Dagda – The Cheerful Chief of Gods. The Celtic pantheon can be roughly divided into the older Gaulish/Brythonic deities, mostly described by Greco-Roman sources, and the Welsh and Irish deities, found in Celtic mythology. After he found her, he too became a swan, and the two of them flew and sang the sweetest, most restful music ever heard upon this earth. When together, they are accompanied by symbols associated with prosperity and domesticity. Specific to the Many Celtic divinities were extremely localised, sometimes occurring in just one shrine, perhaps because the One notable feature of Gaulish and Romano-Celtic sculpture is the frequent appearance of male and female deities in pairs, such as A recurrent figure in Gaulish iconography is a deity sitting cross-legged with antlers, sometimes surrounded by animals, often wearing or holding a Healing deities are known from many parts of the Celtic world; they frequently have associations with Brighid, the triple goddess of healing, poetry and smithcraft is perhaps the most well-known of the Insular Celtic deities of healing. Look up at the night sky in winter and one of the dominant constellations is Perseus, located in some of the brightest portions of the winter Milky Way. Deity of element of Air, reincarnation, full moons, time, karma, retribution. 1. A Native American Sky Goddess. to this day(Hehe, Including the signature symbol for Guiness Beer). Associated with Imbolc. If Diancecht hadn't done this, man would be immortal. This Greek hero and son of Zeus is well known to classical scholars, but how familiar are the Celtic traditions associating this constellation with the god Lugh? Rhiannon gave birth to a baby boy, and while she slept, her nurses were supposed to watch over the child. Description – Goddess of hot springs who came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul. Unsyncretised theonyms are also widespread, particularly among goddesses such as Sulevia, Sirona, Rosmerta, and Epona. A formidable fighter, but a God of simple tastes who dresses in a brown tunic, hooded cape and leather boots. The majority occur only once, which has led some scholars to conclude that the Celtic gods and their cults were local and tribal rather than national. Druids knew him as Hu Gadarn, the Honored God. There is archaeological evidence of his cult in Britain, northern France and Germany and he appears to have been one of the most important Celtic gods. Diancecht, more furious now, split Miach's head in two, killing him. Gaulish depictions of Mercury sometimes show him bearded and/or with wings or horns emerging directly from his head, rather than from a winged hat. Mother goddesses were at times symbols of sovereignty, creativity, birth, fertility, sexual union and nurturing. Esus is linked with Diancecht fashioned a new one of silver and joined it to Nuada's arm. However, since both Boann and the Dagdha wished to keep their rendezvous a secret, they used their divine powers to cause the nine month gestation period to last but a single day - or so it seemed, for the sun was frozen in the sky for those nine months, never setting and never rising. The etymology of Beltaine may be connected with Belenus. She is associated with many healing springs and wells. Latobius was a god of mountains and sky equated with the Roman Mars and Jupiter.

The Celtic god Albiorix was associated with Mars as Mars Albiorix. His name is said to mean "he who nourishes the people". Diancecht became so enraged that his son rivaled him even after death that he scattered the herbs about, hoplessly confusing them. Aerten/Aeron ♀. Healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, witchcraft, occult knowledge. Yet the link between the Celtic Jupiter and the solar wheel is maintained over a wide area, from Hadrian's Wall to Cologne and Nîmes.It is sometimes possible to identify regional, tribal, or sub-tribal divinities. Healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, witchcraft, occult knowledge. Origin: Ireland, Wales, Spain, France. She keeps a cauldron of wisdom. Belenus is also written: Bel, Belenos, Belinos, Belinu, Bellinus, and Belus. He was portrayed as an old man with swarthy skin and armed with a bow and club. Latobius was a Celtic god worshipped in Austria. Recherches sur le type dionysiaque chez les Celtes, Éds. Lenus was a Celtic healing god sometimes equated with the Celtic god Iovantucarus and the Christians demonized this benevolent God for easy conversion and is where the image of the Christian devil comes from(Couldn't be further from facts nor truth but alas yet another tragedy of misdeed and "bearing false witness", to quote a commandment). She had many husbands and figured in the The relief of Tarvos Trigaranus on the Pillar of the Boatmen.Another prominent zoomorphic deity type is the divine This table shows some of the Celtic and Romano-Celtic Peter Schrijver, "On Henbane and Early European Narcotics", Dominique Hollard, Daniel Gricourt, Cernunnos le dioscure sauvage. Crann Bethadh, the Celtic Tree of Life, is much more than a single trunk borne of roots below and stretching to the heavens with branches above; it is the Celtic symbol of all of life on the planet, born of the earth and sustained by the power of the Universe. Her feast is St.Brighids Days in Ireland and is the Pagan Festival of Imbolc The epithet is sometimes translated as "Great Horseman" or "possessing a great horse". Not infrequently, their names are coupled with native Celtic theonyms and epithets, such as Mercury Evidence from the Roman period presents a wide array of gods and goddesses who are represented by images or inscribed dedications.Among the divinities transcending tribal boundaries were the The Celtic sky-god too had variations in the way he was perceived and his cult expressed.

Location – Wales, Cornish. Celtic: Ambisagrus a god of thunder and lightning Ancestor God Sky God God of Wind Rain & Hail; Celtic: Amergin Glúingel; Celtic: Ammaca – a grandmother goddess; Celtic: Ancamna – goddess of the Moselle River; Celtic: Ancasta – goddess of the River Itchen; Celtic: Andarta – a goddess of war; Celtic: Andeis – a Gallic god of the Pyrenees