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Ernmas - mother goddess; Fand - sea goddess and lover of Cú Chulainn; Fiacha mac Delbaíth - legendary High King of Ireland; Fionnuala - daughter of Lir, who was transformed into a swan and cursed by her stepmother; Flidais - goddess of cattle and milking; Fuamnach - witch of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Iuchar - son of Tuireann and murderer of Cían
General deities were known by the Celts throughout large regions, and are the gods and goddesses called upon for protection, healing, luck, and honour. The local deities from Celtic nature worship 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 sun was declining beneath the blue sea; When I strayed with my love to the pure crystal fountain, That stands in the beautiful Vale of Tralee. She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer, Yet 'twas not her beauty alone that won me; Oh no, 'twas the truth in her eyes ever dawning, That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee.
The Old Irish word tuath (plural tuatha) means "tribe, folk, people"; dé is the genitive case of día and, depending on context, can mean "god, gods, goddess" or more broadly "supernatural being, object of worship". [11] In the earliest writings, the mythical race are referred to as the Tuath Dé, "tribe of gods", or Tuatha Dé, "tribes of ...
The name Aoibheall may come from Gaelic aoibh, meaning "beauty" (or aoibhinn "beautiful"). [2] Alternatively, as a theonym it could be derived from Proto-Celtic *Oibel-ā, literally "burning fire", which may have been a byword for the notion of "ardour"; [4] [3] the Romano-British equivalent of this Proto-Celtic theonym is likely to have been *Oebla. [5]
Cernunnos on the Gundestrup cauldron (plate A). He sits cross-legged, wielding a torc in one hand and a ram-horned serpent in the other. Cernunnos is a Celtic god whose name is only clearly attested once, on the 1st-century CE Pillar of the Boatmen from Paris, where it is associated with an image of an aged, antlered figure with torcs around his horns.
Come March 17, you can catch us celebrating St. Patrick's Day just like the Irish! We'll be listening to Irish songs and wearing our most festive St. Patrick's Day clothing all weekend long. Heck ...
Étaín or Édaín (Modern Irish spelling: Éadaoin) is a figure of Irish mythology, best known as the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing of Étaín), one of the oldest and richest stories of the Mythological Cycle. She also figures in the Middle Irish Togail Bruidne Dá Derga (The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel). T. F.