Celtic Gods and Goddesses
There is very limited knowledge about Celtic Gods and Goddesses because the Druid priests of the Celts would not write down their stories and existence. The stories were transmitted orally till the Romans of the 1st century B.C., the Irish monks of the 6th century, and the Welsh writers wrote the traditional stories

Females were equal to males and deemed just as much power, and the priestesses were highly idolized. They would sing the dying men/women to sleep, performed charms and enchantments, predicted the future, had powers to heal someone, and much more. A cauldron (large pot), bowl, or pool was considered to be one of the central attributes of their groves. Curses were cast if any women were mistreated. War Goddesses considered red-hair females very sacred, as their hair was the color of blood.
List of Celtic Gods and Goddesses
If we believed the ancient world, there were two different types of deities worshiped by the people - general and local. Across the entire Celtic world, the archaeological facts claim that there are more than 360 Celtic mythology Gods and Goddesses, however, only about 20 occur more than once. The ancient Gods and Goddesses inclined to be very local with the personal names to fit the location and the people who lived in the region. They would exist side by side with the people and were very real. The Gods and Goddesses were not worshiped, but they were respected and honored. When the people in the region needed a favor, they would ask for help, and in return, they would have to make promises or offerings to the Gods and Goddesses to keep them happy.
| Names of Gods and Goddesses | |||
| Celtic Deities | Location | Rules Over | Description |
| Abarta ♂ | Ireland | Understands the destructive nature of jealousy; teamwork | God of the Tuatha Dé Danann - Performer of feats. |
| Accasbel ♂ | Ireland | Mabon vine harvest, Beltane's blessing of the meade | A Partholan who is credited with constructing the first tavern in Ireland, most likely was an early God of wine or meade. |
| Achtland ♀ | Unknown | Sex magic | Goddess queen, whom no mortal man could sexually satisfy, so she took a giant from the fairy realm as her mate. |
| Addanc/Affanc ♂ | Wales | Erasing an event/person/etc. from your mind, erasing unwanted thoughts so you can have a fresh start | Primordial God who created and rode the crest of the flood near his home on the Lake of Waves and was once a deity worshiped by the people of the lake region but who is now reduced to fairy or evil demigod. |
| Adsullata ♀ | Britain | Purification, solar magic | Goddess of hot springs who came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul. A minor sun Goddess in her own right before the time when the Celts banished the majority of their sun images to male deities and their moon images to female deities. |
| Aerten/Aeron ♀ | Wales, Cornish | Peace, overcoming enemies | Goddess of fate who controlled over the result of war between several Celtic clans. |
| Aesun ♂ | Ireland | Unknown | Early Irish God whose name means "to be." Most likely part of a lost creation myth. Aesun was also known by the Persians, Umbria, and Scandinavia. |
| Aeval/Aebhel ♀ | Ireland | Lust, sex magic, wisdom in making judgments | Goddess who in popular legend is a fairy, who held a midnight court to hear the debate on whether the men of her province were keeping their women sexually satisfied or not. |
| Agrona ♀ | Wales | War, slaughter | Slaughter goddess, often equated with the Morrigu. |
| Aibell ♀ | Ireland | Protection, music, earth magic, ecological magic | Goddess of Munster whose legends were almost lost until she was 'demoted' to a fairy queen. |
| Aibheaog ♀ | Ireland | Healing, Midsummer well rituals | Fire goddess who had a magic well that contained mighty healing powers, effective against toothache as long as the requester left a small white stone at the well to represent the decayed tooth. |
| Aife/Aoife ♀ | Ireland, Scotland | Protection, general knowledge, teaching, path-working, lessons of the threefold law | Goddess and queen of the Isle of Shadow. |
| Aimend ♀ | Ireland, Scotland | Unknown | Minor Sun Goddess who is thought to be the daughter of the king of the region known as Corco Loidhe. |
| Aine of Knockaine ♀ | Ireland | Crops and cattle | Moon Goddess who was connected with the Summer Solstice. |
| Airmid ♀ | Ireland | Magic, healing, learning, herbalism, understanding family loyalty, inspiration to craftspeople | Goddess of medicine and all healing arts to the Tuatha Dé Danann. |
| Albion ♂ | Unknown | Unknown | Son of a forgotten Sea God who may have been part of a lost creation myth and was once said to rule the Celtic world. His name became the poetic name for Britain. |
| Alisanos ♂ | Unknown | Fertility | Gaulish God of stones, about whom very little is known. Probably a deity of the standing stones of Brittany. |
| Almha ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Basically all her myths are lost to us today. She was a Goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann and that a hill in southern Ireland was named for her. |
| Ambisagrus/Bussumarus ♂ | Britain | Weather magic, leadership | Originally from Gaul, where this Celtic identity was lost during the Roman seize where he took all the characteristics of the Roman God Jupiter. |
| Ancasta ♀ | Unknown | Unknown | A Goddess who survives only in her name through a dedication on a stone in Hampshire. It is a theory she is related to Andraste. |
| Andraste ♀ | Britain | Overcoming enemies | War Goddess who was aroused on the eve of the battle to bring favor, and possibly ritual sacrifices were given to her. |
| Angus Mac Og ♂ | Ireland | Youth, love, music magic, protection of lovers, dream work, creativity and beauty | One of the Tuatha De Dannan who had a golden harp that could create incredibly sweet music. He had a fairy palace on the banks of the Boyne. |
| Anu/Anann/Catana ♀ | Ireland | Fertility, prosperity, comfort, health, cattle | Mother Earth, Great Goddess, Greatest of all Goddesses, another aspect of the Morrigu. The fertility Goddess, who often formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. |
| Arawn/Arawyn ♂ | Wales | Revenge, terror, war, spirit contact, picking magickal names, strengthening friendships, reincarnation | King of Hell, God of Annwn. Ruled the underground kingdom of the dead. |
| Ard Greimme ♂ | Ireland, Scotland | Fire magic | Father of the famed warrior sister Aife and Scathach. Once a Sun God. |
| Ardwinna ♀ | Britain | Animals, familiars, woodlands | Woodland and animal Goddess who stalked the forests of Ardennes riding a wild boar. |
| Ariadne ♀ | Unknown | Protection, magic, manifestation, time | The only Greek Goddess known to have been worshiped in Celtic Gaul. Her name is derived from the word arachnid. |
| Arianrhod ♀ | Wales | Beauty, fertility, reincarnation | Keeper of the circling Silver Wheel of Stars, a symbol of time and karma. Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess and is honored at the full moon. |
| Arnamentia ♀ | Unknown | Healing and purification | Goddess of spring waters who was once a minor solar deity. |
| Artaius ♂ | Unknown | Sheep, cattle | God of sheep and cattle herders from Celtic Gaul. Later, the Romans identified him with Mercury. |
| King Arthur ♂ | Wales, Cornwall | Nearly anything is said to be able to be helped by King Arthur | Most likely based on a seventh-century king named Artorius who led the fight to drive the Saxons from Britain, and later his legend was merged with that of a now-forgotten father/sacrificial God. |
| Artio ♀ | Unknown | Fertility, animals, strength, courage | Bear Goddess whose shrine once stood in what is now Bern, Switzerland. She is usually depicted as being surrounded by full baskets and animals. |
| Badb/Badb Catha ♀ | Ireland | Life, wisdom, inspiration, enlightenment | The cauldron of ever-producing life. War Goddess and wife of Net. Mother aspect of Triple Goddess. Linked with the cauldron, crows and ravens. |
| Baile of the Honeyed Speech ♂ | Ireland | Speeches, ideas, impressing someone, mental activity, speaking, love magic, protection for lovers, blessing magical wands | God of Blarney, the speech valued in Irish culture. |
| Ban-Chuideachaidh Moire ♀ | Ireland | Childbirth | Old Goddess who appears in modern Irish legends as the midwife who assisted the Christian Virgin Mary with her birth, and was also a title applied to St. Bridget. |
| Banba ♂ | Ireland | Repulsion of invaders | Part of a triad with Fotia and Eriu. They used magic to repel invaders. |
| Barinthus ♂ | Wales | Unknown | Charioteer to the residents of the Otherworld who was most likely once a Sea or Sun God. |
| Bechoil ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Goddess whose legends have been lost. Perhaps an early version of Dana. |
| Becuma ♀ | Ireland | Overcoming jealousy | Tuatha Goddess who ruled over magical boats and had a weakness for sleeping with High Kings at Tara. |
| Bel/Beltene ♂ | Ireland | Science, healing, hot springs, fire, success, prosperity, purification, crops vegetation, fertility, cattle | Closely connected with the Druids. His name was seen in festivals of Beltane/Beltain. Cattle were also driven through the bonfires for purification and fertility. |
| Belisama ♀ | Unknown | Unknown | Goddess of the Mersey River. |
| Berecynthia ♀ | Unknown | Elemental earth magic, fertility | An Earth Goddess, perhaps even a local goddess. |
| Bladud ♂ | Wales | Protection, employment, any endeavors governed by the Sun | Sun God who is associated with the sacred English hot spring known as Aquae Sulis. Depicted as a very virile male figure with flaming hair. |
| Blai ♀ | Ireland | Fairy contact | A Fairy Queen with a burgh of her own Drumberg. Represents a personal or mascot deity to Ossian. |
| Blathnat ♀ | Ireland | Abundance, fertility | Probably a form of the more popular Welsh Goddess, Blodeuwedd. |
| Blodeuwedd/Wlodwin ♀ | Wales | Flowers, wisdom, lunar mysteries, initiations | Lily maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies. Known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise. Created by Math and Gwydion as a wife for Lleu. |
| Bo Dhu ♀ | Ireland | Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity | Black cow Goddess who helped bring fertility to barren Ireland. |
| Bo Find ♀ | Ireland | Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity | "White cow." This is how she manifested long ago on the barren and fruitless mass that would become green Ireland. |
| Bo Ruadh ♀ | Ireland | Fertility, anti-hunger, prosperity | Red cow Goddess who helped bring fertility to barren Ireland. |
| Boann/Boyne ♀ | Ireland | Healing, fertility, water magic | Goddess of the river Boyne. |
| Bodua ♀ | Unknown | War | War Goddess much like the Irish Badb. |
| Bormanus ♂ | Unknown | Unknown | Thought to be one of the earliest Celtic Gods. Nothing is known about him today, though he may have later surfaced as Borvo, a Breton God of hot springs. |
| Borvo ♂ | Britain | Healing | God of hot springs who replaced his mother, Sirona, in this function when her story was patriarchalized. The spring he ruled had great healing powers. |
| Bran The Blessed/Bran MacFebal ♂ | Wales | Prophecy, the arts, leaders, war, the sun, music, writing | A giant associated with ravens. |
| Branwen/Branwyn ♀ | Manx, Wales | Love, beauty | Venus of the Northern Seas, of the three matriarchs of Britain. Lady of the Lake. |
| Breasal ♂ | Wales, Cornwall | Name spirit contact, guidance and protection for travelers and explorers | High King of the entire planet who made his home in the Otherworld which is sometimes called Hy- or I-Breasal in his honor. |
| Bregon ♂ | Ireland | Unknown | Minor Celtic figure who plays a role as either the human son of Milesius or the divine father of Bile and Ith. |
| Brenos ♂ | Unknown | Unknown | War God to whom the victories at Allia and Delphi were attributed. |
| Briant ♀ | Unknown | Water magic | Goddess of the river which holds her name. |
| Brigantia/Britannia ♀ | Britain | Sovereignty, self-control, leadership, protection of your land, prosperity | A Goddess of sovereignty and often thought of as the Brigit of England. In 1667 Charles I had her face placed on the coinage where it remains today, reviving an old custom, first instated by the Romans who adopted her as their. |
| Brigit/Brigindo ♀ | Ireland, Wales, Spain, France | Fire, fertility, the hearth, all feminine arts and crafts, martial arts, healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, witchcraft, occult knowledge | Associated with Imbolc. She had an exclusive female priesthood at Kildare and an ever-burning fire. She had 19 priestesses representing the 19-year cycle of the Celtic "Great Year." |
| Bronach ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Crone Goddess linked to forgotten Samhain rituals. Reclaim this forgotten Samhain Goddess at your own seasonal rites. |
| Caer Ibormeith ♀ | Ireland | Dreams, prophetic dreams, falling asleep, music magic | Usually thought of as a Goddess of sleep and dreams and a less violent version of Mare. |
| Caillech ♀ | Ireland, Scotland, Manx | Disease, plague, cursing, wisdom, seasonal rites, weather magic | Goddess in her Destroyer aspect. |
| Caireen ♀ | Ireland | Children, protection | Once a protective Mother Goddess, a defender of youth and patron of children. Associated with holly leaves. |
| Cally Berry ♀ | Ireland | Weather forecasting, animal magic, ecological magic | Often equated with the Caillech Bheur of Scotland, although in northern Irish legends, she appears as a maiden Goddess, representation of spring, the hunt and guardian of animals. |
| Campestres ♀ | Unknown | Fertility | Campestres is the Roman name of a lost Goddess of fields that was probably a fertility or harvest Goddess in Celtic Gaul. |
| Camulos ♂ | Unknown | War | War God from the region of Colchester which was once called by the Latin name Camulodunum in his honor. |
| Canola ♀ | Ireland | Music magic, dream work, inspiration | Believed to be one of the oldest of the Irish deities, Canola was the inventor of Ireland's long loved symbol, the harp. |
| Caolainn ♀ | Ireland | Wisdom, healing, fertility | Goddess who was the guardian/queen of a magical well in County Roscommon in western Ireland. She helped grant wishes, usually ones which taught the wishers that they didn't really want what they thought they did. |
| Carman ♀ | Ireland | Banishing magic | Goddess of County Wexford and source name for Loch Garman, who was once honored at Lughnasadh. It is believed she has roots in the Greek grain Goddess, Demeter. |
| Carravogue ♀ | Ireland, Britain | Self-responsibility, reincarnation, earth magic | Local Crone Goddess from County Meath who was transformed into a huge snake for eating forbidden berries. |
| Cathubodia ♀ | Unknown | War, earth magic | Occasionally seen as a Breton version of the Irish earth Goddess Banbha, most likely with origins in Gaul. Thought to be a war Goddess who shares Badb's energies. |
| Cebhfhionn ♀ | Ireland | Healing, mental powers, knowledge | Goddess of inspiration who was usually found next to the legendary Well of Knowledge from which she filled an endless vessel. She kept this sacred water from humans, feeling they could not handle its power. |
| Cernunnos ♂ | Unknown | Virility, fertility, animals, physical love, Nature, woodlands, reincarnation, crossroads, wealth, commerce, warriors, hunt, magic, sacrifice | The Horned God, God of Nature, God of the Underworld. The Druids knew him as Hu Gadarn, the Horned God of Fertility. |
| Cerridwen ♀ | Wales, Scotland | Death, fertility, regeneration, inspiration, magick, astrology, herbs, science, poetry, spells, knowledge, wisdom, past lives, divination | Moon Goddess, Grain Goddess. Welsh Bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen). The Bard, Taliesin, founder of their craft was said to be born of Cerridwen and to have tasted a potent from her magic cauldron of inspiration. |
| Cessair ♀ | Ireland | Strength, perseverance, leadership, foresight, water magick, new beginnings | Of the race known as the Partholans who were among the first to occupy Ireland, she is the first ruler of Ireland. Well-known pre-Celtic Mother Goddess figure much like Dana. She led a journey of Partholans to the "western edge of the world" forty days before the great flood. |
| Cethlion ♀ | Ireland | Prophecy, divination | Goddess of the Formorians who was called "crooked teeth." She prophesied the fall of her people to the Tuatha Dé Danann. |
| Chlaus Haistic ♀ | Ireland | Magic, druids | Ancient Goddess of unknown function who came down to earth as a powerful witch. Probably a crone Goddess. |
| Cian ♂ | Ireland | Love magic | God of medicine who went to retrieve a cow which had been stolen by Balor. Father of Lugh. Son of Diancecht. Husband of Ethne. |
| Cliodna ♀ | Ireland, Scotland | Spirit contact, appreciation, beauty, water magic | Tuatha Dé Danann Sea and Otherworld Goddess who usually took the form of a sea bird and therefore symbolized the Celtic afterlife. |
| Clota ♀ | Scotland, England, Wales | Water magic | Well-known Goddess and namesake of the River Clyde. The waters in which she governed were believed to be especially useful in controlling seizures. |
| Coinchend ♀ | Unknown | Spirit contact | A semi-divine warrioress whose home was in the Otherworld. |
| Condatis ♂ | Unknown | Water magic | God of confluence whose sacred places were wherever two rivers or bodies of water met. |
| Condwiramur ♀ | Wales | Discovering your own feminine power, help in discovering the ancient grail mysteries, sovereignty | Goddess of sovereignty who appears shortly in the Grail legends as the wife of Sir Percival in which she is wedded and then bedded by Percival who then immediately sets off for the Grail castle to which he is finally admitted. |
| Corchen ♀ | Ireland, Manx | Past lives, earth magic, reincarnation | Ancient snake Goddess about whom very little is known. She was probably once a regional mother earth Goddess, or Goddess of rebirth. |
| Corra ♀ | Scotland | Divination, prophecy | Prophecy Goddess who regularly appeared in the form of a crane. She symbolizes transcendent knowledge and transitions to the Otherworld. |
| Coventina ♀ | Scotland | Time, new beginnings, life cycles, wishes, protection of birds, divination, inspiration of self | One of the most potent of the Celtic river Goddesses. Most likely Roman in origin. She was also the Goddess of featherless flying creatures which may have symbolized some type of blockage to passing into the Otherworld. |
| Cred ♀ | Ireland, Scotland | Love magic, searching for the perfect mate, keeping secrets, spirit contact | Fairy Queen Goddess who is associated with Dana's mountains, the Paps of Anu. She vowed never to sleep until she found a man who could create for her the most majestic poem ever penned. |
| Credne ♂ | Ireland | Self-defense, inspiration of artistic endeavors, blessing tools | God of metallurgy and smithing who worked in bronze. He created all the Tuatha's weapons with the goldsmith Goibniu and the woodworker Luchtain. |
| Creiddylad ♀ | Wales | Love, courage, strength of will and flowers | Connected with Beltane and often called the May Queen. Goddess of summer flowers. |
| Crobh Dearg ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | "The Red Claw." War Goddess who is possibly a form of the crone Goddess of battle Badb. A Leinster fortress was named for her. |
| Cromm Cruaich ♂ | Ireland | Harvest, dark festivals, death, passing over rituals, otherworld contact | Ancient deity about which little is known about today. Seen as a harvest, death and sacrificial God. It is thought human sacrifices were once made to him at Samhain. |
| The Crone ♀ | Unknown | Unknown | Third aspect of the Triple Goddess. She signifies old age or death, winter, the end of all things, the waning moon, post-menstrual phases of women's lives, all destruction that comes before regeneration through her cauldron of rebirth. |
| Cronos ♂ | Unknown | Unknown | Minor harvest and Sun God with Greek roots who was imprisoned with his subordinate deities on a western island which could have been a Land of the Dead. |
| Cyhiraeth ♀ | Wales | Water magic, passing over (death), fairy contact, inner-transformation | Goddess of streams who later became thought of as a fairy spirit who was a portent of death, very similar to Ireland's Beansidhe or Cornwall's Washer at the Ford. |
| Cymidei Cymeinfoll ♀ | Wales | Strength, war, past-lives, creative magic | War Goddess who is always paired in stories with her husband, Llasar Llaesyfnewid. They own a magical cauldron into which they would cast warriors killed in battle. |
| Dahud-Ahes ♀ | Britain | Pleasure, courage, water and sex magic, sea fairy contact | Goddess of "debauchery" by her detractors, while some recent legends go so far as to make her the destroyer of her own realm through her excesses and her worship of "idols." |
| The Dagda ♂ | Ireland | Protection, warriors, knowledge, magic, fire, prophecy, weather, reincarnation, the arts, initiation, patron of priests, the Sun, healing, regeneration, prosperity, harps, magicians, artisans, all knowledge | High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann. God of death and rebirth, master of all trades, lord of perfect knowledge. |
| Damara ♀ | England | Fertility | Fertility Goddess associated with Beltane. |
| Damona ♀ | Unknown | Fertility, abundance | Cow Goddess which little is known about. |
| Danu ♀ | Ireland | Wizards, rivers, water, wells, prosperity, abundance, magic, wisdom | Major Mother Goddess, ancestress of the Tuatha Dé Danann. |
| Daronwy ♂ | Wales | Unknown | In The Book of Taliesin, The "Song of Daronwy," relates adventures of this God who does not appear elsewhere in Celtic mythology. |
| Deae Matres ♀ | Britain | Harvest, fertility, prosperity | "Mother Goddesses." A triune of earth Goddesses given this singular Latin name on the continent. |
| Dechtere ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | A triplicate unto herself, this Goddess throughout her myth say she alternately takes on the images of maiden, mother and crone. |
| Devona ♀ | Unknown | Unknown | Goddess of the rivers of Devon. |
| Diancecht ♀ | Ireland | Healing, medicine, regeneration, magic, silver-working | Physician-magician of the Tuatha. |
| Dil ♀ | Ireland | Fertility | Very old cattle Goddess about whom nothing is known about today. She could have been a derivative of the nearly forgotten Damona of Gaul. |
| Dispater ♂ | Unknown | Fertility magic | Gaulish God, whose name means "the father," was a primordial God of creation who later merged with both Don and Cernunnos. |
| Domnu ♀ | Ireland | Leadership, sea fairy contact | Goddess of the Formorians, who are sometimes referred to as the Fir Domnann in her honor. |
| Don/Donn ♀ | Ireland, Wales | Control of the elements, eloquence | Sometimes called a Goddess and sometimes called a God. Ruled over the land of the dead. |
| Druantia ♀ | Unknown | Fertility, passion, sexual activities, trees, protection, knowledge, creativity | "Queen of the Druids." Fir Goddess. |
| Dubh Lacha ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Early Irish Goddess of the sea of whom little is known. Possibly another version of the Druidess Dubh. |
| Dunatis ♂ | Unknown | Protection of sacred places and hiding places during rituals | Gaulish Celtic God of fortifications. Protector of sacred spaces. |
| Dylan/Dyonas ♂ | Wales, Britain | Unknown | Guardian deity of the mouth of the River Conway. Symbol was a silver fish, son of Gwydion and Arianrhod. |
| Eadon ♀ | Ireland | Creativity | Goddess of poetry who may have also been a bard. |
| Easal ♂ | Ireland, Manx | Prosperity, abundance | God of abundance and prosperity who came into legend as King of the Golden Pillars. |
| Ebhlinne ♀ | Ireland | Fire magic | Goddess of Munster who was until recent times honored at the Midsummer Sabbat in her mountain home in County Tipperary. |
| Echtghe/Aughty ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Believed to be another form of Dana by some, the first Great Mother Goddess of Ireland. |
| Eibhir ♀ | Ireland, Manx | Unknown | First wife of Ossian who is described as being a yellow-haired "stranger from another land." |
| Eithne ♀ | Ireland | Beauty, fertility, reincarnation | Old Goddess whose original form likely traveled with the Celts across the continent over many generations from the Middle East. |
| Elaine ♀ | Wales, Britain | Unknown | Maiden aspect of the Goddess. |
| Queen of Elphame ♀ | Scotland | Death, destruction, plague, battle, Otherworld, rebirth, fairy contact | Goddess of death and disease who is often equated with the Greek Goddess Hecate. |
| Eostre ♀ | Unknown | Ostara, Great Rite, Fertility of pets/livestock, new ventures, reincarnation, new life | Goddess for whom the Ostara Sabbat is named for a.k.a. Easter. She is viewed as spring personified. |
| Epona ♀ | Britain, Gaul | Fertility, maternity, protectress of horses, horse-breeding, prosperity, dogs, healing springs, crops | "Divine Horse." Goddess of horses, Mother Goddess, Mare. |
| Epos Olloatir ♂ | Unknown | Night, dream magic, horses | Horse God often seen as either a male form of Epona or as her consort. |
| Erce ♀ | Unknown | Harvest festivals, earth magic | Earth Mother and Harvest Goddess represented by a womb or over-flowing Horn of Plenty who is believed to be Basque in origin. |
| Eri of the Golden Hair ♀ | Ireland | Creation, moon | Virgin Goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann. In one legend, Eri was at the bank of a river when a man in a silver boat floated down to her on a beaming ray of the sun. |
| Eriu/Erin ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | One of the three queens of the Tuatha Dé Danann and daughter of the Dagda. |
| Essus ♂ | Britain | Fertility, harvest, spirit contact, passing over rites | Harvest God worshiped in Brittany and in Gaul by the people known as the Essuvi. |
| Fachea ♀ | Ireland | Creativity | Goddess of poetry and patron of bards. |
| Fea ♀ | Ireland | War | War Goddess whose root name means "the hateful one." She is a subordinate deity of the Morrigu. Daughter of Brugh and Elcmar. |
| Finncaev ♀ | Ireland | Love and beauty | Minor Princess among the Tuatha Dé Danann. Thought to be a Goddess of love and beauty. |
| Finvarra ♂ | Ireland | Competitions, mental powers, fairy contact | A strong God who became known as a faery king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. |
| Fionn MacCumhal ♂ | Ireland, Manx, Scotland | Wisdom, overcoming enemies, creation, protection, knowledge, divination | Legendary giant God/Warrior of Ireland who foresaw the coming of the Milesians and banished an invading giant from Scotland. |
| Fland ♀ | Ireland | Water magic, lakes | Daughter of woodland Goddess Flidais. A lake Goddess who is viewed in modern folklore as an evil water faery who lures swimmers to their death. |
| Flidais ♀ | Ireland | Forests, woodlands, wild things, wild beasts, shape-shifting | She rode in a chariot drawn by deer. Ruler of wild beasts, forests, woodlands. |
| Garbh Ogh ♀ | Ireland | Ecological magic, seasonal rites involving the sacrificial God | Giantess and Goddess of the hunt whose chariot was drawn by elks. |
| Garmangabis ♀ | Britain | Unknown | Goddess who was brought to Britain with the Romans and survives only through cryptic inscriptions. |
| Gavida ♂ | Ireland | Unknown | Minor God of the forge. |
| Goewin ♀ | Wales | Sovereignty | Goddess of sovereignty who held the feet of Math while he reigned. She was only exempt from doing this when he went to war. |
| Gog ♀ | Unknown | Fertility | Consort of Magog. |
| Goidniu ♂ | Ireland, Wales | Blacksmiths, weapon-makers, jewelry making, brewing, fire, metal-working | One of a triad of craftsmen with Luchtaine the wright and Creidne the brazier. |
| Goleuddydd ♀ | Wales | Family ties, independence | Sow Goddess, mother of Culwch who ran in an insane rush to the deep woodlands to give him birth. Aunt of King Arthur. |
| Grainne ♀ | Ireland, Manx, Scotland | Rules Over: Herbs, knowledge, sun, fire magic | Master herbalist and sun Goddess who was the daughter of King Cormac and who married Fionn MacCumhal. |
| Great Father ♂ | Unknown | Lord of the winter, harvest, land of the dead, the sky, animals, mountains, lust, powers of destruction, regeneration | The Horned God, The Lord. Represents the male principle of creation. |
| Great Mother ♀ | Unknown | Goddess of fertility, the Moon, summer, flowers, love, healing, the seas, water | The Lady. Represents the female principle of creation. |
| Grian ♀ | Ireland | Seasonal rites, sun | Fairy Goddess from County Tipperary is still thought to live in a burgh beneath Pallas Green Hill. |
| Guaire ♂ | Ireland | Protection | Guardian God/spirit of Bruigh na Boinne and father of Ebhlinne. |
| Gwawl Ap Clud/Gwawn ♀ | Wales | Solar magic | Son of the Goddess Clug. Thought to be a minor sun God. |
| Gwen ♀ | Wales | Unknown | A young female who was so beautiful that almost no one could live if they gazed upon her for long. |
| Gwydion ♂ | Wales | Illusion, changes, the sky, healing, music magic, help, learning, mental powers | Druid of the mainland gods, son of Don. Brother of Govannon, Arianrhod and Amaethon. |
| Gwyddno ♂ | Wales | Water magic | At one time was a sea God. Came down in legend as a monster or faery of the ocean. |
| Gwynn Ap Nudd ♂ | Wales | Spirit contact, strength, passing over rituals, seasonal rites | King of the Fairies and the underworld. |
| Gwethyr ♂ | Wales | Unknown | Opposite of Gwynn Ap Nudd. King of the Upperworld. |
| Habetrot ♀ | Unknown | Healing, seasonal rites, commemoration | A "spinning" Goddess who is thought to either be a goddess of spell casting or the wheel of the year since "spinning" refers to them both. |
| Habondia ♀ | Unknown | Seasonal harvest rites, fertility, prosperity, earth magic | Goddess of abundance and prosperity who was later demoted to a mere witch in medieval English lore in order to strip her of her great power in the minds of the rural folk who depended upon her benevolence for their crops and herds. |
| Harimella ♀ | Scotland | Protection | Goddess of Tungrain origin who used to be worshiped in Dunfriesshire. Most likely a Goddess of protection. |
| Henwen ♀ | Unknown | Fertility, childbirth, prosperity | Sow Goddess much like her Welsh counterpart, Cerridwen. She is the deity who brought abundance to the land by giving birth to an array of "litters" throughout England. |
| Hevydd Hen ♂ | Wales | Unknown | Father of Rhiannon. Once part of a very old oral tradition which has been lost. |
| Holly King and Oak King ♂ | Unknown | Unknown | Two sacrificial Gods who, in the manner of such deities, are two aspects of the same being. Holly King represents the waning year, and battles the Oak King at Midsummer (probably at Beltane sometime in the past) for leadership. |
| The Horned God ♂ | Unknown | Growing things, the forest, Nature, wild animals, alertness, annihilation, fertility | Opener of the Gates of Life and Death. |
| Ialonus ♂ | Unknown | Fertility, gardens | Fertility God who governed over all cultivated fields. |
| Ibath ♂ | Ireland | Unknown | A nomad who is believed to be a Tuatha ancestor/father God. |
| Inghean Bhuidhe ♀ | Ireland | Flower festivals, spring planting | Her name means "yellow-haired girl." Much of her story has been lost, however, we do know that she was the middle girl of three sisters who made up a Triple Goddess. |
| Iubdan of the Faylinn ♂ | Ireland | Fairy contact, wisdom | An Ulster God usually known in popular legend as the king of the Ulster faeries. |
| Keevan of the Curling Hair ♂ | Unknown | Fertility, hunting | Lover of Cliodna who may have been a God of fertility and of the hunt. All myths aside the ones of Cliodna have been lost. |
| Kele-De ♀ | Ireland | Feminine power and sex magic | Very old Goddess whose early all-female following was allowed to flourish by the early church. Their High Priestess reserved the right to take any and all lovers they chose. |
| The Lady Of the Lake ♀ | Wales, Britain | Purification, healing, Great Rite, any other magical acts associated with the feminine elements | To some, she is a fairy woman, but to others, she is a potent deity of life, death and regeneration. |
| Lassair ♀ | Ireland | Seasonal rites | Goddess of Midsummer, part of a triune with her sisters Latiaran and Inghean Bhuidhe. Her name means "flame." |
| Latiaran ♀ | Ireland | Seasonal rites, fire magic | The youngest of the three sisters who made up a Triune Goddess. Latiaran represented the first harvest of Lughnasadh. |
| Latis ♀ | England | Understanding the wheel of the year, mourning | Lake Goddess who later became a Goddess of ale and meade. |
| LeFay ♀ | Wales | Healing | Goddess of the sea and of the Isle of Avalon. She was an excellent healer and drinking water bless her provided an instant cure for all. |
| Leucetios ♂ | Unknown | Weather Magic | Thunder and storm God. |
| Llasar Llaesgyfnewid ♂ | Wales | Strength, past-lives, creativity | Battle God who is always paired with Cymidei Cymeinfoll, his wife. |
| Mabb ♀ | Wales | Unknown | Warrioress believed to be a Welsh version of Ireland's Queen Maeve. Today in Welsh folklore she is a faery who brings nightmares and is a midwife to the Welsh fairy folk. |
| Mabon ♂ | Unknown | Any endeavor, seasonal rites, fertility rites, the hunt, death, spirit contact | Minor sun God who also has power in darkness. Some traditions view him as the original being, the first God, first life carved out of the primal void of the divine womb. |
| MacCecht ♂ | Ireland | Fertility, crops, protection magic | Son of Oghma. God of the plow for the Tuatha. |
| MacCuill ♂ | Ireland | Water magic | Minor sea God of the Tuatha Dé Danann. |
| MacGreine ♂ | Ireland | Sun, prosperity | Son of Oghma, minor sun God of the Tuatha Dé Danann and husband of Eire. |
| Macha ♀ | Ireland | Cunning, sheer physical force, sexuality, fertility, dominance over males, childbirth, wisdom, overcoming enemies, past-lives | One of the aspects of the triple Morrigu. Associated with ravens and crows. She is honored at Lughnassadh. |
| MacKay ♂ | Scotland | Fairy contact, sun | MacKay's legend is possibly a reworking of an old story about a fire God. |
| Naas ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Goddess. Wife of Lugh, she died in County Kildare at a site which still bears her name. |
| Nair ♀ | Ireland | Spirit contact, Samhain rites, prosperity | This Goddess is best-known for escorting High King Crebhan to the Otherworld where she gave him great treasures. Her name means "modesty." |
| Nehalennia ♀ | Britain | Protection on the water | Dog Goddess who was the patron deity of sea traders, perhaps an image derived from Sirius (The Dog Star, which was once an important navigational star. |
| Neit ♂ | Ireland | Fertility rites | Tuatha Dé Danann war God who is seen as both the husband of Nemain and of the entire Morrigu tribe. |
| Nemetona ♀ | England | Protection of circles/groves/sacred grounds | Guardian Goddess of all sacred places such as circles or magical groves. |
| Oanuava ♀ | Britain | Unknown | Very old Earth Goddess from Celtic Gaul. A Mother Goddess who was regionally worshiped as the source from which all life flowed. |
| Ogma ♂ | Ireland | Eloquence, poets, writers, physical strength, inspiration, language, literature | A champion of the Tuatha who carried a huge club. He invented the Ogam script alphabet. |
| Pwyll ♂ | Wales | Cunning, loyalty, fraternal love, spirit contact | Sometimes the ruler of the underworld. |
| Ratis ♀ | Unknown | Defenses, protection | Goddess of protective fortifications whose name means "of the fortress." |
| Rhiannon ♀ | Ireland | Horses, enchantments, fertility and the Underworld, overcoming enemies | "The Great Queen." Goddess of birds and horses. She rides a swift white horse. |
| Rosmerta ♀ | Celtic Gaul and Roman Gaul | Healing, communication | Goddess of both Celtic and Roman Gaul. After Rome conquered the region, Rosmerta was taken into the local Roman pantheon where she became a consort of their God Mercury. |
| Saitada ♀ | Unknown | Passing over rites, mourning | She is known only from one inscription in the Tyne Valley. It is thought she was a Goddess of mourning. |
| Scathach ♀ | Ireland, Scotland | Blacksmiths, healing, prophecy, martial arts, protection, teaching | Underworld Goddess, Goddess in her Destroyer aspect. A warrior woman and prophetess who lived in Albion, most likely on the Isle of Skye and taught the martial arts. |
| Segomo ♂ | Unknown | Unknown | War God called by the name Cocidius. His image is always seen with birds of prey such as the hawk or falcon. |
| Sequana ♀ | Britain | Prosperity, earth magic, water magic, purification | Earth Goddess who lived beneath the rivers of Britain and could only be seen if the rivers were drained or low from drought. |
| Sucellos ♂ | Unknown | Water, death | A river and death God about whom nothing but his name is known about. However, some claim he was the consort of Nantosuelta, whose name means "of the meandering stream." |
| Sul/Sulevia ♀ | Unknown | Healing rituals | Goddess of hot springs whose sacred waters was always hot. Prince Bladud built a shrine to her near Aquae Sulis where the popular modern-day spa is located. |
| Taliesin ♂ | Wales | Fertility, Barley | Minor barley God worshipped through the 16th century. Do not confuse him with the bard, Taliesin, though some of the famous bard's attributes were grafted onto him. |
| Tamara ♀ | Unknown | Creation or fortification of boundaries | Goddess of the River Tamar which divides the Duchy of Cornwall from the rest of England. Most likely as much a protective force as she was a water deity. |
| Tamesis ♀ | Britain | Water magic | Goddess of the River Thames, later replaced in patriarchal times by Llud, for whom Ludgate Hill in London is named. |
| Tethra ♂ | Ireland | Water magic, fairy contact, weather magic, sea | King of the FirBolgs after they were banished into the sea. He is now seen as a minor death God. |
| Tlachtga ♀ | Ireland | Samhain rituals, Croneage rites of passage | Goddess of sacrifice. She died giving birth to triplets fathered by three different men. |
| Tuan MacCarell ♂ | Ireland | Past-lives, shape-shifting, animals, ecological magic, woodlands | Nephew of Partholan was a hero who was created a God of animals and the woodlands by the mother Goddess Dana. |
| Uairebhuidhe ♀ | Ireland | Unknown | Bird Goddess whom little is known about today. Most likely a goddess of death or Otherworld. Maybe even a consort of the better-known bird God Nemglan. |
| Uathach ♀ | Ireland, Scotland | Protection and strength | Goddess who trained warriors to fight. One of the many mistresses Cuchulain had over his life. |
| Wachilt ♀ | Unknown | Unknown | Minor sea Goddess later called a "witch" in English mythology. Mother of Wayland the Smith who is a German God honored in England. |
| White Lady ♀ | Known to all Celtic countries | Death, destruction, annihilation | Dryad of Death. Queen of the Dead. The crone form of the Goddess. |
The Celtic God names, along with the Goddess names have been mentioned in the table. As the written evidence is very little, perhaps the list could be unfinished. The mythology these Gods and Goddesses is very fascinating to learn, although, it should not be confused with the beliefs of the pre-Roman British people.
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