AINE - Land Goddess of the Eoghanachta tribes in Munster. She is
invoked at Midsummer while theye take the torches to the fields of corn.
AIRMED - Herb craft was Her specialty.Goddess of the Tuatha de Danaan, the most ancient deities
of Ireland.
AMMA - Norse Grandmother Goddess Who gave birth to the race of Freemen.
ANGERBODA - The Hag of the Iron Wood. aka Hel.
ARDWINNA - Continental Celtic Goddess of the Wildwood. She demanded
a fine for every animal killed in Her woods.
ARIANHOD -Welsh Sorceress Goddess of the Silver Wheel. Mother Goddess of Celtic Aryans. Silver Wheel symbol of Time. Silver Wheel That Descends
into the Sea. Beautiful and
pale of complexion, She was the most powerful of the mythic children of
ARNAMENTIA - Ancient British Goddess of Spring Waters.
ARTIO - Great Goddess of Wildlife in Celtic Gaul and Britain.
BADB - Great Irish War Goddess.Crow Goddess. Form of Morrigan.
Sometimes took the form of a hooded crow, a wolf, a bear or a heifer, or
a giant woman Who straddled a river with one foot on each bank.
BANBA - Irish Earth Goddess. Land Unplowed for a Year. Also the Name of My Bunny.
BAN NAOMHA - Irish Fish Goddess.
BECUMA - Irish Goddess of the Magic Boat.
BELISAMA - Celtic Goddess of the Mersey River.
BLANCHEFLOR - Celtic Lily Maid Who represented
the Maiden aspect of the triple Goddess. The red flower stands for the
Mother and the black bird for the Crone, according to the three sacred
colors of the Gunas.
BLODEWEDD - Welsh Virgin Goddess of Spring. The Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles
of Paradise.
BOANN - Primal Goddess of the River Boyne.
BODUA - Continental Celtic War Goddess.
BRANWEN - Goddess of Regeneration Who kept the Cauldron of Regeneration.
Welsh Love goddess.
BRIGET (Brigid) - Triple Goddess of the great Celtic empire
of Brigantia.
Female sage, Protectress of poets. Unable to eradicate the cult of Briget
(pronounced Breed), the Catholic church made Her a saint, saying She was
a nun who founded a convent at Kildare. But the convent was known for its
heathenish miracles and evidences of fertility magic.
Flowers and shamrocks sprang up in her footprints, eternal Spring reigned
in her bower. Her feast day is the first of February, the first day of
Spring in the Pagan calendar. Imbolg, the day of union between Goddess
and God. Teacher of the martial arts and Patroness of battle. Wells were
sacred to Her. Shamrock Her sacred plant. Rowan Her tree. Scallop shell
sacred to Her.
CAILLECH - Old Celtic name for Kali, The Great Goddess in Her
Destroyer aspect. Controlled the seasons and the weather. Cosmic
Goddess of Earth, Sky, Moon, and Sun.
CANOLA - Ancient Irish Goddess. Inventor of the Irish harp.
CARMAN - Irish Goddess of Sterility.
CERRIDWEN - Triple Goddess. The Old White One.
Gifts of grain, bees and piglets.
A fertility Goddess.
CESSAIR (Kesara) - Early Irish Earth goddess. When Ireland
coalesced out of the Underworld, the first beings to reach it were the
followers of Cessair, a chieftain Who brought with Her 50 women and 3 men.
DANA - Eponymous Great Mother of the Danes and the Irish Tuatha
De Danaan, people of the Goddess Dana.
DANU - Anu, Ana, Cat Ana, Aine.
Ancient Ancestress Goddess of Ireland.
DICTYNNA - Lawgiving Goddess of Mount Dicte.
EPONA - Celtic/Saxon Horse Goddess. She is the Patroness of horses and for all whom work with horses alike. She is a fertility Goddess. She has been likened to that of a turbulant stream. She is also a symbolization of Wild Freedom. Her dark aspect or counterpart is a black mare.
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EDDA - Great Grandmother, Norse Mother Earth. Also the word for
sacred poetry inspired by Her. Who gave birth to the oldest third
of the human race.
EIRE - The Lady Eire - Irish Goddess, Controller of the
of immortality.
FLIDHAIS - Woodland Goddess, sometimes she took the form of a doe.
FREYA OR FREYJA - Great Goddess of Northern Europe. Leader of the primal
matriarchs called Afliae, Powerful Ones or D’sir, Divine Grandmothers.
Norse Goddess of Love and Beauty. Arainbow was Her jeweled necklace. She
rode a chariot drawn by cats. Mistress of
the Gods. Ruler of death.
She also is a helpful deity to women in labor. Hopeful lovers worshipped
Her. Goddess of sexuality and making magic with love prayers.
GUNNLOD - Norse Earth Goddess
HALJA - Gothic name for Hel, Goddess of the Underworld
HEL - Norse Queen of the Underworld. Goddess of the Dead. Wells
were sacred to Her. Elder Her tree. Holly Her plant.
HORSEL - Teutonic Moon Goddess
IDUN - Norse Goddess. The Renewing One. In Her western garden
grew the apples of Immortality.
MORGAN Le FAY - Death Goddess. wells were sacred to Her.
Morrigan, Mara, Fata Morgana.
MORRIGU - Goddess of Battle. The
warrior who beholds Her knows that he will soon die.May takes the shape of
a woman washing a bloodied piece of clothing .
NIMUE - Moon Goddess of Fate.
RHIANNON - Other World Birch Goddess.
SINCLAIR - Sacred Light.
SAGA - ancient Norse Goddess, Speaker, Sayer. Goddess of sacred
poetry, charms, words of power.
SKADI - Celto-Teutonic Goddess in Her Destroyer aspect. Queen
of the Shades, Mother Death. Dark twin of Freya. Known as Scath or Scatha
by the Celts.
URD - Norse Earth Goddess.
URSEL - Ursela, Saxon She-Bear Goddess.
GODS
AESIR
The collective name for the twelve great gods of Norse legend, they who lived in Asgard, and with the All-Father Odin, ruled the lives of mortal men. They were:- Thor, Balder, Freya, Tyr, Bragi, Hodur, Heimdall, Vithar, Vili, Ullr, Ve and Forseti. Their thrones were in Gladsheim, one of the two mansions of Asgard.
AMOTKEN
Creator Deity of the Selish, North American Indians,
he dwells in heaven, solitary and alone. He is an old
man, wise one,and kind, with an infinite compassion for his
creation. Coyote is his messenger. One of the legends
relating to Amotken tells of his creating five young women
from five hairs taken from his head. When the god asked
the women what they wanted to be, he received five
different replies. The first wished to be the mother of
wickedness, the second that of goodness. The third
wanted to be the mother of the Earth, the fourth of fire,
and the fifth of water. Amotken granted their wishes
, declaring that at first, wickedness
should rule the world, but in time goodness would win out.
Amaethon: Wales. God of agriculture.
ASGARD
The Norse equivalent to Olympus,
Asgard was the abode of Odin and the Aesir,
and was reached from Midgard via the way of a Rainbow
Bridge, Bifrost. In Asgard there were two mansions:
Gladsheim, where the Gods themselves lived and Vingolf,
where there lived the Goddesses.There was also the
Hall of Heroes, Valhalla, where the mortals who
had fallen Heroicly in battle were received by Odin, and or
Freya, his wife. Also in Asgard was Elfheim, where
the elves lived .Brediablick, home of Balder the Beautiful;
Himinbiorg,was the tower of Thor, and Valaskialf, Watchtower of
the All-Father Odin.
BORI:
Father of Bor, and grandfather to Odin, Bori was brought into being by the licking of the ice-blocks of the world before the creation by the cow, Audhumbla,
whose milk nourished the father of the Frost Giants, Ymir.
BOR:
The father of Odin, All-Father of the Norse gods. Bor was the son of Buri.
BAIAME
The sky god of the Kamilaroi tribe of New South Wales,
Baiame was master of life and death, and he answered
all invocations for rain, while
his favourite wife, Birrahgnooloo, sent floods on request.
Bel/Bile/Belenus: Ireland. Sun and fire God. Associated with fire,sun, purification,success,crops,fertility and cattle. Seen in the festival of Beltane.
BALDER:
The most beautiful and well-loved of the Norse Gods,
Balder's name means 'The Shining God'. His son was
Brono, the daylight, and his abode was called Breidablick.
Balder was also the most innocent and naive of the Norse
Gods, and as such then met his death in the following way:Freya,
wife of Odin, fearing a prophecy that foretold Balder's death,
travelled the World, extracting a solemn promise from all
the living things of the earth never to hurt the beautiful
young god. All the living things of the Earth gave their
promise gladly all except a sprig of mistletoe, which
refused to take the oath.This was in fact Hel, Goddess
of death, and working in consort with her, Loki, God of
mischief, planned Balder's death. Having received from
everything (except the mistletoe) the promise that they
would never harm the Bright One, the gods threw a great
contest, where everyone
hurled every damaging and potentially fatal weapon or thing they could at Balder.
Having taken the oath, nothing hurt the beautiful God.
However, Loki compelled blind Hodur to throw the sprig of
mistletoe he gave him at Balder, and this killed the young
, loved, and beautiful God,.
BALI:
Odin's son, who killed the duped Hodur, in revenge for
the blind man's inadvertent slaying of Balder the Beautiful
.
BESTLA:
The wife of Bor, in Norse mythology, Bestla was the daughter of a frost giant,
and she bore to her husband three sons:Odin, Vili and Ve.
BRAGI:
The Norse god of poetry and eloquence, possessed of the
fairest speech and the most witty and cunnning tongue.
He was married to Iduna, who dwelt in the Underworld.
BRAN: Wales. The giant. God of prophecy,
the arts,leaders,war,music and writing.
CERNUNNOS: Celtic; Horned God and consort of the Lady. God of Nature. Also called Herne The Hunter. He represents the darker aspects of nature.
GREEN MAN: God of nature: The male spirit of nature, life and growth. The Green Man
KAI: Wales. A fire and smithing God.
LUGH: Ireland,Wales. Sun and War God. Connected with the festival of Lughnassadh, a harvest festival. Associated with ravens. and a white stag.
MATH Mathonwy: Wales, Britian. God of magick,sorcery and enchantment.
ODIN: Scandinavian counterpart of Freya. This is the God who hung on the Tree of Yggdrasil to obtain second sight. His familiars are the Raven and the Wolf. He is depicted as a terrible God, in his old age as a God of Wisdom and psychic sight.
OWEN ap URIEN: Wales. God of wisdom, magick and war.
THOR: Scandinavian; God of the Sky and Thunder. A kindly God of the common people, including farmers and sailors.
Other
AEGIPANES:
Minor, inferior forest deities, subjects of the goat God Pan,
they were represented, like Pan himself, as having cloven,
goat's feet. They are also known to some as Paniski.
AELLO:
One of the three Harpies they are the daughters of the storm Giant Thaumas and the nymph Elektra. Aello, like her two sisters, had
the head of a woman, with the body and wings
of a bird.
AGANIPPE:
One of the Muses, who were said to be nymphs of the streams that ran
down the sides of Mount Helikon and Parnassos.
ARTHUR, KING:Son of Uther Pendragon
, King of Britain, and Igraine, wife of Duke Gorlois of
Cornwall, Arthur was conceived out of wedlock,
and brought up by the wizard Merlin. As a youth he
revealed his ture heritage by drawing out the magickal
sword, Excalibur from the stone where it had been
thrusted into, and from which no one but the true king of Britain
could move it.Crowned at the age of 15, Arthur's
military campaigns were always successful, and he
soon started expanding the British Empire, but his fate was
sealed when he married Guinevere, against the advice
of Merlin. Guinevere was in love with Sir Lancelot, and
the infidelity of his Queen (Caused by Arthur's Aunt) cost King Arthur to ensue
what was to come , and that was an uprising by his
nephew, Mordred. A great battle then ensued, and almost all
of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table were slain,
Arthur himself was badly wounded. So he cast Excalibur into
a lake, and was himself taken by the faeries to
Avalon.
ASH:
The first mortal created by Odin, Vili and Ve, the first three
Gods. Ash was formed from a piece of wood that the young
Gods discovered floating in the sea, at the beginning of Creation. Another piece of wood, floating side by side with that which became Ash,
the Gods changed into a woman, and called her Embla.
ATAENSIC:
The Iroquois sky woman and earth goddess, she
is said to have died giving birth to the twins
Hahgwehdiyu and Hahgwehdaetgah,
who after her death created the world from her corpse.
AUDHUMBLA:
Norse mythology, the Sacred cow on whose milk the Frost
Giant Ymir fed at the creation of the world.
AUSTRI:
In Norse legend, one of the four dwarves who held up the heavens
Austri hel up the heavens of the eastern section.
BRAN:
Son of the Irish king Febal, Bran voyaged in search of the
group of islands where can be found, according to a
beautiful woman who appeared to him, a world without
treachery, sickness, sorrow or death. Bran found these
islands, especially the Island of Women, which he only
left after being persuaded by a homesick comrade.
Returning home, however, Bran found that he was
unknown in his native Ireland, except as a
legendary voyager to the otherworld, so he then set sail
again.
BRES:
A legendary Irish king, Bres was the son of Elatha, a
prince of the Fomoire, and Eriu, a woman of the
Tuatha de Danann. Given the throne of Ireland in the
hope that he would unite the people and ensure peace
and goodwill between the Tuatha de Danann and the
Fomoire, Bres did not live up to these expectations,
being a cruel and oppressive king. Finally deposed,
he fled and raised a formidable army from his own people
, but was
killed during the battle against the Tuatha de Danann.
BRONO:
The son of Balder, whose name means 'daylight'.
CARIDWEN:
The Welsh Witch who prepared in her cauldron a magic brew which, after a year's boiling, was to yield three blessed drops, which would bestow knowledge of the secrets of the past, present and future on he who drank. When the boy Gwion Bach accidentally became the recipient of the elixir, Cardiwen pursued him vengefully, finally catching him and ate the boy,
she disguised as a hen, he as a grain of wheat.
CORMAC MAC AIRT:
One of the wisest of the Irish High Kings, Cormac's
wisdom was derived from a golden cup which, if three lies
were spoken over it, would break into three pieces. But if
three truths were spoken over it, it could be made whole
again. Cormac also possessed a magic branch, musical
and made of silver, with three golden apples on it. When
the High King shook the branch the wounded, the sick and
women in childbed would fall asleep until the next day. Both artifacts were a gift to Cormac from
Manannan Mac Lir, and at his death they vanished.
CUCHULAINN:
Son of Lug, Cuchulainn began life with the name Setanta,
but after he had killed Conchobair Mac Neasa's favourite
guard dog, after it had attacked him, he vowed to take the
place of the dog, guarding the pass into Ulster, and thus
became known as the Hound of Cualainn. Cuchulainn' s
great heroic strength was mostly due to his 'warp spasm',
a violent, unnatural occurence that channeled the power
of Danu, the earth goddess, through his body, twisting
and contorting his body into impossible shapes:his
heels and calves stood out in front, one eye receded
into his head, the other hung huge and red on his cheek.
His hair bristled like spikes, with a drop of blood on the tip
of each hair-spike, and from the top of his head arose a
thick column of dark blood, that spouted like a geyser
from his head. While the Men of Ulster were 'in their pangs',
Cuchulainn held
the pass into Ulster against hundreds of fighters, with the condition
that only one man per day should come against them.
All who fought him he slew, but he almost met his match
in his brother Ferdia, and the two heroes fought for days
before Ferdia was finally defeated, Cuchulainn himself the
worse for the wear.
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