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Trí Dée Dána - three gods of crafting Creidhne - artificer of the Tuatha Dé Danann, working in bronze, brass and gold; Goibniu - smith of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Luchtaine - carpenter of the Tuatha Dé Danann; The Triple Goddess Badb - war goddess who caused fear and confusion among soldiers, often taking the form of a crow
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 Tuatha Dé Danann as depicted in John Duncan's Riders of the Sidhe (1911). The Tuatha Dé Danann (Irish: [ˈt̪ˠuə(hə) dʲeː ˈd̪ˠan̪ˠən̪ˠ], meaning "the folk of the goddess Danu"), also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé ("tribe of the gods"), [1] are a supernatural race in Irish mythology.
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.
Depictions of the gods and goddesses of Celtic mythology sometimes show them wearing or carrying torcs, as in images of the god Cernunnos wearing one torc around his neck, with torcs hanging from his antlers or held in his hand, as on the Gundestrup cauldron. This may represent the deity as the source of power and riches, as the torc was a sign ...
Irish gods are divided into four main groups. [14] Group one encompasses the older gods of Gaul and Britain. The second group is the main focus of much of the mythology and surrounds the native Irish gods with their homes in burial mounds. The third group are the gods that dwell in the sea and the fourth group includes stories of the Otherworld ...
The Dagda (Old Irish: In Dagda, Irish: An Daghdha) is considered the great god of Irish mythology. [1] He is the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann, with the Dagda portrayed as a father-figure, king, and druid. [2] [1] [3] He is associated with fertility, agriculture, manliness and strength, as well as magic, druidry and wisdom.
The Celtic god Sucellus. Though the Celtic world at its height covered much of western and central Europe, it was not politically unified, nor was there any substantial central source of cultural influence or homogeneity; as a result, there was a great deal of variation in local practices of Celtic religion (although certain motifs, for example, the god Lugh, appear to have diffused throughout ...