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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 ...
Áine - goddess of parental and familial love, summer, wealth and sovereignty; Banba, Ériu and Fódla - patron goddesses of Ireland; Bodb Derg - king of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Brigid - daughter of the Dagda; associated with healing, fertility, craft, platonic love, and poetry; Clíodhna - queen of the Banshees, goddess of fantasized love ...
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.
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 ...
Irish goddesses (3 C, 38 P) Irish gods (31 P) F. Fomorians (13 P) N. Names of God in Irish mythology (1 P) T. Tuatha Dé Danann (3 C, 95 P) Pages in category "Irish ...
A lesser-known Irish healing goddess is Airmed, also associated with a healing well and with the healing art of herbalism. In Romano-Celtic tradition Belenus (traditionally derived from a Celtic root *belen-‘bright’, [11] although other etymologies have been convincingly proposed [12]) is found chiefly in southern France and northern Italy.
Brighid, Irish sun goddess; Étaín, Irish Sun goddess; Grannus, god associated with spas, healing thermal and mineral springs, and the Sun; Lugh, Sun god as well as a writing and warrior god; Macha, "Sun of the womanfolk" and occasionally considered synonymous with Grian; Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess
Celtic deities. Irish deities; Etruscan deities; Finnic deities; Germanic deities. Anglo-Saxon deities; List of Norse gods and goddesses; Greek deities (see also List of Greek mythological figures, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos) Neoplatonic triad; Hungarian deities; Lusitani deities