goddess Magick & Ritual,
Harvest rites, childbirth beds, sex magick.
Momu
Location: Scotland.
Description: A Goddess of wells and hillsides.
Morgan LeFay
Other Names: Morgause.
Location: Wales, Britain.
Description: Daughter of LeFay, half sister of
King Arthur, possibly was once a Goddess of Glastonbury Tor, a sacred Pagan
site. Today she is generally thought of as a Death Goddess, equated
with The Morrigu. As a Goddess of sovereignty, she backed the Green
Knight to take over the kingdom of Camelot.
Rules Over: Music magick, sovereignty, passing
over rituals, spirit contact, water spells, gossip, bigotry.
Morgay
Location: Scotland, England.
Description: Harvest Goddess from the Scottish/English
border region.
Rules Over: Seasonal Rites.
The Morrigu
Other Names: Morrigan, Morrighan, Morgan.
Location: Ireland, Wales, Britain.
Description: Reinged over the war-field, helping
with her magick, but did not join in battles. Associated with crows
and ravens. The Crone aspect of the Goddess. In her dark aspect,
she is the goddess of war, fate and death. The carrion crow is her
favorite disguise. With her, Fea (hateful), Nemon (Battle) encouraged
fighters to battle-madness.
Rules Over: Rivers, lakes, fresh water, priestesses,
witches, revenge, night, magick, prophecy, banishing magick, passing over
rites, overcoming enemies, battles, warriors, service wo/men, violence.
Muireartach
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Battle Goddess whose name means "eastern
sea," and she personified the storm-tossed seas between Ireland and Scotland.
In modern times an entire race of unpleasant Scottish sea faeries bears
her name. She is depicted as a one-eyed crone with a black and blue
face and a scaled body. The Fianna said she would occasionally fly
in from over the sea and fight on their side in battle.
Rules Over: See The Morrigu.
Mullo
Location: Britain.
Description: Patron Deity of teamsters. He is associated with
jackassess and with the Roman God Mars.
Rules Over: Protection in travel, animals.
Murigen
Location: Ireland, Scotland, Manx.
Description: Lake Goddess associated with the deluge
legends.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Naas
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess. Wife of Lugh, she died
in County Kildare at a site which still bears her name.
Nair
Location: Ireland.
Description: This Goddess is best-known for escorting
High King Crebhan to the Otherworld where she gave him great treasures.
Her name means "modesty."
Rules Over: Spirit contact, Samhain rites, prosperity.
Nehalennia
Location: Britain.
Description: Dog Goddess who was the patron deity
of sea traders, perhaps an image derived from Sirius (The Dog Star, which
was once an important navigational star.
Rules Over: Protection on the water.
Neit
Other Names: Net.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Tuatha De Danann War God who is seen as both the husband
of Nemain and of the entire Morrigu triune.
Rules Over: Fertility rites.
Nemain
Other Names: Neman, Nemhain, Nemontona, Nemona.
Location: Ireland.
Description: "Venomous one." She is one of
the triune crone Goddesses of battle and strife which make up The Morrigu.
Rules Over: See The Morrigu.
Nemetona
Location: England.
Description: Guardian Goddess of all sacred places
such as circles or magickal groves. A shrine to her was created at
Bath, England, where she was shown as seated and surrounded by three hooded
figures and a ram. The three figures symbolize the Triple Goddess
and the ram is a male fertility representation linked to Cernunnos.
Rules Over: Protection of circles/groves/sacred
grounds.
Nemglan
Location: ireland.
Description: Bird God who fathered Conaire Mor.
Rules Over: Divination, fertility, spirit contact.
Niamh
Location: Ireland.
Description: An aspect of Badb who helps heroes
at death.
Rules Over: Naming rites, spirit contact, love
magick, passing over rituals.
Nicevenn
Location: Scotland.
Description: Crone Goddess associated with Samhain.
In modern times she is called a "witch" or "evil faery."
Rules Over: Samhain rituals.
Noctiluca
Location: Gaul.
Description: Goddess of Magick from Celtic Gaul
about whom nothing else is known. It is a possibility she was originally
Roman.
Rules Over: Magick.
Nwyrve
Location: Wales.
Description: Husband of Arianrhod about whom nothing
is known aside his name. Most likely a father sky god at one time.
Oanuava
Location: Britain.
Description: Very old Earth Goddess from Celtic
Gaul. A Mother Goddess who was regionally worshipped as the source
from which all life flowed.
Ogma
Other Names: Oghma, Ogmios, Grianainech, Cermait.
Location: Ireland.
Description: A champion of the Tuatha who carried
a huge club. He invented the Ogam script alphabet.
Rules Over: Eloquence, poets, writers, physical
strength, inspiration, language, literature, magick, spells, the arts,
music, reincarnation.
Pwyll
Other Names: Pwyll Pen Annwn.
Location: Wales.
Description: Sometimes the ruler of the underworld.
Rules Over: Cunning, loyalty, fraternal love, spirit
contact.
Ratis
Description: Goddess of protective fortifications
whose name means "of the fortress." Ratis' most notable worship sites
were near the towns of Birdoswald and Chesters.
Rules Over: Defenses, protection.
Rhiannon
Location: Ireland.
Description: "The Great Queen." Goddess of
birds and horses. She rides a swift white horse.
Rules Over: Horses, enchantments, fertility and
the Underworld, overcoming enemies, patience, magick, moon rituals, dream
work.
Rosmerta
Location: Celtic Gaul and Roman Gaul.
Description: Goddess of both Celtic and Roman Gaul.
After Rome conquered the region, Rosmerta was taken into the local Roman
pantheon where she became a consort of their God Mercury. She is
depicted carrying a caduceus wand, which indicates she was adept in the
healing arts. In Celtic Gaul her images are confused, and she is
considered to be a Goddess of either water or the sun, which is indicative
that she may have been associated with hot springs.
Rules Over: Healing, communication.
Saitada
Description: She is known only from one inscription
in the Tyne Valley. It is thought she was a Goddess of mourning.
Rules over: Passing Over rites, mourning.
Scathach
Other Names: Scota, Scatha, Scath, Scathach nUanaind,
Scathach Buanand, Skatha.
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Underworld Goddess, Goddess in her
Destroyer aspect. A warrior woman and prophetess who lived in Albion,
most likely on the Isle of Skye and taught the martial arts.
Rules Over: Blacksmiths, healing, magick, prophecy,
martial arts, protection, teaching.
Segomo
Description: War God called by the name Cocidius.
His image is always seen with birds of prey such as the hawk or falcon.
Sequana
Other Names: Sequena.
Location: Britain.
Description: Earth Goddess who lived beneath the
rivers of Britain and could only be seen if the rivers were drained or
low from drought. Goddess of the many other River Goddesses.
Rules Over: Prosperity, earth magick, water magick,
purification.
Sheila-Na-Gig
Location: Ireland.
Description: Not much is known about this deity
aside the fact that she was most likely a protective or blessing deity.
She has been found on the doors of early Irish convents. The nuns
adorned the doors with her figure. When the churchmen found this,
they were horrified and broke them off. She is depicted as a woman
holding wide her vulva in a triangular pattern. Today she is viewed
by the Celtic Pagans as a Goddess of regeneration.
Rules Over: Feminine power, past/future-lives.
Shoney
Location: Scotland, Ireland, Manx.
Description: Today, the Shoney are now though tto
be sea faeries living off the coast of Scotland and northern Ireland, but
were originally a single God of the North Sea.
Rules Over: Faery contact, sea.
Sin
Location: Ireland.
Description: At one time she was a Patron Goddess
of warriors who has been reduced to being a minor faery who feeds on battle.
The very oldest legends about her portray her as a potent Goddess who could
make wine from water and swine from leaves in order to feed and fortify
her fighting legions.
Rules Over: Stamina, strength, legal matters, overcoming
enemies, protection, prosperity, hunger, homelessness.
Sionnan
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of the River Shannon.
Queen of the well spirits of Ireland.
Rules Over: Faery contact, well rituals.
Sirona
Other Names: Dirona.
Location: Britain.
Description: "Star." Goddess of many of the
beneficial hot springs in southern France from which her few legends came.
Also a Sky Goddess and most likely deity of the Sun. Mother of Borvo,
who took her position in patriarchal times.
Rules Over: Healing, purification.
Slaine
Location: Ireland.
Description: Thought to be a deity of healing and
the medical arts. Son of Partholan.
Rules Over: Healing.
Somhlth
Location: Ireland, Scotland, Manx.
Description: God who had no corporeal incarnation.
Symbolizes pure masculinity, divine energy.
Rules Over: Masculine powers.
Sucellos
Description: A river and death God about whom nothing
but his name is known about. However, some claim he was the consort
of Nantosuelta, whose name means "of the meandering stream." Others
see him as a representation of death.
Rules Over: Water, death.
Sul
Other Names: Sulla, Sulis, Sulevia.
Description: Goddess of hot springs whose sacred
waters always were hot. Prince Bladud built a shrine to her near
Aquae Sulis where the popular modern-day spa is located. The waters
were once thought to hold powerful healing magick, and a perpetual fire
was burned near them in her honor. She is depicted in bas-reliefs
with a foot of an owl, and wearing a hat made of the head of a bear.
Later, the Romans adopted her and called her Sul Minerva, a deity later
associated with Imbolg and Ireland's Brigit.
Rules over: Imbolg rites and healing rituals.
Taillte
Other Names: Taultiu, Tailtu, Telta.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of Lughnasadh associated with
the harvest of the first grains, especially wheat. It is cryptically
said she is the foster mother of light. Perhaps in reference to Lugh).
But it also may be in reference to an old creation myth in which the Goddess
gives birth to the Sun. This Goddess lived at Tara and was revered
there as an earth deity and patron Goddess of competition. Annual
games festivels were held at Plain of Oenach Taillten (which was cleared
at her behest for a playing field), now called Teltown, until 1169.
Many consider these to be the Irish Olympics (Though many others think
it was associated with Passing Over rites). These games were revived
in the late inneteenth century when a renewed interest in Irish culture
flourished. Trial marriages, for a duration of a year and a day,
were held on her sacred site to promote fertility.
Rules Over: Seasonal and harvest rites, fertility
magick, enhancing strength for competitive games.
Taliesin
Location: Wales.
Description: A poet, Prince of Song. Chief
of the Bards of the West. Patron of Druids, bards and minstrels.
A shape-shifter.
Rules Over: Writing, poetry, wisdom, wizards, bards,
music, knowledge, magick.
Taliesin
Location: Wales.
Description: Minor barley God worshipped through
the 16th century. Do not confuse him with the bard, Taliesin, though
some of the famous bard's attributes were grafted onto him.
Rules Over: Fertility, Barley.
Tamara
Description: Goddess of the River Tamar which divides
the Duchy of Cornwall from the rest of England. Most likely as much
a protective force as she was a water deity.
Rules Over: Creation or fortification of boundaries.
Tamesis
Description: Goddess of the River Thames, later
replaced in patriarchal times by Llud, for whom Ludgate Hill in London
is named.
Rules Over: Water magick.
Tannus
Other Names: Tinnus, Taranus.
Location: Britain.
Description: Thunder God. In early Gaul human sacrifices
were offered to him to influence the weather. He was also God of
the wheel as well as God of Fertility and a Sky God.
Rules Over: Seasonal rites, weather magick, fertility
spells.
Taranis
Description: Death Goddess to whom human sacrifices
were offered.
Rules Over: Passing Over rituals.
Tethra
Location: Ireland.
Description: King of the FirBolgs after they were banished into the
sea. He is now seen as a minor death God.
Rules Over: Water magick, faery contact, weather
magick, sea.
Tlachtga
Location: Ireland.
Description: Goddess of sacrifice. She died giving
birth to triplets fathered by three different men. Associated with
Samhain, and her rites were once held on her sacred hill in County Meade,
a site which held her name. Today it is known as the Hill of Ward.
Rules Over: Samhain rituals, Croneage rites of
passage.
Triduana
Location: Scotland.
Description: Goddess of Edinburgh who plucked out
her eyes to erradicate her own beauty rather than submit to the advances
of Nechtan, King of the Picts. Some believe she is an eastern Scottish
version of the Irish Goddess brrid.
The Triple Goddess
Description: The Triple Goddess is known and worshiped
in Pagan cultures all over the world. She is eternal, yet always
in a state of change. Her colors are white for the maiden, red for
the mother and black for the crone. The Symbol of the Triple Goddess
is the Waxing, Full and Waning Moons.
Tuan MacCarell
Other Names: MacCairill.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Nephew of Partholan was a hero who
was created a God of animals and the woodlands by the mother Goddess Dana.
Rules Over: Past-lives, shape-shifting, animals,
ecological magick, woodlands.
Turrean
Other Names: Tureann.
Location: Ireland.
Description: Beautiful Goddess who was transformed
into the first large, shaggy Irish Wolfhound by a jealous faery queen named
Uchtdealbh. The spell had a flaw. Not only did it turn Turrean
into a dog, but quite literally, she became the most beautiful dog ever
seen on earth. She was kept prisoner at Uchtdealbh's home in Galway
Bay until her brother, the warrior chief Fionn MacCumhal, saved her and
her two sons, Bran and Sgeolan, who stayed in the shape of the dogs for
the rest of their lives. (The sons are often depicted as guard dogs seated
near Fionn.)
Rules Over: Making the best of bad situations,
dog, dog familiars, New Year rites.
Uairebhuidhe
Location: Ireland.
Description: Bird Goddess whom little is known
about today. Most likely a goddess of death or Otherworld.
Maybe even a consort of the better-known bird God Nemglan.
Uathach
Location: Ireland, Scotland.
Description: Goddess who trained warriors to fight.
One of the many mistresses Cuchulain had over his life.
Rules Over: Proteciton and strength.
Vaga
Description: Goddess of teh River Wye.
Verbeia
Description: Goddess of the Wharfe and Avon Rivers.
Wachilt
Description: Minor sea Goddess later called a "witch"
in English mythology. Mother of Wayland the Smith who is a German
God honored in England.
White Lady
Location: Known to all Celtic countries.
Description: Dryad of Death. Queen of the
Dead. The crone form of the Goddess.
Rules Over: Death, destruction, annihilation.