When the swans arrived at the Lake of the Dragon’s Mouth, Aengus immediately recognized Caer and called her by name. Later Aengus and Caer were married.
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CAI: God of change and son of Cynyr.
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CAILLEACH: Daughter of Grianan, the “little sun,” which in the old Scottish calendar shines from Samhain to Imbolc. The personifi- cation of Winter. Cailleach is born old and ugly and grows younger as the year turns to Spring and Summer. Cailleach is referred to as the "Mother of All" in parts of Scotland. Also known as Scotia, she is depicted as an old hag with the teeth of a bear and a boar's tusks. She is believed to be a great sorceress.
At winter’s end one of two things happens. Either she turns into a grey boulder until the warm days are over. This boulder said to be always moist because it contains the essence of life. Or, she journeys to the magical isle within who’s woods lie the Well of Youth. At the first glimmer of dawn on Febuary 1st she drinks of the water and is transformed into Bride, the fair maid who turns the earth green.
She also created the earth.
"With her hammer she alternately splinters mountains, prevents the growth of grass, or raises storms. Numerous wild animals follow her..."
-- Encyclopedia of the Occult, 1920
Having come to fruition at Lammas by entering the earth, she will slowly become transformed into the Old Woman or Cailleach figure who will emerge at the festival of Samhain.
Also known as: SCOTIA and SKADI.
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CAILLEACH BEARA: The Irish goddess who turns to stone every April 30 (Beltine) and to be reborn every October 31 (Samhain). She was shown as an old blue faced hag. Her son was the God of Youth, analogous to Mabon and Angus mac Og, whom she chased in endless combat.
Also known as: CAILLEACH BHEUR.
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CAMMA: The British goddess of the hunt.
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CAMULOS: Northern British war god. He possessed an invicible sword, one of the four chief treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann over whom he was twice king. His name meant “Heaven.” His name forming the etymological basis for the city of Camelot. He also gave his name to the town of Camulodunum, which is now called Colchester.
Also known as: CAMULUS.
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CARMAN: A destructive witch and goddess of evil magic (sterility). She had three sons: Dub ("darkness"), Dother ("evil"), and Dian ("violence") who ravaged Ireland. The Tuatha Dé Danann fought against Carman with their most powerful weapons. Finally the sorceress Bechuille, was able to undo Carman's curses. Her sons were destroyed and Carman put in chains, where she died of grief.
Also known as: CARME.
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CASWALLAWN: A British war god.
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CATHUBODUA: An Irish war goddess.
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CENN CRUAICH: A Gaelic heaven-god.
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CERIDWEN: Associated with Brigid. Ceridwen is the Welsh goddess (or magician) of fertility and nature. She features in the mythical version of the life of the bard Taliesin. She is the patron of Poets and is associated with the Sacred Cauldron of Wisdom. This cauldron of the Underworld is where inspiration and divine knowledge is brewed. She lives on the shore of Llyn (lake) Tegal (also listed as Lake Bala). Ceridwen had two children, a beautify daughter named Creirwy, and an ugly son, Afagddu ("ugly"), whom she knew would only be able to make his way among nobility if he aquires “the spirit of prophecy” and becomes a great prognosticator of the world to come.
Also known as: CARIDWEN, CERRIDWEN, and KERRIDWEN.
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CERNUNNOS: "The Horned One" is a Celtic god of animals, fertility, life, nature, the Otherworld, reincarnation, sex, shamanism, virility (male), and wealth. He was worshipped all over Gaul, and his cult spread into Britain as well. Cernunnos is depicted with the antlers of a stag, sometimes carries a purse filled with coin. The Horned God is born at the winter solstice, weds the goddess at Beltaine, and dies at the summer solstice. He alternates with the goddess of the moon in ruling over life and death, continuing the cycle of death, rebirth and reincarnation.
Paleolithic cave paintings found in France that depict a stag standing upright or a man dressed in stag costume seem to indicate that Cernunnos' origins date to those times. Romans sometimes portrayed him with three cranes flying above his head. Known to the Druids as Hu Gadarn. God of the underworld and astral planes. The consort of the great goddess. He was often depicted holding a bag of money, or accompanied by a ram-headed serpent and a stag. Most notably is the famous Gundestrup cauldron discovered in Denmark.
Aslo known as: HU'GADARN, HERNE and KERNUNNOS.
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CESSAIR: An early Irish earth goddess (or great magician), she became the first queen of Ireland. When Ireland coalsced out of the Underworld, the first beings to reach it were the followers of Cessair, a cheiftan who brought with her 50 women and 3 men. She was wed to FINTAN before he transformed himself into a salmon to escape the waters of the biblical flood. All in her party died except FINTAN.
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CIAN: A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, father of Lugh. Cian had a magic cow that the Fomorian god Balor got possession of. Determined to get his revenge, Cian sought the advice of a druidess, Birog, who told him of the prophecy that Balor would by slain by his own grandson. For this reason, Balor kept his daughter Ethlinn locked away in a tower. With Birog’s help, Cian gained access to the tower, and the beautiful Ethlinn gave him her love. She bore hima son, Lugh Lamhfada, who was given into fosterage to Queen Tailltu.
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CLEENA: She escaped Tir-Na-Nog with her mortal lover. The Caillech sent faeries to lull her to sleep on an Irish beach while a giant wave washed her back to the land of the dead. She has since existed in Irish mythology as a minor sea goddess, doomed by Caillech never to return to Ireland in mortal form.
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CLIODHNA: The Irish goddess of beauty and daughter of Manannan. Her three magical birds can sweetly sing the sick to sleep and cure them. At one point she fled the Underworld (sea) to Glandore to live with her mortal lover, Ciabhan. One day on the shore near Cork, after Ciabhan had gone hunting, Mannann Mac Lir, the sea god, put Cliodhna into a magical sleep and sent a wave to carry her home. She later became a fairy queen in the area of Carraig Cliodhna in County Cork.
It is reported that she was a supernatural female entity who lured young men away for sexual purposes. She was Banshee-like, in that she emitted a wail or call. This call was akin to that of the sirens of classical culture, and none could resist.
Also known as: CLIODNA.
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CLOTA: The goddess of the river Clyde.
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COCIDIUS: A diety of north Britain associated with forests and hunting, or war.
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COIRPRE: Bard of the TUATHA DÉ DANANN. He once satirized BRES when he was acting king of the TUATHA DÉ DANANN and caused him to break out in a terrible red rash.
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COLL: God of enchantment.
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CONDATIS: A River god of Britain, personification of water. He personified the joining of two bodies of water in the Tyne-Tees area of north Britain.
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CONN: Twin to Fiacra and sibling to Fionuala and Aedh. His father was Lir and mother was Aobh. He and his siblings were tranfromed into swans by their stepmother Aoife.
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CONNLA: Son of CuChulainn and Aifa. Connla grew up with Aifa and later came searching for his father in the mortal world.
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CONTREBIS: A local god in Lancaster in Celto-Roman Britain.
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CORB: An Irish god; one of the Fomorians.
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COVENTINA: The British goddess of water and springs. She was known in the area of Carrawburgh (Roman Brocolitia) along Hadrian's Wall. She personified a holy spring with healing powers. She is also the goddess of the Caldew river. A relief of the goddess depicts her in her triple-goddess form, each aspect holding up a jar of water in one hand and pouring water with the other.
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CREIDDYLAD: Welsh goddess and daughter of Llyr. She had two lovers, Gwynn and Gwythr, who fight for her on the 1st of May (Midsummer) and the 1st of November (Yule) each year and will continue to do so until the day of doom when one shall be victorious and marry her. She appeared in Shakespeare's King Lear as the king's daughter Cordelia.
Also knonw as: CORDELIA and CREURDILAD.
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CREIDHNE: The god of metal working. He is the goldsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann. One of the trio of craft-gods of the Tuatha Dé Danann, as were Goibniu and Luchta. During the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, when the Tuatha Dé Danann defeated the Fomorii, the three brothers were on the battlefield repairing spears with magical speed, specifically forging weapons for Lugh.
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CREIWY: Daughter of CERIDWEN, her name means “dear one.” She was as beautiful as her brother AFADDDU was ugly.
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CUDA: A mother goddess.
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CUROI mac DAIRE: A sun-deity, believed to be a storm-bringing giant, armed with an ax.
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CYHIRAETH: The goddess of streams. She later entered folklore as a spectre haunting woodland streams. Her shriek was said to foretell death (Banshee).
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CERNUNNOS
CERRIDWIN