Celtic Gods F
FAND:  One of the twin goddesses of Health and Earthly pleasure with Liban.  Fand is a faery queen, who was once married to the sea god Manannan.  When he left her she was preyed upon by 3 Fomorian warriors in a battle for control of the Irish Sea.  Her only hope to winning was to send for Cuchulainn who would only agree to come if she would marry him.  Reluctantly she agreed, but when she met him, she fell as deeply in love with him as he was with her.  Manannan knew the relationship between the human world and the world of the faery could not continue without it eventually destroying the faeries. He erased the memory of one from the other by drawing his magical mantle between the two lovers.

Fand was also a minor sea goddess who made her home both in the Otherworld and on the Islands of Man.  She was also known as "Pearl of Beauty". Some scholars believe she was a native Manx deity who was absorbed in the Irish mythology.
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FATA-MORGANA:  Irish goddess of the sea, visual illusions, enchantments, fate, and death.  She is the Queen of the Fortunate Isles.
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FEA:  One of five Celtic warlike goddesses that formed the MORRIGNA.  She was known as the “Hateful.”  Her mother was ERNMAS.
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FFLUR:  Nearly all traces of Fflur’s legend have been lost.  Her name, meaning flower, establishes her as one of the Flower Maidens of British Mythology along with Blanaid, Guinevere, and Blodenwedd.  She was beloved of Caswallawn, but was carried off by Julius Cesear, according to the meager evidence of the ‘Triads.’  Caswallawn’s quest in search of her, even to the gates of Rome, suggests tht Fflur may indeed be one of the many faces of Sovereignty.
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FIACRA:  Son of Lir and Aobh and the twin to Conn.  He with his siblings Conn, Aedh and Fionuala were transformed into swans by their stepmother Aoife.  Cursed to remain at Lake Derravaragh for 300 years, then to spend 300 years at the Sea of Moyle, and then 300 years ath the isles of the Western Sea.  They retained human minds and speech, and there was no sweeter music than their song.

Also known as:  FIACHRA.
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FINTAN:  The salmon of knowledge.  Before transforming himself into a salmon (to escape the biblical flood) and living in the sacred well where he ate the acorns from the holy oak trees and became the Salmon of Knowledge, Fintan was the husband of Cessair, the first woman to make it to Ireland after it formed from the underworld.
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FIONUALA:  Older twin to Aedh with brothers Conn and Fiacra.  She was the daughter of Lir and Aobh.  She and her brothers were transformed into swans by their stepmother Aoife and spent 300 years on Lake Derravaragh, then 300 years on the Sea of Moyle, and then 300 years at the isles of the Western Sea.  They retained human minds and speech and it was said there was no sweeter music than their songs.

Aslo known as FIONNUALA and FINGULA.
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FLAITHEAS:  Goddess of Sovereignty.  Frequently in Irish tradition, candidate kings are offered a cup to drink from which is called the Dergflaith (cup of the red lordship).  This drinking denotes acceptance to the goddess.
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FLIDHAIS:  Shapeshifting woodland goddess, sometimes took the form of a doe.  She often rode in a chariot pulled by a deer.  Married to Adammair, she was also depicted as the consort of the horned god, Cernunnos.
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FODLA: Fodla is one of the three goddesses of Sovereignty who ruled Ireland before the Milesians came to the island. She was given the honor of having Ireland named after her. Her husband is king MacCecht. See also Banba and Eriu.

Also known as: FODHLA.
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FOTLA: Irish goddess.
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FUAMNACH: Wife of Midir, her jealousy of a second bride, Etain, made her transform Etain into a butterfly by magic art. Midir beheaded Fuamnach when he discovered her treachery.
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