The Celtic pantheon

Celtic pantheon

The gods and goddesses, or deities of the Celts are known from a variety of sources, including written Celtic mythology, ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects and place or personal names....

 is known from a variety of sources such as written Celtic mythology

Celtic mythology

Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure...

, ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects, and place or personal names.

Celtic deities can fall under two categories; general deities and local deities. "General deities" were known by Celts throughout large regions, and are the gods and goddesses invoked for protection, healing, luck, and honour. The "local deities" were the spirits of a particular feature of the landscape, such as mountains, trees, or rivers, and thus were generally only known by the locals in the surrounding areas.

After Celtic lands

Celtic nations

The Celtic nations are territories in North-West Europe in which that area's own Celtic languages and some cultural traits have survived.The term "nation" is used in its original sense to mean a people who share a common traditional identity and culture and are identified with a traditional...

 became Christianised, there were attempts by Christian writers to euhemerise

Euhemerus

Euhemerus was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedon. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messina in Sicily as the most probable location, while others champion Chios, or Tegea.-Life:...

 or even demon

Demon

call - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism...

ise the pre-Christian deities. For example, the Tuatha Dé Danann

Tuatha Dé Danann

The Tuatha Dé Danann are a race of people in Irish mythology. In the invasions tradition which begins with the Lebor Gabála Érenn, they are the fifth group to settle Ireland, conquering the island from the Fir Bolg....

 of Irish mythological

Irish mythology

The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...

 sources have commonly been interpreted to be a divine pantheon

Pantheon (gods)

A pantheon is a set of all the gods of a particular polytheistic religion or mythology.Max Weber's 1922 opus, Economy and Society discusses the link between a...

, despite certain redactors' interjecting that the Tuatha Dé Danann were merely mortals, or else that they were demons.

Gaulish and Brythonic deities

The Gaulish Celts

Gauls

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They mostly spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish....

 inhabited the region corresponding to modern-day France

France

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 and Belgium

Belgium

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. The Brythonic Celts, or Britons, inhabited most of the island of Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 and later migrated to Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

.

Male

• Abandinus
  Abandinus
  Abandinus was a name used to refer to a Celtic god or male spirit worshipped in Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire during the Romano-Celtic period.-Epigraphic evidence:Abandinus is represented in Britain on a single altarstone...
  
  , possibly a river-god
• Abellio
  Abellio
  Abellio was a god worshipped in the Garonne Valley in Gallia Aquitania , known primarily by a number of inscriptions which were discovered at Comminges...
  
   (Abelio, Abelionni), god of apple trees
• Alaunus
  Alaunus
  In the Gallo-Roman religion, Alaunus or Alaunius is a Gaulish god of healing and prophecy. His name is known from inscriptions found in Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France and in Mannheim in western Germany...
  
   (Fin), god of healing and prophecy
• Alisanos
  Alisanos
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Alisanos or Alisaunus was a local god worshipped in what is now the Côte-d'Or in Burgundy and at Aix-en-Provence.The inscription from Gevrey-Chambertin in the Côte-d'Or is in the Gaulish language:...
  
   (Alisaunus)
• Ambisagrus
  Ambisagrus
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Ambisagrus was a Gaulish god worshipped at Aquileia in Cisalpine Gaul, where he was identified with Jupiter Optimus Maximus.The name may be composed of the Proto-Celtic prefix *ambi- and root *sagro-.Dr...
  
  , a god of thunder and lightning
• Anextiomarus
  Anextiomarus
  Anextiomarus is a Celtic epithet of the sun-god Apollo recorded in a Romano-British inscription from South Shields, England. The form is a variant of Anextlomarus 'Great protector', a divine style or name attested in a fragmentary Gallo-Roman dedication from Le Mans, France...
  
   (Anextlomarus, Anextlomara), a protector god
• Ankou
  Ankou
  Ankou is a personification of death in Breton mythology as well as in Cornish and Norman French folklore.Ankou is also known as "Aräwn".-Background:This character is reported by Anatole Le Braz, writer and legends collector of the 19th century...
  
  , a god of death
• Atepomarus
  Atepomarus
  Atepomarus in Celtic Gaul was a healing god. Mauvières , Apollo was associated with this god in the form Apollo Atepomarus.At some of Apollo's healing sanctuaries small figurines of horses were associated with him....
  
  , a horse god
• Arvernus
  Arvernus
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Arvernus was an epithet of the Gaulish Mercury. Although the name refers to the Arverni, in whose territory Mercury had at important sanctuary at the Puy-de-Dôme, all of the inscriptions to Mercury Arvernus are found farther away along the Rhenish frontier. The name is also...
  
  , a tribal god
• Arausio
  Arausio (god)
  Arausio was a local Celtic water god who gave his name to the town of Arausio in southern Gaul.Inscriptions attest to the presence of this presiding deity who gave the town its name....
  
  , a god of water
• Barinthus (Manannán mac Lir
  Manannán mac Lir
  Manannán mac Lir is a sea deity in Irish mythology. He is the son of the obscure Lir . He is often seen as a psychopomp, and has strong affiliations with the Otherworld, the weather and the mists between the worlds...
  
  ), a god of the sea and water
• Belatu-Cadros
  Belatu-Cadros
  In Celtic mythology, Belatu-Cadros, also rendered Belatucadros or Belatucadrus, was a deity worshipped in northern Britain, particularly in Cumberland and Westmorland. He may be related to Belenus and Cernunnos, and was equated in the Roman period with Mars...
  
   (Belatucadros, Belatucadrus,
  Balatocadrus, Balatucadrus, Balaticaurus,
  Balatucairus, Baliticaurus, Belatucairus,
  Belatugagus, Belleticaurus, Blatucadrus,
  and Blatucairus), a god of war
• Belenus
  Belenus
  In Celtic mythology, Bel, Belenos was a deity worshipped in Gaul, Cisalpine Gaul, and Celtic areas of Austria, Britain and Spain. He is particularly associated with Cornwall, West Cornwall being anciently called Belerion, the place of Bel...
  
   (Belinus, Belanus, Belenos, Belinos, Belinu, Belanu, Bellinus, Belus, Bel), a god of healing.
• Borvo
  Borvo
  In Lusitanian and Celtic polytheism, Borvo was a healing deity associated with bubbling spring water.-Centres of worship:...
  
   (Bormo, Bormanus), a god of mineral and hot springs
• Buxenus
  Buxenus
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Buxenus was an epithet of the Gaulish Mars, known from a single inscription found in Velleron in the Vaucluse....
  
  , a god of box trees
• Camalus (Camulus, Camulos), a god of war and sky
• Canetonnessis
• Cernunnos
  Cernunnos
  Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the horned god of Celtic polytheism. The name itself is only attested once, on the 1st-century Pillar of the Boatmen, but depictions of a horned or antlered figure, often seated in a "lotus position" and often associated...
  
  
• Cicolluis
  Cicolluis
  Cicolluis or Cicoluis is a god in Celtic mythology worshiped by the ancient Gaulish peoples and having a parallel in Ireland. The name is Gaulish and means “All-Breast” or “Great-Breasted” and is probably used to signify strength...
  
  
• Cimbrianus

• Cissonius
  Cissonius
  Cissonius was an ancient Gaulish god. After Visucius, Cissonius was the most common name of the Gaulish Mercury; around seventeen inscriptions dedicated to him extend from France and Southern Germany into Switzerland....
  
   (Cisonius, Cesonius), a god of trade
• Mars Cnabetius, a god of war
• Cocidius
  Cocidius
  In Romano-British religion, Cocidius was a deity worshipped in northern Britain. The Romans equated him with Mars, god of war and hunting and with Sylvanus, god of forests, groves and wild fields...
  
  , a god of war
• Condatis
  Condatis
  In Celtic mythology, Condatis was a deity worshipped primarily in northern Britain but also in Gaul. He was associated with the confluences of rivers, in particular the Tyne and the Tees...
  
  , a god of the confluences of rivers
• Contrebis
  Contrebis
  In ancient Celtic religion, Ialonus Contrebis or Ialonus or Gontrebis was a god worshipped in what are now Lancashire and Provence. He is known from three dedicatory inscriptions...
  
   (Contrebis, Contrebus), a god of a city
• Dii Casses
• Dis Pater
  Dis Pater
  Dis Pater, or Dispater was a Roman god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Hades. Originally a chthonic god of riches, fertile agricultural land, and underground mineral wealth, he was later commonly equated with the Roman deities Pluto and Orcus, becoming an underworld deity.Dis Pater...
  
   (Dispater), a god of the underworld
• Esus
  Esus
  Esus or Hesus was a Gaulish god known from two monumental statues and a line in Lucan's Bellum civile.-Imagery:The two statues on which his name appears are the Pillar of the Boatmen from among the Parisii and a pillar from Trier among the Treveri. In both of these, Esus is portrayed cutting...
  
   (Hesus)
• Fagus
  Fagus (god)
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Fagus was a god known from four inscriptions found in the Hautes-Pyrénées. The language of this Aquitanian region has been linked to Proto-Basque, rather than to Celtic. Fāgus is Latin for beech....
  
  , a god of beech trees
• Genii Cucullati
  Hooded Spirits
  The Hooded Spirits or Genii Cucullati are figures found in religious sculpture across the Romano-Celtic region from Britain to Pannonia, depicted as "cloaked scurrying figures carved in an almost abstract manner" . They are found with a particular concentration in the Rhineland...
  
  , Hooded Spirits
• Grannus
  Grannus
  In the Celtic polytheism of classical antiquity, Grannus was a deity associated with spas, healing thermal and mineral springs, and the sun. He was regularly identified with Apollo as Apollo Grannus...
  
  , a god of healing and mineral springs
• Icaunus
  Icaunus
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Dea Icaunis was the goddess of the river Yonne in Gaul. She is known from a single inscription, found at Auxerre in Burgundy....
  
  , a god of a river
• Intarabus
  Intarabus
  Intarabus was a Gaulish god in the pantheon of the Treveri and some neighbouring peoples. His name is known from nine inscriptions from a relatively compact area in what are now Belgium, Luxembourg, western Germany and eastern France. He may have been the tutelary deity of one of the three pagi of...
  
  
• Iovantucarus
  Iovantucarus
  Mars Iovantucarus was a Celtic god who was associated with the Treveran healer-god Lenus Mars at his sanctuary at Trier. The name reflects the deity's function as a protector of youth, and the temple was visited by pilgrims who often brought with them images of children, often depicting as holding...
  
  , a protector of youth
• Lenus
  Lenus
  Lenus was a Celtic healing god worshipped mainly in eastern Gaul, where he was almost always identified with the Roman god Mars. He was an important god of the Treveri tribe, who had large sanctuaries at medicinal springs at Trier and the Martberg by Pommern in what is now Germany. Two dedications...
  
  , a healing god
• Leucetios (Leucetius), a god of thunder
• Lugus
  Lugus
  Lugus was a deity of the Celtic pantheon. His name is rarely directly attested in inscriptions, but his importance can be inferred from placenames and ethnonyms, and his nature and attributes are deduced from the distinctive iconography of Gallo-Roman inscriptions to Mercury, who is widely believed...
  
  , creation and learning
• Luxovius
  Luxovius
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Luxovios, Latinized as Luxovius was the god of the waters of Luxeuil, worshipped in Gaul. He was a consort of Bricta...
  
   (Luxovius), a god of a city's water

• Maponos
  Maponos
  In ancient Celtic religion, Maponos or Maponus is a god of youth known mainly in northern Britain but also in Gaul. In Roman times he was equated with Apollo....
  
   (Maponus), a god of youth
• Mogons
  Mogons
  Mogons or Moguns was a god worshipped in Roman Britain and in Gaul. The main evidence is from altars dedicated to the god by Roman soldiers, but the deity is not a native Italic one. It appears to be Celtic. Inscriptional spellings include Mogetios, Mogounos, Mogti, Mounti, Mogont, Mogunt. Not all...
  
   (Moguns)
• Moritasgus
  Moritasgus
  Moritasgus is a Celtic epithet for a healing god found in four inscriptions at Alesia. In two inscriptions, he is identified with the Greco-Roman god Apollo. His consort was the goddess Damona....
  
  , a healing badger god
• Mullo
  Mullo (god)
  Mullo is a Celtic god. He is known from inscriptions and is associated with the god Mars in the form of Mars Mullo.The cult of the god was popular in northern and north-western Gaul, particular in Brittany and Normandy...
  
  
• Nemausus
  Nemausus
  Deus Nemausus is often said to have been the Celtic patron god of Nemausus . The god does not seem to have been worshipped outside of this locality...
  
  , a god worshipped at Nîmes
  Nîmes
  Nîmes is the capital of the Gard department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France. Nîmes has a rich history, dating back to the Roman Empire, and is a popular tourist destination.-History:...
  
  
• Nerius
• Nodens
  Nodens
  Nodents is a Celtic deity associated with healing, the sea, hunting and dogs. He was worshipped in ancient Britain, most notably in a temple complex at Lydney Park in Gloucestershire, and possibly also in Gaul...
  
   (Nudens, Nodons), a god of healing, the sea, hunting and dogs
• Ogmios
  Ogmios
  Ogmios was the Celtic deity of eloquence. He looked like an older version of Heracles. He was also a binding god who would use his powers of persuasion to bind men onto himself and then lead them into the underworld....
  
  
• Robor, a god of oak trees
• Rudianos
  Rudianos
  In ancient Celtic religion, Rudianos was a war god worshiped in Gaul. In Roman times he was equated with Mars.He was invoked at Saint-Andéol-en-Quint and Rochefort-Samson , and at Saint-Michel-de-Valbonne. The name "Rudianos" means red, reflecting the warlike nature of the god...
  
  , a god of war
• Segomo
  Segomo
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Segomo was a war god worshipped in Gaul. In Roman times he was equated with Mars and Hercules. He may be related to Cocidius, a similar god worshipped in Britain. He is commonly associated with the eagle or hawk...
  
  , a god of war
• Smertrios
  Smertrios
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Smertrios or Smertrius was a god of war worshipped in Gaul and Noricum. In Roman times he was equated with Mars. His name contains the same root as that of the goddess Rosmerta and may mean "The Purveyor" or "The Provider", a title rather than a true name...
  
   (Smertios, Smertrius), a god of war
• Sucellos (Sucellus, Sucellos), a god of love and time
• Taranis
  Taranis
  In Celtic mythology Taranis was the god of thunder worshipped essentially in Gaul, the British Isles, but also in the Rhineland and Danube regions amongst others, and mentioned, along with Esus and Toutatis as part of a sacred triad, by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem Pharsalia as a Celtic...
  
  , a god of thunder
• Toutatis
  Toutatis
  Toutatis or Teutates was a Celtic god worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain. On the basis of his name's etymology, he has been widely interpreted to be a tribal protector. Today, he is best known under the name Toutatis through the Gaulish catchphrase "By Toutatis!", invented for the Asterix...
  
   (Caturix, Teutates), a tribal god
• Veteris
  Veteris
  Veteris was a Celtic god attested from many inscriptions in Roman Britain. The meaning of Laitn word Veteris is "The Old man" and in France is "Levieux", since the name came from the region of Brettany and Normandy both translation are related. The dedicants were usually private individuals and...
  
   (Vitiris, Vheteris, Huetiris, Hueteris)
• Virotutis
  Virotutis
  Virotutis is a Celtic epithet of the god Apollo. The epithet has been interpreted as meaning "Benefactor of humanity". Apollo Virotutis was worshipped at, among other places, Fins d'Annecy and at Jublains .- References :...
  
  
• Visucius
  Visucius
  Visucius was a Gallo-Roman god, usually identified with Mercury. He was worshipped primarily in the east of Gaul, around Trier and on the Rhine; his name is recorded on about ten dedicatory inscriptions. One such inscription has also been found in Bordeaux...
  
  
• Vindonnus, a hunting and healing god
• Vinotonus
• Vosegus
  Vosegus
  Vosegus was a name used in the Roman Empire for a celtic god of hunting and forestation. On rare known artefacts Vosegus is shown with a bow and shield, accompanied by a dog. The centre of area where Vosegus was worshiped was around the Donon...
  
  , a god of the Vosges
  Vosges mountains
  For the department of France of the same name, see Vosges.The Vosges are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany. They extend along the west side of the Rhine valley in a northnortheast direction, mainly from Belfort to Saverne...
  
  

Female

• Abnoba
  Abnoba
  Abnoba is a Gaulish goddess who was worshipped in the Black Forest and surrounding areas. She has been interpreted to be a forest and river goddess, and is known from about nine epigraphic inscriptions...
  
  , a goddess of rivers and forests
• Adsullata
  Adsullata
  In Celtic mythology, Adsullata was a river goddess of the Continental Celts associated with the River Savus in Noricum. This deity is known from a single inscription found at Saudörfel, Austria....
  
  , goddess of the River Savus
• Aericura
• Agrona
  Agrona
  *Agronā is the reconstructed Proto-Celtic name for the river Aeron in Wales. The river's name literally means 'carnage'. It is hypothesized that there may have been an eponymous river-goddess associated with strife or war.-Bibliography:...
  
  , a goddess of war
• Ancamna
  Ancamna
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Ancamna was a goddess worshipped particularly in the valley of the Moselle River. She was commemorated at Trier and Ripsdorf as the consort of Lenus Mars, and at Möhn as the consort of Mars Smertulitanus...
  
  , a water goddess
• Andarta
  Andarta
  In Celtic polytheism, Andarta was a warrior goddess worshipped in southern Gaul. Inscriptions to her have been found in southern France and in Berne, Switzerland. She may be related to the goddess Andate, identified with Victory in Britain according to Roman historian Cassius Dio...
  
  , a goddess of war
• Andraste
  Andraste
  Andraste, also known as Andrasta or Andred, was, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, an Icenic war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 61. She may be the same as Andate, mentioned later by the same source, and described as "their name for...
  
  , goddess of victory
• Arduinna
  Arduinna
  In Celtic mythology, Arduinna was the eponymous goddess of the Ardennes Forest and region, represented as a huntress riding a boar . Her cult originated in what is today known as Ardennes, a region of Belgium, Luxembourg and France...
  
  , goddess of the Ardennes Forest
• Aufaniae
  Aufaniae
  The Aufaniae were one name for Celtic mother goddesses worshipped throughout Celtic Europe. They are known only from symbolical inscriptions and they appear to have been found mainly in the German Rhineland.-Further reading:...
  
  
• Arnemetia
  Arnemetia
  Arnemetia was a goddess in Romano-British religion. Her shrine was at Aquae Arnemetiae , which is now Buxton in Derbyshire, England....
  
  , a water goddess
• Artio
  Artio
  Artio was a Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern whose name according to legend is derived from the word Bär, "bear".-Representations and inscriptions:...
  
  , goddess of the bear
• Aventia
• Aveta
  Aveta
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Dea Aveta was a mother goddess, also associated with the fresh-water spring at Trier in what is now Germany. Aveta is known mainly from clay figurines found at Toulon-sur-Allier in France and at Trier. These figurines show the goddess with infants at the breast, small...
  
  , a mother goddess, associated with the fresh-water spring at Trier in what is now Germany
• Belisama
  Belisama
  In Celtic polytheism, Belisama or ' was a goddess worshipped in Gaul and Britain. She was connected with lakes and rivers, fire, crafts and light. Belisama was identified with Minerva/Athena and has been compared with Brigid. She has been claimed to be the consort of Belenus, with whom she shared...
  
  , lakes and rivers, fire, crafts and light, consort of Belenus
• Brigantia
  Brigantia (goddess)
  Brigantia was a goddess in Celtic religion of Late Antiquity.In the interpretatio Romana, she was equated with Victoria...
  
  
• Britannia
  Britannia
  Britannia is an ancient term for Great Britain, and also a female personification of the island. The name is Latin, and derives from the Greek form Prettanike or Brettaniai, which originally designated a collection of islands with individual names, including Albion or Great Britain. However, by the...
  
  , originally a personification of the island, later made into a goddess

• Camma
  Camma
  In Plutarch's On the Bravery of Women, Camma was a Galatian princess and priestess of Artemis. She was wedded to the tetrarch Sinatus, and became known and admired for her virtue and beauty. Sinatus' rival, another tetrarch named Sinorix, murdered Sinatus and proceeded to woo Camma herself...
  
  
• Campestres
• Clota
  Clota
  In Celtic mythology, Clota was the patron goddess of the River Clyde. Perhaps worshiped by the local Welsh-speaking Damnonii tribe who held the territory which later was to become the Kingdom of Strathclyde. The Damnonii allied themselves with Rome who recorded and mapped the Clota estuary...
  
  , patron goddess of the River Clyde
• Coventina
  Coventina
  Coventina was a Romano-British goddess of wells and springs. She is known from multiple inscriptions at one site in Northumberland county of the United Kingdom, an area surrounding a wellspring near Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall...
  
  , goddess of wells and springs
• Damara, a fertility goddess
• Damona
  Damona
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Damona was a goddess worshipped in Gaul as the consort of Apollo Borvo and of Apollo Moritasgus. Mary Jones interprets Damona's name as "Divine Cow" based on its resemblance to damos or "cow". She has sometimes been linked with the Irish goddess Boand on the basis of this...
  
  , consort of Apollo Borvo and of Apollo Moritasgus
• Dea Matrona
  Dea Matrona
  In Celtic mythology, Dea Matrona was the goddess of the river Marne in Gaul.In many areas she was worshipped as a triple goddess, and known as Deae Matres , with a wider sphere of believed influence...
  
  , "divine mother goddess" and goddess of the river Marne in Gaul
• Dea Sequana, goddess of the river Seine
• Debranua, a goddess of speed and fat
• Epona
  Epona
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Epona was a protector of horses, donkeys, and mules. She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, ears of grain and the presence of foals in some sculptures suggested that the goddess and her horses were leaders of the...
  
  , fertility goddess, protector of horses, donkeys, and mules
• Erecura
  Erecura
  Erecura was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater...
  
  , earth goddess
• Icovellauna
  Icovellauna
  Icovellauna was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Gaul. Her places of worship included an octagonal temple at Le Sablon in Metz, originally built over a spring, from which five inscriptions dedicated to her have been recovered; and Trier, where Icovellauna was honoured in an inscription in the...
  
  , a water goddess
• Litavis
  Litavis
  Litavis is a goddess in Celtic mythology worshiped by the ancient Gauls. Her name is found in inscriptions found at Aignay-le-Duc and Mâlain of the Côte-d'Or, France, where she is invoked along with the Gallo-Roman god Mars Cicolluis in a context which suggests that she might have been his consort...
  
  
• Mairiae

• Nantosuelta
  Nantosuelta
  In Gaulish religion, Nantosuelta was a goddess of nature, the earth, fire, and fertility. The Mediomatrici depicted her in art as holding a model house or dovecote, on a pole . Nantosuelta is attested by statues, and by inscriptions. She was sometimes paired with Sucellus. Nantosuelta was also the...
  
  , goddess of nature, the earth, fire, and fertility in Gaul
• Nemetona
  Nemetona
  Nemetona is a Goddess of ancient Celtic religion worshiped in eastern Gaul. She is thought to have been the eponymous deity of the Germano-Celtic people known as the Nemetes; evidence of her veneration is found throughout their former territory in and around what is now Trier, Germany...
  
  
• Ritona
  Ritona
  Ritona, also known as Pritona, is a Celtic goddess chiefly venerated in the land of the Treveri in what is now Germany. Her cult is attested at Pachten and at Trier, where she "had a carefully built little temple" in the Altbachtal complex . At Pachten her temple also had a theatre, presumably...
  
   (Pritona), goddess of fords
• Rosmerta
  Rosmerta
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Rosmerta was a goddess of fertility and abundance, her attributes being those of plenty such as the cornucopia. Rosmerta is attested by statues, and by inscriptions...
  
  , goddess of fertility and abundance
• Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn
  River Severn
  The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at about , but the second longest on the British Isles, behind the River Shannon. It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, Ceredigion near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales...
  
  
• Senua
  Senua
  Senuna was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain, whose name was at first read incorrectly as Senua. She was unknown until a cache of 26 votive offerings to her were discovered in 2002 in an undisclosed field at Ashwell End in Hertfordshire by metal detectorist Alan Meek...
  
  
• Sequana
  Sequana
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Sequana was the goddess of the river Seine, particularly the springs at the source of the Seine, and the Gaulish tribe the Sequani...
  
  , goddess of the river Seine
• Sirona
  Sirona
  In Celtic mythology, Sirona was a goddess worshipped predominantly in East Central Gaul and along the Danubian limes. A healing deity, she was associated with healing springs; her attributes were snakes and eggs. She was sometimes depicted with Apollo Grannus or Apollo Borvo...
  
  , goddess of healing
• Suleviae
  Suleviae
  In ancient Celtic religion, Sulevia was a goddess worshipped in Gaul and Britain, very often in the plural forms Suleviae or Suleis. Dedications to Sulevia are attested in about forty inscriptions, distributed quite widely in the Celtic world, but with particular concentrations in Noricum, among...
  
  , a triune version of Sulis
• Sulis
  Sulis
  In localised Celtic polytheism practised in Britain, Sulis was a deity worshipped at the thermal spring of Bath . She was worshipped by the Romano-British as Sulis Minerva, whose votive objects and inscribed lead tablets suggest that she was conceived of both as a nourishing, life-giving mother...
  
  , a solar nourishing, life-giving goddess and an agent of curses
• Tamesis
  Tamesis
  Tamesis was the ancient name for the River Thames.Sculptures entitled Tamesis and Isis by Anne Seymour Damer can be found on the bridge at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The original terracotta and plaster models were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1785. They are now on show at the...
  
  , goddess of the River Thames
• Verbeia
  Verbeia
  In ancient Celtic polytheism, Verbeia was a goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She is known from a single altar-stone dedicated to her at Ilkley...
  
  , goddess of the River Wharfe

Welsh deities/characters

The Welsh were the Britons that inhabited modern-day Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 . After the Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxon is a term used by historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Great Britain beginning in the early 5th century AD, and the period from their creation of the English nation to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon Era denotes the period of...

 invaded Britain, much of the Brythonic territories came under Anglo-Saxon influence, but in Wales, however, Brythonic Celtic religion was largely retained. Many Welsh myths were later Christianized so it is sometimes difficult to determine if their characters were originally gods, mortals, or historical figures.

Male

• Aeron
  Aeron (Celtic mythology)
  Aeron was a masculine god of battle or slaughter among the early Britons. The name may be derived from that of the goddess Agrona.-References:*Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, MacKillop, pg 4. Oxford University Press, 1998...
  
   - god of battle and slaughter
• Amaethon
  Amaethon
  In Welsh mythology, Amaethon was the god of agriculture, and the son of the goddess Dôn. His name means "labourer" or "ploughman", and he is cited as being responsible for the Cad Goddeu, or "Battle of Trees", between the lord of the otherworld, Arawn, and the Children of Dôn .-Sources:The...
  
   - god of agriculture
• Arawn
  Arawn
  In Welsh mythology, Arawn was the king of the otherworld realm of Annwn, appearing prominently in the first branch, and alluded to in the fourth. In later tradition, the role of king of Annwn was largely attributed to the Welsh psychopomp, Gwyn ap Nudd...
  
   - king of the otherworld
  Otherworld
  Otherworld, or the Celtic Otherworld, is a concept in Celtic mythology that refers to the home of the deities or spirits, or a realm of the dead.Otherworld may also refer to:In film and television:...
  
   realm of Annwn
  Annwn
  Annwn or Annwfn was the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn, or much later by Gwyn ap Nudd, it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease is absent and food is ever-abundant. It later became Christianised and identified with the land of souls that had departed...
  
  
• Afallach - descendant of Beli Mawr and father of Mabon ap Modron
• Beli Mawr
  Beli Mawr
  Beli Mawr was an ancestor figure in medieval Welsh literature and genealogies. He is the father of Caswallawn, Arianrhod, Lludd Llaw Eraint, Llefelys, and Afallach. In certain medieval genealogies he is listed as the husband of Anna, cousin of the Virgin Mary...
  
   - ancestor deity
• Bendigeidfran
  Bran the Blessed
  Brân the Blessed is a giant and king of Britain in Welsh mythology. He appears in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Branwen ferch Llŷr. He is a son of Llŷr and Penarddun, and the brother of Brânwen, Manawydan, Nisien and Efnysien...
  
   - giant and king of Britain
• Culhwch
  Culhwch
  Culhwch , in Welsh mythology, is the son of Cilydd son of Celyddon and Goleuddydd, a cousin of Arthur and the protagonist of the story Culhwch and Olwen...
  
  
• Dwyfan
• Dylan Ail Don

• Euroswydd
• Gofannon
• Gwydion
  Gwydion
  Gwydion fab Dôn is a magician, hero and trickster of Welsh mythology, appearing most prominently in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, which focuses largely on his relationship with his young nephew, Lleu Llaw Gyffes...
  
  
• Gwyddno Garanhir
  Gwyddno Garanhir
  Gwyddno Garanhir was the supposed ruler of a sunken land off the coast of Wales, known as Cantre'r Gwaelod. He was the father of Elffin ap Gwyddno, the foster-father of the famous Welsh poet, Taliesin, in the legendary account given in the late medieval Chwedl Taliesin .-Legend:The basket of...
  
  
• Gwyn ap Nudd
  Gwyn ap Nudd
  Gwyn ap Nudd is a Welsh mythological figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn. Described as a great warrior with a "blackened face", Gwyn is intimately associated with the otherworld in medieval Welsh literature, and is associated with the...
  
  
• Hafgan
  Hafgan
  Hafgan is one of the kings of the otherworld, Annwn, in Welsh mythology. He appears in the First Branch of the Mabinogi as the main rival of Arawn, the other king of Annwn. The dominions of the two kings sit side by side, and Hafgan is constantly warring against Arawn...
  
  
• Lleu Llaw Gyffes
  Lleu Llaw Gyffes
  Lleu Llaw Gyffes is a hero of Welsh mythology. He appears most prominently in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, the tale of Math fab Mathonwy, which tells the tale of his birth, his marriage, his death, his resurrection and his accession to the throne of Gwynedd...
  
  
• Lludd Llaw Eraint
  Lludd Llaw Eraint
  Lludd Llaw Eraint, "Lludd of the Silver Hand", son of Beli Mawr, is a legendary hero from Welsh mythology. As Nudd Llaw Eraint he is the father of Gwyn ap Nudd...
  
  
• Llŷr
  Llyr
  Llŷr is a figure in Welsh mythology, the father of Brân, Brânwen and Manawydan by Penarddun. The Welsh Triads mention he was imprisoned by Euroswydd; the Second Branch of the Mabinogi names Euroswydd as the father of Penarddun's younger two sons, Nisien and Efnisien. Llŷr corresponds to Lir in...
  
  

• Mabon
  Mabon ap Modron
  Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's warband. Both he and his mother were likely deities in origin, descending from a divine mother–son pair. His name is related to the Romano-British god Maponos, whose name means...
  
  
• Manawydan
  Manawydan
  Manawydan fab Llŷr is a figure of Welsh mythology, the son of Llŷr and the brother of Brân the Blessed and Brânwen. The first element in his name is cognate with the stem of the name of the Irish sea god Manannán mac Lir, and likely originated from the same Celtic deity as Manannán...
  
  
• Math fab Mathonwy
• Myrddin Wyllt
  Myrddin Wyllt
  Myrddin Wyllt , Merlinus Caledonensis or Merlin Sylvestris is a figure in medieval Welsh legend, known as a prophet and a madman...
  
  
• Nisien
  Nisien
  Nisien is a figure in Welsh mythology, the son of Penarddun and Euroswydd and twin brother of Efnisien. He appears in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, which names Bran the Blessed, Branwen, and Manawydan as his half-siblings. Nisien, also Nissyen, was the opposite of his brother Efnisien in...
  
   and Efnysien (twin brothers)
• Pryderi
  Pryderi
  Pryderi fab Pwyll is a prominent figure in Welsh mythology, the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, and king of Dyfed following his father's death. He is the only character to appear in all Four Branches of the Mabinogi, although the size of his role varies from tale to tale...
  
  
• Pwyll
  Pwyll
  Pwyll Pen Annwn is a prominent figure in Welsh mythology and literature, the lord of Dyfed, husband of Rhiannon and father of the hero Pryderi...
  
  
• Taliesin
  Taliesin
  Taliesin was an early British poet of the post-Roman period whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin...
  
  
• Ysbaddaden
  Ysbaddaden
  ; "Ysbaddaden, Chief of Giants," is the primary antagonist of the Welsh romance Culhwch ac Olwen. A vicious giant residing in a nigh on unreachabe castle, he is the father of Olwen and uncle of Goreu fab Custennin...
  
  

Female

• Arianrhod
  Arianrhod
  Arianrhod is a figure in Welsh mythology who plays her most important role in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. She is the daughter of Dôn and the sister of Gwydion and Gilfaethwy; the Welsh Triads give her father as Beli Mawr...
  
  
• Blodeuwedd
  Blodeuwedd
  Blodeuwedd or Blodeuedd, , is the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology, made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet and the oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion, and is a central figure in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi.-Role in Welsh tradition:The...
  
  
• Brânwen
  Branwen
  Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr is a major character in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, which is sometimes called the Mabinogi of Branwen after her. Branwen is a daughter of Llŷr and Penarddun...
  
  
• Ceridwen
  Ceridwen
  In Welsh medieval legend, Ceridwen , also spelled Cerridwen, was an enchantress, mother of Morfran and a beautiful daughter Creirwy. Her husband was Tegid Foel, and they lived near Bala Lake in north Wales...
  
  
• Cigfa
  Cigfa
  Cigfa ferch Gwyn Glohoyw is a minor character in Welsh mythology, the wife of King Pryderi of Dyfed. She is mentioned briefly in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and appears more prominently in the third...
  
  

• Creiddylad
  Creiddylad
  Creiddylad is a figure from Welsh mythology known from the early medieval Welsh Arthurian tale of Culhwch ac Olwen, one of the tales of the Mabinogion. She is the daughter of Lludd Llaw Eraint...
  
  
• Cyhyraeth
  Cyhyraeth
  The cyhyraeth , also spelled as cyheuraeth , is a ghostly spirit in Welsh mythology, a disembodied moaning voice that sounds before a person's death.Legends associate the cyhyraeth with the area around the...
  
  
• Dôn
  Dôn
  Dôn was a Welsh mother goddess. She does not play a direct part in the action of the Mabinogi, though many characters in that cycle are related to her. She is the mother of Arianrhod, Gwydion, Gilfaethwy, Gofannon, Eufydd, Elestron and Amaethon. Patrick K...
  
  
• Elen
  Elen
  Elen was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales who is remembered as a saint...
  
  

• Modron
  Modron
  In Welsh mythology, Modron was a daughter of Afallach, derived from the Gaulish goddess Matrona. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend...
  
  
• Olwen
  Olwen
  In Welsh mythology, Olwen is the daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden and cousin of Goreu. She is the heroine of the story Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion....
  
  
• Penarddun
  Penarddun
  Penarddun is a figure in Welsh mythology, the wife of Llŷr. The Second Branch of the Mabinogi names Bran, Branwen, and Manawydan as her children by Llŷr, and ascribes to her two additional sons by Euroswydd: Nisien, a good man, and Efnysien, a conniving troublemaker...
  
  
• Rhiannon
  Rhiannon
  Rhiannon is a prominent figure in Welsh mythology, mother to the Demetian hero Pryderi and wife to Pwyll . She is probably a reflex of the Celtic Great Queen goddess Rigantona and may also be associated with the horse goddess Epona.She appears in both the first and third branches of the Mabinogi...
  
  

Male

• Abcán
  Abcán
  Abcán was the dwarf poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the early Celtic divinities of Ireland. He was said to have a bronze boat with a tin sail.In the story of the death of the goddess, Ruad, Abcán is the dwarf that ferries her from the other world to this one so that she can seduce the human, Aed...
  
  
• Abhean
  Abhean
  In Irish mythology, Abhean son of Bec-Felmas was a poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and in particular of Lugh. He was killed by Óengus in front of Midir, according to a poem by Fland Mainistreach in Lebor Gabála Érenn...
  
  
• Aed
  Aed (god)
  Aed, or Aodh, is the prince of the Daoine Sidhe and a god of the underworld in Irish mythology. He is known from inscriptions as the eldest son of Lir, High King of the Tuatha de Dannan, and Aobh, a daughter of Bodb Dearg....
  
  
• Aengus
  Aengus
  In Irish mythology, Óengus , Áengus , or Aengus or Aonghus , is a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann and probably a god of love, youth and poetic inspiration...
  
   aka Áengus aka Óengus
• Aillil
• Alastir
  Alastir
  In Irish mythology, Alastir was the younger brother of Cormac mac Airt....
  
  
• Aí
  Aoi Mac Ollamain
  Aoi Mac Ollamain or Ai Mac Ollamain is a god of poetry and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology. Ai is the son of Olloman, who saved him from the king's decree that Aoi be killed, a decree made response to a druid's prediction that Aoi would be born with special powers.-References:*...
  
   aka Aoi
• Balor
  Balor
  In Irish mythology, Balor of the Evil Eye was a king of the Fomorians, a race of giants. His father was Buarainech and his wife was Cethlenn...
  
   aka Balar
• Bodb Dearg aka Bodhbh Dearg
• Brea
  Brea (mythology)
  In Irish mythology, the god Brea was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann....
  
  
• Bres
  Bres
  In Irish mythology, Bres was a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. His parents were Prince Elatha of the Fomorians and Eri, daughter of Delbaith. He was an unpopular king, and favoured his Fomorian kin...
  
   aka Eochaid Bres
• Brian
  Brian (mythology)
  In Goidelic mythology, and especially in Scotland, Brian was a pompous man who helped Cailleach rescue Deò-ghrèine. He was a son of Tuireann, and brother to Iuchar and Iucharba ....
  
  , Iuchar
  Iuchar
  In Irish mythology Iuchar was one of the sons of Tuireann, of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and Danand. He and his two brothers Brian and Iucharba murdered Cian, the father of Lugh, one of the greatest of the Tuatha Dé Danann. They also dismembered his body and tried to cover up their crime...
  
  , and Iucharba
  Iucharba
  In Irish mythology, Iucharba was one of the sons of Tuireann, of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and Danand. He and his two brothers Brian and Iuchar murdered Cian, the father of Lugh, one of the greatest of the Tuatha Dé Danann. They also dismembered his body and tried to cover up their crime...
  
  
• Buarainech
  Buarainech
  In Irish mythology, Buarainech was the parent of Balor, the King of the Fomorians. Squire glosses the name as 'cow-faced.'...
  
  
• Cian
  Cian
  In Irish mythology, Cían , son of Dian Cecht of the Tuatha Dé Danann, is best known as the father of Lug by the Fomorian princess Ethniu.He was born with a caul on his head, and was turned into a pig as a boy when struck by a druid's wand. Thereafter he could transform into a pig at will...
  
  
• Cichol
  Cichol Gricenchos
  In Irish mythology, is Cichol or Cíocal Gricenchos the earliest-mentioned leader of the Fomorians. His epithet, Gricenchos or Grenchos, is obscure but may mean "withered foot" or "footless"....
  
  
• Conand
  Conand (mythology)
  In Irish mythology Conand was a leader of the Fomorians who lived in a tower on Tory Island. He oppressed the followers of Nemed, demanding a huge tribute of their produce and children. Eventually Nemed's people rose up and killed him, destroying his tower....
  
   aka Conann
• Corb
  Corb
  In Irish mythology, Corb was one of the Fomorians, a semi-divine race who inhabited Ireland in ancient times....
  
  
• Creidhne
  Creidhne
  In Irish mythology, Credne or Creidhne was a son of Brigid and Tuireann and the artificer of the Tuatha Dé Danann, working in bronze, brass and gold...
  
   aka Credne

• Crom Cruach
  Crom Cruach
  Crom Cruach or Cromm Crúaich , also known as Cenn Cruach /ˈkʲɛnˠ: ˈkɾˠuəxˠ/ or Cenncroithi /ˈkʲɛnˠ: ˈkɾˠoθʲɨ/, was a deity in pre-Christian Ireland, reputedly propitiated with human sacrifice, whose worship is said to have been ended by St...
  
  
• Crom Dubh
  Crom Dubh
  Crom Dubh or Crum Dubh , meaning "black crooked [one]", alt. "Dark Crom", was a Celtic god, for which see The Voyage of Bran, Book II, p49. He may have been represented by megaliths....
  
  
• Cú Roí
  Cú Roí
  Cú Roí mac Dáire is a king of Munster in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. He is usually portrayed as a warrior with superhuman abilities and a master of disguise possessed of magical powers. His name probably means "hound of the plain/field", or more specifically, "hound of the battlefield"...
  
  
• Dagda
  The Dagda
  The Dagda is an important god of Irish mythology. The Dagda is a father-figure and a protector of the tribe. In some texts his father is Elatha, in others his mother is Ethniu. Other texts say that his mother is Danu; while others yet place him as the father of Danu, perhaps due to her...
  
  
• Dáire
• Dian Cecht
  Dian Cecht
  In Irish mythology, Dian Cécht , also known as Cainte, Canta, was the God of healing to the Irish people. He was the healer for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the father of Cian, Cú, and Cethen...
  
  
• Donn
  Donn
  According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured...
  
  
• Ecne
  Ecne
  In Celtic mythology, Ecne was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann and was the god of wisdom, or knowledge....
  
  
• Egobail
  Egobail
  In Irish mythology, Egobail was a foster son of Manannan mac Lir and father of Aine....
  
  
• Elatha
  Elatha
  In Irish mythology, Elatha or Elathan was a prince of the Fomorians and the father of Bres by Eri of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The imagery surrounding him suggests he may once have been a moon god.-Overview:Elathan is quoted as being the "The beautiful Miltonic prince of darkness with golden hair"...
  
   aka Elathan
• Elcmar
  Elcmar
  In Irish mythology, Elcmar or Ecmar was the husband of Boann and belonged to the semi-divine race the Tuatha de Danann, the people of Danu. It has been suggested that he is Nuada under another name, or that his name is an epithet for Nechtan the river god...
  
   aka Elcmhaire
• Goibniu
  Goibniu
  In Irish mythology Goibniu or Goibhniu was the smith of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The name of his father appears as Esarg or Tuirbe Trágmar, the 'thrower of axes.' Irish texts do not mention his mother but his counterpart in Welsh mythology, Gofannon, is a son of Dôn...
  
   aka Goibhniu
• Lir
  Lir
  Ler or Lir is a sea god in Irish mythology. His name suggests that he is a personification of the sea, rather than a distinct deity. He is named Allód in early genealogies, and corresponds to the Llŷr of Welsh mythology...
  
   Sea God
• Luchtaine
  Luchtaine
  In Irish mythology, Luchtaine was a son of Brigid and Tuireann and the carpenter or wright of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He and his brothers Creidhne and Goibniu were known as the Trí Dée Dána, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha Dé used to battle the Fomorians....
  
   aka Luchta

• Lugh
  Lugh
  Lug or Lugh is an Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past. He is known by the epithets Lámhfhada , for his skill with a spear or sling, Ildánach , Samhildánach , Lonnbeimnech and Macnia , and by the...
  
   aka Lú
• Mac Cuill
  Mac Cuill
  In Irish mythology, Mac Cuill of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a son of Cermait, son of the Dagda. Mac Cuill's given name was Éthur and he was named Mac Cuill after his god, Coll, the hazel. His wife was Banba....
  
  , Mac Cecht
  Mac Cecht
  In Irish mythology, Mac Cecht of the Tuatha Dé Danann was a son of Cermait, son of the Dagda. Mac Cecht's given name was Téthur and he was named Mac Cecht after his god, Cecht, the ploughshare. His wife was Fodla....
  
  , and Mac Gréine
  Mac Gréine
  In Irish mythology, Mac Gréine of the Tuatha Dé Danann was a son of Cermait, son of the Dagda. Mac Gréine's given name was Céthur and was named Mac Gréine after his god, Grian, the sun. Mac Gréine is Irish for "Son of the Sun". His wife was Ériu....
  
  
• Manannán mac Lir
  Manannán mac Lir
  Manannán mac Lir is a sea deity in Irish mythology. He is the son of the obscure Lir . He is often seen as a psychopomp, and has strong affiliations with the Otherworld, the weather and the mists between the worlds...
  
  
• Miach
  Miach
  In Irish mythology, Miach was a son of Dian Cecht of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He replaced the silver arm his father made for Nuada with an arm of flesh and blood; Dian Cecht killed him out of jealousy for being able to do so when he himself could not....
  
  
• Midir
  Midir
  In the Mythological Cycle of early Irish literature, Midir or Midhir was a son of the Dagda of the Tuatha Dé Danann. After the Tuatha Dé were defeated by the Milesians, he lived in the sidh of Brí Léith...
  
   aka Midhir
• Mug Ruith
  Mug Ruith
  Mug Ruith is a figure in Irish mythology, a powerful blind druid of Munster who lived on Valentia Island, County Kerry. He could grow to enormous size, and his breath caused storms and turned men to stone. He wore a hornless bull-hide and a bird mask, and flew in a machine called the roth rámach,...
  
  
• Nechtan
  Nechtan (mythology)
  In Irish mythology, Nechtan was the father and/or husband of Boann. He may be Nuada under another name, or his cult may have been replaced by that of Nuada. Only he and his three cup-bearers were permitted to visit the well of Segais, into which nine sacred hazel trees dropped their wisdom-bearing...
  
  
• Neit
  Neit
  For the Egyptian goddess, see Neith.In Irish mythology Neit was a god of war. He was the husband of Nemain, and sometimes of Badb. Also grandfather of Balor, he was killed at the legendary Second Battle of Moytura. The name probably derives from the proto-Celtic *nei-t- meaning fighting or passion...
  
  
• Nuada
  Nuada
  In Irish mythology, Nuada or Nuadu , known by the epithet Airgetlám , was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is cognate with the Gaulish and British god Nodens...
  
   aka Nuadha
• Ogma
  Ogma
  Ogma is a character from Irish mythology and Scottish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, he is often considered a deity and may be related to the Gallic god Ogmios....
  
   aka Oghma
• Seonaidh
  Seonaidh
  Seonaidh was according to Martin Martin, the name of a water spirit in Lewis.Dwelly defines seonadh as "1. augury, sorcery. 2. Druidism" and quotes Martin further.Martin says that the inhabitants of Lewis used to propitiate Seonaidh by a cup of ale in the following manner...
  
  
• Tethra
  Tethra
  In Irish mythology, Tethra of the Fomorians ruled Mag Mell after dying in the Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh.-Etymology:Tethra may be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *tetro- meaning 'quacking sound'....
  
  
• Tuireann
  Tuireann
  In Irish mythology, Tuireann was the father of Creidhne, Luchtaine and Giobhniu by Brigid.His other sons, by his daughter Danand, included Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba, who killed Lugh's father Cian...
  
  

Female

• Aibell
  Aibell
  As described by Donal O'Sullivan, Aibell "was the Fairy Queen of Thomond in Irish mythology; and her palace, Carraig Liath or The Grey Rock, is a hill overlooking the Shannon about a mile and a half above Killaloe, on the Clare side of the river."She is the principal fairy goddess of the Dál gCais...
  
   aka Aoibheal
• Aimend
  Aimend
  In Irish mythology and genealogy, Aimend is the daughter of Óengus Bolg, king of the Dáirine or Corcu Loígde. She marries Conall Corc, founder of the Eóganachta dynasties, and through him is an ancestor of the "inner circle" septs of Eóganacht Chaisil, Eóganacht Glendamnach, and Eóganacht Áine, who...
  
  
• Áine
  Áine
  Áine is an Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty. She is associated with the sun and midsummer, and is sometimes represented by a red mare. She is the daughter of Egobail, the sister of Aillen and/or Fennen, and is claimed as an ancestor by multiple Irish clans...
  
  
• Airmed
  Airmed
  In Irish mythology, the goddess Airmed was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. With her father Dian Cecht and brother Miach, she healed those injured in the Second Battle of Magh Tuiredh....
  
   aka Airmid
• Anann
  Anann
  In Irish mythology, Anann was a goddess. 'Anann' is identified as the personal name of the Morrígan in many MSS of Lebor Gabála Érenn. With Badb and Macha, she is sometimes part of a triple goddess or a triad of war goddesses. As such, she may be a Celtic personification of death, and is depicted...
  
   aka Anand aka Anu
• Badb
  Badb
  In Irish mythology, the Badb or Badhbh —meaning "crow" or "vulture"—was a war goddess who took the form of a crow, and was thus sometimes known as Badb Catha . She often caused fear and confusion among soldiers in order to move the tide of battle to her favoured side...
  
   aka Badhbh
• Banba
  Banba
  In Irish mythology, Banba daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, is the patron goddess of Ireland....
  
   aka Banbha
• Bébinn aka Bébhinn aka Bébhionn aka Béfionn
• Bé Chuille
  Bé Chuille
  Bé Chuille, also known as Becuille and Bé Chuma, is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology. In a tale from the Metrical Dindshenchas, she is a good sorceress who joins three other of the Tuatha Dé to defeat the evil Greek witch Carman...
  
  
• Beira
  Beira (mythology)
  Beira is the name given by 20th century journalist and anthropologist Donald Alexander Mackenzie to the Cailleach Bheur, a goddess of winter, and the mother of the gods and goddesses in Scottish mythology....
  
  
• Biróg
  Birog
  Biróg, in Irish mythology, is a leanan sídhe or fairy woman. A folktale recorded by John O'Donovan in 1835 relates how the Fomorian warrior Balor, to frustrate a prophecy that he would be killed by his own grandson, imprisons his only daughter Eithne in the tower of Tory Island, away from any...
  
  
• Boann
  Boann
  Boann or Boand is the Irish mythology goddess of the River Boyne, a river in Leinster, Ireland. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn she was the daughter of Delbáeth, son of Elada, of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Her husband is variously Nechtan, Elcmar or Nuada. Her lover is the Dagda, by whom she had...
  
   aka Boand
• Brigid
  Brigid
  In Irish mythology, Brigit or Brighid was the daughter of the Dagda and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She was the wife of Bres of the Fomorians, with whom she had a son, Ruadán....
  
   aka Brigit aka Brighid aka Bríd

• Caer
  Caer Ibormeith
  In Irish mythology, Caer Ibormeith was a daughter of Prince Ethal Anbuail of Sid Uamuin in Connacht. Every alternate Samhain she would change into a swan, in which form she would remain for a year before becoming human again the following Samhain...
  
  
• Cailleach
  Cailleach
  In Irish and Scottish mythology, the , also known as the Cailleach Bheur, is a divine hag, a creatrix, and possibly an ancestral deity or deified ancestor...
  
  
• Canola
  Canola (Celtic mythology)
  In Irish mythology, Canola was the mythical inventor of the harp. After having an argument with her lover, she left his bed in the middle of the night to take a walk. She heard beautiful music and sat down, soon falling asleep. When she woke up the next morning, Canola realized the wind had created...
  
  
• Cessair
  Cessair
  In Irish mythology, Cessair was, according to the Book of Invasions, leader of the first inhabitants of Ireland before the Biblical Flood....
  
   aka Ceasair
• Cethlenn
  Cethlenn
  In Irish mythology, Cethlenn or Cethleann was the wife of Balor of the Fomorians and, by him, the mother of Ethniu. She was also a prophetess and warned Balor of his impending defeat by the Tuatha Dé Danann in the second battle of Magh Tuiredh...
  
   aka Cethleann
• Cliodhna
  Cliodhna
  Clíodhna is a Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann. In Irish literature, Cleena of Carrigcleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sheoques of South Munster, or Desmond. She is the principal goddess of this country...
  
   aka Clídna
• Crobh Dearg
  Crobh Dearg
  Drob Derg is a Celtic goddess, in Scottish, Irish and Welsh mythology. Her name means "red claws". She is one of the harvest goddesses, and is also known as, or linked to, Lassi , Lassar Fhína, and/or Lasairíona . There is a well in Ireland named after her....
  
  
• Danu
  Danu (Irish goddess)
  In Irish mythology, Danu is the mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann . Though primarily seen as an ancestral figure, some Victorian sources also associate her with the land.-Name:...
  
   aka Dana
• Ériu
  Ériu
  In Irish mythology, Ériu , daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland. Her husband was Mac Gréine ....
  
   aka Éire
• Ernmas
  Ernmas
  Ernmas is an Irish mother goddess, mentioned in Lebor Gabála Érenn and "Cath Maige Tuired" as one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Her daughters include the trinity of eponymous Irish goddesses Ériu, Banba and Fódla, the trinity of war goddesses the Badb, Macha and the Mórrígan , and also a trinity of...
  
  
• Étaín
  Étaín
  Étaín is a figure of Irish mythology, best known as the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne , one of the oldest and richest stories of the Mythological Cycle. She also figures in the Middle Irish Togail Bruidne Dá Derga . T. F...
  
  
• Ethniu
  Ethniu
  In Irish mythology, Ethniu or Eithne ; also Ethliu, Ethlinn, and a variety of other spellings – see below) is the daughter of the Fomorian leader Balor, and the mother of Lugh....
  
   aka Eithne

• Fand
  Fand
  Fand is an early Irish sea goddess, later described as a "Queen of the Fairies". Her name is variously translated as "Pearl of Beauty" or "A Tear"...
  
  
• Fionnuala
  Fionnuala
  In Irish mythology, Finnguala was the daughter of Lir of the Tuatha Dé Danann...
  
   aka Fionnghuala
• Flidais
  Flidais
  Flidais is a female mythological figure in early Irish literature, including the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Metrical Dindsenchas and the Ulster Cycle...
  
  
• Fódla
  Fódla
  In Irish mythology, Fódla or Fótla , daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was one of the tutelary goddesses of Ireland. Her husband was Mac Cecht....
  
   aka Fódhla
• Lí Ban
  Lí Ban
  Lí Ban is an "Otherworldly woman" from Irish Mythology, best known as the sister of the sea goddess Fand, and perhaps an early sea deity herself....
  
  
• Macha
  Macha (Irish mythology)
  Macha is a goddess of ancient Ireland, associated with war, horses, sovereignty, and the sites of Armagh and Emain Macha in County Armagh, which are named after her...
  
  
• Medb
  Medb
  Medb – Middle Irish: Meḋḃ, Meaḋḃ; early modern Irish: Meadhbh ; reformed modern Irish Méabh, Medbh; sometimes Anglicised Maeve, Maev or Maive – is queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology...
  
   aka Meadhbh aka Meabh
• Medb Lethderg
  Medb Lethderg
  In Irish mythology Medb Lethderg was a goddess of sovereignty associated with Tara. She was the wife or lover of nine successive kings, including Fedlimid Rechtmar, Art mac Cuinn and Cormac mac Airt....
  
  
• Mongfind
  Mongfind
  Queen Mongfind was the wife, of apparent Munster origins, of the legendary Irish High King Eochaid Mugmedón and mother of his eldest three sons, Brion, Ailill and Fiachrae, ancestors of the historical Connachta, through whom she is an ancestor of many Irish and European nobility today...
  
   aka Mongfhionn
• Morrígan
  Morrígan
  The Morrígan or Mórrígan , also written as Morrígu or in the plural as Morrígna, and spelt Morríghan or Mór-Ríoghain in Modern Irish, is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have once been a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.The Morrigan is a goddess...
  
   aka Morríghan
• Mór Muman
  Mór Muman
  Mór Muman , also written Mór Mumhan or Mór Mumain, is stated to have been a daughter of Áed Bennán, sometime King of Munster, but may in fact represent a euhemerised sovereignty goddess, particularly associated with the Eóganachta.The Irish language tale Mór Muman 7 Aided Cuanach meic Ailchine Mór...
  
   aka Mór Mumhan
• Nemain
  Nemain
  In Irish mythology, Nemain is the fairy spirit of the frenzied havoc of war, and possibly an aspect of the Morrígan. The name is sometimes spelt Nemon or Neman.-Representation in literature:...
  
   aka Nemhain
• Niamh
• Nicnevin
  Nicnevin
  Nicnevin or Nicneven Scottish Samhain Goddess is a Queen of the Fairies in Scottish folklore...
  
  
• Plor na mBan
  Plor na mBan
  In Irish mythology, Plor na mBan —meaning "the flower of women"—was the beautiful daughter of Oisín and Niamh....
  
  
• Sheela na Gig
  Sheela Na Gig
  Sheela na gigs are figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They are found on churches, castles and other buildings, particularly in Ireland and Britain, sometimes together with male figures. One of the best examples may be found in the Round Tower at Rattoo, in County...
  
  
• Tailtiu
  Tailtiu
  Tailtiu or Tailltiu is the name of a presumed goddess from Irish mythology. Telltown in County Meath, was named for her.-In Irish mythology:...
  
  aka Taillte