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Damona - Gallic goddess of mineral springs, consort of Apollo Borvo and of Apollo Moritasgus; Dea Latis - Brittonic goddess of bogs and pools, [8] companion of Deus Latis; Dea Matrona - "divine mother goddess" and goddess of the River Marne in Gaul; Divona [9] - Gallic goddess of sacred springs and rivers; Epona - fertility goddess, protector ...
In olden times the Celtics land and national societies were both linked with the body of the goddess (also attributed as "tribal goddess") and her representative on earth was the queen. Another "ambivalent" character in Scottish myths was the "hag", the Goddess, the Gaelic Cailleach, and the Giantess, a divine being who is harmful. The hag is ...
13.6 Scottish. 13.7 Welsh. 14 Cham mythology. ... This is a list of goddesses, ... (Female Divinity) Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí (Hastséoltoi, Hastyeoltoi, Shooting God)
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This category includes the most important and best-known goddesses of the Celtic world. For more, see the categories Goddesses of the ancient Britons, Gaulish goddesses, Irish goddesess and Welsh goddesses. See also Celtic gods.
Scathach is a legendary Scottish woman warrior who appears in the Ulster Cycle. She trains Cuchulainn. Aife is Scathach's rival in war; she becomes the lover of Cuchulainn and gives birth to his son Connla. Liath Luachra, two characters of the same name in the Fenian Cycle.
Other female figures from Celtic mythology include the weather witch Cailleach (Irish for 'nun,' 'witch,' 'the veiled' or 'old woman') of Scotland and Ireland, the Corrigan of Brittany who are beautiful seductresses, the Irish Banshee (woman of the Otherworld) who appears before important deaths, the Scottish warrior women Scáthach, Uathach ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.