Celtic Deities
Abarta
Adna
Aidin
Aine - Goddess of love and fertility, later known as an Irish fairy queen..
Airmid - a goddess adept at medicine and all the healing arts. She is the daughter of the
God of medicine, Diancecht. She is looked upon as a herbalist of great repute. He brother
Miach was also a great healer, but he was supposedly killed by his father.
Aengus MacAedh
Amergin - Druid who helped the Milesians beat the Tuatha De dannan.
Anu - Mother Earth, another aspect of Morrigu. Fertility Goddess. She is the maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess.
Aonghus/ Aengus / Oenghus/ Angus Mac Og - "Angus Son of Youth". He is the son of Dagda and Boann. He is a god of love and is usually pictured with 4 white doves that circle his head. He is often the patron to those who love
music and poetry. He is one of the Tuatha De Danann. His kisses became birds carrying love messages.
Arannan
Arawen/ Arawyn / Arrawn - He was the King of the Otherworld. His name means "silver-tongued" He fought in the Battle of the Trees with Bran. He is a master hunter and rides a pale horse. He also has a magick cauldron of regeneration. His attributes deal with reincarnation, spirit contact, and strengthening friendships.
Ariadne
Arianrhod - her name means "silver circle." She is the Goddess of reincarnation, the Wheel of the Year, the full moon, fertility, and a primal figure of female power. She is sometimes depicted as a weaver. She is the daughter of the Goddess Don, her brother and husband is Gwyddion, and her two children are Llew and Dylan.
Badb/ Badhbh - Associated with the cauldron, crows and the raven. She is the crone aspect of the triple Goddesses of War. The other two Goddesses, which are her sisters, are Macha and Nemain. Together they create The
Morrigan. She is also known as Badhbh Catha which means "battle raven".
Balor/ Balar - He had a poisonous eye which was covered by a great eyelid. Four men had to be used to open his eye and all who was looked at with this eye died. Balor is the grandfather of the god Lugh. He is associated with protection despite his "evil" eye. Although he was born with two good eyes, one was ruined in an accident; the eye is so hideous that he only opens it in battle so that its venom will slay whoever is unlucky enough to catch
glimpse of it; his daughter marries Cian.
Banba/ Banbha - Goddess. Part of the triad with Fotia and Eriu.
Belenos - Sun and Fire God.
Bile - Corresponds with Gaul god Belenius.
Bith
Boann/ Boinn -Goddess of the river Boyne. She is a water goddess who gave her name to the River Boyne. She is
mother to Aonghus and husband to Dagda. She is associated with inspiration and fertility. Her main symbol is the cow, an ancient symbol for fertility. She is also associated with the Moon and its phases. She and the Dagda have
many famous children including Bridgit, Angus, Mider, Ogma, and Bodb the Red. Boann is a Goddess of bounty and fertility. She was the wife of Nechtan, a water deity. The father of her son Angus was Dagda. To hide their union from Nechtan, Boann and the Dagda caused the sun to stand still for nine months, so that Angus was conceived and born on the same day.
Bodb the Red - He succeeds his father as king of the gods.
Bo Find
Bress/ Bres - His name means "beautiful"; married to Brigit of the Tuatha de Dannan and for a
time rules over that kingdom. God of fertility and agriculture. He is the son of Elatha, a prince of
the Fomorians, and the goddess Eriu.
Bri
Brigid/ Brighid/ Brigit/ Brid/ Bridget/ Brigindo - Goddess of fire, fertility, the hearth, all feminine arts and crafts, and martial arts. She is a daughter of Dagda. She represents motherhood, and inspiration. She is considered the guardian of land. She is also the guardian of children, a healer, and a Goddess of the Sun. She has a festival in the Spring, Imbolg or Imbolc, February 1st. She is patroness of poets, crafters, and healers. Goddess of poetry; best loved of all deities; candlemas is held in her honor; she is the only goddess to survive into the Christian pantheon of Saints. Brigit is symbolized by a white swan. Brigit is wife of Bres, king of the gods and Ireland. So well loved is Brigit, that she was made into a Christian saint when the Celts turned to Christianity.
Camulus/ Camulos - Of the invincible sword; the name signifies
"heaven". God of war and sky; akin to mars, only more savage.
Cano
Cathbad
Cerridwen - She is a sow Goddess and has a great cauldron of knowledge. She is also
considered a moon and grain deity. She is the mother of Taliesin. She is a great aide in rites
involving wisdom and knowledge. She can also teach us about our past lives.
Cernunnos - This name is Greek, his original names has been lost. He is a Great Horned
God. He is also known as a deity of the forest and woods, animals, and male fertility. He can
also aide you in the hunt and for male fertility magick. God of nature, god of the underworld.
Cliodna
Cuchulain
The Crone - One aspect of The Triple Goddess. represented old age, Winter, the end of all things, the waning moon, post menstrual phases of women's lives. Crows and other black creatures are sacred to her.
The Dagda/ Daghdha/ Dagde/ Dagodevas - Lord of the Heavens, Lord of life and death, God of magic. King of the Tuatha De Danann. His name means "the good god." He is a great father God. He was the husband of Boann, and father of Aonghus, Brid, and Ogham. He is considered a God of knowledge, wisdom, and creative power. He can aide you in almost anything, especially for wisdom, animals, children, and fertility. God of earth, he posses a living harp with which he rules the seasons and the "undry," a cauldron, where everyone find sustenance in proportion to his/her merits; a formidable fighter, but a god of simple tastes who dresses in a brown tunic, hooded cape and leather boots. On New Years Day Dagda mates with his wife the raven Morrigan. His club can kill as well as
restore life.
Danu/Dana - probably the same as Anu. Major Mother Goddess. Moon Goddess. She was the first great mother Goddess of Ireland. She may in fact be one of the oldest Celtic deities known. Danu means "water from heaven." Her name can be seen in many present day places such as the Danube River and Denmark. She is a powerful
Goddess and can aid you in all your needs, especially motherhood, fertility, and healing children. Danu is considered to be the mother of The Dagda, god of the Tuatha de Danaan. She most likely existed in an earlier form as Anu, Universal Mother.
Diancecht - God of healing, medicine, magic, silver-working. He was the master healer of the Tuatha De Danann. His children are Airmid and Miach. Diancecht supposedly killed Miach. Though, he can be called upon during healings
of illness and even to help sick animals. He once saved Ireland; married to Morrigan; among their children are
Etan, who marries Ogma, and Cian, who marries Ethniu, daughter of Balor, the Fomor.
Domnu - Queen of the heavens, Goddess of sea and air, sometimes a God.
Druantia - Queen of the Druids, Mother of the Tree Calendar, Fir Goddess, fertility.
Dubh
Edain
Eire
Elathan: The beautiful Miltonic prince of darkness with golden hair.
Epona - She is a horse Goddess. She is also known as Mare, showing her connection of dreams, good and bad. Epona can aide you in dream work and fertility. She can also aide in sex magick and divination. There is a theory that she may even be older than Danu.
Eriu - One of the 3 Queens of the Tuatha De Danann.
Fomorians (Fomors) - In Irish-Celtic mythology, the Fomorians are a race of demonic giants, the original occupants of Ireland. The Tuatha DÈ
Danann, the Irish race of gods, arrived and destroyed the Fomorian hold over Ireland for good in the second battle of Mag Tuireadh. The Fomorians were given the province of Connacht, and were allowed to marry some of the Tuatha DÈ. The king of the Fomorians is the one-eyed Balor.
Fand - Goddess of healing and pleasure. Once wife of Manannan Mac lir, the sea god, he deserted her.
Feargal
Fergus
Fionn MacCumhail
Fea
Fionnuala
Flidais - She is the Goddess of the Woodlands. She is the equivalent of Diana and Artemis. She had a chariot pulled by several deer and gave gifts to those that loved the animals. All the animals obeyed and served her. Call on her to aide you in magick for animals and the enivronment. She is also the Goddess of the Hunt.
Goibniu - God of blacksmiths, weapons makers, jewelry makers, brewing fire, and metal working. He posesses a potion that enables those who drink it to become invisable; he also is called the "devine architect."
Great Father - The Horned God, the Lord. Lord of winter, harvest, land of the dead, the sky, animals, mountains, lust.
The Great Mother - The Lady, female principal of creation. Goddess of fertility, the moon Summer, flowers, love, healing, the seas.
Grainne
The Green Man - A horned deity of trees and things on the earth that grow green. See Ceronnus.
Idech: King of Dommu.
LLyr/ Ler - God of the sea and water, possibly the underworld. Married to Aebh, Bodb's daughter, with whom he has four children after she dies he marries Aeife, who out of jealousy turns the children into swans.
Lot
Lugh - A hero god, many skilled god,associated with ravens. His name means "the shining one." He is a major Sun God, and a god of light and of the grain harvest. He is also a protector and sometimes honored as the God of Fire. The festival of Lughnasadh is named for him. He can aide you in gaining strength and energy.
Also for protection, and new beginnings. This Celtic deity was worshipped during the 30 day midsummer feast in Ireland, where sexual magic ensured ripening of the crops and a prosperous harvest. He is linked with the nature goddess variously named Tailltu, Machta or Rosmerta in Gaul. His animal totems are the raven and the lynx, and he corresponds with the Roman God Mercury. Son of Cian and Ethniu called the "long-handed" or "far-shooter" He possesses a magic spear and magic hound; The Milky Way is called "Lugh's Chain"; he is the "master of all art," an accomplished carpenter, smith, warrior, harpist, poet, physician, cupbearer, and bronze-worker.
Macha - Her name means "battle". She is also one of the Triple Goddesses in the Morrigan. She is a powerful Goddess especially when enemies need to be overcome. She can also aide you in childbirth and find out about past lives. Mother of life and death, War goddess.
Maga
Manannan/ Manann/ Manannan Mac Lir - Ler's son; "God of the headlands"; patron of sailors and merchants; his famed possessions include the yellow shaft, the red javelin, the boat, the wave-sweeper, a horse called Splendid Mane, and three swords named retaliator, great fury, and little fury; he has the gift of inexhaustable life. He is a sea God. The Isle of Man is named after him. He is the one that said the world of humans and the world of faeries should remain separated. He can aide you in astral projection, protection, and environmental magick. Shapeshifter. God of storms at sea, navigators.
Mider - God of the underworld; his abode is Falga, the Isle of Man; Etain (Ogma's daughter) became his wife, but she was taken away by Angus.
Moriath
Morrigan/ Morrigu -
Morrigan was the Celtic goddess of war and death who could take the shape of a crow or raven. She is associated with the sometimes frightening aspects of female energy, and is wife to Dagda. As one aspect of the Celtic triple goddess, Morrigan is seen washing bloody laundry prior to battle by those destined to die. The great goddess in her Virago aspect; as chief deity of battle, she likes to
take the form of the hoodie or carrion crow; her name derives from Mor Righ Anu, meaning "the great queen." She is a Triple Goddess made up of Badb, Macha, and Nemain. "The phantom queen" sometimes takes the form of a raven or crow, and after battle she flies over the battle field picking up the souls of the dead warriors. She can aide you in overcoming enemies and can give extra energy and help in times of battle.
Munanna