In Myth: (AKH-tan) This daughter of a wicked Druid ran off to sleep with the High King of Ireland, Art, on the eve before his final battle. The child she conceived was future King Cormac MacArt. A series of strange circumstances separated the mother and child while he was still a baby, and Cormac was taken in and suckled by a wolf. When he was found years later by the hunter, Luinge Fer Tri, his identity was discovered and the child was reunited with his mother. Achtan then knew that she had to make the dangerous with him over the Mountians of Mourne to Tara, where her son could claim his rightful kingship. Along the way they were protected by the wild animals who had known Art as a babe. Later Achtan married her son's rescuer.
In Majik and Ritual: Achtan can teach us about the strength of a mothers love and help us to have the perseverance to seek the best for our children.
ACHTLAND (Pan-Celtic)
In Myth: AHKT-lawnd) Achtland was a Goddess queen whom no mortal man could sexually satisfy, so she took a giant from the faery realm as her mate. Legend says she took great pleasure in combing his long fair hair.
In Majik and Ritual: Invoke her for sex majik or for taking the female role in the Great Rite.
ADSULLATA (Breton)
In Myth: (AWD-soo-LAWT-ah) A Goddess of hot springs who came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul. She is the origin of the Anglo-Celtic sun Goddess, Sul, and was most likely a minor sun Goddess in her own right before the time when the Celts relegated the majority of their sun images to male deities, and moon images to female ones.
In Majik and Ritual: Call on this lady for purification rites, and for all manner of majik relating to solar energies.
AEBH (Irish, Welsh)
(Aev) Also spelled Aobh. The mother of Fionnuala and her three brothers by Llyr ( Lir in Irish). She died birthing her daughter. The four children became the subject of one of the "Four Sorrows" of Irish mythology when they were changed by Aife, Llyr's jealous second wife, into singing swans.