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ABARTA: A god of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Abarta is the son of the king of Tir Tairngire (Land of Promise) and the father of the unnamed beloved of the warrior Cael. In the Fenian cycle, concerning the deeds of Finn Mac Cumaill, Abarta, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, leads Finn and 14 members of the Fianna journey to the Otherworld on a wild gray horse. His name means "feat-performing one," or "doer of deeds."
Also known as: ABARTACH and ABHARTACH.
ETYMOLOGY: "Performer of Feats"
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ABELLIO: A local deity of the Garonne valley, and Gallic god of apple trees.
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ABHEAN: Harper god of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
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ABNOBA: A goddess of forest and river, she lives at the source of the English river Avon.
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AEDH: Younger twin to FIONUALA and brother to CONN and FIARCA and son of LIR and AOBH.
Also known as: AED, AEDAN, AOD, and AODH.
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AERICURA: A chthonic underworld go of the Romano-Celtic people.
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AESUN: Early Irish god whos name means “To Be.”
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AEVAL: She was the Fairy Queen of Munster. She held a midnight court, determining if husbands were satisfying their wives' sexual needs, or not, as chaarged by the women.
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AFAGDDU: Son of Ceridwen. He was so ugly that his mother believed the only way he would make it in the world was if she gave hime the gift of prophecy.
Also known as: AVAGDDU.
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AGRONA: The goddess of slaughter and strife. The river Aeron in Wales is named after her.
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AI: Poet god of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Also known as: AOI MAC OLLAMAIN.
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AIBELL: An Irish 'fairy' goddess.
Also known as: AOIBHELL.
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AIFA: Goddess and Queen of the Land of Shadows who had a son, Connla, by the warrior CuChulainn.
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AIMEND: An Irish sun-goddess.
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AIN: She and her sisters wrote the Brehon Laws, an ancient law code of Celtic Ireland which protected women's rights.
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AINE: Daughter of Eogabail, who was in turn the foster-son of Manannan mac Lir. She is a goddess of love, fertility and agriculture. Later regarded as a fairy queen in County Limerick. Aine’s main responsibility was to encourage human love.
King Ailil Olom of Munster, one of Aine’s mortal lovers, attempted to force himself on her, but was slain by her magic.
Her festival is Alban Heruin, or “The Light of the Shore,” which also is referred to as Litha or Midsummer’s Day.
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AIRMED: Daughter of Dian Cecht she is a goddess of healing. She had great magical powers and herb craft was her specialty. She is the keeper of the well Slane that brings the dead back to life.
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AMAETHON: The Welsh god of agriculture, son of the goddess Don. He is directly responsible (by stealing a hound, a deer and a bird from Arawn) for the war between the deities of the underworld, led by Arawn, and the Children of Don (the Welsh version of the Tuatha Dé Danann).
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ANDARTA: Southeastern Engligh goddess of war and battle invoked by Queen Boudicca in association with ANDRASTA, ARTIO, and ANDRED.
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ANDRAS: God of Southeastern England.
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ANDRASTE: Southeastern English goddess of war and battle invoked by Queen Boudicca in conjuction with ARTIO, ANDARTA, and ANDRED.
Also known as: ANDRASTA and ADRASTE.
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ANDRED: Southeaster English goddess of war and battle invoked by Queen Boudicca in association with ANDRASTE, ARTIO, and ANDARTA.
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ANEXTIOMARUS: A tribal deity of the British.
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ANKOU: God of death. This word comes from the Celts of Brittany and literally means “Death.” The Irish word for death, Bas, is rarely used to refer to the being called Death. When a death occurs in Ireland, Ankou’s black cart can be heard rattling along rural roads as he comes to take the dying soul on the first leg of its journey to Tir Na Nog.
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ANU: A fertility goddess venerated as the mother of the gods. The center of her cult was Munster in southeast Ireland. The two rounded hilltops near Killarny (County Kerry) are called Da Chich Anann ‘The Paps of Anu'. Anu is considered to be an earlier form of Danu.
Also known as: ANA and ANANN
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AOBH: Daughter of AILILL of ARAN and foster-daughter of BODB DEARG, she was the older sister to AOIFE and ARBHA. She married LIR and produced four children in two sets of twins. The first was FIONUALA and AEDH, and the second was CONN and FIACRA. She died giving birth to the second set of twins.
Also known as: EVA and OVE.
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AOIFE: Sister of AOBH and ARBHA, she was the daughter of AILILL of ARAN and the foster-daughter of BODB DEARG. She married LIR after here sister diead in childbirth, taking over the responsibility of raising AOBH and LIR’s children. She later became jealous of the children and transformed them into swans. When LIR discovered her treachery, she herself was transformed into a demon of the air.
Also known as AEFE, and OIFA.
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AONGHUS OG: A god of love and amorous alliances. Son of the DAGDA and BOANN. To hide their union from BOANN’s husband (ELCMAR) they caused the sun to stand still for nine months, thus ANGHUS OG was concieved and born on the same day.
Like his father, he too had a harp, but his was made of gold and soo sweet was its music that none could hear it and not folow. His kisses were said to have become four birds that constantly hovered about his head.
Also known as: AENGUS, ANGUS, ANGHUS, AONGHUS, and OENGUS MAC OC.
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ARAWN: The Welsh god of the underworld he conveys the dead to Annwn. The god Amaethon stole from him a dog, lapwing and roebuck which led to Cad Goddeu, the Battle of the Trees, in which Arawn’s forces were defeated. He is considered a powerful protector of dangerous places.
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ARAINRHOD: Arainrhod ("silver wheel" or the moon), is the daughter of Don and Beli. Arainrhod is the Welsh mother/star-goddess, her palace, or spiral tower is called Caer Arainrhod (Aurora Borealis). She is the goddess of destiny, reincarnation and the wheel, and also the Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Wales. She had two brothers, Gilfaethwy and Gwydion. She is also the sister of Math ap Mathonwy, whose quality was that he required a virgin's lap to place his feet in, unless he was at war. When his current virgin was raped, Math asked for a replacement, and Arianrhod volunteered. But when she stepped over his rod, she immediately gave birth to two children: a young boy and a blob. (This is likely because the word morwyn may mean either 'virgin' or 'free young woman', but it also indicates her divine status.)
The boy child was named Dylan; he was a sea-being who returned to the waves. The blob was snatched up by Arianrhod's brother Gwydion, who hid it in a chest until it grew into a baby. Arainrhod imposed three geases upon this boy: he would have no name unless she named him, he would bear no arms unless she armed him, and he would have no human woman to wife. Thus, Arianrhod denied him the three essential passages to manhood. Nevertheless, Gwydion raised the nameless boy, and one day Arianrhod spied a young boy killing a wren with a single flung stone. She called out that he was a bright lion with a sure hand, and thus he took that name: Llew Llaw Gyffes. Later, Gwydion faked an alarm, and tricked her into arming the boy.
She is one of the three “Matriarchs of Britain,” along with Branwen and Rhiannon.
Also known as: ARIANROD.
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ARBHA: Youngest sister to AOBH and AOIFE. Her father was AILILL of ARAN and her foster-father was BODB DEARG.
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ARDUINA: Goddes of wild life, woodlands, the hunt, and the moon. Gaurdian of the Ardennes Forest which take their name from her.
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ARNEMETIA: A Celtic/British water goddess.
Also know as: ARNAMENTIA.
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ARTIO: Southeastern English goddess of war and battle invoked by Queen Boudicca in association with ANDARTA, ANDRASTE, and ANDRED.
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ARVERNUS: The Gallic god of the Arverni.
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AVALLOC: Father of the goddess Modron. His own status is unclear. He is occasionally mentioned as the king of Avalon. ( In Celtic mythology, Avalloc or Avallach was a deity associated with guardianship of the underworld (Avalon) and here the etymology of the name clarifies a little.)
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AVETA: The Gallic goddess of birth and midwifery.
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AYWELL: AYWELL was the protector of the independent people of Northern England. He was the husband of MM.
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ARAINRHOD